mickey mantle hit the longest home run of all time.
mickey mantle hit the longest home run of all time.
who hit the longest home run of all time?
mickey mantle
other legendary home run hitters include jimmie foxx, mel ott, ted williams, mickey mantle (who on september 10, 1960, mythically hit "the longest home run ever" at an estimated distance of , although this was measured after the ball stopped rolling), reggie jackson, harmon killebrew, ernie banks, mike schmidt, dave kingman, sammy sosa (who hit 60 or more home runs in a season 3 times), ken griffey, jr. and eddie mathews. in 1987, joey meyer of the denver zephyrs hit the longest verifiable home run in professional baseball history. the home run was measured at a distance of and was hit inside denver's mile high stadium. major league baseball's longest verifiable home run distance is about , by babe ruth, to straightaway center field at tiger stadium (then called navin field and before the double-deck), which landed nearly across the intersection of trumbull and cherry.
home run
on april 16, stanton hit his 155th career home run, surpassing dan uggla to become the marlins all-time home run leader. on may 12, stanton hit a 467-foot home run which cleared the left field stands at dodger stadium. it was the third-longest home run of the season at that point and the fifth ever hit out of dodger stadium. on may 15, 2015, stanton hit a 474-foot line drive to center field which landed in the camera well in marlins park. it was the second longest home run of the season at that time, pushing his out of the stadium homer to number 4. on may 30, stanton hit a 466-foot home run, the longest in citi field history. in june he had a strong batting average, but on june 26, he broke the hamate bone in his left wrist in a ninth-inning at-bat.
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