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Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
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Tom Verducci

Albert Pujols’s 700th Home Run Is the Apex of His Defiant Final Year

The end of baseball days arrives with more cruelness than kindness.

Babe Ruth quit in May 1935 with a .181 average and a feud with the owner of his Boston Braves.

Ken Griffey Jr. was hitting .184 with no home runs in June 2010 when he abruptly left the Mariners by driving home to Florida, leaving only a prepared statement of his retirement.

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