Keeping Score: Mike Piazza’s Deafening Blast Against The Yankees Echoes At Cooperstown

JAY SCHREIBER, New York Times: Baseball
Sat, 07/23/2016 - 2:48pm

In July 1999, Piazza stepped to the plate and unleashed a 482-foot sonic boom that brought his foes to their feet in the dugout — and looking skyward in awe in the field.

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