PHOENIX (AP) -- Former baseball star Albert Belle tracked his ex-girlfriend with a GPS device and repeatedly threatened her, according to a police probable cause statement filed in support of stalking charges.

Belle, 39, was arrested by police in Scottsdale on Thursday and charged with stalking. He made an initial court appearance late Thursday, and a judge set bail at $108,000, ordered him to be electronically monitored and to stay away from the victim.

Reached by The Associated Press on Friday morning, Belle declined to comment on the case.

"You didn't write a story about my Hall of Fame induction," Belle said. "You guys never report the good stuff that I do."

Belle collected just 40 of the 390 votes needed to reach the Hall of Fame in voting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America in January.

The police probable cause statement said that Belle's former girlfriend discovered a GPS tracking device that had fallen off her car on Jan. 26. Believing that Belle was responsible, she called police, who began an investigation.

The unidentified woman told investigators that for several months Belle "had been showing up everywhere she went (the store, on dates, the gym, etc.)," the probable cause document states. The woman asked Belle if he had placed the tracking device on her car, and he initially denied it.

But on Feb. 3, he left her a message apologizing for "doing all that tracking stuff," the statement said. A later recording captures Belle threatening the woman, telling her she needed to hire a bodyguard for protection and that she "would never know what hit her," the statement said.

The volatile Belle often ran into trouble on and off the field during his playing days.

A five-time All-Star outfielder, Belle hit 381 career home runs in a 12-year big league career that began with the Cleveland Indians in 1989. He also played for the Chicago White Sox and Baltimore before retiring in 2000 after his second season with the Orioles.

He was fined in 1994 for using a corked bat and suspended after instigating a brawl by elbowing an opposing player. In 1991, he threw a baseball into the chest of a fan taunting him. Years later, he tossed a ball at a photographer.

Belle, who has lived in Arizona for several years, was arrested on a DUI charge here in September 2002.

His next court appearance is set for Feb. 24.

way to go Joey

What's wrong with keeping your pimp hand strong?

Oh, the irony!

That's pretty much what my post was going to say.

It would be awesome if he ended up in that Maricopa County Jail wearing pink slippers and shit.

wasnt he a douchebag back when he was still playing?

At one point him and Sammy Sosa played in the same city

i was wondering if they were actually on the white sox together

God, what I wouldn't give to retire at 35 and collect $MILLION$ for the next few years while sitting on my ass.

douche

No

Although both played for the White Sox at one point and ended their careers with the Orioles

Baltimore: Douchebag graveyard.


And I think the "this just in" part of teh story was supposed to be sarcastic.


I had a friend in law school who was an Indians fan, and he told me that on those great mid-90's teams they had, the players hated each other. There were basically four "cliques" on the team: the white players, the black players, the Hispanic players, and Albert Belle.

One thing I'll say for ol' Joey, he had one of the greatest power hitting seasons of all time in 1995 when he had 50 HRs and 50 2B's, in a strike shortened season. That's really incredible, especially for a douchebag.

To you Albert Belle we present you the douchebag award of the day

vaginal pipe.

He should be a Hall of Famer though.