longest home run in mlb history
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Who hit the longest homerun in MLB history? Best Answer: Their really isn't one correct answer to this question, I'll try to explain. Ill start with the home run that Mickey Mantle hit at Griffith Stadium in Washington on April 17, 1953. The entire baseball world was led to believe the ball had traveled 565 feet from home plate to the point where it landed.
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Who Has the Most Career Postseason Home Runs? Manny Ramirez holds the record for most career postseason home runs in the MLB. He has hit 29. Second-most on the list is 22, a figure reached by Bernie...
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Moonshots Episode 10: Fenway Park Entering the game in 2006, Vlad had maintained a .314 batting average and hit 20 home runs. About a year after hitting the longest home run at Fenway, he won the Home Run Derby at AT&T Park, launching an incredible 503-foot blast in the semi-finals.
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Hitting streak Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak in 1941 is the longest in Major League Baseball history. In baseball, a hitting streak refers to the number of consecutive official games in which a player appears and gets at least one base hit.
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- ESPN Stats and Information. White Sox DH Matt Davidson's first home run with Chicago traveled 442 feet to left-center, making it the longest homer of his career by 20 feet.
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Long gone: A list of the 9 longest home runs in Great American Ball Park history Long gone: A list of the 9 longest home runs in Great American Ball Park history. A giant American flag is unfurled for the National Anthem at Opening Day 2013 at Great American Ball Park. (Andy Lyons/Getty Images). CINCINNATI - The formal name of the Cincinnati Reds riverfront stadium is Great American Ball Park. However, to home run hitters across Major League Baseball, the friendly confines in the Queen City might as well be nicknamed the Great American Launching Pad.
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- If a sword had memory, it might be grateful to the forge fire, but never fond of it. Sammy Sosa hit the longest home run in home run derby. It was 528 feet, followed by 524 and 520 feet, also by Sosa.
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- Sammy Sosa hit the longest home run in home run derby. It was  528 feet, followed by 524 and 520 feet, also by Sosa.
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- That record is held by Reggie Jackson of the New York Yankees who hit 5 home runs in the 1977 World Series.  Reggie Jackson And Chase Utley hold the record for most home run…s in all seven games in the world series.
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Top 15 Longest Home Runs in MLB History One of his biggest and farthest home runs came in an early season trip to Jacob’s Field on April 30th of 1997. 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.
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- Washington is home to an above-average pay rate for Directors of Student Services, 41 percent higher than the national average. Directors of Student Services will also find cushy salaries in San Diego (+40 percent), New York (+24 percent), Seattle (+11 percent), and Los Angeles (+8 percent).ashington is home to an above-average pay rate for Directors of Student Services, 41 percent higher than the national average. Directors of Student Services will also find cushy salaries in San Diego (+40 percent), New York (+24 percent), Seattle (+11 percent), and Los Angeles (+8 percent).
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What was the longest sell out streak in baseball history? Confidence votes 2. The Boston Red Sox currently own the longest sellout streak in Major League history at over 600 games and counting: They're called the Fenway Faithful with good reason. On July 18, Boston Red Sox fans streamed into Fenway Park for the club's 600th consecutive sellout, a record run in Major League Baseball that began in 2003.
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Ted Williamsâs blast remains Fenway Park benchmark Barry Chin/Globe Staff The red seat marks the spot of the longest home run ever hit at Fenway Park – 502 feet by Ted Williams on June 9, 1946. By Alex Speier Globe Staff July 13, 2015. For a night, baseball’s defining distances will no longer be 60 feet, 6 inches or 90 feet. Instead, the attention will turn to the quest for more distant reaches during Monday’s Home Run Derby, and the anticipation that maybe, just maybe, someone will launch a ball 500 feet. It’s happened before, of course.
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Even Santa believes in Mantle's 565-foot blast Ball hit by Mickey Mantle on April 17, 1953 at Griffith Stadium to set a new distance record for home runs. (Courtesy the National Baseball Hall of Fame) The longest home run ever hit did not go 565 feet. Not even close. Actually, the longest home run ever hit isn't even the longest home run ever hit.
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What are the official longest home runs in MLB? I was told watching a Boston Red Sox game (seeing I'm from Boston) of two longest distances for home runs, not only in Fenway Park, but ever. In Fenway Park, there is a single red seat in the center field bleachers Section 42, Row 37, Seat 21, that measures 502 feet from home plate.
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- On April 17, 1953, Mickey Mantle is credited with what many consider to be the longest HR in baseball history. He is estimated to have hit a 656 foot home run at Washington's Griffith Stadium off Senator's pitcher Chuck Stobbs..
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Wilkes Baseball Field Determined To Be Home Of Babe Ruth's Longest Shot. During that series, Ruth cracked four home runs, including what is deemed to be the longest in World Series history, a 510-foot blast. It was also the World Series in which Ruth made a promise to hit a home run for hospitalized youngster John Sylvester.
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Hank Aaron hits first home run of his MLB career The achievement Aaron is best known for, though, is breaking Babe Ruth’s record of 714 career home runs, which he did on April 8, 1974, at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, when he hit his 715th home run in the fourth inning of a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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What is the longest home run hit by a Royal at home or away? If a sword had memory, it might be grateful to the forge fire, but never fond of it. - Rand Al'Thor. Sammy Sosa hit the longest home run in home run derby. It was 528 feet, followed by 524 and 520 feet, also by Sosa.
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- Welcome back to Philly, Chase Utley. The first of Utley's two home runs in his first game back at Citizens Bank Park since being traded by the Phillies to the Dodgers last season traveled 430 feet. That's his longest at the ballpark since 2009, per ESPN's Home Run Tracker.
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Four or more home runs in a single game American League, at Shibe Park, Philadelphia, PA. New York Yankees 20, Philadelphia A's 13. Yankees first baseman Henry Louis Gehrig hit 4 home runs in his first 4 at-bats, but his greatest day was overshadowed by the announcement of John McGraw's retirement.
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Who Hit the Longest Home Run? When researching longest home runs, you’ll likely run across claims that legends like Mickey Mantle and Babe Ruth hit home runs well over 600 feet. When you consider that many baseball stadiums have centerfield fences around 400 feet from home plate, such blasts would be truly spectacular.
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- 1 Consecutive games with at least one run (player): Red Rolfe (Yankees – 1939), Kenny Lofton (Indians – 2000) with 18.  Most runs scored in MLB history (player): 2,295 – Rickey Henderson (only 6 other players have surpassed the 2,000 mark: Ty Cobb, Barry Bonds, Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Pete Rose and Willie Mays).
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List of Major League Baseball career home run leaders Barry Bonds holds the Major League Baseball home run record with 762. He passed Hank Aaron, who is currently second with 755, on August 7, 2007. The only other player to have hit 700 or more is Babe Ruth with 714.
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Longest home run hit in Wrigley Field history? Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: While a Met, Dave Kingman hit what might be the longest home run in the history of Wrigley Field. He hit it out of the park, past Waveland Avenue in left, onto Kenmore Avenue four houses down. Had it travelled another 15 feet it would have smashed through the window of the home of a woman watching the game on her television.
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Longest Home Runs in MLB History HD The longest home runs ever hit in the history of Major League Baseball.