The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs: Recrowning Baseball's Greatest Slugger

In an unprecedented look at Babe Ruths amazing batting power sure to inspire debate among baseball fans of every stripe one of the countrys most respected and trusted baseball historians reveals the amazing conclusions of more than twenty years of research. Jenkinson takes readers through Ruths 1921 season in which his pattern of battled balls would have accounted for more than 100 home runs in todays ballparks and under todays rules. Yet 1921 is just tip of the iceberg for Jenkinsons research reveals that during an era of mammoth field dimensions Ruth hit more 450-plus-feet shots than anybody in history and the conclusions one can draw are mind boggling.