The Most Violent Player in Recent MLB History

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Holy shit i forgot the numbers he was putting up sheesh

He had such an interesting stance....dude could rake

In his Historical Baseball Abstract (2000) entry on Belle, Bill James lists 10 good things to say about him. Of course, the first and most important was that he could hit. James cracked me up with two of them: he has never been on the Jerry Springer Show, and he has never praised Hitler or Saddam Husseim.

Belle was always a star I enjoyed pulling the baseball card of from the pack in the 90s. He and Frank Thomas were two monsters at the plate in those days, we all wished we could hit like them. Makes me miss 90s MLB.

Milton Bradley would like a word

An interesting fact. Before Belle signed in Baltimore, the Yankees were ready to not only sign him, but let franchise legend Bernie Williams go to do so. But Baltimore swooped in and grabbed him. Bernie ended up resigning for less than what Boston and Arizona were offering in the end.

Former sportswriter here. You learn to get a thick skin in the locker room (or clubhouse), so you put up with a lot of crap (especially in baseball, for some reason). But Belle was something else. I honestly thought he had mental issues. I was doing a story about Kenny Lofton back when both were with Cleveland (Kenny had just made his first All Star team) and was gathering quotes from teammates about it. Belle had two lockers in the clubhouse (one for his clothes and the other for his towels, shower stuff, etc.), and when you tried to ask him questions, he would look right past you with that stone face and just keep doing what he was doing. He would (intentionally, I always believed) go for something in the other locker and just body you out of the way (basically walking right through you) without reacting at all, as if you weren't there. That guy had problems.

While in the Cape Cod League, Belle had taken up drinking, which changed his personality for the worse. But even when he stopped drinking, he still was a very sour person.

I voted for him for MVP in 1995, but my vote wasn't good enough for the MLB to count it.

Usually, when you hear the phrase "playing angry" it's talking about football, but Belle was the definition of playing angry. His 50/50 season was a miracle to watch as a young Indians fan.

I saw Albert Belle on Arizona State’s Campus after he left baseball. He was a student walking to class.

You and Baseball Doesn’t Exist have skyrocketed my baseball fandom. You guys should do a collab, some way some how.

Baltimore Orioles sports announcer Tom Marr disliked Albert Belle intensely and objected to his signing with the Orioles. Bell likely would have gone into the Hall if he had played longer because he was an awesome hitter as well as a cork bat cheater. Belle had two solid seasons with the Birds and then retired. His second season was marred with injuries but the numbers he had put up were good for the amount of games he played. Belle homered in the final at-bat of his major-league career, at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on October 1, 2000.

Not defending him, but the father and daughter that saw him peeing in the parking lot didn't have to keep looking, and to yell at someone to stop peeing is kind of stupid.

Remember seeing him at a browns game at the old stadium. Just walking by himself. Dude had enormous quads

Should do a video on Jim Thome.

Lol they didn’t want to strike Belle out 😂

Most dangerous player, consider Ty Cobb would be a close race. My favorite memory was of Albert getting hit by a pitch and refusing to take first base.

I was such a big fan of Albert Belle...I had all the "Joey Belle" baseball cards lol