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Posted By: Rob Ray

Paul S...incredible as I haven't thought of this game in years...but I was AT the same game you were,when Baines slammed a deep drive to RF against the Yanks in the late80s...I was sitting in the blue seats below the MannyHanny sign in RF when his blast took off like a high rocket and reached the upper deck,way above and to the left of where I was sitting,in what seemed like only a second or two! One of the hardest shots I've ever seen hit!....next to one Darryl hit at Yankee Stadium as a DH in late 90s that wound up in the black seats (I think against the Mariners...same game where Arod and griffey also hit 2 homers each).
I also remember one Bo Jackson hit against the yanks at the stadium had a special sound to it....long poke to LF upper deck....but this Baines HR stands out in my mind,like it does in yours...for the sound it made when it was hit.And how fast it traveled. Good memory!