What is the longest home run hit ever?

Answer 1

1. Micky Mantle hit the furthest home run in Major League Baseball history. The home run ball was said to fly 660 feet in the air before landing in the stands at Yankee Stadium on September 10, 1960.

2. Ted Williams 613' "at Fenway Park".

3. Babe Ruth 601' at "Yankee Stadium".

4. Adam Dunn 595' at "The Great American Ball Park".

5. Ralph Kiner 560' at "Forbes Park".

6. Frank Howard 560' at "Forbes park".

7. Jimmie Fox 550' at "Shibe Park".

8. Alex Rodriguez 535' at "Yankee Stadium"

9. Manny Ramirez 510' at "Fenway Park".

Answer 2

Icons of the game have issued numerous prodigious blasts worthy of awe, but the actual distance is apocryphal and subject to much hyperbole. Examples include:

Mickey Mantle - 660 Feet

• Mickey Mantle - 634 feet. On 4/15/1961, Cincinnati Reds outfielder Wally Post hit a shot in St. Louis that traveled 569 feet. In the news article from the Cincinnati papers, Stan Musial was quoted it was by far the longest homer he ever witnessed. Bob Nieman, a Cardinals out fielder who also witnessed Mantle's famed shot in Washington stated this was longer than Mantle's.
• The Mick hit the first taped home run at 660ft at Griffth stadium after he hit the roof five times coming within mere feet of hitting it out of Yankee Stadium. "ON ONE LEG." Micky Mantle FOR THE YANKEES hit a ball 660 feet. the real record.
• Mickey Mantle at Yankee Stadium on 2-3 occasions hit 550-560' and one occasion 570'-620'. Mick has the record. In an exhibition game, Mickey Mantle hit a ball 660 feet. He was also known for hitting home run's over 600 feet on more than one occasion.
• Mickey Mantle hit a 643-foot homer according to the Guinness Book of World Records.

Other answers

• Babe Ruth 601' at Navin Field in 1941, plus about 6-8 other occasions 550'--600' possibly a bit more.
• I was told watching a Boston Red Sox game (seeing I'm from Boston) of two longest distances for home runs, not only in Fenway Park, but ever. In Fenway Park, there is a single red seat in the center field bleachers Section 42, Row 37, Seat 21, that measures 502 feet from home plate. Ted Williams (Teddy Ballgame) hit a home run off of Fred Hitchinson off of the Detroit Tigers June 9, 1946, the furthest home run in Fenway Park history. The other home run was also hit by Ted Williams and measured a distance of 565 feet from home plate.
• Manny hit a 500-510 homer.
• Adam Dunn hit a 595 footer off Jose Limas at Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati.
• Alex Rodriguez hit a ball about 535' in July 05.
• Ralph Kiner 560' at Forbes Field.
• Frank Howard 560' at Forbes Field.
• Jimmie Foxx 550' at Shibe Park.
• Ted Williams 613'.
• The longest one in recent history was Big Mac's 545 ft steroidal shot off the facing of the center field upper deck at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. That was a conservative estimate too. They have a band aid on the spot. That was in 1998 off of Ramon or Dennis Martinez (both gave up a 500+ shot off to him that year, so it's one or the other). The one Mac hit off the back wall ABOVE the upper deck at the King Dome a year earlier off the Unit was measured at 538ft (again, conservative). He's hit several like that.
• Was Andreas Galaragas "Five mile Home run" at Joe Robbie/Pro Player stadium ever measured? The one he hit into the upper deck of left field while he was still playing for the Colorado Rockies?
• Most of your questions should be answered if you go to this link. www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/art_hr.shtml
• Ernie Lombardi of the Cincinnati Reds in 1931.
• The person to hit the longest home run is Roger Connor.
• Josh Gibson's Legendary Blast. There's a famous story that Josh Gibson hit a ball that disappeared out of the park in Pittsburgh and was ruled a home run. The next day in Philadelphia a ball fell from the sky and a stunned outfielder reacted and caught it. The umpire immediately pointed to Josh Gibson and shouted "You're out in Pittsburgh, yesterday." This blast unfortunately doesn't count as a potential longest home run in MLB, because (in addition to being an even greater exaggeration than most of the other candidates) it occurred in the Negro Leagues, not in the MLB.
• As is proper in a sport where arguing about feats and comparing cross-generational exploits is part of the fun, there is no real answer. An interesting article about how home runs are accurately (rather, inaccurately) measured: http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/art_hr.shtml. The definitive article about the (probable) actual distances and researched reality of prodigious home run distances may be "Long Distance Home Runs," William J. Jenkinson's 1996 article in The Home Run Encyclopedia. Essentially, anything over 450 feet is truly remarkable, and few ever reach the 500 foot mark, which is truly exceptional.
• Dave Kingman's April 14, 1976 blast at Wrigley Field actually hit the third house beyond Waveland Avenue, 530 feet away. All others are subject to debate as where they might have landed, were measured where found so they had rolled some distance, whether the ball was rising or falling at the time it hit some portion of the stadium, velocity, and various other factors.
• I heard that Babe Ruth hit a home run in Fort Wayne Indiana and it landed in a train car while the train was moving. It kept on going.
• The farthest collegiate homerun was in 2008 at Irwin Field in Tyler, Texas by UT Dallas leftfielder Jared Smith.

