Just read something interesting.

[Boozie1580]

I just read something interesting. Do you know how Mickey Mantle hit a home run like 600 feet? Well he also hit one off the facade above the upper deck in Yankee Stadium once that bounced back onto the field. It was a few feet from going out of the stadium entirely. Here's the amazing part: recent computer simulations have estimated that if the ball didn't hit the facade, it would have went 743 feet . 743 $@&#% FEET! Picture a player hitting an average home run, going into the stands, picking up the ball, and hitting another one just as hard from there. That's about 743 feet.

[tshelton]

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Are you serious?

[tshelton]

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Are you serious?

[tshelton]

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Are you serious?

[cookusu]

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I am not buying it. I think I saw something by some physicists that mentioned that a batted ball couldn't possibly travel that far and if it could, I seriously doubt that Mantle would be the only one to hit it that far. Just another example of people recreating history to glorify the past.

[cookusu]

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I am not buying it. I think I saw something by some physicists that mentioned that a batted ball couldn't possibly travel that far and if it could, I seriously doubt that Mantle would be the only one to hit it that far. Just another example of people recreating history to glorify the past.

[cookusu]

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I am not buying it. I think I saw something by some physicists that mentioned that a batted ball couldn't possibly travel that far and if it could, I seriously doubt that Mantle would be the only one to hit it that far. Just another example of people recreating history to glorify the past.

[MuffinMcFluffin]

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Well there are two things that I indeed know and that are indeed facts: The farthest homerun (not batted ball... but homerun) is indeed 743 feet. Mickey Mantle hit a ball not much farther than 600 feet.

Think about the second one... remember Triple Play 2001 for PSX? Well, there were unlockables in that game by doing something extraordinary. Like, to get Eddie Murray you had to hit a homerun from both sides of the plate in one game with a switch hitter, to get Willie Mays you had to make four diving catches in one game, and like you get Hank Aaron for hitting four homers in a game I think. Anyways, to get Mickey Mantle, you had to hit a homerun 600+ feet. Now why would THAT feat be in the game if it wasn't true. All of these things were true according to how you are trying to unlock somebody. So yeah... however, I cannot prove that the farthest homerun was 743 feet, or that it was the same hit that Mickey's 600 ft homerun was, OR that Mickey Mantle hit it.

[MuffinMcFluffin]

Re: Just read something interesting.

Well there are two things that I indeed know and that are indeed facts: The farthest homerun (not batted ball... but homerun) is indeed 743 feet. Mickey Mantle hit a ball not much farther than 600 feet.

Think about the second one... remember Triple Play 2001 for PSX? Well, there were unlockables in that game by doing something extraordinary. Like, to get Eddie Murray you had to hit a homerun from both sides of the plate in one game with a switch hitter, to get Willie Mays you had to make four diving catches in one game, and like you get Hank Aaron for hitting four homers in a game I think. Anyways, to get Mickey Mantle, you had to hit a homerun 600+ feet. Now why would THAT feat be in the game if it wasn't true. All of these things were true according to how you are trying to unlock somebody. So yeah... however, I cannot prove that the farthest homerun was 743 feet, or that it was the same hit that Mickey's 600 ft homerun was, OR that Mickey Mantle hit it.

[MuffinMcFluffin]

Re: Just read something interesting.

Well there are two things that I indeed know and that are indeed facts: The farthest homerun (not batted ball... but homerun) is indeed 743 feet. Mickey Mantle hit a ball not much farther than 600 feet.

Think about the second one... remember Triple Play 2001 for PSX? Well, there were unlockables in that game by doing something extraordinary. Like, to get Eddie Murray you had to hit a homerun from both sides of the plate in one game with a switch hitter, to get Willie Mays you had to make four diving catches in one game, and like you get Hank Aaron for hitting four homers in a game I think. Anyways, to get Mickey Mantle, you had to hit a homerun 600+ feet. Now why would THAT feat be in the game if it wasn't true. All of these things were true according to how you are trying to unlock somebody. So yeah... however, I cannot prove that the farthest homerun was 743 feet, or that it was the same hit that Mickey's 600 ft homerun was, OR that Mickey Mantle hit it.

[cookusu]

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It's all part of baseball's mythology and legends that are created after the fact, like Babe Ruth calling his shot, and Abner Doubleday inventing baseball neither are true. But people repeat the story so often that it becomes accpeted as fact. Sort of the like the Weapons of mass destruction.

[cookusu]

Re: Just read something interesting.

It's all part of baseball's mythology and legends that are created after the fact, like Babe Ruth calling his shot, and Abner Doubleday inventing baseball neither are true. But people repeat the story so often that it becomes accpeted as fact. Sort of the like the Weapons of mass destruction.

[cookusu]

Re: Just read something interesting.

It's all part of baseball's mythology and legends that are created after the fact, like Babe Ruth calling his shot, and Abner Doubleday inventing baseball neither are true. But people repeat the story so often that it becomes accpeted as fact. Sort of the like the Weapons of mass destruction.

[kweiss]

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http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/art_hr.shtml

That article has some pretty interesting stuff in it. It describes how the monster home runs in the past weren't measured correctly, and it talks about the incident where that this thread is about, and how it would not have gone as far as everyone said. It's in the 10th paragraph.

[kweiss]

Re: Just read something interesting.

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/art_hr.shtml

That article has some pretty interesting stuff in it. It describes how the monster home runs in the past weren't measured correctly, and it talks about the incident where that this thread is about, and how it would not have gone as far as everyone said. It's in the 10th paragraph.