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62 - Aaron Judge, the New York Yankees, and the Pursuit of Greatness (Hardcover)
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62 - Aaron Judge, the New York Yankees, and the Pursuit of Greatness (Hardcover)
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An inside look at Yankees slugger Aaron Judge’s incredible,
unparalleled run to break Roger Maris’s home run record and the
franchise both men called home. Babe Ruth. Roger Maris. Aaron
Judge. Three historic figures across generations of Major League
Baseball, all swinging for the fences and calling Yankee Stadium
home. After an epic home run chase in which the sport’s biggest
present-day star chased a pair of beloved legends down to the wire,
their names will forever be linked in the lore of the most storied
franchise in professional sports. Judge, the hulking superman who
carried an easy aw-shucks demeanor from small-town California to
stardom in the Big Apple, had long established his place as one of
the game’s most intimidating power hitters. Baseballs frequently
rocketed off his bat like cannon fire, dispatching heat-seeking
missiles toward the “Judge’s Chambers” seating area in right
field, sending delirious fans scattering for souvenirs. But even in
a high-tech universe where computers measure each swing to the nth
degree, Maris’s American League mark of sixty-one home runs
seemed largely out of reach. It had been more than a decade since
baseball wiped clean the stains of its performance-enhanced era, in
which cartoonish sluggers Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, and Barry Bonds
made a mockery of the record book. Given a more level playing field
against pitchers sporting hellacious arsenals unlike anything Ruth
or Maris could have imagined, only an exceptional talent could even
consider making a run at sixty-one homers. Judge, who placed the
bet of his life by turning down a $213.5 million extension on the
eve of the regular season, promised to rise to the challenge. In
this insider’s look at one of baseball’s wildest and most
memorable seasons, veteran Yankees beat reporter Bryan Hoch
unravels the remarkable journey of Judge’s run to shatter
Maris’s beloved sixty-one-year-old record. In-depth, inspiring,
and with an expert’s insight, 62 also investigates
the more significant questions raised in a season unlike any other,
including how—and where—Judge will deliver his encore.
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