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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. In truth, that figure derived from the distance from home plate to the place where a neighborhood child retrieved the ball. Since this home run was the only one that ever cleared those bleachers during decades of major league and Negro League competition, it is genuinely deserving of recognition. However, the actual distance in the air was probably about 510 feet. The same process was at work for Mantle on September 10, 1960, in Detroit, where his right-center-field rooftopper was reported to have traveled more than 600 feet.
David Ortiz is likely to be elected to the Hall of Fame in 2022, but he has never hit three home runs in a game. Babe Ruth, Jason Giambi, Reggie Jackson, and Stan Musial are just a few of the notable players who have accomplished this. Mookie Betts has accomplished this five times in the last three years alone. Despite his 541 home runs, David Ortiz never had three-homer games.
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It has been confirmed that the ball struck against the third house beyond Waveland Avenue, which is situated about 530 feet from home plate. Yet again, we have an example of a genuinely epic home run that has been grievously overstated. Similarly, Comiskey's left-field roof was also visited by many batted balls, but only one is confirmed to have cleared it on the fly. That homeric deed was performed by the powerful Jimmie Foxx on June 16, 1936.
One of his greatest moments, however, came in a game that didn’t mean anything. In 1971, Reggie was representing the Oakland Athletics in the All-Star Game at Tigers Stadium. In the bottom of the 3rd inning, Jackson crushed an outside fastball that eventually rang off of a transformer at the top of the stadium. Tiger Stadium was famous for its low roof and a few players have hit balls completely out of the ballpark, but Jackson’s 532-foot home run stands as one of the longest on record. This blast, the second on the list from Dunn, makes his first look like a chip shot and this time he may have used the driver.
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Since the installment of technology, Giancarlo Stanton's home run is the longest homer ever recorded. There's no video evidence of official measurement of Gibson's home run. However, the estimation is greater than Babe Ruth's number. Joey Meyer's home run is the longest homer ever recorded on video. Meyer made it to the Majors next year with the Milwaukee Brewers. While there's no definitive list of longest All-Star Game home runs, it's safe to say Reggie Jackson's 1971 blast would top it.
It would be the last big blast we would see from Mo, but boy was she a rocket. In another Chase Field special, we have Adam Dunn seeking to hit 100 RBIs on the final days of the regular season. He came in one shy on September 27th and then took lefty Glendon Rusch for a ride, past centerfield. His eight in D 40th of the season was a solo shot that gave him the century mark on a blast to the deepest part of the park, beating Sexson’s blast from four years earlier by a foot.
15 7. Darryl Strawberry - 525 Feet
Allen may have hit some of his sport's longest home runs, but neither he nor anyone else ever hit a baseball nearly that far. When gargantuan Frank Howard hit a mighty home run off Robin Roberts in Philadelphia on September 1, 1958, the next great tape measure home run career was initiated. One of the largest men ever to play major league baseball, at six feet seven inches, 275 pounds, Howard was the absolute epitome of size and strength.
Affectionately known to Red Sox fans as Big Papi, Ortiz unloaded on many a hapless pitcher, sending home runs rocketing past Pesky’s pole at Fenway. After playing a major role in the Red Sox 2004 championship drive, Ortiz joined an all-star team for a tour of Japan. In a 5-3 win against the Japan Stars at the Tokyo Dome, Ortiz drove a ball into the lights high above the upper deck in right field. This blast from another massive first baseman was as sweet as his name. In a game for the D-backs back in 2004, Sexson delivered a bomb to straight away center field that could barely be followed by the cameraman. On its way down, in cranked off of the scoreboard located well above the playing surface on the second deck level of Chase Field.
Alex Rodriguez, Albert Pujols, Willie Mays, Ken Griffey Jr., Jim Thome, and Sammy Sosa have all hit 600 or more. With Mazara’s recent hit, he will find himself tied with Vaughn in the record books. But the analyst who called the Lehman Collapse says to expect a “Cash Frenzy” instead. A gunman carried out the killings at a Kurdish cultural centre and nearby cafe on Friday in a busy part of Paris' 10th district. Police arrested a 69-year-old man who the authorities said had recently been freed from detention while awaiting trial for a sabre attack on a migrant camp in Paris a year ago.
It comes as no surprise that of the 10 farthest home runs hit, five happened at Coors Field. It’s the most hitter-friendly MLB park thanks to the thin air helping make baseballs fly out of the stadium. Interestingly, Braves’ outfielders account for four of the longest MLB home runs in 2021. Stanton is the best power hitter in MLB today, there’s no question about it.
Ruth, Mantle, Reggie Jackson, Willie Stargell and Adam Dunn have all hit blasts well past 500 feet in their careers. ESPN had a Home Run Tracker that was able to estimate the distance of certain dingers, but there is still no conclusive list of the longest homers throughout MLB history. We naturally like to quantify any phenomenon that interest us.
Dunn finished the season with a career-high 46 long balls. Few sluggers were stronger in their prime, making him one of baseball's most feared batters despite his strikeout woes. Richard Keiber, a collector who obtained Kingman's moonshot outside of Wrigley Field, insisted to theChicago Tribune's Rick Talley in 2003 that 600 feet was a more accurate tally. William Jenkinson, researchers estimated the fabled fly ball at 573 feet, and the New York Times originally reported a 630-foot flight. Jenkinson's findings serve as the basis for the used mark of 530 feet. The park estimated his powerful swing at 505 feet, making it one of the longest homers to invite a Big Apple rising.
"I don't think anyone could ever be comfortable getting a statue, I mean that respectfully," Thome said during the unveiling ceremony, per Cleveland.com's Joey Morona. "You play the game as a kid, you progress through high school, you get drafted, you go through the minor leagues. Nobody ever dreams of a statue, I certainly didn't." The ball soared out of Wrigley Field and landed on the rooftop of a building across the street. ESPN's Home Run Tracker tells a different story, calculating the final distance of Piazza's slam at 515 feet. Here are the deepest home runs hit from the 2021 MLB season, with videos from MLB.com. Below, we’ll look at some of the longest home runs hit in MLB history, both documented and rumored.
Only three players in the 500-home run club have never hit three home runs in the same game, and the other two did it twice. At the very least, the designated hitter should have had three home runs in one game. Joey Meyer hit a home run that was the longest in baseball history.
Adam Dunn
The ball cleared the wide breadth of Grand Boulevard and landed on the sidewalk approximately 470 feet from home plate. That was the start of modern long-distance hitting, and it is a testimony to Ruth's uniqueness that he was able to set objective standards of performance that have never been surpassed. Strawberry hit another dinger during New York's Opening Day victory and matched his previous season's career high with 39 homers that year. Off-field problems derailed his path to superstardom, but his Montreal moonshot serves as a reminder of his off-the-charts power. During the 1971 All-Star Game from Detroit’s Tiger Stadium, “Mr. October” delivered a massive game changing three-run homer to right field that cleared the entirety of the stadium’s impressively high standing bleachers.
ESPN Home Run Trackermeasured it as the longest shot since providing full data in 2008. It's also not the last time the three-true-outcomes prototype appears on this list. This list includes icons, Hall and Famers and rakers who wielded unquestionably elite power. Yet near the top sits a journeyman who belted 186 home runs over a career devoid of regular playing time. Jose Canseco's upper-deck blast helped the Oakland Athletics defeat the Toronto Blue Jays in the 1989 American League Championship Series.
