POWER PLAY
Watching a YouTube video of home run-hitting phenom Blaze Jordan is feast enough for the eyes. More than half a million pairs have watched Jordan’s 57 seconds of Internet gold, when he launched two 500-foot home runs at the age of 13 in an amateur home run derby.
Bryce Harper hit a 502-foot home run in that same derby—the Power Showcase—in 2009. But he was 17.
Jordan did it with baby fat on his waist.
Cameras traced the trajectory of balls he demolished over Greene’s Hill, the signature slope that serves as the batter’s eye at Globe Life Park, home of the Texas Rangers. One careened off the top of the Hyundai Club restaurant roof.
Even the broadcast’s audio paints a clear picture. After one particularly majestic swing, you can hear the pre-pubescent voice of a 12-yearold boy within earshot of the center field camera operator as he exclaims: “Holy Mother of God.”
A kid watching a major league player put on that
