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Article: Ellis Burks' home-run binge catches him by surprise.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- June 20, 2001
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CLEVELAND _ When Ellis Burks thinks about the first three-homer game of his career, he'll remember more than where the balls landed and the enthusiastic greeting that he received in the dugout after Tuesday night's feat.
Also making the memory special was the reaction of his 6-year-old son Christopher, an Indians bat boy, when the two arrived home from Jacobs Field in the wee hours Wednesday morning.
"Before I parked the car, it was still rolling, he was trying to jump out," Burks said before Wednesday night's Twins-Indians game. "He wanted to run upstairs and tell my wife. She's pretending she didn't see it. She went, `What happened?' He said, `Dad hit ...