Top 15 Home Runs Over 500ft! Watch #5 Dave Kingman hit a blast far out of Wrigley Field!
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- The PED era in baseball, was entertaining! But, it's not the only era in baseball that massive homers were hit! Here are my top 15 home runs that traveled over 500 feet! Several were hit completely out of the stadium!
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Roy Hobbs, 633 feet, clock destroyed, fans underneath all skewered.
The greatest HR of all time!
Your mom's knuckle WAS PRICELESS!!
@@backtothecardboard I don't know...the dude in Bull Durham got a free steak for his homerun.
Kingman ...wow! Out of the stadium and hits the porch of the 3rd house down ..unbelievable!!!😊
They didn’t call him King Kong for nothing!
No one hit them farther, or higher, than Kong.
Kingman made Lou Boudreau lose his mind, R.I.P Lou.
I do not watch the Cubs games, But I was watching this game and could not believe my eyes.........what a Home Run, it was!!
Loved Dave Kingman as a kid! He was lean! Not Canseco like at all. Tall and thin.
Glenallen Hill's will never be topped, in my book.
It was a line drive at the perfect launch angle, and it looked effortless.
It was like he was taking a practice swing, and the ball was intentionally thrown to hit the bat at the perfect spot.
I will never be convinced that any of these others went farther than that one. It was perfection.
well it was topped by canseco by 40 ft get real bro
LOL "It was real in my mind" - Hermann Rosenblatt
Galaragas in my opinion was the furthest. In a football stadium at 100ft above sea level
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I saw Glenallen hit one in Colorado while playing for the Cubs.I actually never saw it, just heard it. I’m convinced the ball vaporized in flight. Not one Rockies player even moved. .. I don’t think any of them saw it either. Absolutely crushed.
Always glad to see The Big Cat get some recognition. Andres Galarraga was and is egregiously underrated. As usual simply because he was a Colorado Rockie.
You’re 100% right! He was a beast at the dish!
And an expos
Exactly. And rightfully so
You're right, think those years in Colorado hurt his credibility with his numbers a bit. Which is a shame because he was a damn good hitter. Great glove too.
In 77 we saw Kingman hit a ball over 500 feet in batting practice in Toronto...absolutely crushed
Kingman was Mark McGwire before Mark McGwire! Only unjuiced!
Of all of those my favorite is the Dave Kingman homerun; that was a hell of a shot!
I have to agree! They didn’t call him King Kong Kingman for nothing.😁⚾️🤙🏻
If Kingman is featured in the title of this video. It should be #1. All the other ones hit a object. & it was impossible impossible, before the 1990s, to determine the speed the ball left the bat, the particular wind direction, and speed at the time of the hit etc..
What a shot by Mcguire. Tons of irony there!
😂😂😂
Dudes been around 37 years and people still can't spell his name FFS
@chrischar9428 dudes been around 61 years and people still think he's 37
best of luck in learning how to spell, r e t a r d
I saw Bo hit one out of Memorial stadium in Baltimore in BP. Over the speaker. Out of the stadium dead center… the crowd gave him a standing ovation, was simply amazing
Bo was different! I hate his career was cut short.
@@backtothecardboard was sadly watching the playoff game vs Bengals as a kid when it happened. Very sad
That Canseco shot never gets old. Dear Lord... lol
For real! It was a bomb!💣
That and his one as a Yankee with his jersey half unbuttoned and wearing shades.
As a Jays fan, watching that one soar into the upper deck at SkyDome (hadn’t been done before that, iirc) was the sinking realization that we weren’t winning that series and Oakland was just too good
@@weseisenschenkslostmusclec9123 Oh yea, the Silver Surfer? LOL absolute nuke!
Adam Dunn should not be forgotten, one of most dangerous power hitters of his era.
He was! He missed a lot also.😁
He looks like will farrell
he sucked at baseball, r e t a r d. King of the strikeout
The steroid era was the best
Ikr they should definitely test these new age players also
Absolutely. Bring it back
@joshuamcclellan4942 king kong was before the steroid era and was already washed up by then .
bring back steroids and put Bonds in the HoF!
