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MLB: Sheffield hits Majors’ 250,000th homer

And as SoSHially Unacceptable said…“ESPN News is running it in the scroll, citing Baseball Reference in the text. A nice bit of exposure for BBRef…” Hooray, Iowa grad!

Gary Sheffield still needs a few home runs to get to his career milestone. In getting closer on Monday, however, his two-homer game reached a Major League mark that has been 133 years in the making.

When Sheffield went deep off Oakland starter Gio Gonzalez in the second inning of Monday’s 14-8 Tigers victory, he hit the 250,000th home run in big league history. The statistic comes courtesy of Sean Forman at Baseball-Reference.com, which has been conducting a countdown toward the milestone event on his site with research from David Vincent with the Society for American Baseball Research.

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1. Mattbert Posted: September 09, 2008 at 07:20 AM (#2933724)

Chicks dig the longball...researchers?

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