NY Times · Jun 11, 2017
Before Scooter Gennett, a Slugging Show on a Smaller Stage
Mike Ford was a history major at Princeton University, but the annals of baseball were not his area of expertise.
“Not so much, to be honest with you,” said Ford, the first baseman for the Trenton Thunder, the Class AA affiliate of the Yankees. “I’m pretty terribly versed in that.”
In his own way, though, Ford, 24, is a small part of baseball history. Before Scooter Gennett hit four homers on Tuesday for the Cincinnati Reds, Ford was the most recent professional player to accomplish the feat, according to the Society for American Baseball Research. He did it for the Class A Charleston RiverDogs in Hickory, N.C., on May 25, 2014.