Gary Sheffield

===Achievements===
*Became only the second Padres hitter in franchise history to win a batting title joining [[Tony Gwynn]]
*Holds Los Angeles Dodgers single-season record for at-bats per home run (11.7 in 2000)
*His Tampa team finished second in the 1980 [[Little League World Series]]
*Is the first player to represent five different teams in the [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star Game]].
*Tied [[Paul O'Neill (baseball)|Paul O'Neill]] as the oldest player to hit 20 home runs and steal 20 bases in a season, at age 38 (2007)
*First player to hit at least 25 home runs for 6 different teams
*25th player in MLB history to reach 500 home runs, and the first player to do so as a Met
*Had 8 seasons with 30 or more home runs
*Holds the record for most MLB ballparks played in (51) <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V4CkqFlzgHvjeLpHtTy_Cyj2Sb43YsnKcG5koHQ6S3w/edit?usp=embed_facebook|title=Most MLB Ballparks Played In|website=Google Docs|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=31257|title=Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast|website=www.stitcher.com|language=en|access-date=2020-03-06}}</ref>
*One of 2 players in MLB history, along with [[Fred McGriff]], to have 30 or more home runs in one season for 5 different teams (Los Angeles Dodgers [3×]; New York Yankees [2×]; Atlanta Braves, Florida Marlins and San Diego Padres [1×]) <ref>[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/sheffga01.shtml?redir *Winner of the 2nd Annual Black Masters in 2019 Gary Sheffield Statistics and History] ''Baseball-Reference.com''</ref><ref>[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mcgrifr01-bat.shtml Fred McGriff Batting Statistics and History] ''Baseball-Reference.com''</ref>