@@markf5931Barry Bonds will never be in the HOF! 😂
I have two: On May 6, 1964, Dave Nicholson either cleared or grazed the left center field upper deck roof at old Comiskey Park in Chicago. Official estimate: 573 feet.
Dave Kingman hit another HR at Wrigley that landed in the NEXT Block. Estimates were 550+. Legend has it that Cubs left fielder Jose Cardenal (The ultimate in cool) did not move an inch other than to watch the ball go over his head.
Man, I love hearing stories like this! I hadn’t heard about the Nicholson shot, but I had seen the Kingman blast once upon a time and you’re right, Cardinal( a former Reds coach)never moved!😂
Crowd reaction with Sexson's was the best. "Ah sweet, a home run, uhh WHOAH THAT HIT WHERE?!?!?"
😂😂😂
Love my Swinging' A's. It's been a long time since then.
Mickey Mantle hit the ball that was still rising when it hit the lights over Yankee stadium it was still rising
Stargell, Dodger Stadium, 507 feet.
Dave Kingman’s home run was my favorite. The ball might still be rolling down the street.
😂
Reggie Jackson's All Star home run is grossly under measured. It was still RISING when it hit the light stanchion.
I agree 100%!
Super fun to watch Shannon. Brings back some great memories. Enjoyed.
Thank you. The good ole days Steve.😁
They were fun to watch again. Great video
Thank you
Killebrew in 67 over 500' & several by Mantle at Griffith Stadium & Facade Yankee Stadium.
Legend is that Killebrew hit absolute bombs. Under appreciated slugger imo
@@kevinwicklund9593 That's who Reggie Jackson copied
Mantle at Tiger stadium. Hit it into lumber yard across the street. Estimated at 643ft
Love it! What I really like is we get to see a replay. Too many videos just show it once. Oh yeah Kingman's. That ones in Milwaukee! Classic!
Awesome! Thank you!
Some great homers on this list, but my favorite BY FAR was the McGwire off of Big Unit 538 ft bomb. For me it is better due to the announcing! That guy was HYPED and screaming. Awesome!
I have to agree with you. It pays to have a good hype man.😁
I miss the days of estimated home run distances because it gave us some of these monster numbers. If these were all hit during the Statcast era, most of them are probably under 500 feet... especially Strawberry's, where they just threw out a ridiculous number because it hit the roof, which is really more telling of how high he hit it, not how far. I have no doubts Statcast would have had that one around the 450-foot range.
Statcast needs to chill! I like the days of estimation better!😁
You're right, but most people like to romanticize the distances. 500+ foot homers are extremely rare. Since stat cast there have been just over 50k homers and THREE went 500 feet and nothing over 505. Of those three, two were at Coors Field. Also, the so-called 580 foot homer by Joey Meyer is a myth. Babe Ruth never hit a homer anywhere close to 575 feet. It's my belief there are more unassisted triple plays in MLB history than 500 foot homers. If that's true it likely the rarest of the rare.
@@brentrosencrans3968
A lot depends on launch angle and exit velocity, but a good measure is that a HR at it's highest point, is about 2/3rds of the distance traveled. For example a 450-foot HR would have a maximum height of about 300 feet. Of course, there are some outliers.
That home run by the big Cat was closer to 629. What a bomb!
💣💣💣
In 1986 I saw some tall, thin redheaded A's player named Mark McGwire hit a ball clear out of the ballpark at John Thurman Field in Modesto, CA. I thought that was just about as far as a baseball could go off a bat and that was years before he "buffed up."
Wow! Thats so cool! Say what you want about the juice, it made for some entertaining baseball!
McGwire was and always will be my favorite.
There used to be a site up that was maintained by a guy who did the actual physics calculations. Reggie was number 1, Cansecos and Gallaragas were nice but it was way way lower than those predictions, something like 470.
The estimations, before modern statcast came along, were a little off.😬 Sometimes.
