I still miss Memorial Stadium.

Sorry…. what you saw was a ‘cruise missles’….

Mantle was hurt in a game at Memorial Stadium. But he took batting practice anyway and proceeded to hit 2 balls into the parking lot in left field... Right handed. I remember thinking I wondered if he broke any windshields. Late in the game he came up against a southpaw pitcher and pinxh hit. Guess what? Bang. A homer into the old left field bleachers. A great thrill!

@@rday710 Makes me wonder, what if the DH existed during Mantle's playing era? How many more HR's would he have slugged. He missed a lot games to injuries where he couldn't play in the field, but could pinch hit. What if he DHed?

@@GFHanks when I was a child my father bought season tickets for our beloved O's. This was Ripkens second full year with the Orioles. My best memory of 1983 at Memorial Stadium was being able to see game one of the 1983 World Series, although we lost that game I did get to see one of my all time favorite players blast a home run in that game, that man was Joe Morgan.

Actually, the ball sailed over the bleachers in extreme left-center field, left the park at a point between the camera shed and scoreboard and landed about halfway on Waveland Avenue. Has to be on the short list of longest home runs ever hit by a sub-6-foot player.

Yep.

A friend of mine was at Skydome for the ALCS game in '89. I saw him a few days later and asked him how far it traveled. He said that it never really started to descend on it's flight because the decks are "stacked" straight up - on top of each other. He said if it were able to land at a lower point, it would have actually traveled much further.

Wrigley Field is the worst place to hit the longest home run. There’s no backdrop there

Dave Kidman's home run was farther

490 ft

I was there. King Kong had a great game. I paid 2$ to sit in the bleachers. God I miss those times

@@gluonjck63 I’m from Chicago & was watching that game on WGN, I remember there were 5 home runs in the first inning & I knew we were watching history in the making. 25-30mph winds…

Giants never, ever should have gotten rid of him!

The worst player ever to get famous 🙂

Mantle hit the longest

yup - actually it was the 5th house on Kenmore Ave. I believe the Cub pitcher was Oscar Zamora. Kingman said it was the furthest homerun he ever hit and it was a legit 600 ft.

​@@josephdovi1565Correct! And the 2 he almost hit out of Yankee Stadium would have gone over 700 feet!

Wind aided much?

@@IanPunter it was in April so highly unlikely.

I saw him hit one to dead center, higher than the left field roof, rising going out of the lights, with 2 strikes!

i like the old tiger stadium better than the newer one. there was something about when you first saw the green grass and the players were so close. and think of all the famous players that had been there. i was in the visitors locker room and walked the tunnel to the dugout and babe ruths ghost was there.

@@user-jn9gv9ve6e I think it was like walking into another century. Amazing.

@KevinMiller-xn5vu : For those of us who grew up with The Mick most of these other home runs don't much matter. It was a different time. I don't remember this home run but I remember someone asking him once if he always tried to hit a home run "Every single time" he replied.

Yes...I'm very surprised Mantle's homer in Detroit is not on this video ......most of these listed were steroid users except for maybe Reggie, Stargell....etc. Mantle should be on here but not surprised.

Nobody bothered to get the longest home run ever, did you notice no one in the street, so I went after the home run ball.

​@@godfreyzilla8608No one remembers it

That homerun is confirmed!!!!!

Imagine if MM was 6'2"; 220 or larger instead of 5'11", 205.

​@@charleschapman3994You just gave the reason why these people are full of shit Mantle never hit any 600 fr HRs

I have a baseball card somewhere that says Mantle hit a ball 565 ft out of Washington's Griffith Stadium or something like that. Gotta look for it now.

​@@charleschapman3994 There are guys in MLB today over 6'2" and over 220 and they ain't hittin' 'em where Mantle hit 'em.⚾

Men had more testosterone back then they do now. The human body was different as most children born during that time period came from generations of hard labor fathers. The last 3 generations have watered down the testosterone levels of men as technology has replaced physical work. In another 3 generations. Men will be about as strong as women.

It makes sense that Randy Johnson was the pitcher. You gotta have someone throwing heat to hit it that far. I really miss those days...

