Did Babe Ruth's legendary 1919 Tampa home run really go 587 feet?
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- Опубликовано: 4 апр 2019
- On the 100th anniversary of Babe Ruth’s historic home run in Tampa, several scholars are asking if it ever went the 587 feet quoted on a billboard in the spot it supposedly landed, near at the University of Tampa.
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No steroids, the Babe ran on beer, hot dogs and the sweet memory of the 3 young beauty's who crawled out of his bed that morning.
Also faced meatballs
Babe ruth < Roger Marris. Babe Ruth would have been a great player if his entire career hadn't been marred by steroid use and accusations of performance enhancing drugs. Babe Ruth was a junkie plain and simple. A McGwire, Sosa or Bonds, Babe will never be, legacy wise
@G hrvyck its common knowledge. Babe Ruth was a nandrolone freak and was also a regular user of corked bats. One of the biggest cheaters ever to have played the game. Next time...do your homework, Son.
@@dicksteptoe9199 Wow. You are truly stupid! 😆
yoyoma can you hit a ball over 550 feet. And he did not use steroids or a corked, look it up. So next time do your homework son.
Considering that this happened during the dead-ball era anyone hitting it over 500 feet is awesome.
Great point and doing it with a 50 ounce bat.
No way my guy hit it 587 feet lol
He didn’t
@@baltimorefan5642 yeah no way it was able to get anywhere near 587 feet lmao. I am sure it was a massive hit but 587? yeah not happening
@@Whatupitskevin 540 feet
Imagine going to get a hotdog and missing this
Will do.
bro i was at a memphis redbird’s game and i went to go get a chicken sandwich and we hit a homer and i missed it, i go back and sit down and about 3 or 4 innings later my girlfriend asks me to walk around the stadium with her. we’re passing the place where i got the chicken sandwich from and the redbird’s hit ANOTHER home run. i was disappointed and felt targeted.
"Mutha...
I missed my son’s first home run for a Starbucks run. I never missed a single game or even a single at bat before that. We were in between games and I thought I had time for a coffee. I came back to the fields and the game was already underway. My son was lead off hitter and hit a home run about the time I was pulling in to the complex! 😩
@@deenobrown1 do you mean your son is in the mlb? Or like his first home run ever?
"Only 552 feet!"
MANCHESTER UNITED soccer is for retards
@gary robinson soccer is for retards who can't play real men sports like Football baseball and basketball
@MANCHESTER UNITED F.C Soccer blows donkeys.
@MAN UTD
Soccer SucksSaltySeagullShit
@M so you're saying you can hit a ball with a bat?
The amazing thing about Ruth is the fact that he was the best LHP in the American League and then a couple years later he was the most dangerous hitter the game had ever seen. No other baseball player has came close to doing that
Shohei Ohtani is as close as we could get to the Babe, and he isn’t the best, he’s decent to good
@@SirJayBallinIII he is a rare talent for sure. I like watching that guy play
Well, rule changes were the major cause of that. One reason why Ruth probably stopped pitching full time was because the new rules making pitching more difficult were really unfavorable to Ruth...as a pitcher. These very same rules were incredibly favorable to Ruth as a slugger. To put it in perspective, in 1917, before the rule-changes were made, Babe Ruth had 123 at-bats and only hit two homeruns!
Ohtani is working on it
shohei ohtani
When people are talking about you over 100 years later you know you are forever a legend. Just amazing
He hit one out of Atlanta’s Ponce deLeon Park that went all the way to Birmingham, Al courtesy of a passing freight train on the track between the Sears building and the Ford factory. The ball was found there in an open boxcar and traced back to the game in Atlanta.
Now that’s the farthest home run ever
😂 facts I dnt believe no babe Ruth stories
It's a good thing the Denny's wasn't already on Ponce, or the grease from the grill would have caused it to slide all the way to Memorial Drive in Decatur.
I love how they bring in old people to act like they were there when it happened but it was over 100 years ago
older people can get more accurate accounts from people who were there/ heard when it happened
@@evancross almost less accurate lol. ever played the telephone game?
@@iamjp1 why would it be less accurate. Wouldn’t it be the same as “accurate”. And if this old lady was told by her 70 year old grandpa that saw this game when she was 20. And then told this news station. How would it be like the telephone game if it was passed down from one person
@@connor-xt1qs an eye witness account would almost certainly become less accurate the longer time passes from the event, and that's when referring to something witnessed first hand. second and third hand accounts thus would be even less accurate.
