All Rise - The Aaron Judge Story

All Rise - The Aaron Judge Story - Paperback

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All Rise - The Aaron Judge Story - Paperback

All Rise - The Aaron Judge Story - Paperback

by Bill Gutman
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by Bill Gutman (Author)

There is little doubt that the Yankees' Aaron Judge has enormous talent--think Ruth, DiMaggio, Mantle, and Jeter--and could become a baseball great in his own right. This is his story.

New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge burst onto the baseball scene in 2017 like a shooting star of the first magnitude. Standing six feet, seven inches tall and weighing 282 pounds, Judge won the right field job in spring training and proceeded to set the baseball world on fire during the first half of the season. He was not only setting rookie records and hitting more home runs than anyone, but also hitting them higher and farther and with greater velocity than baseball's other sluggers.

That wasn't all.

Judge quickly proved he was more than just a one-dimensional slugger. Not only was he leading the American League in home runs, batting average, and runs batted in during his early-season splurge, he was also proving himself an outstanding outfielder with great range, a rifle arm, and, despite his great size, even showed the ability to steal bases. He looked to be the total package.

He captured the imagination of the league as the leading vote getter in the midseason All-Star Game; Judge also participated in the Home Run Derby and electrified the crowd by hitting 47 homers, including 23 in the first round, to win the competition. His longest home run traveled some 513 feet and several more shots hit the stadium's roof. He was the player people were coming out to see and his jersey was the number one seller in all of baseball.

Though his production slowed somewhat after the All-Star Break, he was still having one of the great rookie seasons in many years. Playing for the storied New York Yankees he has begun evoking memories of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, and Mickey Mantle, the team's lineage of all-time greats. So it should be no surprise when you hear the call all around baseball--ALL RISE, HERE COMES AARON JUDGE.

Author Biography

Bill Gutman is the author of more than 200 books in a 45-year writing career. He has written both for children and adults, and has authored many baseball books including biographies and profiles of the game's top stars, past and present.

Number of Pages: 176
Dimensions: 0.4 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: April 03, 2018
ISBN9781682617045
Author Bill Gutman
PublisherPost Hill Press
GenreYoung adult, Biography, and Sports
FormatPaperback
PublishedApril 2018
LanguageENG- English
Pages176
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults and Adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Bill Gutman

Bill Gutman is a longtime freelance writer who has published more than two hundred books for both children and adults, in fiction and nonfiction. He has written biographies of such diverse personalities as Magic Johnson, Bill Parcells, Michael Jordan, jazz great Duke Ellington, Pistol Pete Maravich, and former president Andrew Jackson. In addition, he has worked with the likes of former New York Giants linebacker Pepper Johnson (Won for All: The Inside Story of the New England Patriots' Improbable Run to the Super Bowl), baseball star Bobby Thomson (The Giants Win the Pennant! The Giants Win the Pennant!), and former Rangers and Red Sox manager Kevin Kennedy (Twice Around the Bases) on as-told-to books. He has also written numerous sports histories, interviewed former baseball players on their transition to the real world (When the Cheering Stops), spoken with twenty-five extreme-sport, high-risk athletes in the world (Being Extreme), and talked with members of the 1968 New York Jets and 1969 New York Mets (Miracle Year, 1969: Amazing Mets and Super Jets). He has also ghosted a family memoir with Thomas and Betty Jones of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. They are the parents of seven children, including former NFL running backs Thomas and Julius Jones (Blessings from the Dust).

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