Im a big baseball fan, and need to know.
2006-10-25 08:57:31 · 9 answers · asked by WeaselMan 1 in Sports ➔ Baseball
Well, that would be impossible to tell, there are millions and millions of games,. both Amateur and Pro that have been played around the world since baseball was invented. Nobody was standing at most of those games with a tape measure.
2006-10-25 09:05:44 · answer #1 · answered by bmwdriver11 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
According to Adair's book on the physics of baseball, 500 feet is about the accepted human limit with regards to how far anyone can hit the ball.
The unofficial record (they weren't measured well) belongs to Mickey Mantle at about 565 feet, although it's estimated that he had a 20 mph wind blowing out to aid that ball, which would have lost at least 100 feet without the wind.
Never believe those stories where people say things like, "It was still rising when it hit the pole," or anything like that - they're mostly just myths not supported by science.
2006-10-25 09:10:35 · answer #2 · answered by Craig S 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I think its funny that every time we question what players of the past would do today people say they wouldn't fit in today's players are bigger stronger faster but we still believe that the longest home runs happened it is Babe Ruth or Mickey Mantel and I do the same thing. I think all of the longest homeruns will be comparable and I also have heard Josh Gibson has shots that measure up with Babe and Mickey's
2016-05-22 13:28:18 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cecil Fielder once hit a home run completely over the roof of Tiger Stadium that landed in an open peach truck and the driver found it the next day like 20 miles away!
2006-10-25 11:47:33 · answer #4 · answered by sir_real4127 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The longest measured (next day) was 565 ft by myself .....the one I hit in 1963 of the overhang at Yankee Stadium was projected that it would have gone over 734 feet......I wasn't sure if it was even going out at first!!!......I almost ran past Billy Martin who was joking around and tagging up at 3rd base!!!
2006-10-25 10:09:29 · answer #5 · answered by Mickey Mantle 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
565, i think it was by reggie jackson at municipal stadium in detroit, or frank howard at RFK
2006-10-25 09:00:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
i heard that the babe hit one over 600 feet but idk if thats true.... as far as the 565 thing... thats not true.. sammy sosa hit one over 570 in the allstar game home run derby in milwaukee a few years back... but he was on the roids so idk if youd count that
2006-10-25 09:13:07 · answer #7 · answered by anonymous 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
655 feet, by me
2006-10-25 09:09:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
561 FEET BY MICKEY MANTLE MEASURED NOT ESTIMATED.........
2006-10-25 15:41:01 · answer #9 · answered by cork 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