Jose Canseco bat speed was phenomenal
No doubt. He was a strong dude.😁⚾️🤙🏻
DAVE KINGMAN hitting one onto someone's front yard is the best! also LETS GO METS!! GRIMMMMMACEEEE
Yes! I feel you. I’m a Reds fan!😬
@@backtothecardboard Free PETE ROSE!
I totally agree 👍
Frank Howard, mid 60s hit one over center field fence, and everything else, Washington
Senators
Frank Howard was the 1st coming of Aaron Judge. Howard was a big strong man as well! I would have loved to seen that gargantuan blast!
I believe Kingman also hit a popup that hit the roof of one of the early domed stadiums. I can't recall which.
They didn’t call him King Kong Kingman for nothing. He has to be one of the strongest players to ever play the game.
Super video Shannon. Awesome Home Runs. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome! Love these type of videos!
Of course McGwire and Canseco are 1 and 2!😂
So fun to watch. Thanks Shannon and have an awesome weekend 👊🏻⚾️
Thank you David! You do the same my friend.
Fun to watch. Lots of great players and memories.
For sure Greg! Thanks for watching and Happy Independence Day!
they weren't "great players," r e t a r d. they were steroids cheaters
5:30 W Milwaukee reference 🔥🔥🔥
Larry stall, 67 or 68, Municipal
Stadium, right field over the 40 ft
fence, estimated 512 ft in KC !
Oh wow! Would have loved to had seen that one!
I there for the Mo Vaughn homer at Shea. Amazing
Very cool! Mo Vaughn was a certified beast!!
This was enjoyable
Thank you
I saw Bo hit one out of Memorial stadium in Baltimore in BP. Over the speaker. Out of the stadium dead center… the crowd gave him a standing ovation.
He did some amazing things. He will forever be a legend!
And it looks like Kingman hit it off the end of the bat! Too bad he had to suffer as a member of that team.
Just imagine what would have happened if he had got all of it!!!!
I saw Dave Kingman, when he was with the Cubs, check his swing and it went out of the ballpark.
I’m amazed Barry Bonds isn’t on the list!
He has a list all by himself.😁
Bonds hit a 500 footer AT PAC-BELL Park
Javey hitting 175 in Detroit …nice!
Below the Mendoza.😬
Harmon Killebrew has the longest hit HR at the Old Met Stadium at 522, his teammate Bobby Darwin hit one 501 that was 4 rows below Harm's. I don't think most Twins fans know this , both seats had been marked as the longest HR in Met history.
They should do that at every stadium. That would be cool!
I’m not sure if there is footage available, but I thought Mantle hit the longest of HRs. It’d be interesting if a professional engineer/ surveyor dug into this for actuals. McGuire and Canseco were clearly using steroids so it does make sense on their mamoth shots btw.
Mantles HR was reported to be 565ft. But I don’t believe it was ever measured.
The one Galaraga hit sounded like the hardest ball ever hit LOL jesus H!!!
Nice video my dude. Baseball used to be really fun. Bond's hit one against the Yankee's I think in 2001 that was an absolute bomb.
I miss these days
Yeah the Bonds homer vs Lilly at the stadium during a day game. More than half way up the upper deck in right. I’ve been watching Yankees games since around 75 and that was the longest I’ve ever seen in the RF upper deck at the old stadium.
@@davidlarsen-tj4tn absolutely crushed it. It was just starting to curve when it hit the stand up there at near maximum velocity. The freaking thing might have gone 600 ft. Bonds was a demigod
Bonds @ Yankee stadium 457 ft
@@homerun8032 That's estimated feet though, correct? That ball had to have been a 500ft blast in an open field.
I would say the craziest thing about McGwire's #2 is that didn't even look like a full swing, just the perfect contact with his "superhuman" power.
