Bryce Harper's Index
March 23, 2010
Number of Google search results for "Bryce Harper Baseball’s Lebron": 876,000
2009 OPS of Bloomfield College OF Josh Lebron: .527
Age at which Harper first appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated: 16
Age at which Albert Pujols first appeared the cover of Sports Illustrated: 24
Age at which Albert Pujols first appeared in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue: 22
Rank of the State College, PA Wal-Mart for sales of 2010 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue: 1
Rank of State College, PA in Forbes Magazine’s Most Educated Small Towns: 15
Percentage of students with high school diploma who go onto college or additional vocational training: 70
Percentage of students with a GED who go onto college or additional vocational training: 27
Attendance for Harper's 2010 home opener at College of Southern Nevada: 1,350
MLB Scouts in attendance for Harper's 2010 home opener at College of Southern Nevada: 40
Attendance at College of Southern Nevada’s 2009 home opener: 250
Reported distance (in feet) of a home run hit by Harper as a 16-year-old: 570
Estimated distance (in feet) of that home run hit by Harper as a 16-year-old using a crude translation to wood bats: 516
Reported distance (in feet) of a home run hit by Mickey Mantle off of the old Yankee Stadium façade on May 22, 1963: 734
Estimated distance (in feet) of that home run hit by Mickey Mantle of the old Yankee Stadium façade on May 22, 1963 according to hittrackeronline.com: 507
Sources
http://www.google.com/
http://www.bcdeacons.com/
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/
http://onwardstate.com/2010/02/15/state-college-walmart-1-in-si-swimsuit-issue-sales/
http://www.forbes.com/2009/01/02/educated-small-towns-forbeslife-cx_jd_0105realestate.html
http://www.communitycollegetimes.com/article.cfm?ArticleId=1004
http://www.lvrj.com/sports/harper-shows-flair-in-csn-debut-83143447.html
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/the-2009-high-school-power-showcase/
http://www.themick.com/10homers.html
http://hittrackeronline.com/historic.php?id=1963_3