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08-27-2025, 05:10 PM
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Not sure; however:
If a baseball took that trajectory and landed where the tip of the arrow is, and hit a hard surface like asphalt…it probably would have bounced and rolled for quite a distance after touchdown.
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08-27-2025, 05:16 PM
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According to Google:
On April 17, 1953, Mickey Mantle hit a towering home run at Washington D.C.'s Griffith Stadium that became known as the "tape-measure home run". The ball traveled over the left-center field wall, hit a beer sign 460 feet from home plate, and landed in the backyard of a house on Oakdale Street, where it was found by a 10-year-old boy. Yankees publicist Red Patterson estimated the home run's total distance at 565 feet, a figure that helped coin the legendary term. Details of the Blast The Hit: Mantle, batting right-handed against Senators pitcher Chuck Stobbs, hit a fastball. The Trajectory: The ball soared over the left-center field wall, cleared a 60-foot bleacher section, and grazed a beer advertisement. The Landing: It landed in the backyard of a house on Oakdale Street. The Estimator: Yankees publicist Red Patterson estimated the distance by walking from the back of the stadium bleachers to where the ball landed and consulting blueprints. The Discovery: A 10-year-old boy named Donald Dunaway found the ball in a backyard and eventually sold it to Red Patterson for a dollar.
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08-27-2025, 05:38 PM
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Wow, a whole dollar? Red Patterson comes off looking like a colossal douche here. While things didn't have the same value in those days, there was certainly still much publicity value to having the ball in hand for display purposes. Give the kid more than a dollar.
Last edited by BillyCoxDodgers3B; 08-27-2025 at 05:42 PM.
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08-27-2025, 05:42 PM
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Mark McGwire 260lbs of muscle full roids with better equipment and faster balls being pitched to him never hit one that far. 5'11" 195lbs Mantle never did either.
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08-28-2025, 08:37 AM
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08-28-2025, 01:31 PM
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08-28-2025, 01:45 PM
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I'm a Senators fan......no, it never happened. It is all wrong. Just a baseball myth. Just like that 'called shot' thing.... if there were no pictures, it never happened.
 I freakin wish. ; - ) Butch
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08-28-2025, 03:08 PM
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Physics is pretty sure. I love baseball lore as much as the next guy, that's one of the things that makes it so great. When all the roided out sluggers never hit one that far its just too hard to believe he did.
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08-27-2025, 08:59 PM
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"Patterson gave the boy a dollar and later sent him five more dollars and two autographed baseballs in return for the home run ball. The ball and Mantle’s bat eventually made its way to Cooperstown." https://baseballhall.org/discover/in...-foot-home-run
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08-28-2025, 06:03 AM
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I suppose that was a bit better, but still comes off as being not enough, even for the era. How about some box seats at Griffith Stadium for the kid and his family the next time the two teams faced off? A meet and greet wouldn't have been out of the question, either. Good photo op material there for the club as well. I wonder if those balls had any clubhouse signatures on them, or if they were Autoballs! Last edited by BillyCoxDodgers3B; 08-28-2025 at 06:07 AM.
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