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That's great, but it was towards "cookusu" and not you.
That's great, but it was towards "cookusu" and not you.
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So Babe Ruth didnt call his shot or Doubleday didnt invent baseball?? Whats the source?
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Yes, please provide the source. 
BTW Babe did call his shot and Mickey Mantle hit some long balls in his career. Some that measure over 500, maybe even 600. He truly smoked the balls. Don't dismiss them as myths just because you don't want to believe it. Believe it or not, but people did witness these "myths".
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What sources do you have that Ruth actually DID call his shot? Other than Ken Burns' documentary where it is made pretty clear Ruth was pointing at the Cubs' dugout to answer their heckles, I simply use common sense to derive that he couldn't have called it... and that is...THE PITCHER WOULD HAVE THROWN THE BALL STRAIGHT UP HIS FAT YANKEE ***. You don't show up a major league pitcher without getting the ball put up alongside your head. The idea that Ruth could've gotten away with that, while it makes great fiction for the simpler minds, I mean Yankee fans, to salivate over, is garbage. If y'all want to think Ruth called his shot that's your own dilusion, but it goes to prove just how little you know about baseball.Comment
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So Babe Ruth didnt call his shot or Doubleday didnt invent baseball?? Whats the source?
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Yes, please provide the source. BTW Babe did call his shot and Mickey Mantle hit some long balls in his career. Some that measure over 500, maybe even 600. He truly smoked the balls. Don't dismiss them as myths just because you don't want to believe it. Believe it or not, but people did witness these "myths".
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What sources do you have that Ruth actually DID call his shot? Other than Ken Burns' documentary where it is made pretty clear Ruth was pointing at the Cubs' dugout to answer their heckles, I simply use common sense to derive that he couldn't have called it... and that is...THE PITCHER WOULD HAVE THROWN THE BALL STRAIGHT UP HIS FAT YANKEE ***. You don't show up a major league pitcher without getting the ball put up alongside your head. The idea that Ruth could've gotten away with that, while it makes great fiction for the simpler minds, I mean Yankee fans, to salivate over, is garbage. If y'all want to think Ruth called his shot that's your own dilusion, but it goes to prove just how little you know about baseball.Comment
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TheMatrix31 said:
So Babe Ruth didnt call his shot or Doubleday didnt invent baseball?? Whats the source?
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Yes, please provide the source. BTW Babe did call his shot and Mickey Mantle hit some long balls in his career. Some that measure over 500, maybe even 600. He truly smoked the balls. Don't dismiss them as myths just because you don't want to believe it. Believe it or not, but people did witness these "myths".
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What sources do you have that Ruth actually DID call his shot? Other than Ken Burns' documentary where it is made pretty clear Ruth was pointing at the Cubs' dugout to answer their heckles, I simply use common sense to derive that he couldn't have called it... and that is...THE PITCHER WOULD HAVE THROWN THE BALL STRAIGHT UP HIS FAT YANKEE ***. You don't show up a major league pitcher without getting the ball put up alongside your head. The idea that Ruth could've gotten away with that, while it makes great fiction for the simpler minds, I mean Yankee fans, to salivate over, is garbage. If y'all want to think Ruth called his shot that's your own dilusion, but it goes to prove just how little you know about baseball.Comment
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Actually the farthest hit ball in baseball was by Josh Gibson. Hit hit a ball OUT of yankee stadium, that is an actual fact. Since he played in the Negro Leagues a lot of white people won't give him credit since he was better than Babe Ruth and showed him up. That ball traveled 700ft plus.Comment
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Actually the farthest hit ball in baseball was by Josh Gibson. Hit hit a ball OUT of yankee stadium, that is an actual fact. Since he played in the Negro Leagues a lot of white people won't give him credit since he was better than Babe Ruth and showed him up. That ball traveled 700ft plus.Comment
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Actually the farthest hit ball in baseball was by Josh Gibson. Hit hit a ball OUT of yankee stadium, that is an actual fact. Since he played in the Negro Leagues a lot of white people won't give him credit since he was better than Babe Ruth and showed him up. That ball traveled 700ft plus.Comment
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Not to stray too far off the subject, but speaking of "calling your shot" last night at our softball game, our coach's wife and son showed up (the coach crushes the ball), I guess they were leaving and were parked over the left field fence 300 feet away... right before they went to head back to the car in about the 6th inning, the coach handed his son an extra glove and told him to stand on the other side of the fence and he'll hit it to him.. We were in hysterics... lol
I believe these "myths"... have you guys SEEN the dimensions of some of those oldschool fields?! Look at the old Polo Grounds and just to fathom one getting hit out of straight-away center is almost impossible, but it's been done.Comment
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Not to stray too far off the subject, but speaking of "calling your shot" last night at our softball game, our coach's wife and son showed up (the coach crushes the ball), I guess they were leaving and were parked over the left field fence 300 feet away... right before they went to head back to the car in about the 6th inning, the coach handed his son an extra glove and told him to stand on the other side of the fence and he'll hit it to him.. We were in hysterics... lol
I believe these "myths"... have you guys SEEN the dimensions of some of those oldschool fields?! Look at the old Polo Grounds and just to fathom one getting hit out of straight-away center is almost impossible, but it's been done.Comment
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Not to stray too far off the subject, but speaking of "calling your shot" last night at our softball game, our coach's wife and son showed up (the coach crushes the ball), I guess they were leaving and were parked over the left field fence 300 feet away... right before they went to head back to the car in about the 6th inning, the coach handed his son an extra glove and told him to stand on the other side of the fence and he'll hit it to him.. We were in hysterics... lol
I believe these "myths"... have you guys SEEN the dimensions of some of those oldschool fields?! Look at the old Polo Grounds and just to fathom one getting hit out of straight-away center is almost impossible, but it's been done.Comment
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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.
<hr /></blockquote><font class="post"> This article is interesting. Now that I think about I guess the computer simuations must have been based on people's accounts of whether the ball was going down, up, or at its peak. If these people were wrong, it would definitely throw it off.Comment
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kweiss said:
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.
<hr /></blockquote><font class="post"> This article is interesting. Now that I think about I guess the computer simuations must have been based on people's accounts of whether the ball was going down, up, or at its peak. If these people were wrong, it would definitely throw it off.Comment
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kweiss said:
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.
<hr /></blockquote><font class="post"> This article is interesting. Now that I think about I guess the computer simuations must have been based on people's accounts of whether the ball was going down, up, or at its peak. If these people were wrong, it would definitely throw it off.Comment
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I think it was possible that Mickey Mantle hit a ball 600 feet. They say he was the most powerful baseball player, with huge forearms and big back.Comment
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I think it was possible that Mickey Mantle hit a ball 600 feet. They say he was the most powerful baseball player, with huge forearms and big back.Comment
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