Answer 3

Josh Gibson. Even though he played just in the Negro Leagues. We don't know for sure how long the Baseball flew but they say it went about 750 feet until it landed. Gibson also hit the most home runs when he played in the Negro Leagues. They say he hit up to around 800 Home Runs! If this is true Gibson was an outstanding baseball player.

Answer 4

This is a very difficult question to answer because of several factors. One being exaggeration, another being accuracy in measuring the distance, another being a ball that hits something that stops its travel. Reggie Jackson hit a home run in the 1971 All Star game that hit the light tower over the right field stands. That ball might have travelled 600 feet had it not been for that tower. Supposedly, Mickey Mantle hit a 565 foot home run in Griffith Stadium in Washington but that distance is not where the ball landed but where a child picked it up, according to Baseball Almanac. Dick Allen hit one in Detroit that hit the upper deck facade. That ball was measured at 415 feet but might have travelled 500 had it been allowed to land. So, when it comes to home runs it is best to take lengths with a grain of salt.

According to associatedcontent.com, here are some of the longest home runs:

630 feet - Dave Kingman at Wrigley Field in 1976

573 feet - Dave Nicholson at Comiskey Park in 1964

545 feet - Mark McGwire at Busch Stadium in 1998

541 feet - Frank Robinson at Baltimore Memorial Stadium in 1966

535 feet - Willie Stargell at Olympic Stadium in 1978

529 feet - Andres Galarraga at Pro Player Stadium in 1997

528 feet - Cecil Fielder at County Stadium in 1991

According to legend, Josh Gibson of the Negro Leagues hit a home run that travelled 668 feet in the air and rolled to a distance of 911 feet.

Also according to legend, the longest home run in MLB history was hit by Ernie Lombardi of the Cincinnati Reds in 1931. The ball flew over the center field fence and landed in the back of a truck that took it 30 miles to a depot.

When thinking of who hit the longest home run, that is the attitude we should take.

I am tired but so very tired of listening or reading of hyperboles re: long distance home runs. None of the above answers are correct. I have spent 20 years researching tape measure home runs and with the help along the way of

some astute and thorough colleagues that I have met who love to do the same thing I do have been able to debunk virtually all so-called monster shots. I will elaborate on just one fish story and then get down to the real ones. Kingman's

Wrigley Field home run passed over Waveland Avenue and struck the third house on Kenmore. The landing spot has been verified and the Cubs organization themselves measured the distance and came up with 535 feet.

End of story.

Now for the real story. In 1921 Babe Ruth drove a baseball far beyond centerfield in Navin Field/Tiger Stadium that landed on Turnbull Avenue. Bleacher witnesses saw the ball coming down and disappear from view beyond the second house from the corner of the side street intersecting Turnbull. Blueprints show the distance from home plate to the corner of Turnbull and the side street to be 560 feet. Add the distance of two houses further away and you have a home run in the rarefied territory of 600 feet. No one saw were the ball actually landed but we have a good idea. Aerial photos and the modern science of GPS confirm the distance as circa 600 feet and for the sake of avoiding any argument baseball author Bill Jenkinson has conservatively estimated it at 575 feet.

Dave Nicholson's home run is another dud. It bounced off the roof top whereas the newspapers falsely reported that it "cleared" the roof and then tagged it as a 573 footer when in actuality it only went about 475 feet! Mark McGwire's 545 foot homer actually went about 520 feet, and so forth.

The three greatest long ball sluggers of all time are first Babe Ruth, and second and third are a toss up between Mickey Mantle and Jimmie Foxx. End of my story.

Cecil Feilder's homerun in Milwakee is the only ball ever hit out of that stadium. The last fence the ball went over was said to be 530' from home plate. Perhaps they meant 528'. Any way the ball landed in the parking lot beyond the 528' fence.

The ball that Adam Dunne hit in Cincinnati Bounced into the Ohio river. No one saw it bounce but the very least distance it could have been was 530 something. Feilder and Dunne's distances are the minimum they could be and verifiable. Unlike Mantles 6 or 7 hundred footer that really traveled 370' when it hit the facade. It seems people, (or should I say fans) can not be objective. Also the one Dunne hit is the all time record. The ball floated nearly 100 miles before someone picked it up in Louisville.

Answer 5

This is in some dispute but the Guiness book of records lists the following 2:

The record for the longest estimated home run in a major-league game is 634 ft., by Mickey Mantle for the New York Yankees against the Detroit Tigers at Briggs Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, in September 1960.

New research (link) by Bill Jenkinson of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, overturns that estimate and instead gives the mark to a 575 ft blast by Babe Ruth hit on July 18, 1921 in Detroit.

My late father witnessed a home run hit by Babe Ruth in the early 1930's at Vancouver, B.C.'s Athletic Park where he and other major leaguers played an exhibition game for the locals. The stadium's right field fence (approx. 320 ft.) bordered along W. 6th Avenue. The Babe's shot cleared the fence, 6th Ave. as well as a house on the other side of the street, landing in the soft earth of a garden in the back yard of my dad's home i.e. between 6th and 7th Avenue. This homer would have travelled about 600 feet, though nobody attempted to take a precise measurement.

Answer 6

565 feet, Mickey Mantle at Yankee Stadium.

Answer 7

493' in Skydome

Answer 8

mickey mantle

Answer 9

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Answer 10

565 Mickey Mantle