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The 500 Home Run Club : Baseball's 15 Greatest Home Run Hitters From Aaron to Williams
author
:
Allen, Bob.; Gilbert, Bill
publisher
:
Sports Publishing, Inc.
isbn10 | asin
:
1582610312
print isbn13
:
9781582610313
ebook isbn13
:
9780585053288
language
:
English
subject
Baseball players--United States--Biography, Baseball players--United States--Interviews, Home runs (Baseball)--United States--History.
publication date
:
1999
lcc
:
GV865.A1A39 1994eb
ddc
:
796.357/092/273
subject
:
Baseball players--United States--Biography, Baseball players--United States--Interviews, Home runs (Baseball)--United States--History.
The 500 Home Run Club
Baseball's 15 Greatest Home Run Hitters from Aaron to Williams
By Bob Allen With Bill Gilbert
Sports Publishing Inc Sports PublishingInc.com
1999 Bob Allen and Bill Gilbert All rights reserved.
Director of Production: Susan M. McKinney Photo insert design: Terry Hayden Dustjacket design: Terry Hayden
ISBN: 1-58261-031-2 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 99-60756
SPORTS PUBLISHING INC. 804 N. Neil Champaign, IL 61820 http://www.SportsPublishingInc.com
Printed in the United States.
To my very own Hall of Famer, my wife Ellie, and to my son Tim and daughter Cathi and my lifelong friends, Hank Aaron and Eddie Mathews. And to the baseball greats and not so greats, but major leaguers all, who gave generously of their remembrances of the subjects of this book. In many respects, this is their book. But most of all to my mentor, Bill Gilbert, ''My Rembrandt With Words." B.A.
To Lillian and Dave and Katy, champions all. B. G.
Contents
Dedication
vi
Acknowledgments
vii
Foreword
viii
Prologue
ix
Introduction
x
1 Hank Aaron
1
2 Ernie Banks
21
3 Jimmie Foxx
38
4 Reggie Jackson
54
5 Harmon Killebrew
72
6 Mickey Mantle
90
7 Eddie Mathews
106
8 Willie Mays
127
9 Willie McCovey
149
10 Eddie Murray
164
11 Mel Ott
180
12 Frank Robinson
193
13 Babe Ruth
213
14 Mike Schmidt
232
15 Ted Williams
247
16 ''Heights by Great Men Reached"
Players Interviewed for this book
Page vi
Acknowledgments
The contents of this book have been reviewed for accuracy by Bruce Markusen, Senior Researcher for the National Baseball Hall of Fame Library in Cooperstown, New York.
Special thanks to Steve Gietschier of The Sporting News, Jim Gates of Baseball's Hall of Fame and Debbie Skalecki, assistant to Bob Allen.
Special thanks are also due to four other people who played key roles in the publication of this bookAndrew Pope, our literary agent at Curtis Brown, Ltd. of New York, and our All-Star team at Sports Publishing Inc.Mike Pearson, Jeff Ellish and Susan McKinney.
Page vii
Foreword
By Hank Aaron
For almost all of the Twentieth Century, America has had a love affair with home runs. That's why it is so appropriate to publish this book as the century ends.
Although more home runs than ever seem to be flying out of ballparksand going fartherhitting them is still the most exciting play in any sport, and one of the hardest things to do. Even Mark McGwire. Sammy Sosa, Jose Canseco and Ken Griffey, Jr., who teamed up to make 1998 ''The Year of the Home Run," will tell you that hitting home runs is never as easy at it sometimes looks.
I'm flattered to be included in these pages with all-time stars like Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Frank Robinson, Harmon Killebrew, Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams, my old teammateEddie Mathews, and the others, all the way to the newest member of our club, Eddie Murray. To hit 500 home runs is a rare athletic achievement, a baseball Mount Everest, reached by only 15 players out of the 14,500 men who have played in the Major Leagues. But it is more than a sports accomplishment. It is also a personal victory in endurance and in a person's ability and willingness to overcome adversity.
From my own experience I know that a player's challenge is made more difficult by the phone calls, the stacks of mail, the constant mobbing by well-meaning fans and the media spotlight that never gets turned away from you. Here's one example: When I was chasing Ruth's record of 714 home runs in a career, I had to stay at a different hotel from the rest of the team when the Braves were on the road. Another example: I was
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