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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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- PS: Google gives me longest home run around the range of 175 mts (verified) to 195 Mts (non verified). Baseball calculates distance till the ball stops rolling in some cases. Afridi seems to have hit a six for about a distance of 158 Mts.
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Willie Stargell Willie Stargell holds the record for the most home-runs hit at  Three Rivers Stadium. He played his entire Major League Baseball  career as left-fielder and first baseman fo…r the Pittsburgh  Pirates.
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50 years ago today, Harmon Killebrew hit his longest home run It was estimated at well over 600 feet but later was reported to have hit a house three lots beyond Waveland Avenue, 530 feet from home plate. As is often the case at Wrigley, Kingman’s home run had a strong wind behind it. But so did Killebrew’s, Mee said.
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Home Run Derby (Major League Baseball) In the early years of the Home Run Derby, 4-10 players from both the AL and NL were selected to participate. Each player was given 2 innings to hit as many home runs as possible before reaching 5 outs. For the derby, an out is defined as any swing that is not a home run. The winner of the contest was the player with the most total home runs in the two innings.
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- Athletics: Jimmie Foxx, 58, 1932. Mark McGwire hit 52 home runs in 1996, the most since the A's move to Oakland, but Foxx's record stands as the longest-held club mark for a single season more than 80 years later. (Charles Conlon / Sporting News archive)
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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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Eutaw Street Home Run Tracker Eutaw Street Home Run Tracker. Since opening in 1992, Camden Yards has hosted more than 1,900 games, including the postseason. There have been more than 138,000 plate appearances, with only 88 ending with a Eutaw Street home run. (Ken Griffey Jr. hit the warehouse in the 1993 Home Run Derby.) Click a medallion or listed link below to watch a video of that blast.
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Top 15 Longest Home Runs in MLB History So with that in mind, here are to date, in game, the longest home runs ever hit in MLB history. It seems only fitting to quote Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine, two very smart and well-respected Cy Young award winning pitchers throughout the steroid era, when they put it best, “chicks dig the longball.”.
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MLB Home Run Derby 2016: Actual Start Time, TV Channel, Live Stream Info For All-Star Competition The Chicago Cubs' Kris Bryant has 25 home runs, but he won’t compete in Monday’s contest. Five MLB players are tied for fourth with 23 home runs at the All-Star Break, and four of them—Edwin Encarnacion, Nelson Cruz, Josh Donaldson and Nolan Arenado—won’t be in the derby. The No.8 seed, Corey Seager, has the fewest home runs of anyone in the competition with 17.
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The best Home Run Derby swatters The first 26 Derbies have given us 212 hitters pounding 1,543 majestic home runs, 22 different outright winners, four co-winners (back in the olden days), just one repeat winner (Kenneth Griffey Jr.) and, in case you hadn't noticed, countless hours of ESPN Classic programming from the overstuffed Derby vault.
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What are the official longest home runs in MLB? 1 Ernie Lombardi of the Cincinnati Reds in 1931. 2  The person to hit the longest home run is Roger Connor.  Josh Gibson's Legendary Blast. There's a famous story that Josh Gibson hit a ball that disappeared out of the park in Pittsburgh and was ruled a home run.
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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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Giancarlo Stanton Giancarlo Stanton. The most powerful man in baseball. This guy is right up there with McGwire as the most powerful right-handed batter I’ve been alive to watch. If there’s oddsmakers for “who is going to hit the longest home run this year,” I’d bet Giancarlo until he retires. Here’s a great list of the longest HRs hit in 2015—Stanton got 3 of the 10… in 74 games. We talked with Giancarlo in 2016 Spring Training a little bit about his glove.
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Who is the youngest player to hit a home run in MLB history? Who hit the longest home run in little league history? Anthony Rallo hit a home run 330 ft. at West Nyack when he was 10. I personally witnessed 12 year old Matt Floyd of Northeast LL (Santa Ana, CA) hit a home run estimated at 3…70 feet in 1976. The ball went over a two-story home (2114 N Linwood Ave.
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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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The 15 Longest Home Runs Ever Hit 15 Longest Home Runs Ever Hit. Hitting a home run to straight away center field off of a 90-mile-an-hour fastball is difficult to do. Standard center field walls in the major leagues stand between 400-410 feet away from home plate. That’s a long way away.
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Four or more home runs in a single game The record for most home runs in a single game is eight, held by Jay Nig Clarke for Corsicana of the Texas League on June 15, 1902. Five home runs in a game has been achieved four times: Pete Schneider (1923), Lou Frierson (1934), Cecil Dunn (1936) and Dick Lane (1948).
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Top 15 Longest Home Runs in MLB History But it also brought us something that even some of baseball’s most pure fans cannot pretend they aren’t entertained by: lots of fantastic home runs. So with that in mind, here are to date, in game, the longest home runs ever hit in MLB history. It seems only fitting to quote Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine, two very smart and well-respected Cy Young award winning pitchers throughout the steroid era, when they put it best, “chicks dig the longball.”.
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Mickey  Mantle's10 Longest Home Runsby Lewis EarlyThe Story Behind Each of Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs with Diagrams and Photos (Excerpted from the award-winning program, Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life Â®- The Deluxe Lost StoriesEdition. Click Here to learn more about it. Click Here to see an outline of the contents of the DVD.) Video Clip: Click Here to go to a video clip of Mickey talking about this home run. Mickey said the hardest ball I ever hit came in the 11th inning on May 22, 1963 at Yankee Stadium. Leading off in the bottom of the 11th, with the score tied 7-7, A's pitcher Bill Fischer tried to blow a fastball past Mickey. Bad idea.
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Top 15 Longest Home Runs in MLB History But it also brought us something that even some of baseball’s most pure fans cannot pretend they aren’t entertained by: lots of fantastic home runs. So with that in mind, here are to date, in game, the longest home runs ever hit in MLB history.
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Gayle 175* (66b), RCB win by 130 Gayle smashed the fastest century in the format, brought off 30 balls; made the highest individual T20 score (175 not out); struck the most sixes by a batsman in a T20 innings (17); helped Royal Challengers Bangalore hit the most sixes for a team in a T20 innings (21) and reach the highest total in T20 cricket (263).fter Gayle's onslaught, there was only going to be one result, and further confirmation of that arrived when four wickets fell inside the first six overs of the Warriors chase. Their defeat was the second-biggest in terms of runs in the IPL's six seasons.
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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 Williams. Continue Reading
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- This might be too high — and it will definitely be dismissed by some because of Bonds’ steroid history — but here’s where I stand: Bonds became the all-time home run king when he hit No. 756 on Aug. 7, 2007, passing Hank Aaron, and his 762 career homers remain the most in baseball’s official record books.
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- Barry Bonds holds the record for most home runs in MLB history,with 762 home runs,and baseball fans believe that Alex Rodriguez will over take that within the next 5-10 years. As of August 8, 2007, Barry Bonds has 756 and Hank Aaron has 755. Answer: barry bonds. Answer   The MLB record for home runs in a game is 4 and is shared by 15 players. 12 players hit their four home runs in a nine inning game and 3 others did it in … an extra innings game.
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The 15 Longest Home Runs Ever Hit The 15 Longest Home Runs Ever Hit. Hitting a home run to straight away center field off of a 90-mile-an-hour fastball is difficult to do. Standard center field walls in the major leagues stand between 400-410 feet away from home plate. That’s a long way away.