Baseball's Ultimate Power
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ISBN13: | 9781493055555 |
ISBN10: | 14930555511 |
Binding: | Paperback |
No. of pages: | 348 pages |
Size: | 234x190x24 mm |
Weight: | 708 g |
Language: | English |
Illustrations: | 105 Illustrations, unspecified; 52 Halftones, black & white |
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The world?s top home run expert answers the question: Who are the most powerful hitters
of yesterday and today?
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.
?Comparisons of athletes from different eras are always fraught with difficulty?different rules, equipment, nutrition, and training to name a few. Since baseball is very much a game of statistics, this is particularly true of its players. Nonetheless, Bill Jenkinson?s impeccably researched book effectively makes these comparisons, leaving little doubt as to whom was the best of the best. We consider The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs a must read for any fan of the Babe or baseball.?
?Julia Ruth Stevens and Tom Stevens, daughter and grandson of Babe Ruth