The Baseball Desert

Friday, August 01, 2003

Oh yeah, whilst we're on the subject of players hitting the ball out of the ballpark, I thought I'd share today's weird fact. I happened to glance at the home-run leader board this morning and it occurred to me that's there's a magic number floating around. No, not in the numbers that the players are putting up there, but the number they have on the back of their jerseys - 3 of the current top four home-run leaders wear the number 25: Barry Bonds (Giants), Carlos Delgado (Blue Jays) and Jason Giambi (Yankees). I dunno what it means, but now you know...