Artificial superhuman power thanks to the juice
I wonder if I am the only one that believes Adam Dunn is one of the biggest “what ifs” in baseball history. If he has actually focused on the game and honed his natural strength and talents, he could have easily been in the 600 Homer club or beyond. Just speculation of course
I have to agree. Dunn, I think, liked to hit the long ball way too much. Which cost him some strike outs, which in turn hurt his overall game. Just speculation on my part.
@@backtothecardboard well, what I meant, is baseball was never his first passion. He was a farm/ranch boy who was just naturally strong and just wanted to be a ranch guy. Baseball was more of a hobby for him. He was fun to watch to say the least, but if he put some work in he could have been like Jim Thome. Either way, watched him in Arizona a lot and his strikeouts could cool down all of Chase Field. 🤣🤣
Great compilation video
Thank you my friend
I still believe Glenallen Hill's HR would have been the longest of all time with nothing to stop it. My dad will argue to this day Kingman was further but I dont buy it.
Kingman’s looks farther because you can see it bouncing away! Either way, they were both mashed!😁
A lot of these are definitely not over 500 ft but they're all monster shots
Before statcast some distances could be a little suspect.😬
Ichiro once bunted a baseball 451 feet.
"Break out the Rye bread and the Mustard Grandma,
its grand salami time!"
😂. Mmmmmm……Salami!
Super cool video, Shannon! Awesome stuff!!
Thank you Danny!
How do they determine how far it was, when it hits an object before landing? (Before the 1990s) they didn’t know the speed of the ball leaving the bat, and the angle, and the wind direction & speed, & resistance, etc: for each hit.
I’ve wondered that myself Mike.
Mcguire’s, Canseco’s, others?: Tilt. I respect Maguire for fessing up, ultimately.
I can't believe Oakland let canseco and McGuire go
Kingman hit 3 monster home runs that game. Cubs still lost...23 to 22
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gotta love that #1 and #2 were 'aided'...
Keep rocking, stay connected! New supported friend. sixty eight done my friend !!
Thank you so much.
I remember the first time i hit it out of our High School field(which they used to say was a college field(?) if that means anything.) It was actually in the rec league(senior league, the level after middle school, which is ages 13, 14, and 15) after those of use who played on the freshman team came back after our season was over.
I think it was in our second to last game, right before the championship, and we were facing the best pitcher from our team(meaning the freshman team.) However, I played catcher, so i caught for him many times(going back to little league all stars and other travel leagues actually), and knew all his pitches, what they looked like, and how they broke, as well as where he liked to put the ball(for some reason he _never_ pitch inside. I dont know if he was scared of hitting someone, or if it was some strategy he picked up at one of the billion camps, clinics, etc. that he went to, but it was extremely annoying as a catcher.)
So naturally i crowd the plate, and he's just not throwing strikes. Finally, on either 3-0 or 3-1 he threw a hittable pitch up and away(though it almost certainly would have been called foul), i swing, and i feel just popped it out to left center. However, as I'm rounding first, i look to see where the ball is, and all i see is the center and left fielders slowly jogging toward the fence with their heads looking almost straight up, and that when i pick up the ball, just in time to see it bounce off the roof of the tobacco barn, which is about 20ft behind the scoreboard, which was maybe 15ft behind the the center/left center field fence.
I was _shocked._ i always swung down on the ball(or at least thats how i thought about it), so with a high pitch like that it felt like...well, not nothing(like when when the ball(baseball, golf ball, etc.) hits the sweet spot on a really hard swing), but it felt like the ball game off the top of the bat.
It also took me a second to remember/realize that it was a walkoff homer(it was tied 0-0 and there was a guy on second.)
And yes, we went on to win the championship in the next game(just like in Little League😎.)
So...yeah. I hope you all enjoyed my Al Bundy story from rec league baseball at 14.
Awesome story! That had to been a pretty good feeling. Thanks for sharing!
wtf over? how could you forget mickey mantle?
That HR needs a video all to itself.😁
Glenallen Hill used to evaporate baseballs. Ever been to a game early when they were taking batting practice? Not sure anyone hit more regular homers in BP than Glenallen Hill.
Hill was simply a beast and very overlooked as one of the greatest power hitters.
