The one that Manny Ramirez hit last night.

I don't care if they said it was 450...it went to almost the exact same spot as Sorrento's did. Definitely wasn't 40 feet in front of it.

I was at that Sammy game at MMP....He was seeing th ball pretty well until it left sight.

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ahh that's right....the good ole days of Tim Redding



the farthest ball I think I've seen hit was Klesko's bomb to Left-Center at MMP....it was the longest HR at MMP for a while.

the most amazing thing I think I ever saw though was back at the dome when the Cubs were in town. Sammy and Glenallen Hill (who puts on one of the best BP shows I've ever seen) went mono-y-mono hitting balls off the first row of the upperdeck. I'm talking about 3 or 4 in a row for each of them. It was pretty cool.

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I second the Thome call. That jack for the Phils was massive. It almost hit the Miller Lite sign at MMP.

Also, back when Thome was with the Indians, I saw him plant one I want to say three decks up in the Astrodome.

Those were impressive.

McGwire during his 70 year. I was at the Astrodome, and during BP he launched one into the very upper reserve rainbow seats in left near where I was sitting. It was just mind blowing...I was so freakin far from the action and that ball sailed right at me practically. Had to have been at least 500 ft.

He hit one during the game as well, 31 I think...halfway to the record. That was just a screamer line drive if I recall.

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Cecil Fielder hit a homerun while playing in rookie ball that beats anything I've seen or heard. It was in Butte, Montana and it defied physics. It was hit to left field. It bounced about 50 feet in the air off a road. We measured the distance at 585 feet. That's 585 feet to the road, not after the bounce.

Dre_00...i was at that game too...we were sitting pretty close to the jumbotron...man, that was a bomb

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(1). Dave Winfield hit one over the RF pavilion roof at Dodger Stadium when he was playing for the Padres; Not sure of the year, but the Pad's still had those awful mustard and brown uni's. Maybe 76 or so.
(2). Saw Wilver Stargell hit one over the top RFdeck at Dodger Stadium in 75 (?) I think, I was sitting in the LF Pavilion and this thing went out like a rocket.

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Sosa hit one of Scott Elarton in 200o or 2001 that hit the lights in left

If you ever saw TV games at the Old Tiger's Stadium (which was a jewel - very sorry to see it go), then you might be a little confused. The RF 2nd deck actually hung over the playing field by about 10 feet. There were numerous HR's through the years that the right fielder would wait to catch, only to have them disappear in the first few rows of the 2nd deck. I don't think that the 2nd deck actually caused any HR's, but with a high enough fly ball, it would've been close. Anyway, when you'd see guys like Kirk Gibson clear the 2nd deck, it was impressive, but nothing like doing it in left field. Left field also had a second deck, but it didn't hang over the field. In fact it was set way back from the first deck, which you couldn't really see on TV. I think Fielder hit a couple of bombs over the LF 2nd deck - now that was impressive! Also, CF in Tiger's Stadium made CF in Minute Maid look like a game of pepper. The park was square, so the power alleys were MAYBE 370, but dead center was 440. The had GA bleachers behind the CF fence, and Fielder hit several way into those bleachers.

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Canseco off the Target sign in the back of the visitors bullpen at the Ballpark.

I saw the Bo Jackson shot off Ryan too. Words cannot do it justice.

At a Ranger game in the very late '80s. Pete Incaviglia (sp?) was in left field and he and the SS (I think it was Jeff Kunkle then) collided on a shallow fly ball. Inky got up, and was working his jaw back and forth. Either he didn't call Kunkle off or Kunk couldn't hear him (which in that stadium would be unusual).

Anyway, Inky is the first batter up in the bottom of that inning and puts the rip on a ball that easily goes 2/3 - 3/4 of the way up the stands in left field. The left fielder didn't even react or move, and there was nobody anywhere near where that ball landed. Took 5 minutes for several kids to go get the ball, it seemed! Off the bat I thought it might have a chance to clear the park, but it was more of a line shot. I doubt he would have cleared it even if it was up, but it was a rocket off the bat.

I was there when Bo Jackson hit the one into the fountain at KC in 1990.

Matt Berry gave up a homerun in the tournament in New Mexico in 2000 that cleared a chain linked fence that was in front of the parking lot that was on top of a 50 foot hill that started behind the right field fence. If you were in New Mexico for this one, you are a real fan.

On TV, Glenallen Hill hitting one of those buildings across the street in left at Wrigley (or was it down one of the streets next to the buildings?).

In person, Rondell White hitting the glass of the closed roof at then Enron Field.

Rocks: was the Chad shot when we played TCU at the Ballpark in '95?

Fred Gegan hit one over the tracks for the Ags when he played for us. That was the longest one I have seen at Olsen. Kevin McReynolds hit a bomb way over the LF scoreboard when he was at Arkansas. Those 2 stick out for me.

Glenallen actually hit it onto the roof....Sammy hit several down the street that I can recall

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McGuire's rookie year and Conseco's second year. Old Arlington Stadium. Bought good seats for my ex-gf and me behind hame plate, about 20 rows up, from a scalper trying to unload his last few as the game was already started. Sat down and about 30 seconds later, Jose leads off the top of the second with the most amazing shot I've ever seen. Said to have been the longest in Arlington Stadium history to date. What was most impressive was how huge Conseco was. The bat looked like a match stick in his hands.

The longest that I ever saw at Olsen was Travis Wong against OU in '02.

Patton's shot over the jumbotron and Baldwin's bomb vs Lamar this year get honorable mention.

Neal Stephenson also flew the highway in Stillwater in '02.

saw juan gonzales hit it out of old arlington stadium. out as in out of the stadium and into the lot.

Txagg07,

Gotta call BS on that one. Maybe it bounced, or maybe it was a foul ball. But there was also the advertising around the top of the OF fence for the last ~10 years (went up before you were born). Nobody ever hit out of Arlington Stadium after the OF bleachers were completed.

In the mid 1960's done sawed Mickey Mantle (batting righthanded) hit a homer over the left field bleachers in old Griffith Stadium, DC; supposedly a 500+ foot wallop.

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In the mid 1960's done sawed Mickey Mantle (batting righthanded) hit a homer over the left field bleachers in old Griffith Stadium, DC; supposedly a 500+ foot wallop.

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The Senators moved to DC Stadium (now RFK) when it opened in 1962. Mantle did hit a prodigious blast at Griffith Stadium, but it would have been '61 or earlier (I thought it was in the mid '50s).

Highly possible. Thanks. (For many years I held on to a page of the Wash. Post (or the Sporting News) that showed a diagram of the flight of the ball and an "X" where it landed among some old apartments.

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