Thomas was the fourth child born to Abraham Lincoln (1744â1786) and Bathsheba Herring (c. 1742 â 1836), having been born in Rockingham County, Virginia. Abraham had been given 210 acres of prime Virginian land from his father, John Lincoln, and later sold the land to move in the 1780s to western Virginia, now Kentucky.
The measurement of home runs, however, has long been an inexact science at best. For decades, measuring the gameâs longest home runs was a combination of guesswork, estimation, exaggeration and myth. Mickey Mantle was estimated to have hit one a staggering 653 feet in 1953, and another for about 643 feet in 1960.
One of his biggest and farthest home runs came in an early season trip to Jacobâs Field on April 30th of 1997. McGwire drilled a pitch over the 19 foot fence and 23 rows of seating in left center field for one of the longest home runs in history.