@@connor-xt1qs and you also just asked how it would be like the telephone game by saying it was like the telephone game lol person a tells person b who tells person c and person c tells us. that's the telephone game in a nutshell my friend.
In a double header, Babe once hit a foul ball so high that they caught it in the next game for an out
"His blasts were so big they became symbolic of America itself." wow I feel sooooo sorry for his girlfriend/wife
It all started with a big bang
And one game in the 1927 season he hit such a high homerun ball --- it finally came down two innings later.
The computer analysis of Babe's swing is worth a watch. He generated a ton of rotational speed with his hips that only a few athletes have ever been able to do, Rory McIlroy being another
Ok good job Babe but my Wii player legit averages over 600 ft. home runs
Go play with your wi wi.
The greatest ever, hands down.
@@aishanichols895 Talk to us when you can find Willie's pitching stats. Ruth remains the ONLY player to dominate on the mound and at the plate. Deal with it.
@Cam Bell He was a dominate pitcher when he was a full time pitcher. No one before or since has ever been dominate as pitcher and hitter. Ruth played in the climate and conditions as his contemporaries and he stood above them all. No baseball player since him has been as dominate. And none of you know-nothing, know-it-alls have any idea how the Babe would have faired in subsequent eras.
@Cam Bell STOP with this garbage. Obviously he would have kept in better shape if he played now. He wasn't just good...his numbers absolutely towered over those of dozens of contemporary HoFers, and he still holds a lot of records to this day. His talent was IMMENSE, and he would put up video game numbers today like he did back then (if he managed his off-field issues).
Greatest and most dominant player in baseball history !
He out homered teams !
That was real baseball back then when the babe played. I wish it was like that now. Baseball has changed alot over the years.
Boring ass baseball back then
He had 94 wins as a pitcher in the MLB with a 2.28 career ERA. So every time someone gets to 715 HRs, make sure you toss them the ball and say “Okay, now go win 95 games as a pitcher.” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
He was a great pitcher as you mentioned. Probably would have gone into the HOF had he continued pitching.
@@reneg3126 Well considering the fact that they would have to face a much scarier lineup than the Babe ever had to, I would assume that they wouldn't do very good.
The ONLY pitcher to win the HR Crown!
@@Jacobthekid28
Oh bullshittt.
Once pitched 14 straight innings.
A 50 ounce bat😱
Dang that big
James Meyers *heavy not big
According to at least 2 biographers he preferred a lighter bat most of the time, a 46oz. I guess some people somewhere might consider that light!
He used up to 54 oz bats. These lightweights that play now wouldn't last a week in The Babes day.
@@dtnetlurker they couldn't hit a foul ball with a 54 ounce, that's 20 more ounces than the one most of today's players use, which is a 34 ounces
Heroes get remembered, but LEGENDS never die #3
Well babe died so I guess he isn’t a legend
Mantle hit a ball in Washington that left the park and supposedly went 565ft. He also hit a ball that bounced off the facade at old Yankee Stadium. If it didn't hit the facade it would of left the stadium. It was supposedly still raising when it hit the facade. Mantle said it was the hardest ball he ever hit. So, yes a ball player can hit a ball over 500ft.
They certainly can. What bothers me is that these guys back when proper nutrition and weightlifting wasn’t a thing, and the average fastball velo was under 90 mph, hold all these distance records over the roided out 90s and 2000s guys. Andres Gallaraga hit probably the furthest ball I’ve ever seen at Dolphin Stadium (or whatever their sponsor was at the time), and initial reports said 579 feet, then got dropped to 529, but ESPN officially has it at 468 feet, which is completely asinine. Mathematicians verified it going atleast 520 feet making it one of the few pre-statcast homeruns to be proven to exceed 500 feet, but there’s no way the Babe surpassed him by another 60 feet
@@notsauer The babe is king, STILL! They did throw slower in his time, but for him to hit as far as he did with such 'slow' speeds shows his power and unmatched skill.
@@russellwilliams4317 Thats also assuming of course that he actually did hit a 587 ft homerun.
I was thinking that if the ball didn't make contact with the stadium/rafters, we'd have seen a few go this distance.
