Kenny Mayne’s Book
Kenny Mayne, the guy who used to host SportsCenter on ESPN, and is now seen only for special events like the Kentucky Derby, recently released a book titled ‘An Incomplete and Inaccurate History of Sport: . . . and Other Random Thoughts from Childhood to Fatherhood’.
Inside, there are three chapters (in a row) dedicated to wiffleball (or as Mayne calls it: wiffle ball). He doesn’t call it ‘whiffleball’ though. He hates when people spell it that way.
Mayne says that ‘wiffle ball’ is the second greatest sport to tackle football, and everyone knows it. While I would argue that wiffleball is better, I should point out that in his book he also said that horse racing is the second greatest sport to tackle football. He may have said the same about other sports; I haven’t read the whole book yet.
Perhaps the most amazing part of Kenny Mayne’s book is in the first ‘wiffle ball’ chapter. Back in 1972, in Kent, Washington, Mayne’s friend Mark Sansaver hit 843 ‘wiffle ball’ home runs. He broke Babe Ruth’s home run record (at the time) in one summer!
Overall, the book is great so far. Anyone who enjoyed watching Kenny Mayne on SportsCenter will like this book. If you’re interested, you can learn more about it out here: An Incomplete and Inaccurate History of Sport: . . . and Other Random Thoughts from Childhood to Fatherhood
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my names tyler in the summer of 2007 i recorded my stats by the end of the summer i had batted 1447/2887, .501 with 628 homeruns and 1147 RBI’s and i was only forteen
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Not bad. Not quite Mark Sansaver numbers either, but they’re still pretty good. Keep us posted on how you do this year as a 15 year old.
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