The Four Home Runs Club

Author : Steven K. Wagner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538115433
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Four Home Runs Club written by Steven K. Wagner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In baseball, one record shines as the most coveted for batters: four home runs in a single game. Only eighteen players have accomplished this feat, making it rarer than the perfect game. This book profiles these batsmen, detailing their lives, the game that launched them into the four-home-run club, and their careers after that triumphant moment.

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Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1597973653
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book written by and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball "by The Book."

Author : Society for American Baseball Research
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781416554561
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The SABR Baseball List & Record Book written by Society for American Baseball Research and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the authority on baseball research and statistics comes a vast and fascinating compendium of unique baseball lists and records. The SABR Baseball List & Record Book is an expansive collection of pitching, hitting, fielding, home run, team, and rookie records not available online or in any other book. This is a treasure trove of baseball history for statistically minded baseball fans that's also packed with intriguing marginalia. For instance, on July 25, 1967, Chicago's Ken Berry ended Game Two of a doubleheader against Cleveland with a home run in the bottom of the sixteenth inning -- Chicago's second game-winning homer of the day. The comprehensive lists include Most Career Home Runs by Two Brothers (Tommie and Hank Aaron have 768), Most Seasons with 15 or More Wins (Cy Young and Greg Maddux each have 18), and Highest On Base Percentage in a Season by a Rookie (listing every rookie above .400). Unlike other record books that only list the record holders -- say, most RBI by a rookie, held by Ted Williams with 145 -- SABR details every rookie to reach 100 RBI. Other record books might note the last pitcher in each league to steal home; here SABR has included every pitcher to do it. The book also includes a number of idiosyncratic features, such as a rundown of every player who has hit a triple and then stolen home, or every reliever who has won two games in one day. Many of the lists include a comments column for key historical notes and entertaining trivia (Bob Horner hit four home runs in a 1986 game, but his team lost). This is a must-have for every fan's library. Edited by Lyle Spatz, Chairman of the Baseball Records Committee for SABR

Author : Jonathan Bliss
Publisher : Vero Beach, Fla. : Rourke Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780865931282
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home Run Leaders written by Jonathan Bliss and published by Vero Beach, Fla. : Rourke Corporation. This book was released on 1991 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the historic achievements of baseball's heavy hitters, the home run sluggers, including the likes of Rogers Hornsby, Hank Greenberg, Micky Mantle, and of course Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron.

Author : Michael G. Bryson
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
ISBN 13 : 9780809243419
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Twenty-four-inch Home Run written by Michael G. Bryson and published by McGraw-Hill/Contemporary. This book was released on 1990 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of unusual and offbeat tales taken from baseball history includes the world's shortest bona fide home run and the baseball player who literally bit himself in the posterior while sliding into second base

Author : Mickey Strunak
Publisher : America Star Books
ISBN 13 : 9781462676842
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 600 Home Run Club written by Mickey Strunak and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the 600 Home Run Club, an exclusive club of major league baseball players that reached 600 lifetime regular season home runs. Included in the book are HR leader-Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Ken Griffey, Jr., Alex Rodriguez, Sammy Sosa, and last years - new member-Jim Thome. The book discusses each player's career and accomplishments. Also, included are statistics of some players' fathers-Bobby Bonds and Ken Griffey, Sr. Also, Tommy Aaron's, Hank's brother - career stats are also, included. I also, showed a special player - Roger Connor, who was the baseball's home run king before Babe Ruth became a national icon. He played in the late 1880's. There is also a section on comparing the player's career statistics and a special formula for determining each player's true run scoring index, or indicator.

Author : Bill Jenkinson
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs written by Bill Jenkinson and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2007-02-09 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an unprecedented look at Babe Ruth's amazing batting power, sure to inspire debate among baseball fans of every stripe, one of the country's most respected and trusted baseball historians reveals the amazing conclusions of more than twenty years of research. Jenkinson takes readers through Ruth's 1921 season, in which his pattern of battled balls would have accounted for more than 100 home runs in today's ballparks and under today's rules. Yet, 1921 is just tip of the iceberg, for Jenkinson's research reveals that during an era of mammoth field dimensions Ruth hit more 450-plus-feet shots than anybody in history, and the conclusions one can draw are mind boggling.

Author : Rich Westcott
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566398589
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Home Runs of the 20th Century written by Rich Westcott and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The home run is the single most dramatic moment in baseball. Often it has been the exclamation point that appears at the end of a game, a season, a playoff, or a World Series. For fans, certain images-such as that of Carlton Fisk urging his shot fair over Green Monster or of Kirk Gibson limping around the bases-are engraved in memory.From Babe Ruth to Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, the author tells of the stories, complete with box scores and photographs, of what he has selected as the thirty most memorable home runs. Many of the stories include comments from the author's interviews with home run hitters. Other sections cover sixty additional noteworthy home runs, All Star Game home runs, and milestones such as total home run production and grand slams.In Rich Westcott's journey through baseball history, fans will encounter the most famous moments and longest blast, as well as fascinating sidelights like these about balls that didn't travel as far.Who won a home run title without hitting a single ball out of the park?*Who hit the first inside-the-park home run in a World Series game?**Who hit the shortest home run, one that failed to reach the pitcher's mound?**** Ty Cobb won the title in 1909 with nine inside-the-park home runs.** Casey Stengel for the New York Giants in 1923.*** Andy Oyler of the Minnesota Millers scored on a two-foot drive into a mud puddle in front of home plate during a game in 1900. ( Baseball historians disagree on the truth of this account.) Author note: Rich Westcott has been a writer and editor for almost 40 years. He is the author of 10 other books, including The New Phillies Encyclopedia (with Frank Bilovsky), Phillies '93: An Incredible Season, and Philadelphia's Old Ballparks, all published by Temple University Press. He is the founder of Phillies Report, the nation's oldest continuous, baseball team newspaper. Currently, Westcott teaches sportswriting at LaSalle University and is an official scorer at Phillies games.

Author : The Baseball Guys
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9781932855739
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Obsessed With...Baseball written by The Baseball Guys and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2007-10-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes multiple choice questions about baseball. Embedded in the book is a special computerized quiz module that lets you compete against yourself or a friend.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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