The Mantle blast was not measured correctly. They went back the next day, and had to take someone's word, at the point
the ball stopped rolling. Not accurate.
"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”
Yep, Ruth was larger than his legend in his stats.
i heard it landed 500 feet and rolled. the legend just kept growing
nah, man it was 1025 feet. I was there
1,027 ft
1337 feet and still rolling.
The well educated physics professor says the furthest a HR can possibly travel is just under 500 ft. He needs to be re-educated.
Those are the same guys, that said, the curve ball is a myth, the ball doesn't spin, i wish those same guys, would face nolan Ryan.
He probably went to those 'pass or fail' no test schools, like Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama.
These are the same scientists who push the manmade Climate Change hoax.
@@MajorWolfgangHochstetter
Right. Columbia and Harvard for Obama. Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar. Where did you get your moronic education?
Newton says he can do it force equal mass times acceleration
Joey Meyer, playing for the Denver Zephyrs of the American Association in 1987, hit a home run at Denver's old Mile High Stadium that went into the second deck and was measured at 582 feet.
This was 1 year ago and it got on my recommended on my iPad on April 4 still
Hold up anybody not talking bout how smooth that edit was when he was show how far the ball went
Never knew he used a 50 oz bat. That’s the more amazing to me than a 587 foot homer.
I got to hold one at a sports memorabilia show one time. Had to wear gloves am everything. Was like fred Flintstones caveman club...
Man I thought the same, how do you get that thing around?
Did you ever think the size could be the reason?
He used a 54 oz bat in his early 20s. By his late 30s he was down to around 38 oz bats. That would still be the heaviest bat in MLB today if someone used it. Chipper Jones used a 36 in 36 oz bat his whole career and other players said he hit with a tree trunk.
Needless to say that we likely can’t trust how they recorded home run distances back then
Needless to say in 1921 he cleared the 500 center field wall in Detroit. It not only cleared the wall,it cleared the ballpark.
Who's we, nicky? You french?
Babe hit several 500 foot bombs.
You could compare him to his peers, however. And he had none, at least in the early 1920's. He hit more home runs than almost every other ENTIRE TEAM. Just enjoy the legend. Babe Ruth was good for baseball and still is.
@@TheBatugan77 a commie, probably.
Was Ernie Nevers the pitcher?
Back in the 70's when I was in little league. A place in Fremont California called, "Tri-City Sporting Goods. I met a Bat carpenter for Rawlings. He told me back in the early 20th century till the late 30's they had 50-54 oz bats, and he makes them. I purchased a 51 oz bat from him and used it in a practice. It was 34" bat and for me as 12 year old it was extremely heavy. I choked up on that bat about 6" just so I can get a good swing; which wasn't that good so I had to deliver on my timing right. I hit the ball, not with a strong swing. When that ball rickashayed off that bat it went way farther than any ball I ever hit, at least by 70 to 100 feet farther.
Julian Dancingshadow dang
Who is rick ashay?
April 1976, Wrigley Field: Dave Kingman hit a home run that the NY Daily News reported the next day landed 630 feet from home plate.
I could believe that
Kingman was bad
The distance recognized today is 530 ft. Irregardless, Kingman absolutely destroyed that baseball
I can’t believe he started playing in 1914 it feels so old
It’s actually more impressive to see a 500 foot home run from the 20s to 30s era then now since pitchers throw harder so it would have been harder for someone to square up and then hit a ball 500 feet
if the pitch is going faster doesn’t the ball bounce off the bat better though?
And now all the ballparks are smaller in terms of distance to hit a home run.
I always admired (and always will) the Great Bambino. However, there are 2 home runs hit by Mickey Mantle that may very well have been even longer. The first one came the closest ever to a ball going out of the old Yankee Stadium - "The House That Ruth Built", as it came to be called. It hit the upper most part of the facade at the top of the stadium (never done before or after by anyone)in left field and landed back on the outfield grass rolling all the way to the dirt of the infield between first and second base. I heard and read many accounts of this Titanic blast. The other one exploded out of center field from the Detroit Tigers home stadium, hitting the corner of a large billboard advertisement on its way out and landed across the street on the roof of a house. Both of these blasts were measured and recorded as the longest home runs ever...the exact distances of which, are so astonishing, I will just suggest you Google them yourself...I hesitate to mention them as I would appear to many of you as a fool. As a side note, the one from Yankee Stadium took place in an at bat where the mild mannered Mantle became infuriated with the pitcher, who was taunting and mocking him during his at bat. As the saying goes, "Don't tug on Superman's cape"! I close by confessing "the Mick" was my boyhood hero. ❤
I agree. And actually, Mickey almost hit two balls out of Yankee Stadium. The first one was off Chuck Stabb in 1956. And don't forget Griffith Stadium in 1953. Mickey was something else!
