Zack Hample
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Zack Hample

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Zack Hample, a baseball superfan and popular YouTuber, has been to 61 different major league stadiums and snagged more than 11,000 balls in the stands, including Mike Trout's 1st career home run and Alex Rodriguez's 3,000th career hit. A former guest on "The Tonight Show" with both Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien, Hample has written three baseball books — How to Snag Major League Baseballs (Simon & Schuster, 1999), Watching Baseball Smarter (Random House, 2007), and The Baseball (Random House, 2011). In 2013 he set a world record by catching a baseball dropped from the greatest height — 1,050 feet from a helicopter at a minor league stadium in Massachusetts. Hample also holds six world records on classic video games and appeared briefly in the documentary "King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters." Hample's mother, Naomi, is part-owner of Argosy Books, the oldest independent bookstore in New York City; his father, Stuart, was a children's book author, illustrator, and humorist.
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    • Watching Baseball Smarter

    • A Professional Fan's Guide for Beginners, Semi-experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks
    • Written by: Zack Hample
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 2017-10-24
    • Language: English
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