800 Home Run Club Exclusive Articles

(Sadaharu) Oh Yeah!

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:59:51 +0100

The greatest Japanese baseball player of all-time, Sadaharu Oh compiled a .301 lifetime average while setting records for home runs (868) and RBIs 1,967 and winning two consecutive triple crowns in 1973 and 1974. In 22 seasons, from 1959-80, he was a nine-time Most Valuable Player. Oh also holds the...

Sadaharu Oh Takes An Extra Base

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 09:40:16 +0100

After Retiring As Manager of JPB’s Softbank Hawks, Japan’s Home Run King Vows to Cultivate Young Baseball Talent as Team’s Chairman.

Josh Gibson Was Original Role Model For African American Youth

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:38:14 +0100

Joshua “Josh” Gibson was a powerful 215-pounder with features vaguely suggestive of an African American Babe Ruth. And his batting skills, by the estimation of many, were even greater than The Bambino’s. The leading homerun hitter of the Negro Leagues era, Gibson was credited by some baseball historians for “bashing”...

800 Home Run Club® Honorary Members' Tools of the Trade

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:53:51 +0100

Sluggers chose their bats carefully, personalized them for maximum effectiveness Following is a look at the actual bats chosen by many of baseball's greatest all-time home run hitters, honorary members of the 800 Home Run Club® to pursue their dreams, along with details...

We Are The Ship

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:30:11 +0100

A new book by Kadir Nelson highlights the history of Negro League Baseball and features Josh The Basher Gibson. Visit wearetheship.com (http://www.wearetheship.com) for more details of the book and an excerpt.