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Frederick Stanley "Crime Dog" McGriff (born October 31, 1963 in Tampa, Florida) is a left-handed Major League Baseball player who has starred for many teams since a mid-1980s. a power-hitting 1st baseman, the V-period All-Star became, in 1992, a 1st streaming video player since a dead-ball era to lead both leagues inside home runs. Although he has never hit additional than 37 homers around one year, he finished a 2003 campaign single Ix homers out of joining a exclusive company of victims world health organization use hit Five hundred. He won the World Series title with a Atlanta Braves in 1995.

His nickname "Crime Dog" was bestowed in him by ESPN sportscaster Chris Berman, noted for his unusual and idiosyncratic streaming video player nicknames. A nickname occurs as play in McGruff, a cartoon mutt created for Our contries law to raise tikes's awareness in crime bar. Unlike virtually all of Berman's nicknames, a "Crime Dog" nickname entered into standard usage.

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Teams
Toronto Blue Jays (1986-1990) San Diego Padres (1991-1993) Atlanta Braves (1993-1997) Tampa Bay Devil Rays (1998-2001, 2004) Chicago Cubs (2001-2002) Los Angeles Dodgers (2003) Tampa Bay Devil Rays (2004)

Fred McGriff
A history of Fred McGriff's baseball career.


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