1100 3 May 04, 2008^01:03am Jaydawg^7 Julio Franco ends his almost triple decade career at age 49 mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080504&content_id=2638706&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb News mlb.com 3100 5157 0 Kudos to Franco for hanging around and simply playing for the love of the game. He made his debut for the Phillies in April 1982 when I was finishing up the second grade. Amazing baseball career, but is he a Hall of Famer? Nah, not even close... :)