Sporting News Selects 50 Greatest Sluggers

Description: Sporting News Selects 50 Greatest Sluggers Up for auction this week is a slightly used: Sporting News Selects 50 Greatest Sluggers library book. It was in a Middle School library, the school has only been open for 10 years. I the last ten years students don't check out books anymore. That why it's up for sale, because the library was turned in to a media center. They take all the books out and replace them with desk top or laptop computers. But for the people that want to read our information out of a book they keep on a shelf this is a great find. Since it was a school reference library book it has a special plastic cover to protect its much use. There's Babe, Boog, Pops, Big Daddy, Slammin' Sammy, Big Mac, The Big Cat, The Rock and the list goes on and on. (Does it seem that all great sluggers have great nicknames?) Now, The Sporting News presents 50 Greatest Sluggers-a look both visually and in text at the greatest home run hitters of all time. Many color photos. Baseball is in the midst of an all out power hitting surge with more home runs being hit than ever before, and this new book by the Sporting News is perfectly timed to take advantage of our current fascination with the long ball. This book is also one that the generations can enjoy together.. People are always asking who was better, Babe Ruth or Mark Mcwire? Was Sammy Sosa better than Hank Aaron?" Well, the beauty of this book is that it places all the important sluggers throughout baseball history in context so that kids of all ages can read and argue their case. I particularly enjoyed the quotes from each slugger's contemporaries about an aspect of their persona. The graphics are eye-catching and modern enough to grab the attention of today's visually sophisticated youth. This is particularly important in giving the old-time players a modern context and perception. The novelist, Bernard Malamud (The Natural) once wrote, "baseball history has the quality of mythology." This book brings that quote to life full-force by linking these epic slugging heroes together in an historical weave that truly captures the larger-than-life feats and personalities of characters like; Babe Ruth, "the Sultan of Swat", Hammering' Hank Aaron. "Double XX" Jimmy Foxx, and "Hondo" Frank Howard, considered by some to be the strongest man ever to wear a uniform. I loved sharing the book with my friends and children. It is truly is a book for the ages. Hardcover, 188 pages Published March 1st 2000 by Sporting News Publishing Co. Title: Sporting News Selects 50 Greatest Sluggers ISBN: 0892046325 (ISBN13: 9780892046324) Language: English

Price: 12 USD

Location: Longwood, Florida

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