Mickey was actually being taunted by the manager of the opposing team who yelled "you're washed up Mickey, you're a has been!" And when Mantle hit his blast of Bill Fisher the manager was really angry at him when he came back to the dugout!
The HR that hit the top of the facade was in right field. Not left field. Richie Allen hit a few balls over the 80 foot grand stands in the old Connie Mack stadium in the mid 1960's. One was measured at 525 feet.
@@roncaruso931 I stand corrected...it absolutely was the right field facade. I read about it many times, some even showed the right field facade. I mistakenly said left. Thanks for correcting me.
@@RobertDavis-qh1ry No problem
“The farthest a ball can be hit is just under 500’ “ huh? Well: laughs in 2021 HR derby with 520’ bombs
Imagine being a time traveller and just being there to see the game
I'm 75 years old and my Grandfather praised the Babe .Gramps was born in 1900 and yes knew baseball.
How fitting to watch this on April 4th 2021
so we're just going to ignore the fact the lady said "clout" at 2:13 ?
MANCHESTER UNITED shut up you’ve said that on
Like every comment it makes no sense
Also I hate soccer so not every country. Stop
Yes clout is a real word that people have been using for a long time.
@MANCHESTER UNITED Man soccer is so boring
So were just going to ignore the fact that the word clout has been around longer than you think?
A 17 mph tail-wind on a towering drive off of that heavy bat would indeed be a sight to behold, no matter what the true distance.
Straight up. I am a huge Ruth fanboy. However, my dad was in Atlanta in the Early 70’s, had a chance to see Hank Aaron hit batting practice. There were several players and coaches milling around, few people in the stands. Dad said that Hank hit one so hard that as it went over second base, 10 ft or so above it, that it began to rise, and it was still rising when it hit the top of the upper deck roof rafters in Fulton County stadium. Everyone in the ball park was stunned and someone in the crowd remarked ‘If that was on film, it would have been the longest ball hit, ever’ I still think Babe was the greatest.
Hank Aaron my favorite baseball player of all time 715 my favorite number.
The physicist is not taking into account Ruth's strength and shoulder weight and the fact he probably actually hit the sweet spot of the bat and ball perfectly to maximize distance. No mathematical equation can predict that !
It's very rare to hit a baseball that far but if anyone was going to do it was the babe!💪⚾
Babe is the worst, The blue jays are better
Narrator: Some people say it’s ONLY 540 feet.
"I don't have a niche career writing about this if I don't confirm it"
I'd love to see someone, using film footage, estimate Babe Ruth's bat speed.
Figure in the weight of his bat.
Use some estimates for the range of pitch speeds.
Add the 17 mph wind.
Plug it into an equation, the physics are well know.
And get an estimate for how far that ball really could have gone.
I’m pretty sure in reality he hit the ball about 500ft or close to it, and it rolled the rest of the way.
You're probably right Braylon, but he did it without steroids and it is now baseball legend.
@@gfblack5307 that would probably even be impressive with steroids tbh
@@Best-est1 sponge ball also,, not a golf ball
Agreed.
Very likely but that's still incredible
I'm surprised how far that was!
One thing you forgot, the air in Florida is dense because of the high humidity. Meaning this resistance greatly increases. Unlike a ball hit in the thin air in Denver.
@@matt8863 you guys are both saying the same thing 🤔
Im watching this 1 year later. April 4th, so happendly Easter.
2:15 dababy
LES GOOOO
LESS GO
@Nightstalker_55_420 no he made a da baby reference
@@Yin2K yeah
50 ounce bats would not do so well against the crazy velocity of todays throwers, but I still respect the Bambino's legend. Damn, it would've been something to see him play.
I'm an old man who has seen many greats play. Ted Williams comes to mind. However, I do regret never seeing Babe Ruth play. Several men I've talked to who saw him play all said the same thing; When he came to bat you could feel his presence no matter where you were sitting in the stadium!
