The Four Home Runs Club
Sluggers Who Achieved Baseball's Rarest Feat
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:14th Sep '18
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
In all of baseball, one record shines as perhaps the most coveted: four home runs by one player in a single game. If the pinnacle of pitching is the perfect game, then the highpoint of hitting is four home runs, and only eighteen players in the history of the sport can boast this accomplishment.
In The Four Home Runs Club: Sluggers Who Achieved Baseball’s Rarest Feat, Steven K. Wagner profiles the select group of men who have accomplished the near impossible. Drawing on interviews with dozens of current and former major-league ballplayers, Wagner chronicles the lives of these few who, in the space of a few hours, left an indelible mark on the game. In doing so, the author draws attention to the unique features that distinguished some of these events: one player homered in three consecutive innings; another did it twice in the same inning; a third hit two inside-the-park home runs; one added a double and a single in the same game; and a fifth player drove in a record-tying twelve runs. Among the men in this elite club are legends Lou Gehrig, Willie Mays, and Mike Schmidt, as well as recent “inductees” Shawn Green, Scooter Gennett, and J. D. Martinez.
From the sandlots of Coushatta, Louisiana, to the suburbs of New York City, this book examines the special batsmen who parlayed four mighty swings into baseball immortality. A fascinating look into this extraordinary exploit, The Four Home Runs Club will appeal to baseball fans everywhere.
Each [story shares] one thing in common – a historic game and offensive show that anyone who saw it, whether player, fan or the hitter himself, will remember. That is evident with the numerous quotes from other players, especially pitchers who gave up some of the historic home runs. Those were the best parts of the stories – especially quotes from those pitchers whose pain faded with time and are looking back fondly at the show put on by those hitters. . . . if a reader wants to learn a little bit more about these historic games and hitters, this is a good starting point.” * The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books *
When you pick up a Steven Wagner K. Wagner work of prose, it is clear that he is skilled at both research and writing. It is also clear that Wagner has a passion for both story-telling and baseball. Bring all of that together and “The Four Home Runs Club … Sluggers Who Achieved Baseball’s Rarest Feat” is a good read that belongs on every baseball fans bookshelf . . . All of this adds up to what Baseball Roundtable sees as a four-star – or better, a four-homer – recounting of the national pastime’s 18 four-homer games. The Four Home Runs Club is a fast-paced, informative and entertaining read. * BaseballRoundTable.com *
Steven K. Wagner’s The Four Home Runs Club is a meticulous account of 18 individually remarkable one-day heroics that represent the highest expectations of every athlete who has ever played the game. It illuminates why baseball has been and continues to be the “heartbeat” of ordinary American life. -- John Paciorek, major-league baseball’s greatest one-game wonder
ISBN: 9781538115428
Dimensions: 236mm x 159mm x 23mm
Weight: 463g
224 pages