(Photo: Robin Buckson, Detroit News)
Chicago — Gordon Beckham had lunch on Friday with his representatives from ISE Baseball, and it was suggested that they should’ve maybe presented him with a card to commemorate him reaching the 1,000-game milestone.
“Well, yeah,” Beckham said. “I guess.”
A card? Beckham, who was expected to start at shortstop Sunday, would be just the 79th active player to reach that plateau. A card doesn’t quite match the accomplishment.
“Yeah, maybe something a little more shiny,” he said, laughing.
Reaching 1,000 games had to be far, far off his radar as he was bouncing from franchise to franchise the last three seasons.