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 Baseball's Ultimate Power: Ranking the All-Time Greatest Distance Home Run Hitters $17.95 The ¡Ètape-measure home run¡É is the greatest single act of power in the game of baseball, and the tales of these homers are the most cherished legacies players and fans hand down through the generations. Each long-distance shot has become fable; they are baseball¡Çs?versions of?the feats of Paul Bunyon, Hercules, and Samson. ?No one but Bill Jenkinson could separate myth from fact and actually study, rank, and describe in riveting detail baseball¡Çs strongest long-ball hitters. Fully illustrated with player photos and aerial ballpark photos showing the landing spots of each stadium¡Çs longest home runs, Baseball¡Çs Ultimate Power is the definitive book on the tape-measure home run and its practitioners. Jenkinson travels through the decades to give us the distances, descriptions, and comparisons of the?forty longest hitters in?major league?history, the ten longest-hitting active players, the five mightiest from the nineteenth century, and the five best tape-measure batsmen from the Negro League era.  Dreamscape $2.99 A preposterous but very fun film from the mid-80s, with great casting, quick pacing, above-average dialogue and a solid plot that weaves together some very imaginative ideas. Don't know what Dr. Freud would think of this band of Dream Psychologists, and things get a little silly once it the film comes full circle with its psuedo-scientific premises...but it all works in a Twilight Zone kind of way. That is to say - despite the incredible suspension of disbelief required, or perhaps because of it, the dark and cautionary messages of the film are nested in pure escapism. Brainstorm is a similar film, but that one gets way too preachy and turns idiotic in the last half. The Dead Zone is a totally different tone which takes its subject more seriously and has more to say about the responsibilities of those who have "gifts". Dreamscape, although it is by far the most goofy, makes equally good points and is a hell of a lot more fun than either of the other two. Also included is the requisite mid-80s romance with the future Mrs. Spielberg, who thankfully doesn't have to either sing or scream in this outing. Dreamscape $9.99 A preposterous but very fun film from the mid-80s, with great casting, quick pacing, above-average dialogue and a solid plot that weaves together some very imaginative ideas. Don't know what Dr. Freud would think of this band of Dream Psychologists, and things get a little silly once it the film comes full circle with its psuedo-scientific premises...but it all works in a Twilight Zone kind of way. That is to say - despite the incredible suspension of disbelief required, or perhaps because of it, the dark and cautionary messages of the film are nested in pure escapism. Brainstorm is a similar film, but that one gets way too preachy and turns idiotic in the last half. The Dead Zone is a totally different tone which takes its subject more seriously and has more to say about the responsibilities of those who have "gifts". Dreamscape, although it is by far the most goofy, makes equally good points and is a hell of a lot more fun than either of the other two. Also included is the requisite mid-80s romance with the future Mrs. Spielberg, who thankfully doesn't have to either sing or scream in this outing. |
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