Prodigous home runs

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Posted By: PASJD

This steroid talk reminds me of the two longest I have ever seen in person, both by Kingman. First was in Wrigley, late 70s, he hit one that still seemed to be rising as it cleared the park in dead center field, in the car on the way back to my gf's dorm they were saying it hit some building across the street and they estimated it at 500 feet or something like that. Second was in my hometown Fenway, he was playing for the A's at the tail end of his career, first Canseco hits a half-ass home run to right (steroid aided? hehe), the Kingman comes up and hits just a mammoth, towering blast to left that couldn't have taken no more than two seconds to clear everything, in the papers the next day one of the columns said it was last seen paying the toll on the Mass. Pike and heading west, it was quite remarkable. He may not have been much of a hitter from an overall standpoint, but wow.