How far did the Dave Kingman home run against Philadelphia go? It hit the porch of the 3rd house behind left center field. That’s the closest thing I can think of to this bomb!!
@@rdr4095 💯 people are clueless on that subject, conseco said he juiced in early 80s before he got to big leagues, love bo Jackson but he was juiced to the gills don’t have to be to smart to see it
He was using more than just HGH. He also admitted buying Sustanon, but claims he never used it haha. Even all the players who admit to using ALWAYS minimize their use in some or multiple ways like Giambi, A-Rod and McGwire all the way down to lesser known players like Hill.
I was eating lunch at a Famous Sam's, the sound was turned off, and a bunch of underfed skanks were putting on a lingerie show parading down the aisle in skimpy clothes and grossing me out while I was trying to eat lunch. I was staring at the TV and having grown up in Chicago I had a mild interest in the game. I said to the guy I was eating lunch with "this guy has some power". Then I'm like "that's a blast" Then I said, "That was on the roof. He hit that on the roof! I don't think anyone has done that before. He hit it on the roof" Then they replayed it and sure enough, He hit it on the roof.
I remember watching this on WGN. No one I knew saw it and everyone thought I was exaggerating. Unbelievable shot. Never happened before and will never happened again. All you steroids people: 1) They're ALL on some kind of steroids 2) You can pump yourself full of steroids for years and still never make contact with an MLB fastball or curve ball, let alone hit one 500 feet
Gonesville, you are correct! People that try to downplay the talent level because of steroids, get on my nerves. Bonds' legendary run was amazing. If he got a hittable pitch, he put it in play. Mostly homers and doubles that year when he didn't get walked. Steroids don't help make contact.
@@trentjones4564 no but they turn long fly balls into home runs, he was already on his way to the HOF but when McGwire & Sosa were getting all the attention he adhered to "if you can't beat them join them" sorry when a ballplayer(even the great ones) pass 35 their numbers go down & his were starting to then all of sudden from ages 36-40 he averages over 50 home runs/yr? please you're obviously a fanboy
Glennallen Hill was one of my favorite Cubs growing up. We traded him to the Giants, I think, and he came back. Always had a soft spot for Cubs who came back. Then we traded him to the Yankees and he dropped like 18 HRs in like 40 games. I listened to this game on the radio - Santo (God bless you Ronnie) was in awe.
Did that pitcher replace the baseball with a golf ball? Because . . . Wow! I’ve seen a lot of baseball, and a lot of tape-measure shots, but that ball took off like it was super charged.
Why? A no-hitter is vastly more impressive than someone hitting a tape measure HR. It takes great pitching and defense to execute a no-hitter. And never understood the fascination with tape-measure HRs. A HR is a HR. A HR that just makes it over the fence is still a HR. And we make baseball heroes of hitters who hit 30 HRs but who never get on base and a .220 BA.
Haha, he hit HR's in 4.5% of plate appearances during night games, 4.6% during day. That is a difference of 2 fewer home runs than expected during night games over his 11 year career.
I miss Wrigley before they made it ugly with two huge scoreboards in the bleachers. It had such a different feeling before. Now besides the antique scoreboard in center it seems like every other modern park.
Just heard about this dinger on the Effectively Wild podcast. The HR was both very far and yet not nearly as far as I was expecting. I hear "the ball landed on the roof of the building outside the park" and I assumed it was across the street or something.
I downvoted this because of the minute-long unbypassable commercial. I will downvote every video I see that features these commercials. KNOCK IT OFF, RUclips!
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Lol 490. Yeah ok home run estimator guy…. More like 590.
Even in the steroid era, no one did that at wrigley
How far did the Dave Kingman home run against Philadelphia go? It hit the porch of the 3rd house behind left center field. That’s the closest thing I can think of to this bomb!!
This was the steroid era
sosa hit one that went past the roof top and landed in between the 3rd and 4th house est. 530-540ft.... steroid era!!!!!
