Chipper's magical season continued last night by crushing his 400th home run. The story has gotten lost in the national media coverage of the Celtics/Lakers and the Red Sox explosion/implosion last night.So what exactly does 400 career home runs mean? It puts Chipper into 43rd place in all-time home runs, just ahead of Dale Murphy, Al Kaline, and Andres Galarraga and just behind Duke Snider and Darrell Evans.
It gives Chipper more career dingers than Johnny Bench, Orlando Cepada, Tony Perez and Joe Dimaggio - all Hall of Famers.
He has the 3rd most home runs of any switch hitter, trailing only Mickey Mantle and Eddie Murray. He is the only switch hitter in baseball history with a career .300 average and over 300 home runs.
He has more career home runs than any Atlanta Brave (remembering that Hank Aaron was a Milwaukee Braves for much of his career). Take a trip down memory lane here.
If there was any doubt about Chipper's Cooperstown credentials, this season has erased them.
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First, kudos to Chipper. I'm not sure he's quite got a space reserved in Cooperstown yet, but a few more years under his belt probably gets him there. (Then again, this comment is coming from a guy who knows as much about vitamin water as I know about baseball.)
Second, I can't believe I never quite made the connection between you and your last name and the 45 people who sit in my church on Sundays! So we actually kinda sorta know each other, almost. Or something.
Yes, I'm a First Cumberland Presbyterian Carpenter. My granddad on my mom's side is Jim Liner who talks about you every time McCallie is mentioned.
So, yes, we do know each other in about every way possible that two people can know each other without actually knowing each other. I think.
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