@Nimfa McDonald what do you think about a 50 ounce bat.
@Nimfa McDonald hey I didn't know that since they were shorter probably a lot lighter.
@Nimfa McDonald probably nobody has ever done that a big strong guy to go from such a huge bat to make that adjustment. I'm certain he could have played different era.
@Nimfa McDonald he is easily the Goat of baseball he could do it all and make adjustments if necessary I have so much respect for him. And he overcame his parents who gave him up to a orphanage because to me he is might have been a little rambunctious not a criminal.
I was at the 3rd ever Tampa Bay Devil Rays game. Me and my wife were walking around the stadium checking it out and were way up in the upper deck at a spot they called The Beach. Frank Thomas was up, watched him swing and it hit the lights just above everybody. Years later I heard it was still the longest homer ever hit there.
Monster homer. Saw one too when I was a kid in salt lake city. The Angles vs the Tucson Torreos . Batter was Billy Parker of. The Salt Lake Angeles. Left field fence over a small park 150 feet wide across main street 4 lane road .60 feet first bounce 2/3 across the banks parking lot which was 1/2 block long . Utah blocks 520 feet long. Had the perfect view was a vender in the stands. This was about 1973.
Alright, I’m gonna go watch the Sandlot now...
Babe Ruth was the MAN! He's far and away my favorite baseball player of all time!
You never watched him.
@@Amzingred I've played Baseball for 40 years. How long have you played? You ever even play the game? I don't need your permission to have a favorite Baseball player and I certainly don't need to watch someone in person to understand them as a person or their game since I have the experience I do. Keep your derogatory peanut gallery comments to yourself. By the way there is something called Video which is what we were watching of the man. So, clearly you are wrong because my eyes did watch him on video. AH DURRR! You are just quite obviously a miserable person always looking to start trouble with people you don't even know because you have no life. I'll be praying for you to get the help you need.
There is literally no way for anyone to know how far it went. Dude measured it with his paces...
197 paces at 3 foot intervals, if anything his paces were too short
Also who’s to say it rolled the last 150 feet? Or some kids kicked it further.
He was the absolute king of baseball and will never be forgotten.
However far the ball was hit remember the baseball they used in 1919 wasn’t made for home runs. They were loosely wound used most of the game and were scuffed and beat up during the course of the game.
Babe Ruth is the real, "Mr. Baseball." He loved the game. He loved the fans. He saved the game after the "Black Sox Scandal." He even changed the way the game was played. What player beside the Babe can say that?
Agreed. Now that Aaron is gone, they are talking about retiring #44 league wide. What about Babes #3?
@Nimfa McDonald that's funny and not funny I know what you mean.
Wilt Chamberlin in basketball......
I wish I could have seen the two home runs that Mickey Mantle in the roof or fadod in Yankees standard.
How about Mickey Mantle hitting that spier on top of the 3RD deck at old Yankee stadium that none seems to want to talk about? Computers have calculated 650feet without the steady 30 mile an hour wind blowing in from right there toward home plate but when calculating that, over 800 feet by other computers.
He would love that he's still the greatest. Does anything else really matter? Thx for posting a cool vid.
I don’t think he’s the greatest.
575
Your first instinct is there's no way, especially back then, but when you start reading the size of the bat Babe used and the weight that he used when he was younger, well now imo there is a possibility he may have hit one that far.
In 1919, the guy who finished second to Ruth in HRs hit 12. Eight home runs put you in the top ten. To fit a 500 foot home run with a ball that dead is amazing.
Anyway, it went about 500 ft, aided by the wind, and rolled, aided by the wind.
Its recorded he hit one well over 600 in an exhibition game. It was close to oilfields and it landed there.
Imagine great hitters like babe Ruth using modern day metal bats like 2017 cf zen
Excellent job by Fox 13.
Still the greatest of all times.
Andreas Gallaroga hit one in Miami on a hot humid day......It landed in the upper deck and would have exceeded 500 feet.....Just unreal!
'..hit _won_ ..' ? lol *''one''*
I still think that's the longest HR hit in my lifetime (since 1979). The original estimate was somewhere in the 575 ft range, but I think they've downgraded it to 529 ft now. I think the original might be closer to the truth. I've seen Sosa's HR out of Wrigley onto Kenmore (not Waveland) Avenue and McGwire off Randy Johnson in the Kingdome and neither of those really come close imo.
