Parallel Hitters - Tapa blanda

LeBuffe, Jim

 
9780595233755: Parallel Hitters
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ISBN 10: 0595233759 ISBN 13: 9780595233755
Editorial: iUniverse, 2002

Sinopsis

Parallel Hitters will delight baseball fans young and old. It is a series of amazing match-ups of startlingly similar Big League hitters. The book contains scores of fast moving biographical sketches, accompanied by just one line of hitting statistics for each player, vividly ilustrating how closely the matched up hitters resemble each other. The reader will see how Pete Rose resembled Harvey Kuenn, how Kirby Puckett was Roberto Clemente reincarnated, how Dale Murphy hit like Johnny Bench and how today's Barry Bonds is doing a great Mickey Mantle imitation, while David Justice is producing like Fred McGriff. More than one hundred fast-moving match-ups are delivered, using Batting Average, Slugging Average and On Base Percentage as key indicators.Parallel Hitters is a joy that will kindle many an interesting conversation among baseball fans.

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Reseña del editor

Parallel Hitters will delight baseball fans young and old. It is a series of amazing match-ups of startlingly similar Big League hitters. The book contains scores of fast moving biographical sketches, accompanied by just one line of hitting statistics for each player, vividly ilustrating how closely the matched up hitters resemble each other. The reader will see how Pete Rose resembled Harvey Kuenn, how Kirby Puckett was Roberto Clemente reincarnated, how Dale Murphy hit like Johnny Bench and how today's Barry Bonds is doing a great Mickey Mantle imitation, while David Justice is producing like Fred McGriff. More than one hundred fast-moving match-ups are delivered, using Batting Average, Slugging Average and On Base Percentage as key indicators.Parallel Hitters is a joy that will kindle many an interesting conversation among baseball fans.

Biografía del autor

Jim LeBuffe is a lifelong baseball fan, who grew up in Washington DC, following the Senators. When the Senators were stolen and moved out of town, Jim moved too. He has lived within a short drive of stadiums in Baltimore, Philadelphia , New York and Houston. This is his second baseball book.

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Editorial
iUniverse
Año de publicación
2002
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0595233759
ISBN 13 
9780595233755
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
328
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