With Fred McGriff up for Hall of Fame consideration, let’s look back at his one season with the Dodgers, in the very odd 2003 campaign in which Los Angeles were kings on the mound yet anemic at the plate.
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So will Commissioner Rob Manfred.
And Bears icon Jim McMahon.
Fourteen-time Grammy Award singer Emmylou Harris, too.
There will be another 130 guests and friends traveling to Chicago for the historic game Tuesday night at Guaranteed Rate Field between the White Sox and Cardinals.
Joe West is scheduled to work his record 5,376th game when he squats behind the plate, surpassing Hall of Famer Bill Klem’s mark that has stood for 80 years.
“This record will never be broken,” former umpire Terry Tata says. “It’s almost mathematically impossible.” Related
That’s because umpires now work no more than 120 games a season and spend two weeks in the instant replay office in New York, meaning it would take 45 seasons to surpass West.