Cool video. Enjoy your weekend!
Thank you! You too my friend.
If kingman and Schmidt played in wrigley the whole Career they would have 700 hr each
Man, ain’t that the truth!
Canseco hit the shortest homerun . Right off the top of his noggin
😂😂😂
Glenallen Hill crushed that ball, but also look at that wind going nuts. You can't tell me the wind didn't add some serious distance to that one.
As hard as it was blowing, I guarantee it did!💨⚾️
Many years ago you could find out the direction of the wind at Wrigley and bet the total accordingly. Now the books totally take into consideration the wind. Winds blowing out? You could see totals like 11 and 12. Winds blowout in? Maybe 7.5.
Great video. These shots were majestic. But c’mon with the numbers. Sober up, bro.
The era before statcast was a little off.😬
Those were some SAUCEY dingers
No doubt!🤙🏻⚾️
Why does Sosa get crucified yet Glenallen Hill, who ACTUALLY tested postive (unlike Sosa), gets a free pass?
Because Glenallen Hill didn't put up numbers breaking a bunch of records.
Sosa, McGwire, and Bonds rewrote the record books, so of course they will be more scrutinized.
Hill was average, at best.
Reggie Jackson’s HR was in the All-Star game, which should bump it up a few notches. Back when the All-Star Game was an actual competition.
For real! The AS game has zero meaning these days!
Some epic dingers 🎉
Juan Encarnacion and Jimmy Wynn should be here also
I hate Conseco but seeing him crush that ball on the blue jays is awesome
Fun to watch the ball travel that far. No matter how it got there.
Great video
Great to see Lasteroid back in the day
Who?
Sorry that Canseco one was not the furthest. Upper deck or not, it was over the 328 mark. Mcquires went over the 375 mark.
McGwire's.
Mick-Gawires
If you had 7 shots of D-Backs games through the years, you might have 7 different color schemes and multiple logos. Stick with something!
It’s like an NBA team, and now they are forcing it on every team with the hideous city connect jerseys
@@NoNameNo.5 I Agree with your premise; the only caveat is that I like the Cleveland Guardians city connects. But they stayed with the team colors and a basic design. But those teams with 5 different pastels or neons or all black are hideous!
So many of these were grossly exaggerated. There was a group of three physicists that did a paper called the myth of the 500 ft home run. And they took a lot of these home runs, and they found out exactly what seat they landed in and how high the seat is off the ground and how far away from home plate it is as well as any other wind conditions that may factor into it. And with the video they determined the launch angle and they actually got very accurate measurements based on the information they collected for the paper. Whereas the people in the stadium were making a gas in less than 2 minutes based on none of that information. They were not accurately guesstimating those distances at all. Mark mcgwire's 540 ft home run only went about 473 Jose canseco's 538 home run went around 443. Andres galarraga, his home run I think was around 485. The reason we don't see very many 500 ft home runs these days with statcast being much more of an accurate measurement, is because so many of these balls that we thought were 500 ft back in the day actually were not. They were over exaggerated guesses
That is so true. I agree with that 100%. Modern statcast killed the 500ft HR.😁 Still yet, a 485ft, steroid induced, HR is still pretty spectacular.
@@backtothecardboard oh for sure. A bomb is a bomb. But it makes the real 500 footers that much more special
Kingman for the HOF, should have been in
I agree 100%!
A .236 hitter with 0 defensive ability and 0 speed in the HOF? He had massive power. His only tool in the shed,
What I'd love to see is Jack Clark's massive shot in Fenway as a Red Sox. Early 90s, looks like it hit the Moosehead sign 1/4mi away.
Oh man I would love to see that! I looked for it on YT but couldn’t find it.
Damn I remember watching Kingman when I was a kid. It was either feast or famine with Kingman. He either homered or struck out and without looking it up I think I can safely say his career batting average was below 240. But damn that guy hit some monstrous moon shots. I also remember he was a weird sonofabitch and I remember when sent a lady reporter a dead bird in the mail. But most t of his homers were majestic.
