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Both the baseball and bat used to set this record were put on display in the Yankee Stadium. A Mickey Mantle homer was originally estimated to have gone 734 feet. While those feats would shatter Meyer’s mark, there was no technology or tool that could give an exact measure of those distances. The longest verified home run in American professional baseball history didn’t even happen in the majors. Modern baseball includes countless tools for measuring exit velocity, launch angle and projected distance on home runs. However, for much of MLB history, there wasn’t even an exact way to determine the length of tape-measure home runs.
First off, it must be stated that Kingman hit this one all the way out while playing at Wrigley Field in Chicago. And since baseball experts haven’t challenged this scientist’s claim, the projected mark still stands in the record books to this day. This particular blast came late in the 2008 season, after his trade from the Cincinnati Reds to the Arizona Diamondbacks. He belted a shot to center field off of pitcher Glendon Rusch, of the Colorado Rockies.
Nomar Mazara, Texas Rangers outfielder – 505 feet, Globe Life Park
The Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati isn’t a classic hitter’s field, statistically at least, but Adam Dunn sure tamed it. The Big Donkey, as he is known, hit 270 home runs for his original club, and none longer than the deep, deep bomb he drilled off a high Jose Lima fast ball in 2004. He could just have easily struck out, given his penchant for swinging freely, but the gamble paid off in a big way. One big advantage of being a slugger for the Colorado Rockies are the friendly confines — and thin air — of Coors Field. However, the longest home run in Rockies history came in a road game against the Florida Marlins in May, 1997.
While it’s possible Oklahoma State gave a favorable measurement, the 513-foot homer would easily be the farthest home run in 2022 at any level of baseball. 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. On August 10th of the 2004 season, Dunn connected on one of his 46 on the season and put himself in the top 3 for farthest dingers. He also became the only man, and still stands as so, to hit a ball clear out of The Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati. He hit the ball to the deepest part of the park in center-field, proving why he show up on our list twice. Dunn was one of the premier home run hitters during his 15-year career that lasted from 2001 to 2014.
Willie Stargell, Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder – 535 feet, Olympic Stadium
As late as 1960, Teddy Ballgame was still going strong, when he opened the season in Washington with a 475-foot bolt to right-center field. Coincidentally, that was the same ballpark where Mickey Mantle had supplanted Williams as the game's longest hitter seven years earlier. Dick Allen, too, played in both leagues, thereby providing himself the advantage of leaving his signature on more ballparks than those who only played in one league. Allen could not hit with the same power in those directions as when he pulled the ball, but he seems to have lost less distance than almost anyone else when hitting to the opposite field. Directly behind Allen in the historic ranking of tape measure hitters were contemporaries Willie Stargell and Willie McCovey.
Decades before these modern advances, historians were left to make questionable estimations or even use an actual tape measure. It’s been a turbulent career for Minnesota Twins slugger Miguel Sanó. An All-Star selection in 2017, Minnesota’s 6-foot-4 masher is more than capable of hitting one of the longest home runs ever.
Four consecutive home runs by a team in one game
And, it’s also the second time it’s happened within the same week. While Cron’s overall offensive production has gone down compared to last season, he’s poised to pass his power numbers in short order thanks to racking up more plate appearances in 2022. In the 1989 American League Championship Series, Canseco ripped an inside pitch from Toronto’s Mike Flanagan about 10 rows into the upper deck at the Sky Dome . It’s by far the longest home run ever hit at the Rogers Center and few players have gotten the ball up to the top deck. Canseco and fellow ‘Bash Brother’ Mark McGwire teamed to hit their share of monstrous homers with the Oakland Athletics, none bigger than this blast. And, the fact that this bomb came in the post-season makes it even more impressive.
But everything came together on June 21, 2018 when Mazara sent a Reynaldo Lopez fastball towering into the bleachers. At 505 feet, it’s the longest home run ever in the StatCast era. Here are the longest home runs in the Home Run Derby, during the StatCast era, away from Coors Field.
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Let’s dive into the best moonshots in MLB history and the longest home run ever. Mantle’s famous baseball was actually stolen from its display case in the Yankee Stadium by a group of boys who regretted the theft and returned it. Based on the most accurate possible measurements, Kingman’s home run is said to be the longest one in the history of Wrigley Field. Before Strawberry broke the record, the previous longest Olympic Stadium Home Run was made by Willie Stargell at 475 feet.
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. According to Statcast, someone soon to follow topped Mike Piazza's 496-foot homer from Sept. 26, 1997, as the longest home run in Coors Field history. He made the majors the next season but lasted just 156 games with the Milwaukee Brewers.
In a 3-1 count with the Twins trailing 4-3, Buxton turned a hanger from Liam Hendricks into a no-doubt 469-foot blast to end the game. Incredibly, it is the longest walk-off home run ever tracked by StatCast since 2015. Famous hits like Mickey Mantle’s home run are almost always hotly debated, and his was no exception! Some people insist that the wind helped him achieve this amazing record, while others point out that others played in the same conditions with inferior results.
Such a batted ball would require literally superhuman velocity, which would render the batsman capable of authoring 700 foot home runs. 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. 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.
His prime years were spent as a fan favourite in Boston, where his big frame and patented swooping, uppercut type of swing produced a lot of dingers. The tater in this video caused a ripple in the giant right field Jumbotron at Shea Stadium. Although there aremultiple talesof Babe Ruth's hitting his mythical home run beyond 600 feet, no accurate measuring tools existed during his playing days.
"There were people who worked at the stadium full-time," Tennyson explained. Meyer reared back and connected with a breaking ball from reliever Mike Murphy -- sending it deep into the Denver darkness. The ball kept going up and up until it hit halfway up the second deck of Mile High Stadium -- a place very few baseballs go. If you watch the video, the camera can't even follow it that high. This one, like Strawberry’s on this list, was hit in Montreal’s Olympic Stadium and when it landed, it became the longest home run ever hit at that venue. It was estimated at 535 feet, with no possibility of dispute.
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