The Harrisburg Alumni Association

Milton Bradley

The final move in Milton Bradley’s meandering – and often perplexing – baseball career comes 16 years ago today as the author of the most famous home run in Harrisburg’s storied history is traded by the Chicago Cubs to the Seattle Mariners for underachieving pitcher Carlos Silva.

Milton Bradley’s grand slam in 1999

Bradley, whose two-out, two-strike, bottom-of-the-ninth grand slam 10 years earlier gives the Senators the 1999 Class AA Eastern League title, plays less than two seasons in Seattle.

Bradley hits just .209 in 101 games in a season-plus with Seattle before being released early in the 2011 season – three years after representing the Texas Rangers as the American League’s designated hitter in the 2008 All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium.

In between his stunning grand slam in Harrisburg in 1999 and his release by Seattle in 2011, Bradley plays in all or parts of 12 seasons in the majors with eight teams – the Expos, Indians, Dodgers, Athletics, Padres, Rangers, Cubs and, finally, Mariners.

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