Board Bets

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Tuffy Rhodes hits 450 homers in Japan

Former Chicago Cub Tuffy Rhodes is in his 13th season playing professional baseball in Japan. He is 40 years old and his career will probably becoming to an end soon. He became the first American born Japanese professional player to hit 450 career homeruns. He is the 12th Japanese professional baseball player to reach the 450 home runs. He leads all active Japanese baseball players in homeruns. Rhodes tied Sadaharu Oh’s single-season home run record with 55 homeruns in 2001. He's hit 50-plus homers in a season twice. After spending a few seasons playing in the Major’s he became a legendary power hitter in Japan.

2 comments:

Please be kind, rewind.