Not only baseball fans will love this book. So will anyone who's ever wondered why baseball fans love to stand up and scream, "It's out'a here!"

Explaining why hitting a home run is the hardest challenge in sports, the book tells about five all-time home run hitters, beginning with their early lives.

"I was a bum when I was a kid," "Babe" (George Herman) Ruth admitted, but Babe went on to establish two formidable home run records: 60 homers in the Yankees' 1927 season and a lifetime total of 714 homers.

To many baseball fans, Babe's records were sacred, so fans were hard on Yankee Roger Maris when he bettered Babe's season record with 61 homers in 1961. Racist fans were even harder on the Braves' great Henry "Hammering Hank" Aaron when he broke Babe's lifetime record in 1974.

In 1998, Cardinal "Big Mac" Mark McGwire and Cub "Slamming Sammy" Sosa staged the greatest home run derby ever. Both men smashed Maris's longstanding record. But just as impressive as the numbers were the mutual respect and admiration that they both displayed throughout the race.

The Start-to-Finish Advantage! – This audio book is like NO OTHER!  We start by writing and editing our text to specifically support students who struggle with reading grade-level text fluently and with comprehension.  In addition, we add auditory support that includes thoughtful pacing, inflection and accentuation to engage the listener throughout the entire story.  This Start-to-Finish Gold Library book is perfect for the middle- and high-school curriculum to support readers who need age-appropriate resources written at a lower readability.  The readability of the printed text is 2-3rd grade.

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