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Spartytruth said...
Babe Ruth's tremendous blow to right-center field in Detroit on June 8, 1926, has often been reported as traveling over 600 feet. Certainly, this drive was propelled somewhere around 500 feet in the air, which makes it legitimately historic, but proof that it traveled 600 feet cannot be found.
Mickey Mantle cleared the left-center-field bleachers at Clark Griffith Stadium in Washington on April 17, 1953, the entire baseball world was lead to believe the ball had traveled 565 feet from home plate to the point where it landed. In truth, that figure derived from the distance from home plate to the place where a neighborhood child retrieved the ball the actual distance in the air was probably about 510 feet.
Mantle on September 10, 1960, in Detroit, where his right-center-field rooftopper was reported to have traveled more than 600 feet.
Dave Kingman's Wrigley Field blast on April 14, 1976 his wind-aided blow in Chicago, has been confirmed that the ball struck against the third house beyond Waveland Avenue, which is situated about 530 feet from home plate.
Mantle was a switch-hitter who was equally powerful from both sides of the plate. As a result, he's the only player in history to establish true tape measure standards in all directions. There were no American League stadiums where Mantle played where he did not hit a home run of at least 450 feet to both the left and right sides of the field.
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VargMan said...
Exactly. The average RCMBer hits that thing 700 feet in his sleep. Even our board hottie, GGG can hit it 625 feet no problems.
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Spartytruth said...
Babe Ruth's tremendous blow to right-center field in Detroit on June 8, 1926, has often been reported as traveling over 600 feet. Certainly, this drive was propelled somewhere around 500 feet in the air, which makes it legitimately historic, but proof that it traveled 600 feet cannot be found.
Mickey Mantle cleared the left-center-field bleachers at Clark Griffith Stadium in Washington on April 17, 1953, the entire baseball world was lead to believe the ball had traveled 565 feet from home plate to the point where it landed. In truth, that figure derived from the distance from home plate to the place where a neighborhood child retrieved the ball the actual distance in the air was probably about 510 feet.
Mantle on September 10, 1960, in Detroit, where his right-center-field rooftopper was reported to have traveled more than 600 feet.
Dave Kingman's Wrigley Field blast on April 14, 1976 his wind-aided blow in Chicago, has been confirmed that the ball struck against the third house beyond Waveland Avenue, which is situated about 530 feet from home plate.
Mantle was a switch-hitter who was equally powerful from both sides of the plate. As a result, he's the only player in history to establish true tape measure standards in all directions. There were no American League stadiums where Mantle played where he did not hit a home run of at least 450 feet to both the left and right sides of the field.
Damn.
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