• Andruw strengthened his wrists as a teenager by swinging a sledge hammer like a baseball bat.
• Of Andruw’s 92 hits in 1997, 37 went for extra bases and only 55 were singles. No one has ever had that high a ratio of long hits.
• Andruw set a Braves' record in 2003 with RBIs in nine consecutive games.
• In 2004, Andruw hit the first grand slam in Philadelphia's Citizens Bank Ballpark.
• Andruw hit his second All-Star homer in the 2005 game.
• Andruw was the top slugger in the majors in 2005 with 51 home runs.
• Andruw passed Eddie Mathews and Hank Aaron in 2005 as the Braves' single-season home run record holder.
• Andruw was named 2005 Player of the Year in a poll of baseball players.
• Andruw collected his 1,000th career RBI in 2006.
• Andruw hit his 350th homer off of Chris Capuano in 2007.
• Andruw won his 10th straight Gold Glove in 2007.
• Andruw moved past Ralph Garr on the Braves' all-time stolen base list in 2007.
• Anyone who doubts that Andruw has Hall of Fame range should note that he is one of only five center fielders to record 400 putouts in a season six times. The others are Willie Mays, Richie Ashburn, Kirby Puckett and Max Carey.
• Andruw has more than 100 assists as a center fielder—more than anyone since 1997, when he first started playing the position.
• Andruw is the only Brave to be named Player of the Month twice in the same season.
• Andruw was the fourth-youngest player to reach 300 home runs.
• Andruw was the only Brave to be named Player of the Month twice in the same season.
• Andruw hit 10 postseason home runs for the Braves.
• The only other player to hit home runs in his first two World Series at bats was Gene Tenace of the 1972 Oakland A’s.
• In Baseball Weekly’s 1995 minor league preview, Andruw was identified as being Dutch.
• Andruw’s parents still live in the same yellow, stucco house they have owned since 1974. They refuse to let their son buy them a new one.
• Andruw is the youngest player in history to hit a World Series home run. Mickey Mantle held the record before him.
• Andruw met his future wife, Nicole Derick, at an Atlanta mall in 1998. They were married in 2002. He already had a daughter, Madison, from a previous relationship. He and Derick have a son named Druw.

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