Overview
"The best baseball book Iāve read in years."Ā āĀ Sam WalkerĀ ā¢Ā "An exhilarating story of innovation."Ā Ā ā Ben ReiterĀ ā¢Ā "Swing Kings feels like a spiritual successor to Moneyball."Ā ā Baseball Prospectus
From theĀ Wall Street Journalās national baseball writer, the captivating story of the home run boom, following a group of players who rose from obscurity to stardom and the rogue swing coaches who helped them usher the game into a new age.
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. InĀ Swing Kings,Ā Wall Street JournalĀ national baseball writer Jared Diamond reveals that the secret behind this unprecedented shift isnāt steroids or the stitching of the baseballs, itās the most elemental explanation of all: the swing. In this lively narrative romp, he tracks a group of baseballās biggest starsāincluding Aaron Judge, J.D. Martinez, and Justin Turnerāwho remade their swings under the tutelage of a band of renegade coaches, and remade the game in the process.Ā
These coaches, many of them baseball washouts whoĀ have reinvented themselves as swingĀ gurus, for years were one of the gameās best-kept secrets. Among their ranks are a swimming pool contractor, the owner of a billiards hall, and an ex-hippie whose swing insights draw from surfing and the technique of Japanese samurai. Now, as Diamond artfully charts, this motley cast has moved from the baseball margins to its center of power. They are changing the way hitting is taught to players of all ages, and major league clubs are scrambling for their services, hiring them in record numbers as coaches and consultants. And Diamond himself, whose baseball career ended in high school, enlists the tutelage of each swing coach he profiles, with an aim toward starring in the annual Boston-New York media game at Yankee Stadium.
Swing KingsĀ is both a rollicking history of baseballās recent past and a deeply reported, character-driven account of a battle between opponents as old as time: old and new, change and stasis, the establishment and those who break from it. Jared Diamond has written a masterful chronicle of Americaās pastime at the crossroads.
This book title, Swing Kings (The Inside Story of Baseball's Home Run Revolution) - 9780062872111, ISBN: 9780062872111, by Jared Diamond, published by HarperCollins (March 23, 2021) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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