Longest ball ever hit and witnessed

[elmer]

Frank Howard didn't bother with slicing them, just blasted them 40-50 rows up

[carsdaddy]

Frank Howard didn't bother with slicing them, just blasted them 40-50 rows up

Have you seen any of these 3 HR's ? I believe that I have video of the one he hit to LF.

[elmer]

Have you seen any of these 3 HR's ? I believe that I have video of the one he hit to LF.

type them in on search engine - something may come up

[elmer]

one frank Howard upper deck homer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsq_3ZiVLl8

Howard hit one on April 24, 1970. that you could try out.
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Kirk Gibson homer over Tiger roof

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s8E8-24eWg

[carsdaddy]

type them in on search engine - something may come up

I'll look them up for sure, and I'd love to see the video of the Howard homerun thanks.

[Calif_Eagle]

I didn't read the whole thread but here is a link to a Minor League HR in 1959, that has to be at least a contender for the longest HR ever hit.

Gil Carter blasts way into baseball history | MiLB.com

And here is another from 1972...

Kurpiel's homer kept going and going (milb.com)

And one more MiLB HR from 1929...

Roy Carlyle – Society for American Baseball Research (sabr.org)

[elmer]

It would be helpful if some of these physicists who claim a ball cannot go farther than 507 feet without
thin air and a breeze, would make tests of their own with bats longer than 35 inches weighing more than 35 oz. The Roger Maris test made
decades ago was quite limited in numbers. In 1920 Ruth used a 52 oz. bat. some bats used were 36 inches long a few 37.
A challenge for our physicists, they have done the math, shouldn't they do the PHYSical testing as well? Come on guys. It's waaaay past time.

[carsdaddy]

It would be helpful if some of these physicists who claim a ball cannot go farther than 507 feet without
thin air and a breeze, would make tests of their own with bats longer than 35 inches weighing more than 35 oz. The Roger Maris test made
decades ago was quite limited in numbers. In 1920 Ruth used a 52 oz. bat. some bats used were 36 inches long a few 37.
A challenge for our physicists, they have done the math, shouldn't they do the PHYSical testing as well? Come on guys. It's waaaay past time.

I'd love to see some modern testing done myself with standard sized bats and balls. As for the 52 zo bat Ruth used nobody else could swing a bat that size in today's game, so the test results would give us misleading data of how for a ball could be hit in a MLB game.

[elmer]

there are a few that could swing it, they just logically wouldn't do it.
What IS misleading today is there is NO TESTING data that compares the pre humidifier, new ball, with the old one, for the difference in distance.
MLB would like to keep it a mystery. We have all the data on home runs but not that one.