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April 15, 2009

In the trivia department, Chicago White Sox teammates Jermaine Dye and Paul Konerko hit back-to-back homers for the 300th round-tripper of their careers. Hitting No. 300 in the same game would have been impressive enough, but back to back? Brings to mind Griffeys Sr. and Jr. pulling the same stunt on Sept.4, 1990.

Too bad David Vincent just published The Top 10 Book of Monumental Dingers, Prodigious Swingers, and Everything Long-Ball.

Vincent, a long-time member of the Society for American Baseball Research, has put together lists from the mundane (most single-season home runs by a fielding position, the pitchers who surrendered the most home runs) to the improbable (players who homered in the All-Star Game and World Series in the same season), to the hilarious (batters with at least ten-letter last names who hit 30 homers in a season, home runs lost to a batter’s mistake). Vincent must have had a lot of fun – and a wicked search filter – to put this edition together.  The wise reader would to well to commit some of these to memory for bar bets (in fact, there’s a separate chapter for that).

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