The Four Home Runs Club
Title | The Four Home Runs Club PDF eBook |
Author | Steven K. Wagner |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 2018-09-14 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1538115433 |
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.
The Book
Title | The Book PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Potomac Books, Inc. |
Total Pages | 458 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Baseball |
ISBN | 1597973653 |
Baseball "by The Book."
Home Run Leaders
Title | Home Run Leaders PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Bliss |
Publisher | Vero Beach, Fla. : Rourke Corporation |
Total Pages | 54 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780865931282 |
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.
The Twenty-four-inch Home Run
Title | The Twenty-four-inch Home Run PDF eBook |
Author | Michael G. Bryson |
Publisher | McGraw-Hill/Contemporary |
Total Pages | 293 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 9780809243419 |
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
The SABR Baseball List & Record Book
Title | The SABR Baseball List & Record Book PDF eBook |
Author | Society for American Baseball Research |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 499 |
Release | 2007-03-20 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1416554564 |
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
The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs
Title | The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Jenkinson |
Publisher | Da Capo Press, Incorporated |
Total Pages | 434 |
Release | 2007-02-09 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN |
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.
The 600 Home Run Club
Title | The 600 Home Run Club PDF eBook |
Author | Mickey Strunak |
Publisher | America Star Books |
Total Pages | 138 |
Release | 2013-09 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 9781462676842 |
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.