Ergebnis für "Home Run" in Sport & Freizeit

The MLB Home Run Derby: A Historical Swing Fest Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, gather 'round for a spectacle like no other, a show of sheer power and raw athleticism that has captivated the hearts of baseball fans for decades. Today we delve into the exhilarating history of the MLB Home Run Derby, a contest that has become as much a part of baseball lore as the World Series itself. The Origins: Humble Beginnings The Home Run Derby first swung into action in 1985 at the Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was a simple yet ingenious idea: gather the league's top sluggers and let them ...

The Deadball Era (1901-1920) is a baseball fan's dream. Hope and despair, innocence and cynicism, and levity and hostility blended then to create an air of excitement, anticipation, and concern for all who entered the confines of a major league ballpark. Cheating for the sake of victory earned respect, corrupt ballplayers fixed games with impunity, and violence plagued the sport. At the same time, endearing practices infused baseball with lightheartedness, kindness, and laughter. 

We are in a historic era for the home run. The 2019 season saw the most homers ever, obliterating a record set just two years before. It is a shift that has transformed the way the game is played, contributing to more strikeouts, longer games, and what feels like the logical conclusion of the analytics era. In Swing Kings, Wall Street Journal national baseball writer Jared Diamond reveals that the secret behind this unprecedented shift isn’t steroids or the stitching of the baseballs, it’s the most elemental explanation of all: the swing.

When journalist Terence Moore was 12 years old, he treasured his poster of Henry Aaron. Years later, Aaron would sign it for him. Later still, Moore would be named an honorary pallbearer at the home run king's funeral. Friends and family knew Aaron as quick-witted, hilarious, and fiercely opinionated beyond what was shown in public. With the encouragement of Aaron's family, Moore now shares this intimate perspective on the baseball legend, the culmination of decades of friendship and correspondence.

He was the biggest man baseball has ever produced. Babe Ruth transcended the sport that brought him fame, money, and adulation, moving beyond the limits of baselines and outfield fences into the mainstream of American life. In this extraordinary biography, Creamer uncovers the complex and captivating man behind the legend.

Home Run Applesauce, part of Fans First Sports Network, is a collection of New York Mets podcasts that celebrate the team and explore it from a variety of angles. From the minor league focus of From Complex to Queens, the historical UnforMETable, the all-women hosted A Pod of Their Own, and the ‘flagship’ show of Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World Series, our podcasts take you inside the Mets, their fanbase, and the stadium. Come join us, and Let’s Go Mets.

The Home Run Porch is a baseball lover's podcast. Hosts Madison and Kevin talk about players, movies, stadiums, calls and so much more. They might be super fans of the Minnesota Twins, but they'll talk everything from little leagues to the big leagues!

Muchachos en este podcast hablamos de béisbol DE LA MLB en colaboración de su servidor el Diaz, jcw, gundar Cada domingo estaremos aquí debatiendo temas importantes en el mundo del béisbol. https://www.facebook.com/lazonadelhomerun https://www.youtube.com/@lazonadelhomerun

Danny Gallagher leads listeners up to that infamous day in October 1981 when Rick Monday of the Los Angeles Dodgers hit a home run off of Montreal Expos pitcher Steve Rogers in the ninth inning, giving the Dodgers a berth in the World Series. Listeners will be taken back to 1976 when a five-year plan for winning the National League championship was set in place by the Expos with the hiring of experienced manager Dick Williams.

Joel Caine and Bryan Fletcher have got you covered for The Run Home on 1170 SEN Sydney every Monday to Friday!

Andy Maher and Andrew Gaze have got you covered for The Run Home on 1116 SEN every Monday to Friday!

The home of FFSN's Tennessee Titans podcast feed. A feed for the Titan fan, by the Titan fan.

The home of FFSN's Tennessee Titans podcast feed. A feed for the Titan fan, by the Titan fan.

The home run horse, the runner that makes your fortune and changes your life, can come from anywhere. This book will explore the quest for the superior thoroughbred, who takes up the search for a life-changing horse, and why they do it with limited success.

Home run slugger Sylvester Coddmyer the Third has an amazing secret. For three seasons, he's been coached by men who look exactly like baseball legends: Babe Ruth, Eddie Cicotte, and Mickey Mantle. Are these men just impersonating famous ballplayers, as his friend Duane insists? Or are they from the "beyond," as Snooky Malone believes?

The home run is the single most dramatic moment in baseball. Often it has been the exclamation point that appears at the end of a game, a season, a playoff, or a World Series. For fans, certain images such as that of Carlton Fisk urging his shot fair over Green Monster or of Kirk Gibson limping around the bases are engraved in memory. From Babe Ruth to Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, the author tells of the stories of what he has selected as the thirty most memorable home runs.

At 6-foot-7 and 285 pounds, Aaron Judge emerged as the biggest story in baseball in 2017 with his monstrous home runs and record-breaking ability. A three-sport athlete in high school and a Division I ballplayer at Fresno State, the Californian was drafted by the New York Yankees in the first round in 2013 and made it to the majors by August 2016. Homering in his first major league at-bat and starting in right field straight out of spring training in 2017, he gave Yankees fans hope for the future, along with "Baby Bombers" teammates such as Gary Sanchez.

In this unique and meaningful book, Shizuka Ijuin, an award-winning author and a friend of baseball legend Hideki Matsui, profiles the beloved New York Yankee–a world-class athlete who exemplifies a quality that Ijuin believes is central to success and well-being: modesty. Hideki Matsui embodies the Eastern virtue that combines compassion and self-effacement with high achievement. Born in a northern coastal town of Japan, Matsui was a phenomenon by the time he was a teenager, playing baseball in the famous high school league tournament at the Koshien Stadium and nicknamed “the wunderkind from the North.”

Bull Durham, the breakthrough 1988 film about a minor league baseball team, is widely revered as the best sports movie of all time. But back in 1987, Ron Shelton was a first-time director and no one was willing to finance a movie about baseball—especially a story set in the minors. The jury was still out on Kevin Costner’s leading-man potential, while Susan Sarandon was already a has-been. There were doubts. But something miraculous happened, and The Church of Baseball attempts to capture why.

In the 1920s Rogers Hornsby was the National League's foremost star, its biggest since Honus Wagner, and its principal answer to the American League's Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb. He was a seven-time National League batting champion, and his 1924 average remains the major-league high for this century.