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1999 Topps Finest Milestones – Home Runs
Milestone: 500 Home Runs Homers Through 1998: 321 Projected Year to Reach Milestone: 2003 After one of the greatest second halves in history in 1998 (.387–31–86), Belle moved to Baltimore and cozy Camden Yards. Prior to ’99, experts predicted 50, 60, even 70 home runs from the brawny slugger. Even if he clubs “just” 44…
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1999 Topps Gold Label – Race to Aaron #RA5
Belle needs to average 44 homers to age 42 to reach Aaron’s record of 755. That’s not unattainable considering he’s now playing in slugger-friendly Camden Yards, and he’s normed just that many over the last four years.
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1997 Pinnacle Inside Forty Something
Albert, who had led the majors with 50 homers in the year before the “Year of the Home Run,” hit 48 more in 1996 to complete one of the more incredible two-year power binges in recent memory. The Indians’ intense slugger hit homers at a pace of one every 11.7 at-bats over that span.
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1998 Upper Deck Retro Retrospectives #19 Albert Belle /30
In the offense-oriented 1990s, few sluggers have been able to match the production of Chicago’s Albert Belle — a three-time AL RBI champion who is also the only Major Leaguer ever to collect 50 doubles and 50 homers in the same season (1995).
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1998 Upper Deck Collector’s Choice Crash the Game – (CG11)
Turning in one of the most prolific offensive campaigns in White Sox history, Albert Belle concluded his first season on the South Side of Chicago ranking in the club’s all-time single-season top ten in extra-base hits, doubles, total bases and RBI. Furthermore, the former American League MVP runner-up set a single-season franchise standard in 1997…
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1997 Upper Deck SPx Star Attractions – SA9
In his first season with the White Sox, Belle continued his slugging ways, hitting the century mark in RBI for the sixth consecutive season. He also made White Sox history when he embarked on a career-high 27-game hitting streak in May and June, tying the club record set by Hall-of-Famer Luke Appling in ’36.
Albert Belle: The Original 50/50 Man 