The Twenty-Four-Inch Home Run The Twenty-Four-Inch Home Run The Twenty-Four-Inch Home Run: And Other Outlandish, Incredible But True Events in Baseball History is a book about baseball lore written by sportswriter Michael G. Bryson. The title refers to the book's central story, about a game where Andy Oyler hit a baseball that became stuck in the mud 24 inches in front of home plate, allowing him to score an inside-the-park home run before the opposing team located it. All told, the book contains 250 such stories, including an anecdote about a team registering a triple play without touching the ball. Bryson also debunks several
Running up the score wide a margin of victory as possible. This method resulted in the world record for the number of goals scored in a single game, in the 2001 FIFA World Cup qualifier between Australia and American Samoa, in which the Australian team scored a record 31 goals. In 2002, a club team from Madagascar called SO l'Emyrne ran up the score on themselves while protesting what they believed to be unfair officiating during an end of season round-robin series. They kicked the ball into their own goal 149 times in a row during a game against local rival AS Adema. There