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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.
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