1,000 Home Runs - Take That David Ortiz!

Ortiz has now reached the exclusive 500 home run club.  Congratulations to him for that.  Pretty good, but he's played about 90 percent of his games as a DH.

On September 13th 1965 Willie Mays hit his 500th career home run.

On September 13th 1971 Frank Robinson hit is 500th career home run.

Ortiz has played 277 games at first base and over 1,800 games as a DH.

Mays played 2,929 games including 84 games at 1B, 2 at SS, and 1 at 3B.  I need to look into those games at 3B and SS to figure out how that happened.

Robinson played 2,808 games including 321 as a DH.   I didn't remember him as an outfielder since he played 1B when I saw him at the end of his career.  He played the outfield for most of his career.