Home Run King

Author : Clare Gault
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780590455305
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Home Run Kings written by Clare Gault and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 1994-04-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief biography emphasizing the careers of the two baseball players famous for their record number of home runs.

Author : Richard Michelson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781585364657
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lipman Pike written by Richard Michelson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the life and baseball career of America's first home run king in the mid-1800s.

Author : Roy Kerr
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786485132
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roger Connor written by Roy Kerr and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known today as “the Babe Ruth of the 1880s,” Hall of Famer Roger Connor was the greatest of the nineteenth-century home run hitters, his career total (138) having stood as the major league record for nearly 24 years—until it was broken by Ruth himself. When he retired in 1897, he was also tops in triples (233), second in walks and total bases, third in hits, and fourth in doubles. But Connor did more than swing from his heels. He was an expert bunter who averaged more than twenty stolen bases a year (some credit him with inventing the “pop-up” slide) and led the league four times in fielding. Called “The Gentleman of the Diamond,” the slugger was never ejected from a game in seventeen major league seasons. This biography sheds new light on the life and five-decade baseball career of one of the games most admired and beloved players.

Author : Matt Christopher
Publisher : Norwood House Press
ISBN 13 : 1599532131
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Return of the Home Run Kid written by Matt Christopher and published by Norwood House Press. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sylvester Coddmyer III is having a dismal baseball season until he takes advice from a mysterious ex-ballplayer named Cheeko and starts to play more aggressively.

Author : William McNeil
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786403622
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The King of Swat written by William McNeil and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was the greatest home run hitter of all time? Babe Ruth? Henry Aaron? Willie Mays? Mickey Mantle? How about Negro Leaguers such as Josh Gibson or Norman Turkey Stearnes? Or minor league sluggers such as Joe Bauman who hit 72 four-baggers in 1954? And where does Sadaharu Oh and his 868 homers in the Japanese Central League fit in? Using statistical comparisons and accounting for the variances between players of different eras and levels of competition, this work provides the answer to the question of the greatest home run hitter of all time. The minors, Japanese, Negro and major leagues--both the deadball and lively ball eras--are fully analyzed. The home run hitting careers of the candidates in each league are first compared against other top sluggers in their own league, accounting for such differences as level of competition, size of ballparks, altitude in which the player played most of his games, night baseball and major league expansion. Players from different leagues are then compared to find the one player who stands out as the greatest home run hitter in the game's history. And the answer might surprise you.

Author : Patricia McKissack
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014241459X
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Home-Run King written by Patricia McKissack and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-12-24 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical chapter book series from three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner and Newbery Honor author, Patricia C. McKissack. Brothers Tank and Jimbo Turner love sneaking into Nashville's Sulphur Dell Ballpark to watch the superstars of Negro League baseball. When Josh Gibson, the famous home-run hitter for the Homestead Grays, bunks at their house, the boys think they're one step away from heaven. With warmth and humor, the fourth installment of Patricia C. McKissack's family saga brings to life an era of all-black baseball for readers who may not know that Major League teams were once restricted only to white players. "A good child's-eye introduction to baseball's segregated past." --Booklist

Author : Matt Tavares
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763632244
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry Aaron's Dream written by Matt Tavares and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture book biography of African-American baseball player Hank Aaron.

Author : Jared Diamond
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062872125
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swing Kings written by Jared Diamond and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The best baseball book I’ve read in years." — Sam Walker • "An exhilarating story of innovation." — Ben Reiter • "Swing Kings feels like a spiritual successor to Moneyball." — Baseball Prospectus From the Wall Street Journal’s national baseball writer, the captivating story of the home run boom, following a group of players who rose from obscurity to stardom and the rogue swing coaches who helped them usher the game into a new age. We are in a historic era for the home run. The 2019 season saw the most homers ever, obliterating a record set just two years before. It is a shift that has transformed the way the game is played, contributing to more strikeouts, longer games, and what feels like the logical conclusion of the analytics era. In Swing Kings, Wall Street Journal national baseball writer Jared Diamond reveals that the secret behind this unprecedented shift isn’t steroids or the stitching of the baseballs, it’s the most elemental explanation of all: the swing. In this lively narrative romp, he tracks a group of baseball’s biggest stars—including Aaron Judge, J.D. Martinez, and Justin Turner—who remade their swings under the tutelage of a band of renegade coaches, and remade the game in the process. These coaches, many of them baseball washouts who have reinvented themselves as swing gurus, for years were one of the game’s best-kept secrets. Among their ranks are a swimming pool contractor, the owner of a billiards hall, and an ex-hippie whose swing insights draw from surfing and the technique of Japanese samurai. Now, as Diamond artfully charts, this motley cast has moved from the baseball margins to its center of power. They are changing the way hitting is taught to players of all ages, and major league clubs are scrambling for their services, hiring them in record numbers as coaches and consultants. And Diamond himself, whose baseball career ended in high school, enlists the tutelage of each swing coach he profiles, with an aim toward starring in the annual Boston-New York media game at Yankee Stadium. Swing Kings is both a rollicking history of baseball’s recent past and a deeply reported, character-driven account of a battle between opponents as old as time: old and new, change and stasis, the establishment and those who break from it. Jared Diamond has written a masterful chronicle of America’s pastime at the crossroads.

Author : Robert Burleigh
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152045999
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home Run written by Robert Burleigh and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetic account of the legendary Babe Ruth as he prepares to make a home run.

Author : Percy Leed
Publisher : Lerner Publications (Tm)
ISBN 13 : 9781728420479
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hank Aaron written by Percy Leed and published by Lerner Publications (Tm). This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hank Aaron hit the ball like few other baseball players could. His 755 career home runs rank second on MLB's all-time list. Learn about his journey from the Negro Leagues to the MLB record books"--