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Congrats to Biggio!! Mr. 3000 (and counting)
By Jeff | June 29, 2007
Late last night, one of my favorite baseball players, Craig Biggio, collected 5, count them 5, hits to record his 3,000th hit. He finished the night going 5-6 with career number at 3,002 hits. Here’s a little salute to not only one of the all time great baseball players, but also one of the all time great men of the game. Congratulations Mr. Biggio!
Craig Biggio watches his 3,000th career hit land in the outfield on Thursday. (David J. Phillip/AP)
Jayson Stark over at ESPN.com had this to say:
“It isn’t easy to sneak up on that 3,000-Hit Club, you know. With the last few men to join that group before Biggio — Rafael Palmeiro, Rickey Henderson, Cal Ripken, Boggs — we saw them coming 500 hits away.
But come on now. Admit it. You never even noticed Biggio was on that precipice until he got to, like, 2,976.
Maybe it’s because he’s been hanging out in Houston all these years, playing beneath the headline-generating shadows of Jeff Bagwell, Roger Clemens, Roy Oswalt, Andy Pettitte, Billy Wagner, Lance Berkman, Brad Lidge and a parade of higher-profile luminaries that stretch all the way back to the days of Mike Scott and Nolan Ryan.
Maybe it’s because he wasn’t loud enough. Or controversial enough.
Maybe it’s because he wasn’t a .338 hitter like Gwynn. Or a 504-homer guy like Eddie Murray.
Maybe it’s because he forgot to play in 2,632 games in a row like Ripken. Maybe it’s because he forgot to win a batting title (or eight) like Gwynn.
Maybe it’s because he not only forgot to become a Yankee, he never played one game against the Yankees in October.
Heck, he never even filed for free agency in the last dozen years of his career, let alone tried to use the Yankees to squeeze a few million more bucks out of the Astros.
But now his secret is out. That’ll happen to a guy when he starts hanging out in the old 3,000-Hit Clubhouse. Now we know what we’ve been watching all these years.”
Topics: 3000 hits, Astros, Craig Biggio, Houston, milestones |
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