@@rdr4095 💯 people are clueless on that subject, conseco said he juiced in early 80s before he got to big leagues, love bo Jackson but he was juiced to the gills don’t have to be to smart to see it
It's not the distance it's the sound! sounded like thunder i've never heard a ball sound like that before WOW!
way to go, GlenAllen!!
Broad shoulders + short arms = Rooftop Rocket 🚀
Omg what a shot
Yahoo Sports brought me here today
That one,and kingmans in 79. Stargell and Milner hit the center field bleachers.
Look at the trees in the background; the wind must've been blowing out to left pretty strongly.
I was there. You are right, major wind gusts that day... cold and blustery.
I still like the red shoes better.
Before Ricketts turned Wrigley Field into a Chuck E. Cheese.
I dont think HGH matters that much. 1979 a homerun was hit 50 feet further than this one v=qijfudtUsR4
That particular home run was severely aided by the wind.
@@Dylan98654 And this wasn't?
Lot of wind behind it also if you notice.
ON THE ROOOOF OMG ON THE ROOOOF jesus christ I still can't hear you
Hill looks like a mini McGwire..........he amitted using HGH in 2000 and 2001
He was using more than just HGH. He also admitted buying Sustanon, but claims he never used it haha. Even all the players who admit to using ALWAYS minimize their use in some or multiple ways like Giambi, A-Rod and McGwire all the way down to lesser known players like Hill.
I'd rather see steroid freaks hit 600 ft homers than see nobodies like Phillip Humber (Who?) throw perfect games
I was eating lunch at a Famous Sam's, the sound was turned off, and a bunch of underfed skanks were putting on a lingerie show parading down the aisle in skimpy clothes and grossing me out while I was trying to eat lunch. I was staring at the TV and having grown up in Chicago I had a mild interest in the game. I said to the guy I was eating lunch with "this guy has some power". Then I'm like "that's a blast" Then I said, "That was on the roof. He hit that on the roof! I don't think anyone has done that before. He hit it on the roof" Then they replayed it and sure enough, He hit it on the roof.
Gee , that sounds more like a nightmare 😆
What happened to the Skanks?
Steroids is not about muscle mass...it's about BAT SPEED!!!!
i remember this. a team of surveyors calculated the ball traveled 455 feet. it was on the sports page the next day.
I remember watching this on WGN. No one I knew saw it and everyone thought I was exaggerating. Unbelievable shot. Never happened before and will never happened again.
All you steroids people: 1) They're ALL on some kind of steroids 2) You can pump yourself full of steroids for years and still never make contact with an MLB fastball or curve ball, let alone hit one 500 feet
Gonesville, you are correct! People that try to downplay the talent level because of steroids, get on my nerves. Bonds' legendary run was amazing. If he got a hittable pitch, he put it in play. Mostly homers and doubles that year when he didn't get walked. Steroids don't help make contact.
@@trentjones4564 no but they turn long fly balls into home runs, he was already on his way to the HOF but when McGwire & Sosa were getting all the attention he adhered to "if you can't beat them join them" sorry when a ballplayer(even the great ones) pass 35 their numbers go down & his were starting to then all of sudden from ages 36-40 he averages over 50 home runs/yr? please you're obviously a fanboy
steroids or not still exciting!
Glennallen Hill was one of my favorite Cubs growing up. We traded him to the Giants, I think, and he came back. Always had a soft spot for Cubs who came back. Then we traded him to the Yankees and he dropped like 18 HRs in like 40 games. I listened to this game on the radio - Santo (God bless you Ronnie) was in awe.
conchfritters01 lol "we"
+conchfritters01 : Hill was traded by Toronto to Cleveland in the Candiotti trade...
conchfritters01 when he first went to the Yankees, he was a monster.
This bomb and Kingmans blast was the 2 longest hrs hit at Wrigley I would imagine.
It's gotta be the shoes!!! Or the dehydrochlormethyltestosterone. One of those two things. But maybe the shoes!?
Everytime he talks about hitting that home run it travels another 100 feet.
