Farthest Home Run Ever
One of his biggest and farthest home runs came in an early season trip to jacob s field on april 30th of 1997.
Farthest home run ever. Like other home runs mentioned on this list thome s blast bounced through the streets after leaving the stadium by flying over the center field fence. He s called them he hit one into a pond of hungry alligators in arkansas he hit one clear out of a prison yard in upstate new york. Adam dunn was famous for doing one of three things most times he came to the plate.
On september 27 2008 while playing for the. 656 feet to the. Espn s home run tracker later estimated it to have traveled 485 feet surely one of the longest home runs of clemente s career and the among the longest ever given up by the great koufax.
Walking striking out or hitting a home run. Before mazara s home run what were the longest home runs ever recorded in mlb. They were two of the longest home runs ever seen.
Tie adam dunn 2008 and giancarlo stanton 2016. Jenkinson reported the home run s distance at 502 feet the longest estimate from ibm s measuring system from 1982 to 1996 in a study published by baseball almanac. Some people speculate that it might actually have been quite a few feet shorter but that s still the longest home run hit for years.
Giancarlo stanton hit the longest home run ever made in coors field to date when he played against the rockies in 2016. 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. Mcgwire drilled a pitch over the 19 foot fence and 23 rows of seating in left center field for one of the longest home runs in history.
Babe ruth has hit a lot of home runs. That s right mantle actually topped himself. Seven years before mickey mantle hit the longest home run ever recorded in a baseball game he hit what was then the longest tape measure shot.