Article Links

"I know the Chicago media will write a lot of bad things, but they'll write a lot of good things too. I can live with that. In Cleveland, all I got was negative press." -Albert Belle, 1997

Here are links to some articles from various sources on the web. Remember: don't always believe everything that the media writes, sometimes it's erroneous or inaccurate.

• The Sporting News- Forget Maris: Cleveland Indians' slugger Albert Belle 2/26/1996
• Belle cites 'chaos' within Indians 11/20/1996
• Belle toils for White Sox 11/20/1996
• Belle Says He Never Gambled on Baseball 2/20/1997
• Ebony- Albert Belle: A new beginning for baseball's $55 million man 5/1997
• When Love Turns to Hate 7/9/1997
• New streak holder? It's Albert Belle 9/21/1998
• Out of the limelight: Belle talks about his past, present, and future 9/26/1998
• Belle invokes free agency clause after White Sox refuse to up salary 10/24/1998
• Woman drops charges against Belle 10/20/1998
• Albert Belle & Photographer settle lawsuit 11/16/1998
• CBSNews- Orioles Sign Belle For $65M 11/28/1998
• Orioles and Belle complete $65 million, five-year deal 12/1/1998
• Belle throws fit in Orioles' clubhouse 3/11/1999
• Belle Gets Another Hit With His Own Breakfast Cereal 4/8/1999
• Corked bat caper: Grimsley admits to switcharoo 4/11/1999
• Albert Belle to get his own cereal 4/27/1999
• Belle goes at it with Miller after being pulled 6/10/1999
• Albert Belle benched after shouting match 6/11/1999
• Baltimore's Belle posts exhibition petition 6/22/1999
• Belle to write column for Baltimore paper 6/25/1999
• Belle wants the media to show him some love 7/19/1999
• Belle hits 3 HRs 7/26/1999
• Belle talks, and he's staying 7/26/1999
• BELLE RINGS FALSE/Orioles' star not the ogre media make him out to be 8/4/1999
• Washingtonpost.com: Belle's 1st O's Season Strictly for the Birds 8/31/1999
• Belle ties Ruth with 8th straight 30-homer, 100-RBI Season 9/10/1999
• Belle says some players quit on Miller 10/13/1999
• Baseball Weekly Special Report: Albert Belle 3/8/2000
• Belle returns to Baltimore to have hip evaluated 9/6/2000
• Belle's/Mussina's futures with Baltimore in doubt 10/6/2000
• Ailing Hip Could End Belle's Career 1/24/2001
• Tragically hip: ailing Belle appears doubtful for outfield duty 2/27/2001
• Belle, Orioles await medical experts' decision 3/6/2001
• Belle's injury is a tragedy -- really 3/6/2001
• Dan Patrick: Belle Has Been The Anti-Puckett 3/7/2001
• Belle to be released or put on DL 3/8/2001
• Brooding Belle played game on own terms 3/8/2001
• Rob Neyer: Belle's career falls short of Hall standards 3/8/2001
• CNNSI.com- Your Turn Reaction: Albert Belle 3/9/2001
• USAToday.com- Albert Belle: End of a turbulent era 3/14/2001
• TheBostonChannel.com: Memorializing Albert Belle 3/21/2001
• The Village Voice- All About Albert: A Defense of the Surly Slugger 5/9-15/2001
• Vizquel Uncorks Truth About Belle's Bats 4/26/2002
• Belle uncorks denial about his bats 4/28/2002
• Belle Arrested On DUI Charges 9/14/2002
• Other Cork Controversies 6/5/2003
• LSUSports.net- Former Tiger Belle to be Inducted into Louisiana Hall of Fame  6/16/2005
• The Lafayette Daily Advertiser- Albert Belle earns Louisiana Hall of Fame honors in first ballot 6/17/2005
• The Chicago Tribune- Belle Vision: Hall, team ownership 6/23/2005
• Alexandria Town Talk- Old Snapper Belle tolls sweet tunes these days 6/24/2005
• The Shreveport Times- Shreveport's Albert Belle a quiet, smart, and humble man 6/25/2005
• The Times-Picayune- Albert Belle: I was very guarded and protective of myself 6/25/2005
• The Shreveport Times- Hall of Fame induction rekindles memories for Belle 6/26/2005
• Alexandria Town Talk- Do You Know this Man? 6/26/2005
• The Lafayette Daily Advertiser- Belle Headlines '05 Hall Class 6/26/2005
• Bossier-Press Tribune- Former Bossier Dixie slugger inducted into Sports Hall of Fame 6/28/2005
• MLB.com- Belle likely to get some Hall support 12/27/2005
• The Boston Globe- This Guy Sure Played a Mean Game Of Baseball 1/18/2006
• East Valley Tribune- Records detail Belle's threats 2/18/2006
• A Street & Smith's conversation:... with Albert Belle 2/2006
• East Valley Tribune- Ex-player arrested again in stalking 5/18/2006
• The Arizona Republic- Belle denies harrassing calls 6/10/2006
• The Arizona Republic- Belle pleads guilty to stalking 7/27/2006
• KTAR News- Albert Belle Sentenced to 90 Days in Jail 8/24/2006
• The Arizona Republic- Ex-slugger Belle given 90 days in jail for stalking 8/25/2006
• Herald Tribune- Ex-ballplayer Belle seeks time with daughter 2/7/2007
• Former slugger Albert Belle gets hip resurfaced (AP) 3/16/2007
• Voice from the past: Albert Belle doesn't like Sabathia trade 7/8/2008
• All-Star Blog: Albert Belle makes a mid-summer phone call to talk Cleveland Indians, steroids 7/14/2009
• Albert Belle calls in advice: don't trade your stars 10/4/2009
• Cleveland.com- Albert Belle talks Corey Kluber, dance and Cinderella on visit to Cleveland Indians 2/19/2015
• Cleveland.com- Cleveland Indians' Albert Belle: 'I had some big biceps and I was showing them off' 10/3/2015
• Cleveland.com- Albert Belle, Frank Robinson, Jim Thome, Charlie Jamieson named to Cleveland Indians Hall of Fame 1/29/2016
• Cleveland.com- Albert Belle will miss induction into Cleveland Indians Hall of Fame due to family vacation 7/21/2016
• 2017 Today's Game Era Ballot Announced10/3/2016
• The Sporting News: Albert Belle on Hall of Fame: 'Sooner or later, people are going to recognize how good my numbers were' 11/21/2016