@@tommyriam8320 Thanks for tip. Correction made. I assume you are a Harvard grad who has zero athletic ability. Are you a big ballet fan?????
Remember a guy like The Mick who smacked a ton of monsters that were stopped by stadium walls.
It was flat around the field there. I wonder if other homers by the Babe would have traveled as far if it wasn't for the stands being in the way. Or do they take that into account?
I don’t belive it he’s calling his shot
John McGraw witnessed the measuring and commented that it was just short of two football fields !! There is NO doubt.....Babe Ruth WAS baseball itself........he WAS the greatest to ever play the game......and he loved the game more than anything in the world. The day that the Babe is forgotten, will be the day that baseball is forgotten.
Babe was the best power hitter. But he wasn't the best pure hitter for average, plus stealing. That goes to Ty Cobb, with a .366 average and almost 900 stolen bases. Although the number has been beaten by Lou Brock and Ricky Henderson, Cobb did it when stealing was the thing to do, and the pitchers-catchers could not stop him from his terror when merely getting a single! Psychologically, getting a home run is just one swing and it is over, but getting a single, then advancing to second or frequently to third, and sometimes then stealing home is embarrassing to the defense, and upsets the pitcher with Cobb's threat to steal and upsets the entire infield. Casey Stengel, who played (before becoming a manager) and frequently saw Cobb play, said he was unreal. No doubt Ruth and Cobb are the two best players in baseball history. Ruth with his natural ability for power hitting, plus a great pitcher before changing to hitting only, and Cobb who out-thought, out-worked, and terrorized the opposition.
@@freeguy77 Babe Ruth said that he could hit singles all day but that obviously is not what he wanted to do.
@@coryburns9161 What he really said was, "I could have hit .600 if I wanted to. But the people were payin' to see me hit them homers!" That is closer to what he said.
@@freeguy77 you are right you are close enough.
@@freeguy77
He also went into the stands and beat a heckler to death
bottom line is he didn't hit the ball that far. they got it wrong. now the legend endures.
If You hit a baseball numerous times over 500 feet and in multiple games you are thousands of years ahead of your time. George Herman Ruth 👑
The science guy is wrong.
Yeah Evan gattis hit an 85 mph slider into the wind 486ft. Imagine no wind and an aroldis Chapman fastball. Well over 500 for sure.
Science says, or more correctly stated scientists say, bumble bees and humming birds can't fly. It has been said they "defy science."
In light of the witness accounts I'd say the Babe defied scientists with a scientific swing and scientifically provable conditions.
That dent in the upper facade at yankee stadium was done by the Mick and the ball was going up when it it the wall. Possibly a 650' or more shot.
He knocked one out of Griffith stadium
I love how people question things they didn't see. The Babe was known for hitting bomb homeruns, he revolutionized the game. Back then they kept stats just like we do now, yes more primitively, but still recorded everything. Just look at the graph they had in this video where they had for the wind speeds by hour just on that day. Babe at a very young age was followed by reporters and scouts consistently there's nothing that was not witnessed, I have no doubt he hit at 587 foot homerun. He did amazing things that didn't even need to be proven, they are lore. When he promised the kid in the hospital he'd hit him a homerun, it was witnessed, and he went and did it. The called shot and other amazing feats. Just amazes me how with today's stars, we see what they can do and then so-called experts question the past and people like Ruth, why because today's athletes can't do what he did???
Exactly, these things aren't some dark ages myth - a lot of people saw them at the time and recorded them, they weren't making up a lie to fool people living 100 years later. Why would anyone doubt the truth of it?
Til this day I've still never been able to locate the path of the ball
Imagine driving down a road then a baseball smashes through the windshield and hits ya in the face
Greatest ball player of all time
In his last game Babe hit 3 home runs. It is recorded that one of the 3 went out of Pittsburgh stadium at over 600 feet.
My Grandpa was at that game. You are correct it was well over 600.
@@awesomesaucejay481 Cheers!
You are correct. He was playing for the Boston Braves when he hit his last 3 home runs. And the owner of the Pirates (who attended the game to see Ruth) - had just built the new Forbes Field and the owner proclaimed that no one could hit a homer out of his stadium. The first two Ruth it was in the upper decks of the Stadium and finally he nailed one that cleared the center field area and went completely out of the stadium and hit a house across the street. The owner of the Pirates --- said --- "Well, I'll be damned"
when theres no stands to stop the ball and just road behind the fence a ball can bounce and roll an extra 50 feet or so.. I believe it
Swinging a 52 ounce bat and those Henry Aaron quick wrist, I have to say yes !
