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Product Identifiers
PublisherHachette Books
ISBN-100786719060
ISBN-139780786719068
eBay Product ID (ePID)56981146
Product Key Features
Book TitleYear Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs : Recrowning Baseball's Greatest Slugger
Number of Pages432 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2007
TopicBaseball / History, Baseball / General
IllustratorYes
GenreSports & Recreation
AuthorBill Jenkinson
FormatPerfect
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight15.2 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2007-005671
TitleLeadingThe
Reviews The Giant's House is the work of a writer who is as singular and astute as the characters she creates... funny, ambitious and precise... a beautifully composed portrait of people struggling against themselves with the full force of their courage and desire
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal796.357092 B
SynopsisIn 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. , 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.
Great insight into the career of the Babe. You’ll come away wondering how such a man existed. He was not just the most incredible ball player ever, but a friend to everyone he met. If it was in his power, the color barrier in baseball would have been broken 25 years earlier.