data.3news-bydate.test.rec.sport.baseball.105085 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Charles M Kozierok)
Subject: Re: Best Homeruns
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Dan Swartzendruber) writes:
} In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Donald P Boell) writes:
} >I'd have to say the most impressive HRs I've ever see came from Dave Kingman
} >and his infamous moon-raker drives...
}
} I remember one he hit circa 1976 at Wrigley Field that went across
} the street (in dead center field) and hit a house on the roof. He
} whiffed a lot, but when he *did* connect, watch out!
the best home run i have *ever* seen came off, believe it or not,
Roger Clemens (sorry, Val) a couple of years ago. he threw a ball to
Incaviglia which was literally at Inky's neck, and he absolutely
hammered the crap out of it. after the swing, Clemens nonchalantly
motioned for a new ball--he didn't even turn around to look, or
even get upset. the ball hit the lights in the left-field standard,
some 70 or so feet about the Green Monster (over 100 feet above the
ground total!)
truly an amazing shot.
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charles