9 home runs in a week

PHOENIX, ARIZONA - The Los Angles Dodgers' Shawn Green hit his 8th and 9th home run in a week on this date in 2002 - a new National League record. Remember just two days earlier (see May 23 story) Green hit four home runs in a game? Two days before that he hit a pair of home runs. He hit one on May 24th and then the two he hit against the Arizona Diamondbacks on this date added up to nine for the week.

The old National League record of 8 home runs in a week was held by three men; Ralph Kiner, Ted Kluszewski and Nate Colbert. The major league record for most home runs in a week is held by Frank Howard who hit ten from May 12 to May 18, 1968.

Shawn Green was born in Des Plaines, Illinois on November 10, 1972. His family later moved to California where he attended Tustin High School in Tustin, California. He received a scholarship to Stanford University in 1991, but was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays the same year. He broke into the major leagues with Toronto in 1993 at age 20. At the end of the 2007 season Green had 328 career home runs.

CONTRIBUTING SOURCE:
The Associated Press, Phoenix, AZ, May 26, 2002

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