May 11th and it's still cold. Starting in 1984 all I really wanted to do was watch the Cubs on WGN. Lately it's just not the same, not sure why.
Did that pitcher replace the baseball with a golf ball? Because . . . Wow! I’ve seen a lot of baseball, and a lot of tape-measure shots, but that ball took off like it was super charged.
i remember watching this and being amazed
I was at this game!
What a sight, beats the shit out of the no production days of NOW!!
I’m very curious, could someone ask Tom Skilling how windy it was that day?
Hill was a Santa Cruz High School standout, my brother played against him.
Holy shit
i would have retired from baseball right there it cant get better than that
Say what you want about the Steroids Era but......I fricken miss it! Beats the crap out of having no-hitters being thrown seemingly every other day.
Why? A no-hitter is vastly more impressive than someone hitting a tape measure HR. It takes great pitching and defense to execute a no-hitter. And never understood the fascination with tape-measure HRs. A HR is a HR. A HR that just makes it over the fence is still a HR. And we make baseball heroes of hitters who hit 30 HRs but who never get on base and a .220 BA.
Home runs are hit that far quite often but to hit it that far and keep that high.. What a bomb!
Not "quite often". No. But a couple of times per season, maybe.
Full extension. Buggy whip. Jump on that rooftop bomb
Glenallen Hill wasn't a baseball player. Glenallen Hill was a bodybuilder who played baseball.
The wind helped, but that was a bomb. It left the bat so fast it was certainly a missile.
0:49 when you realize the wind is blowing hard AF......look at the trees...still impressive tho
Good call, I never realized that until your post. Even though I've watched this clip several times over the years!
The sweetest of the sweet spots.
That pitcher is my friends Dad. The kids/sons name is Wesley Woodard. The pitchers name is Steve Woodard
I have seen him with the Indians, he could hit them but not at night. A day time hitter.
He hit .272 during the day, .270 at night.
What was his homers during day and night?
Haha, he hit HR's in 4.5% of plate appearances during night games, 4.6% during day. That is a difference of 2 fewer home runs than expected during night games over his 11 year career.
He was with the Blue Jays originally but never could hit on a consistent basis. This pitch was done
where he liked to be pitched.
How does this video have 1 thumbs down? That's an amazing homer.
The negative vote came from the pitcher.
I believe that Brewers pitcher was the same guy who gave up Sammy Sosa’s 62nd Homer in 1998
Looks like he wasn't even trying
The pitcher couldn't bother to look
Damn I miss real baseball! 🇺🇸
Wind obviously blowing out lol
Over the Hill and far away
I seem to remember Dave kingman hitting g a home run in wrigley 3 or 4 houses back from the rooftops
It's gotta be the juice folks! It's gotta be the juice!
it's gotta be the shoes! pay attention
I miss Wrigley before they made it ugly with two huge scoreboards in the bleachers. It had such a different feeling before. Now besides the antique scoreboard in center it seems like every other modern park.
I love the new Wrigley. Welcome to the 21st century.
Just heard about this dinger on the Effectively Wild podcast. The HR was both very far and yet not nearly as far as I was expecting. I hear "the ball landed on the roof of the building outside the park" and I assumed it was across the street or something.
It was. It was across Waveland Ave.
I’m a sox fan and holy shit what a bomb!!!!!!
Not bad for a 3/4 swing
Love the Old Rigley Field!
PEDs, not even once.
The king kong on the rooft track it down??
An absolute BOMB!!!
Wowzers!
Big Poppa Pump
Roid HR
I downvoted this because of the minute-long unbypassable commercial. I will downvote every video I see that features these commercials. KNOCK IT OFF, RUclips!
This just started recently and I have no control over it.
+John Carter I gave your comment a "thumbs down" because you could get an ad blocker. Not the uploader's fault.
+John Carter There's this thing called "AdBlock", that is free. Don't be a dumbass.
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Now, who's the dumbass? RUclips has since ceased the practice. You're welcome.
John Carter It's been 3 years since I've had it, and I have never seen an ad with it.