BY THE WAY he also hit one at Briggs Stadium in Detroit that went 600 feet !!
Over Trumbull right up Cherry street !
Show me the proof !!
@@Jacobthekid28 IMPOSSIBLE to show you THE PROOF but there were EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS of it that were WELL DOCUMENTED !
@@thebambino4728 And who exactly were the eyewitnesses?
What the hell do you think I DO - MEMORIZE WORD FOR WORD everything I've ever read about it ?? People LIKE YOU are never going to BELIEVE THE TRUTH anyway so I'm not WASTING ANYMORE TIME ON YOU !
Mark McGwire could not come close to 587 feet with steroids and Giancarlo Stanton can't top that with a juiced baseball. I'd be willing to bet Ruth could not hit one that far living on hot dogs and beer.
Open air, with the wind, maybe.
Ballparks put up far poles because of The Babe so they say.
The Babe did live on beer and dogs and swung a bat reggie jackson couldn't swing.
Giancarlo can't do it cause that bitch can't hit lol
He did tho?
I'm amazed theres a bridge or building standing since according to people today nobody knew how to measure before about 50 years ago.
Do you guys know that Willie stargel used to hit him in the upper deck at Three Rivers stadium all the f****** time that's at least a 540 ft poke back then
Little known fact. A baseball Babe hit in 1924 went so far that Neal Armstrong found it on the moon in 1969
I wish I could of seen him play
My Dad told me about seeing Ruth in Nashville around 1928 or so - when he was on an exhibition game vs. the Nashville Vols. In batting practice - everyone was watching Ruth and they nearly ran out of baseballs as he was hitting everything out of the park. They had to go find the balls as they left the stadium. And, of course he hit a couple during the game --- a fun time to be alive and watch the Babe.
'..could _have_ seen..'
Wow that’s crazy
Was it windy?
Mantle hit one on opening day in 1953 where President Eisenhower was in attendance in DC. His blast was pinpointed at having landed 565 feet away! The expression on Eisenhower's face says it all!
I love hearing baseball stories. You got anymore? I wish people in the states would show more love to the game. Thanks again, sir.
@@russellwilliams4317 I went to the 1964 Yankees 'Old Timer's Day Game' (a two inning game usually played against other team's old timers). I was 14. Ty Cobb was there. Joe Dimaggio hit a homerun just over the 301 foot sign down the third base line.
@@MajorWolfgangHochstetter I believe Cobb died in 61'. Maybe you got him mixed up with someone else? Dimaggio was a beast! I have always wanted to visit Yankee stadium! Baseball is not too big out here in Arizona :(
@@russellwilliams4317 I am wrong! No, I can't imagine who else. Some .400 hitter from that era. My mind is not as sharp as it once may have been!
Is there a video of it?
Mickey Mouse home run, doesn’t count in my book 💯
The greatest…
My uncle was born in Tampa had a barber shop cut all the yankees hair when they were in Tampa. He saw that homer and told my dad about it. My dad was born in 1919 but at 19 left kentucky to stay with his sister in tampa.
I mean when you compare Barry bonds body build compared to babe Ruth... idk
Barry bonds hit 0ver 500 he’s after the age of 35!
Bonds is a damn steroid cheater !
Barry bonds I remember seeing him at Pittsburgh with Bonilla and he was a skinny kid then I remember seeing him at San Francisco and he was huge with garvey forearms but on his arms.he looked like he had been pounding weights in off season. And all hisHR’s we’re going in the water and a couple were hit so hard I think there still going!
@@marieakrim4862 Do you remember Luis Gonzalez he hit I think 58 HR’s in 1998 in 1997 he hit 6 what?
Bonds couldn't carry the Babe's jockstrap!
According to "science" a human is incapable of hitting a ball pitched 100 mph so...there's that
Idk why everybody wants to discredit Babe Ruth. Jealous a fat, beer drinking and fun loving guy is the best baseball player of all time?
Actually, the haters hate him cause of his race..
@@herbpetrillo163 haha probably.
Who here when it is almost 101 years on April 3 2021
it went about 2 football fields