JAN: THE  94th  ARTICLE FOR BASEBALL GURU

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THE MYTH OF THE LONGEST HOME RUN EVER

 

   THE STATISTICS ARE SUSPECT, THE REPORTS WERE NOT SCIENTIFICALLY HANDLED, FAVORITSM PLAYED AN IMPORTANT PART IN THE ACCOUNTS, AND THE BEST WE CAN HOPE FOR IS WHAT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO US OVER THE YEARS.

   HERE IS A LIST THAT WILL GIVE US A KIND OF A LOOK AT BASEBALL’S LONGEST HOMERUNS.

 

   In the late 1800s to the early 1900s the following six players were more or less recorded to have hit homeruns that reached 400 feet or more:

ROGER CONNOR

HARRY STOVEY

BUCK EWING

JACKIE MILLIGAN

ED DELAHANTY

DAN BROUTHERS

 

Here is the list from then on

SAM CRAWFORD:473

 

CECIL FIELDER:500

JOSE CANSECO:484

BABE RUTH:575

MICKEY MANTLE:634??

DAVE KINGMAN:530

DICK ALLEN:500

TED WILLIAMS:475

FRANK HOWARD:560

MARK McGWIRE:545

ANDRES GALLARAGA:487

ERNIE LOMBARDI: 482

WALLY POST:569

MANNY RAMIREZ: 500

ADAM DUNN:595

ALEX RODRIGUEZ:535

JIMMY FOXX:550

 

 

RALPH KINER:560

JOSH GIBSON:540

JUAN GONZALEZ:484

BILL NICHOLSON:481

KIRK GIBSON:480

JOE ADCOCK:469

EDDIE MATHEWS:458