{"product_id":"baseballs-ultimate-power-bill-jenkinson-9781493055555","title":"Baseball's Ultimate Power: Ranking the All-Time Greatest Distance Home Run Hitters","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \"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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo 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, \u003ci\u003eBaseball's Ultimate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ePower\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bill Jenkinson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1493055550\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781493055555\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lyons Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/02\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.72d","brand":"Bill Jenkinson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44126577000703,"sku":"9781493055555","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_64192a7f-eb57-4472-924d-677b83b2e65c.jpg?v=1687448981","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/baseballs-ultimate-power-bill-jenkinson-9781493055555","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}