  albert jojuan "joey" belle (born august 25, 1966) is a former american major league baseball outfielder for the cleveland indians, chicago white sox, and baltimore orioles. standing at  and weighing , belle was one of the leading sluggers of his time, and in 1995 became the first player to hit 50 doubles and 50 home runs in a single season. he was also the first player to break the 10-million-dollar per year compensation contract in major league baseball. belle was also considered a model of consistency, compiling a .295 career batting average, and averaging 37 home runs and 120 rbis a season between 1991 and 2000. belle is also one of only six players in mlb history to have nine consecutive 100-rbi seasons. however, his combative personality, marked by occasional angry outbursts, created a reputation that was intimidating to those who covered him in the news media. ==early life== albert and his fraternal twin, terry, were born on august 25, 1966, in shreveport, louisiana, the son of albert belle sr., a high school baseball and football coach, and carrie belle, a former math teacher. a former boy scout, he attained the rank of eagle scout. belle attended huntington high school in shreveport, where he was a star baseball and football player, a member of the national honor society and vice president of the local future business leaders of america. he also played little league baseball with future pga tour player david toms. he graduated sixth in his high school class and made the all-state baseball team twice. in 1984, he was selected to play for the usa in the [[aau junior olym
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