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GARY SHEFFIELD, WHO WOULD BE pressed to find Cooperstown on the map and still doubts its merits, now wants to earn his own place there.
He once planned on retiring from baseball at age 30, said he was drawn to the game only "because it came so easily that I just played it." Yet at age 33, he says he wants to play at least until he is 40, when he reaches 500 home runs. Or even 600.
"I've gotten this far," said Sheffield, who had 318 lifetime homers through April 29. "I'm not a guy who goes halfway at anything."
The same man who shook the Los Angeles Dodgers like a rag doll with a stunning extended tantrum after he felt betrayed, insists the ...