Albert Pujols picked up his 3,000th hit on May 4. Which active player will be the next one to reach the milestone? Video by Ryan Ford/DFP Wochit
I came to witness.
After so many years in the sports writing business, it’s rare to see something you haven’t seen before. I obviously missed Babe Ruth trying to be a pitcher and hitter 100 years ago, and Roy Hobbs in “The Natural” was, after all, a movie character played by Robert Redford.
But Wednesday, in a sparsely attended Comerica Park, on a humid, windy night that threatened storms as the sunlight died, here was the new talk of baseball, jogging to the mound, something fresh indeed, a double threat the way the Babe once was.