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Mitch Albom: Watching Shohei Ohtani gives glimpse of double greatness

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.