Baseball's Ultimate Power: Ranking The All-Time Greatest Distance Home Run Hitters - Tapa blanda

Jenkinson, Bill

 
9781599215440: Baseball's Ultimate Power: Ranking The All-Time Greatest Distance Home Run Hitters
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ISBN 10: 1599215446 ISBN 13: 9781599215440
Editorial: The Lyons Press, 2010

Sinopsis

The “tape-measure home run” is the greatest single act of power in the game of baseball, and the tales of these homers are the most cherished legacies players and fans hand down through the generations. Each long-distance shot has become fable; they are baseball’s versions of the feats of Paul Bunyon, Hercules, and Samson. No one but Bill Jenkinson could separate myth from fact and actually study, rank, and describe in riveting detail baseball’s strongest long-ball hitters. Fully illustrated with player photos and aerial ballpark photos showing the landing spots of each stadium’s longest home runs, Baseball’s Ultimate Power is the definitive book on the tape-measure home run and its practitioners. Jenkinson travels through the decades to give us the distances, descriptions, and comparisons of the forty longest hitters in major league history, the ten longest-hitting active players, the five mightiest from the nineteenth century, and the five best tape-measure batsmen from the Negro League era.

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Acerca del autor

Bill Jenkinson is the author of the critically acclaimed The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs. The top expert on the history of long-distance home runs, he has been a consultant for the Baseball Hall of Fame, Major League Baseball, the Society for American Baseball Research, the Babe Ruth Museum, and ESPN.

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The "tape-measure home run" is the greatest single act of power in the game of baseball, and the tales of these homers are the most cherished legacies players and fans hand down through the generations. Each long-distance shot has become fable; they are baseball's versions of the feats of Paul Bunyon, Hercules, and Samson.No one but Bill Jenkinson could separate myth from fact and actually study, rank, and describe in riveting detail baseball's strongest long-ball hitters. In this book, which he researched painstakingly for thirty years, he travels through the decades to give us the distances, descriptions, and comparisons of the forty longest hitters in major league history, the ten longest-hitting active players, the five mightiest from the nineteenth century, and the five best tape-measure batsmen from the Negro League era--from Babe Ruth, Jimmie Foxx, and Mickey Mantle to Willie Stargell, Reggie Jackson, Mark McGwire, and Albert Pujols. Fully illustrated with player photos and aerial ballpark photos showing the landing spots of each stadium's longest home runs, Baseball's Ultimate Power is the definitive book on the tape-measure home run and its practitioners.

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Editorial
The Lyons Press
Año de publicación
2010
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1599215446
ISBN 13 
9781599215440
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
352
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9781493055555: Baseball's Ultimate Power: Ranking the All-Time Greatest Distance Home Run Hitters

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ISBN 10:  1493055550 ISBN 13:  9781493055555
Editorial: Lyons Press, 2024
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