Babe Ruth calling his shot
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@misfits_138_1_psn said in Babe Ruth calling his shot:
I've never seen it, but I do know where Ruth hit his longest recorded home run.
During a barnstorming in Kingston, PA he hit a shot officially measured at 625 ft.
I live right by the place he hit it, and they have a monument where it landed.
The field is still there, and needless to say, it's almost unbelievable that a baseball can be hit that far."Officially"? Good story. But, nah. 625? Maybe with juiced balls in the steroid era AND an aluminum bat. Oh, at Coors, too.
No disrespect. But clearly a tall tale. Monsters today with juiced balls and better bats veeeeeery rarely reach 500.
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@suntlacrimae50_psn said in Babe Ruth calling his shot:
@misfits_138_1_psn said in Babe Ruth calling his shot:
I've never seen it, but I do know where Ruth hit his longest recorded home run.
During a barnstorming in Kingston, PA he hit a shot officially measured at 625 ft.
I live right by the place he hit it, and they have a monument where it landed.
The field is still there, and needless to say, it's almost unbelievable that a baseball can be hit that far."Officially"? Good story. But, nah. 625? Maybe with juiced balls in the steroid era AND an aluminum bat. Oh, at Coors, too.
No disrespect. But clearly a tall tale. Monsters today with juiced balls and better bats veeeeeery rarely reach 500.
Absolute truth.
The historian who measured said it was closer to 650, but he didn't want his reputation tarnished.
Look it up. I didn't believe it myself until I researched it.Babe Ruth Battery Park Kingston (Or Wilkes-Barre) PA
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I believe it. There's a trend in life itself, society itself, the most general terms, where you put down the achievements of people from the past to elevate your own, comparative, lack of achievements. Babe Ruth really did it, and we modern folks just need to accept that he was unbelievably good. Get it? Unbelievably good. But I believe it.
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@vk_ratliff_psn said in Babe Ruth calling his shot:
I believe it. There's a trend in life itself, society itself, the most general terms, where you put down the achievements of people from the past to elevate your own, comparative, lack of achievements. Babe Ruth really did it, and we modern folks just need to accept that he was unbelievably good. Get it? Unbelievably good. But I believe it.
Well done, sir.
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