By What do you get when you combine a block party and a baseball league? Dave Kingman was an accomplished home run hitter in his career, This is Dunn’s second appearance on the list. Matt Monagan "I think we like seeing it fly like that, especially if it's our guys hitting it," Marlins manager Don Mattingly told Weinrib. This blast, the second on the list from Dunn, makes his first look like a chip … Not bad at all, but According to ESPN's findings, the ball landed on a fan's straw hat deep in the right field bleachers.
Eric Chesterton A hearty hack on May 20, 1978 which went further than any ball ever hit at Montreal Stadium. Mickey Mantle hit some of the longest home runs in the major leagues. Accurately measuring those moonshots isn't much easier.So take any urban legends about someone's 600-foot homer with a grain of salt. "The park estimated his powerful swing at 505 feet, making it one of the longest homers to invite a Big Apple rising.One of baseball's most unheralded sluggers, Jim Thome retired with the quietest 612 home runs and .956 OPS ever. While he hit .190/.323/.329 during 2003's sad swan song, the burly first baseman at least cleared the fences 26 times in 2002.The best of those bombs occurred June 26, when he smacked one off Shea Stadium's scoreboard. On a ball that sped 124 mph off the bat, ESPN's Home Run Tracker estimated a distance of Mr. October receives the benefit of the doubt for his July feat, but watch the ball rocket off his bat. On April 17, 1953, in a game against the Washington Senators at Griffith Stadium, Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees hit what could have been the most majestic home run in a career filled with them. It indeed made sense. © Copyright 2020 Endgame360 Inc. All Rights Reserved. On May 31, 1997, Andres Galarraga cleared the full bases by sending a souvenir into Pro Player Stadium's empty upper deck.
Some estimates have this home run by Reggie Jackson off of Dock Ellis traveling 7 feet less and landing at 532 feet. Yet near the top sits a journeyman who belted 186 home runs over a career devoid of regular playing time.In his penultimate 2000 season, Glenallen Hill registered a career-high 27 home runs for the Chicago Cubs and New York Yankees. Willie Stargell’s was hit on May 20, 1978. And most of them were absolutely crushed. Such is the life of George Herman Ruth.Matt Monagan is a writer for MLB.com. As a result, no assortment of baseball's longest blasts can be considered 100 percent credible. Skeptics will certainly be forgiven for doubting that distance, but others will prefer to simply believe. "Examination of satellite and ground-based digital photos suggests that the 502-foot figure is an accurate measurement of the horizontal distance to the 'Red Seat,' but since the impact point was approximately 30 feet above field level, the ball would have covered more distance before landing at field level, had its flight not been interrupted. And most of them were absolutely crushed. In this case, however, initial estimates appeared to have sold Ted Williams short.Adam Dunn played just 44 games with the Arizona Diamondbacks, but one of his eight home runs stands as the longest witnessed at Chase Field.On Sept. 27, 2008, the slugger secured his fifth season with 40 deep flies. "An inning or so later, they told us it was charted at 484 feet. Mickey Mantle hit many home runs during his career -- 536 to be exact. There are few plays more exciting in sports than the Adam Dunn was famous for doing one of three things most times he came to the plate: Before Giancarlo Stanton was hitting home runs in Yankee Stadium, he was one of the Miami Marlins’ biggest home run threats.