I'm a little surprised Nolan Ryan isn't on the losing end of one of these. He was just a badass, nobody could touch him.

When someone mentions a bird and Randy Johnson in the same sentence I think of the poor bird that he took out.

@@boataxe4605 lol! Forgot about that! That poor thing took around 100 mph fastball to the chest

Yes, Mantle's facade shot does it for me

Broke a window on of the team busses if I recall

norm cash was my favorite tiger. i remember 1961 when he won the batting title. a interesting fact---that year he never hit into a double play. i'm 70 now and i challenge anyone to name a better tiger first baseman since norm cash.

Go Bucs!

Stargell hit the longest Homer at the Vet in philly. They had a plaque there. I beleive it landed in the exit tunnel of the 600 level. WOW

¿Didn't Wilver hit a homerun OUT OF DODGER Stadium?

Did Stargell hit the home run that went into the pool at Jarry Park?

@Ejb905 Go to Wikipedia and reference "Wilver Stargell." There is a description of his longest home runs in the article.

Kingman hit some tape measure shots And Straw hit the base of the roof in Olympic Stadium

@@nyeaglesfootballgarbagemen8346 yes he did, Reggie Jackson hit a transformer tower at Tiger Stadium during the All-star game, also Cecil Fielder blasted one over the roof at Tiger Stadium as well. We had some great Home run hitters in the 70's & 80's, then came the roid era.

❤ Big Red Machine ⚾. I watched George Foster , Pete Rose, George Morgan. I believe George was The First ⚾ Player to make a million 💵 dollars in one contract. 😂 Now the Reds are to tight to keep many good players . I wonder how long they will keep De La Cruz . ⚾

I think it's been done 5 times out of Dodger Stadium.

@@mikesbaseballcards It has been done six times in a real game. Stargell is the only player to do it twice. He's also the only left-hander to do it even once. #Amazin'.

Stargell was the king of the upper decker, in my humble opinion. I was lucky enough to witness many of his homers at Three Rivers in the 70s.

@@westbatman66 Go get your Chicken on the Hill with Will . . .!

Yuuup pops # 8 👍🏼👍🏼RIP 🙏🏼

That's correct. And, he did it on two different occasions.

He hit 1 over the left and right field pavilion!

Yeah him and Griffey had beautiful swings

That one is a confirmed 500+ ft HR

Confirmed by whom

I saw some monster shots at Tiger Stadium also. McGuire in a double header smashed one Left Center. I saw Fielder hit one over the roof but the longest one I saw was Darrel Evans. He hit a line drive shot that hit the press box so hard and the ball didn’t even seem to be descending. Great stadium and good memories!

That ball was still going up when it hit that transformer on the roof. That ball would’ve landed at least 200’ outside the stadium. I witnessed it. I was 11 years old. I can see it like it was yesterday 😮

The date was May 08, 1966 .

Ya but he played for the Red Sox...go Yankees! Lol

Speed or as many women would get in the 60s does not make you stronger. Trust me, I know this for a fact

Ruth’s PED was beer.

Both unverified. I don't believe Mick had the wrists or strength to hit a tater that far. Reggie on the other hand hit a laser 536 feet before hitting the transformer as it left the stadium

Jr's best wa😂sn't even 500. Andres was so strong he's 3rd I believe. I'm not crazy about it but I believe the hardest hitter ever Party City guy in baseball with Reggie Jackson he had quick wrist and he had the strength and the hips and his upper body to power through anything

So was the year 1984?

Lou Whitaker; who didn't look like a classic slugger, hit a couple home runs over the right-field roof in old Tiger Stadium.

He went straight to the minors.

Played against him when he was 16. He was a monster then. Still lives in Santa Cruz.

@@EugBaseball do remember if you guys won?

@EricSchryver Heck no, I was the catcher and called for my side arm pitcher to throw his curve ball, Hill hit it about 350 feet to left center. My team went 0-14 that year

@EugBaseball ouch...

I was looking to see if Josh Gibson was mentioned.

