Not to mention the year Gibson out homered the Washington Senators at Griffith by him self (they had 6 as a team that season he had 7 or 8 that were officially noted).Ĭouple of articles dealing with Josh Gibson and Yankee Stadium. No one has ever confirmed this but it would have had to have gone around 600 feet and been around 110 feet high. Josh Gibson apparently once hit a ball over the roof on the left field side of Yankee Stadium in the 30's. Of course Ruth also hit over the roof at Forbes Field on his last homer. It was 436 to the CF wall, and it landed outside the park and hit a ticket booth. Then of course Ruth's '32 series blast out to Wrigley's CF bleachers. That was anywhere between 329 and 400 to get it out of the park on the right field side and judging by the photo below another 100+ to land in a back yard. Ruth hit one that went out of Shibe Park's right field, across the street and landed in someone's backyard. McGwire's 2 or 3 longest stated home runs have been shown to be about 475' His longest is probably the one mentioned on Highlight home runs at Hittracker - 512'. Gibson's, in his own words bounced in the bullpen before it hit theīack wall which was 505' from home plate. He certainly hit the ball harder than anyone I ever saw, and it travelled out of the ballpark a lot faster than any homers hit by his fellow players.Jackson home run, hit March 3rd '89 at Baseball City Stadium in Davenport Fl., over the scoreboard was estimated at 515' in length. Mark McGwire was probably the one player capable of hitting the longest home run in history, but he did not do it due to the configurations of the various stadiums he hit in. The current consensus is that it went into the old bullpen, 505 feet from home plate. Josh Gibson is reputed to have hit a home run completely out of Yankees Stadium during an exhibition game, but teammates are divided on that. Both of those were well documented and got a lot of airplay on ESPN in the late '80s. He also hit a one-handed home run and a broken-bat home run in regular season games with the Royals. Bo Jackson hit one in Spring Training, 1987, that is still rolling down a Florida street.
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