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Longest homerun you’ve ever seen

Mo Vaughn Big East Tournament at Muzzy Field. Hit it over the pine trees in right field. Some said it landed in the Pequabuck River... That Seton Hall team was crazy stacked too with Biggio, Martese Robinson and a few others...
 
Canseco hit one at Harbor Yard (playing for Newark) that hit the arena, and not just barely. An absolute bomb.
 
Reggie hitting one over the right field light standard in Tiger Stadium, possibly 1984 but not sure
 
GemParty said:
I think I saw Stanton murder a baseball yesterday. 483 feet & exit was 121.3 MPH. It was majestic. Check it out if you missed it.

He’s had a few 500. One was a missile over the Art Deco carnival structure of Marlins Park landing on the centerfield concourse a few years ago. My lord.

Reggie & Mantle have had 500+.

My question is concerning Ted Williams 502 Red Designation Seat at Fenway and Babe Ruth’s fabled 575? That’s Five-Seventy-Five.

Ortiz says, Ted’s is really hard to imagine. Article linked. Ortiz never personally came close. He tried. He even experimented with Aluminum bats.

Jerry Remy said this week, in 30 years of watching games and batting practices, at Fenway nothing has landed near that Red seat in right field.

Are those bombs long ago Fact/fiction?

www.bostonglobe.com

Ted Williams’s blast remains Fenway Park benchmark - The Boston Globe

Despite significant advances in player training and preparation, no one has eclipsed the 502-foot homer Williams hit in 1946.
www.bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com
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I have been to almost all major league ball parks spanning 50 years so this is tough.

I am going old school. Dave Kingman hit one to left at Shea, over the bullpen and over 2 busses parked behind said pen. Had to be 500

Great question.
 
I was also at Connie Mack when Dick Allen hit it over the full left field stands and light tower. I was sitting in the 3rd based side in left field and it was still rising going over the light towers which had to be at least 50-60' if not higher from ground level. Paper the next day estimated 650', but who really knows.
 
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Probably the one I hit one day in 1969 while playing in the empty field in back of Sacred Heart Church in Vernon.
I was never a power hitter by any means but it must have been a combination of the Nehi Orange soda, twizzlers and a few fireballs that mojo'd my testosterone to a maximum level.
I took a pitch from my brother Scott and it was one of those that when you hit it there was no feeling in the bat and it shot off of the bat high, hard and fast - into the woods where we couldn't find it. Never hit one like it before or after. I felt like Ron Santo (my idol) rounding the bases and all the kids just stood in awe because I was always good for a ground ball base hit or a pop-up.
Strange but 51 years later I still recall that day as if it was yesterday
BTW - in high school baseball I walked 58 times, struckout 12 times, HBP 6 times and had 2 base hits. I was a great fielder but after my sophomore year I decided that baseball was not my future.
 
I was at Fenway and saw Bo Jackson hit a homer off of Oil Can Boyd like he was angry at the ball. I swear the thing never got more than 20 feet off the ground and it hit the wall going into the bleachers in left-center and bounded back onto the field. Everyone was pretty much awe struck. Except Oil Can......I think he blamed in on the ump.
 
dennismenace said:
This brings back memories of a cartoon that appeared in a Boston paper after the homerun. The cartoon showed a ballplayer up on the Mass Pike hidden behind a sandbagged wall. It was entitled "how to defend against Jim Rice". LOL. I remember him winning the MVP in 1978 with 400 total bases.
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Any ball hit over that diagonal wall between left center and center is an absolute bomb. Splitting hairs of it going over the flag and pole or just going by it on the fly is cute.
 
HuskyV said:
This one:
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I know he was all roided up but so were at least half of them. I've never seen anything on a baseball field that was remotely close to Bonds during his roided up period. It was absurd, you either walked him or he was gonna hit it 450 feet off of you.
 
The most impressive shot I’ve ever seen was Mantle’s hitting left handed that the old facade. He allegedly had more power as a righty.
That ball was bouncing back into the stadium in a blink. Based on speed and trajectory the Daily News estimated it could have gone 700 ft.
 
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Longest in person was this Josh Hamilton blast at Fenway in 2012. .
 
Saw Jim Rice hit a bomb into the upper deck at Yankee stadium. One of the best games that I saw in person. Game ended with the Yanks Ken Griffey sr. Taking a Potential game winning Homer away from Marty Barrett.
Norm Cash with his corked bat hit a 500+ homer over the roof at either Fenway or Tiger stadium
 
chalk1 said:
I was also at Connie Mack when Dick Allen hit it over the full left field stands and light tower. I was sitting in the 3rd based side in left field and it was still rising going over the light towers which had to be at least 50-60' if not higher from ground level. Paper the next day estimated 650', but who really knows.
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Welcome, "Chalk1". Has that ball re-entered the earth's atmosphere yet?

Are you a Philly native? I am not (Branford, CT), but was a freshman at Penn then. Very fond memories of Philly, especially the Palestra.
 