It was awesome enough to go to Yankee Stadium and just be able to look up at where that ball hit. Looking up at that, it was just impossible to comprehend that the ball was actually still rising when it hit.

Early 80's. I was in the left field bleachers in St. Louis. Jack Clark hit a ball so hard that the SS AND Left Fielder jumped to try to catch it. It came SCREAMING in, and every person near me, AND me, bailed. It slammed off the concrete, and rebounded back into play, and rolled almost all the way to the infield. To this day, the hardest ball I have ever seen hit. I grew up with Willie Mays, and McCovey, all of St. Louis McGwire, Pujols, and many others.

Sure they were

Hit tower bounced back to the infield

I played against Porter in high school in OKC.In 1970 he hit one against my team that cleared the right centerfield fence by at least 150 ft.

@@SydneyGreenstreet1227 I believe it. He had sneaky power for sure

Sad Strawberry and Golden both. If I remember both went done the tubes when they ended up on the west coast. Gooden unbelievable pitcher before drugs ruined him. Very sad.

@@Vicman006 Josh Hamilton became a wackadoodle while still playing, but it didn't save his career.

Babe Ruth was clean and sober right?

I was also fully expecting to see "The Killer" on this list.

I saw the red chair at The Mall of America. It's above the log ride.

520' not long enough Mantle hit one 623'

Killebrew's was 573'

Killebrew hit it well over 500' No steroids

I was at Tiger Stadium on October 2, 1983 when Dan Petry was going for his 20th win (the Tigers lost the game to the Brewers, Petry took the loss), I was sitting in the 1st base stands, out near right field. Cecil Cooper hit one over the right field roof, and all I saw was the ball go straight up, but because we were too far back in our seats , under the second deck, we couldn't see that the ball had cleared the roof. The place was eerily quiet. I just figured it was an HR that landed in the upper deck. Word got around about what happened, and I was so bummed that I missed a fairly rare thing at Tiger Stadium I was listening to the Tigers' game on 6-14-83 with my grandfather, they were playing the Red Sox, and Mike Brown was pitching. It was Paul Carey's turn to announce the middle innings, as he always did with the Great Ernie Harwell when the Tigers' games could be hear on WJR 76, and when Gibson hit that HR, Paul Carey (The Voice of God) sounded like he had just seen God! It was incredibly exciting to hear that called by him. Paul's announcing for that shot was so shocking that my grandfather and I sat up in our lawn chairs and looked at each other, as if to say, What the Hell just Happened?" until he said that it had went out of the stadium. I saw the footage of it that night on WDIV 4, and it looked incredible. I think there's audio of it here on KZfaq. The ball had landed on the roof of Brooks' Lumber yard, across the street! When we went to see the Tigers play the Blue Jays later that year, the program we bought had a story about that HR, and a picture of Kirk Gibson standing on the roof of that building about where it was figured it might have landed. The exact spot is unknown, but he not only clear the roof, but a street, as well! I think the Jason Thompson over the roof Home Run was a game broadcast on local TV, it seems like a memory. I might be wishing it had been, but I do remember my grandfather had the game on, either radio or TV. I seem to have a memory of Rusty Staubs' shot, but I think that was on the radio, and back then. In 1984 Reggie Jackson was with the then California Angels, and they were playing the Tigers in Detroit. The game was on local TV, WDIV 4, and during the pre-game, Tigers 84 with George Kell, and Al Kaline, they were talking about the All-Star game Home Run he in 1971. That day, a red "X" was placed on the transformer he hit during that game, as a joke, I guess, as if to say, "Try it again Reggie." Why did they do it for that game, after he'd already played there many other times over the years, I don't know. After the pre-game, I decided to go to the laundromat where we lived in order to do some laundry, and so that I wouldn't miss the game I took a radio with me to listen to Ernie and Paul call it. I forget what inning, but Reggie damn near did it again! He almost hit where "X" marked the spot! I was upset at myself that I missed that one, and couldn't believe how ironic it was for that to happen, given the "X" and pre-game talk. It didn't leave the park, but he came so close again to hitting one out at the Corner of Michigan and Trumbull. Thank you for reading.