Vladimir Guerrero changed the landscape of Dominican baseball forever.

In fact, the Hall of Fame slugger's iconic No.2 is etched into the country itself after he literally carved it into a hill below a mansion he owns.

Guerrero and his brothers grew up playing with gloves made from milk cartons and used socks filled with plastic bags as balls.

He didn't get his first real glove until his older brother Eleazar -- a minor leaguer -- gave him one when he was 15.

The Montreal Expos landed Guerrero as an unsigned amateur free agent for just $2,100 in 1993 and he made his debut three years later.

His early years saw the future great criticized for being too aggressive, which stopped as he became famous as a bad-ball hitter and earned the nickname Vlad the Impaler after the

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