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Book

It's outta here! : the might and majesty of the home run

Call Number

  • J 796.357 DOED (CEN, EAS, OSH)

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Publication Information

Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, [2021]

Physical Description

64 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Audience

Grades 4-6 Millbrook Press.

Summary

"For more than one hundred years, the home run has been the most exciting play in baseball. Read about the longest, strangest, and most important home runs in Major League Baseball history"--

Contents

  • Introduction: going deep
  • The long history of the long ball
  • The physics of the home run
  • History's most memorable home runs
  • Record book
  • The future of the long ball.

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