Top 10 Longest Home Runs in Baseball History

[ballybunion]

Kingman hit one in Chicago in April 1976 while playing for the Mets. The next day, the NY Daily News reported the ball landed near the porch of the third house down the street behind Wrigley Field 610 feet from home plate. I kept the newspaper clipping for years.

[bernie]

I saw Ritchie Allen hit a ball over the CocaCola sign on the roof in left center field at Connie Mack stadium. He hit one to dead center over the flag pole. I was in the top of the upper deck seating on the 3rd base side when he hit it. I thought he got under it because I had to look up at it. It just kept going out of sight. Dick Allen was amazing!

[joecossentino]

On May 8, 1966 Frank Robinson(Baltimore Orioles) hit the only home run out of Memorial Stadium in Baltimore off of Louis Tiant. It cleared the left field stands & landed in the parking lot. I was seated there & it went right over our heads.

[Swampfoxtrd]

The Thome statue is by the CF gate, not near where the ball landed. On the ground where the ball landed, however, is a little baseball plaque for the home run. It’s just outside the entrance gates to the bleachers. The little plaque is like the ones in the outfield at Camden Yards

[gregmeagher]

Clemente hit a home run at Wrigley to straight away center field just to the right of the scoreboard that was still rising as it left the stadium

[brianfranco]

The Dave Kingman Home Run was part of a crazy game. The Phillies won 23-22, in 10 innings.

[KevinMiller-xnvu]

What about the home run hit by Mickey Mantle against the Detroit Tigers in 1960? That home run was said to have traveled 643 after clearing the rightfield roof at Briggs (later Tiger) Stadium, and landing in the parking lot of Brooks Lumberyard.

[thomasoswalt]

I’m an old fellow now, and I still love the legends and stories of the game.Puts me back to when I was eleven, and trying to do my best for my old man.He loved baseball too

[johnvan]

The two home runs Mickey Mantle almost hit out of Yankee Stadium off Chuck Stobbs in 1956 and Bill Fisher in 1963 were still on the rise when they hit the Facade and were estimated at over 700 feet if they didn't hit the Facade! No one compares to the Mick! He hit 500 foot homers on a regular basis!

[danhageman]

Frank Howard of the Washington Senators and Harmon Killebrew of the Minnesota Twins each hit a homer over the left field roof in Tiger stadium in the 1960's.
Not sure of distance but definitely 500 feet.

[stanyeeast]

"He did take steroids, though, which certainly helped"

The dead serious delivery was perfection lol

[johnkrolczyk]

GlenAllen Hill poked one out of Wrigley over the LF bleachers and onto the roof of the apartments across the street. At leasr 530 feet.

[steve]

To all those who say Mickey Mantle never hit a ball close to 600 feet I say you don't know your baseball history. Most of those who say that either never saw Mantle in his prime or weren't born when he played. He had awesome power. Injuries and all, imagine how he would've fared in today's ballparks, especially Yankee Stadium. I saw Mantle's home run off of Bill Fischer that was still rising when it missed leaving the stadium by inches. It hit the facade so hard that it bounced back towards the infield! Nobody can convince me that if the facade wasn't there it would've landed well over 600 feet and I'm being conservative in my estimate!

[ArtisticallySavvyPhotography]

In 1954 Bob Montag hit a shot out of Atlanta Stadium that landed in a passing coal car bound for Nashville. Several days later, a fireman who was aboard the train showed up in Atlanta and gave the ball back to Bob, telling him that he retrieved it from the coal car after it traveled from Atlanta to Nashville back to Atlanta, 518 miles round trip. EASILY the longest home run of all time

[terryshaw]

You can read about Micks homer in Detroit in 1960 and form your own opinions. Mick was very strong and you can see it in pictures in his forearms. Remember he used to work in the mines. He also almost hit one out of Yankee Stadium

[TheAcceleratorMagazine]

I have a Babe Ruth home run ball from 1921. It was hit off Walter Johnson at the Polo Grounds. The only homerun in the game and longest ball hit out of the Polo Grounds up to May 7th, 1921.
It's signed by both Ruth and Johnson and them only. The game ball.
rick in Tennessee

[TheTomvideo]

The longest home run in my estimation is by Mickey Mantle. In September 1963 at Yankee stadium. Mantle hit a walk off home run off KC pitcher Bill Fisher. The ball hit the facade in right field and the ball was still on the rise. About 2 feet short of clearing Yankees stadium. Mickey Mantle said “THE HARDEST BALL I EVER HIT”. According to experts, the ball was projected to go over 700 feet if the ball left Yankee Stadium. I was 13 years old at the time and I saw it on WPIX TV, that was a night game.

[charleyit]

In 1961 Tiger first baseman Norm Cash, hit one out of Tiger Stadium that went further than Reggie Jackson's ball. It cleared the roof in right field and landed in the Checker Cab Company lot across the street from the stadium. But Detroit was not part of the glamor towns of baseball so that one went unsung. I will never forget it, I was 12 years old and I was at that game. It would be the first of four homers that Cash hit out of Tiger Stadium.

[frankfunicello]

I would say Mantle had the greatest natural power swing of all time. He put every ounce of his body into every swing. When a good hitter pivots his lower half to follow through, the head, torso and legs should be aligned like there was a pole going through your body from top of your head through into the ground. He had that ultimate swing. I think who else was like him was Griffey Jr. he had a bit of an uppercut, but was still in perfect alignment.

[hushpuckena]

Just once, Randy Johnson was the pigeon, not the statue.

Mantle's home run off Stobbs was something, in an impossible home run park.