I seem to recall that Sam Horn may have come close to hitting one out of Yankee Stadium by hitting one deep in the right field bleachers. I thought I remembered someone say he hit the advertising sign above the right field bleachers but I cannot find a reference to it. I did find this link which mentions a 480 ft homer in right in 1987 but it doesn't mention it quite that way.

Stark: Useless info dept.

Jayson Stark checks in with his usual assortment of hard-to-believes and did-you-knows from around baseball.
www.espn.com
 
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In person this was the longest home run I've ever witnessed live. I was at this game in 2001. Don't believe I've ever seen anyone else hit one in the left field bleachers at the renovated Yankee Stadium.
 
Skiblets said:
Mo Vaughn Big East Tournament at Muzzy Field. Hit it over the pine trees in right field. Some said it landed in the Pequabuck River... That Seton Hall team was crazy stacked too with Biggio, Martese Robinson and a few others...
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The longest I saw at Muzzy Field was hit by Ike Blessit (cup of coffee with the Tigers) when he played for the Holyoke Miller's (Milwaukee's AA team in the Eastern League) in 1977. There is a huge oak tree behind the left center field wall at Muzzy that he almost cleared. Not taking anything away from Mo, but right field at Muzzy is around 300 feet. The fence where the tree is located is about 365-370. The only saving grace was Ike didn't hit it off of me.
 
Hankster said:
I was at the stadium when Mantle hit one dead center field over 400ft. Over the monuments. Marris also hit one in the seats. That game was Mel Stotlemeyer pitched his first game. He also contributed with a base hit as The Bombers beat the White Sox 9-6. I forget the date. I don't I was even a teen then.
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I watched that game. Mel got a bit his first at bat and I remember the announcer saying he was batting 1,000. It caught my attention.
 
Has anyone ever been fortunate to catch a homerun or foul ball at an MLB game?

23 years ago Braves/Marlins. Livan Hernandez on the bump, and I wasn’t fully paying attention. A Chipper Jones foul ball rips a soda right out of my hand. Luckily it wasn’t a beer.
 
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GemParty said:
Has anyone ever been fortunate to catch a homerun or foul ball at an MLB game?

23 years ago Braves/Marlins. Livan Hernandez on the bump, and I wasn’t fully paying attention. A Chipper Jones foul ball rips a soda right out of my hand. Luckily it wasn’t a beer.
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I went to college in Montreal 20 years ago. Pretty easy pickings. 6 Canadian dollars to get in, maybe 4K in actual attendance, and you could walk in with a backpack full of booze (note - pre 9/11). I put up a hand while sitting in left field bleachers and had a Benny Agbayabi BP home run hit my hand and fall to my feet (amazingly didn’t hurt much). No sh$t got him and Rick Reed to sign it later before the game started. Still have it.
 
GemParty said:
Has anyone ever been fortunate to catch a homerun or foul ball at an MLB game?
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I caught a foul ball at Fenway that Jed Lowrie hit. It was an easy pop up on the third base side and the guy in the row in front of me had it all lined up. But since my row was a few inches higher than his my hands were able to go above his hands and I caught it before it hit his hands. He turned around and looked at me and laughed because he thought he had it the entire time. I was with my sons who were very young so he didn't mind that my sons got to keep the ball.
 
I saw Sam Horn hit one in the minors to straight away center. It disappeared into the night air. It hurt my ears when he hit it. I was just a kid. I think it was at Beehive when the AA Sox team was in New Britain.
On tv, I remember watching Richie Sexson hit a homerun off the center field scoreboard in Arizona. I think he hit his own face. It's probably on youtube. I think it was also his 200th of his career.
It wasn't just where the ball hit. It was how quickly it got there.
 
GemParty said:
I think I saw Stanton murder a baseball yesterday. 483 feet & exit was 121.3 MPH. It was majestic. Check it out if you missed it.

He’s had a few 500. One was a missile over the Art Deco carnival structure of Marlins Park landing on the centerfield concourse a few years ago. My lord.

Reggie & Mantle have had 500+.

My question is concerning Ted Williams 502 Red Designation Seat at Fenway and Babe Ruth’s fabled 575? That’s Five-Seventy-Five.

Ortiz says, Ted’s is really hard to imagine. Article linked. Ortiz never personally came close. He tried. He even experimented with Aluminum bats.

Jerry Remy said this week, in 30 years of watching games and batting practices, at Fenway nothing has landed near that Red seat in right field.

Are those bombs long ago Fact/fiction?

www.bostonglobe.com

Ted Williams’s blast remains Fenway Park benchmark - The Boston Globe

Despite significant advances in player training and preparation, no one has eclipsed the 502-foot homer Williams hit in 1946.
www.bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com
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I also saw him do that either last year or year before. With this COVID and delayed or canx sports I am losing some dated material in my mind. It also exited to left field at the same speed you indicated. It was a line drive to deep left field. What a rocket.
 
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