I looked it up and you were right Ricky, his career BA is .236. But he had 400 and something HRs.😬 And that was a live Rat that he sent the reporter. 😂 He was weird but could it the ball a very long way when he made contact.
Jose shd be in the HOF. Man he was so good. Don't care about the ped's, they were all doin em back then. But JC had every tool in the bag!
I agree Pat! I met him a couple years ago in Nashville! He is a super great guy!
Some over estimations: Hill's was estimated at 490. Strawberry's was maybe 400 feet or so. It was just skied really high. Galaraga's was also re estimated at 470. Kingman's is also likely around 450. Jackson's is more like 480. Mcgwire's kingdome shot is probably closer to 500 ft. Canseco's Toronto shot is more likely 440 ft given that it only takes about 425 ft to get to that shallow upper deck. The rest seem accurate.
You personally Measure them ?? How do you know ? Curious, what , whose measurements are you going by ?
@micpay I have a lot better spacial skills that most and some of these were also revised estimates.
@@RAtMW88what proof you have of this ?
@@patrickpersianni5314 What proof do you have of anything?
@@RAtMW88 what about you , you the one making these claims without any evidence
Kingman's ball was a bomb . Hill's on the roof across the street was also unreal . Ron Kittle and Greg Luzinski hit some bombs over roof at old Comiskey that aint on this video
Those were a great time to be a pale hose fan. Not so much today.
Hills was my favorite although the wind really helped it.
He put that ball up in the jet stream!
Aaron Judge’s Seattle home run must have been 600 ft 😂😂
😂😂
Kingman's was the longest - and no roids.
Wow 😮, that's right no steroids 👍👍
His was no where near as far as they said. It bounced way before where they said it landed.
Manny Ramirez, when he was with Boston, hit a towering shot in Toronto that could be farther than Canseco's blast...
Manny Ramirez hit a few bombs in his day!
Dave kingman used to Blast the cover off the ball and send it into orbit . 😂
😂
It hit the front porch of the 3rd house!!!! lol
Amazing!!!😂
Jim rice hit a ball onto the freeway. Landed in the back of a pickup
Kirk Gibson hit one out of Tiger stadium across the street. No video...
No doubt. Kirk Gibson was just incredible when he wasn’t injured.
Happy 60th bday Jose!
Is he 60? Wow! I had no idea! Happy BdayJose!
@@backtothecardboard yeah crazy isnt it
No footage of the Polo Grounds or a few other fields where center field was literally 500 feet or a bit more? Only a handful of guys ever hit over 500 feet. None of these men never did.
When Canseco and McGwire played together they should have been known as "The Juice Junkies" rather than "The Bash Brothers;" Yes, you, too, can make the ball fly a long, long way if you take enough of the stuff!
Oh my god I totally forgot about Cecil Fielder. Havent heard that name in years. Or Mo Vaugn.
I’m sorry but there’s no way the Glenallen Hill HR was only 500 ft. It can’t be any less than first on the list
I agree. The era before statcast usually exaggerates HR distance, but I think Hill was slighted in this case. That ball looked way farther for sure.
You're probably a baseball fan if you're watching this.... With that said, Reading comments about "Steroids" and "juiced" is ridiculous!!! Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa SINGLE HANDEDLY saved Baseball!!!! And if you think MLB didn't know they were "Juiced", then you're a FOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!! LET THAT ERA INTO THE HALL OF FAME!!!!!!!!!!
@Pacavelli there is no way MLB didn’t know players were juicing! Those guys were selling tickets and making owners money. A blind eye was turned until non-juicer guys started complaining!
~ 1998? Mark McGwire destroyed a wimpy changeup off a rookie Blue Jays pitcher. It might be the longest HR in MLB history. It was traveling upwards when it smacked the upper wall well above the seats in the Skydome.
😳 I believe it!
I think Kingman might have been the farthest. But strawberry was probably longer. Glenallin hills was the longest I ever seen
All 3 were complete bombs!!!