re: Furthest Homerun at the Box

I saw Belle crush a ball that struck "Married Student Housing." That guy was a BEAST!!!

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There's just no way Furniss or Larson were capable of hitting a ball as far as Mouton could. No way.

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THE PRIDE OF SAINT THOMAS MORE!!!!!

i got to hear so much about him from playing in that same program that it wasnt even funny

Yep, just that one.

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Who was the guy from UF who hit the shot that bounced off the Athletic Admin building??
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Really?? That's a fricking bomb.

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Yes, really. It was Brad Wilkerson

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The longest ball I seen hit was by Brad Wilkerson-Florida, probably '97. Unless there was a stiff breeze once it went over, I'm not sure how it would have hit the athletic dept building. The ball was hit right down the line, the only ? was fair or foul. It was hit so high there was really no way to tell. I think they just gave it to him thinking anybody hits a ball that hard deserves a HR.

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That's a perfect description of that shot. I couldn't see if it hit the building, but I watched sail WAY across Nicholson and never saw it hit.

Another guy that hasn't been mentioned here was Nate Dunn. I saw him hit the 2nd story of Married Student housing in a game once (I think it was the '96 season).

I saw John Zeringue his one almost on top of married building. Guy was a beast.

I was at the game when Mouton hit married student housing...got a free big mac that night because of it...the hr dented the hell out of an air conditioning unit on the building...

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Nobody beat Mickey Mantle's record during the juiced ball era in MLB, so why should this be true for college baseball? The bat factor turned pop flies into HRs, but it didn't produce record length HRs. There's just no way Furniss or Larson were capable of hitting a ball as far as Mouton could. No way.

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You don't know what you are talking about. First of all the "juiced ball era" was in the mid 90's. Mantle played in the era where expansion diluted the quality of pitching resulting in a greater QUANTITY of homeruns. If you are going to spout off about physics you should understand that the greatest factors in the length of homeruns are bat speed resistance. Lighter bats produce the greatest bat speed. All things being equal (bat weight, impact point on the bat and the strength of the batter)....the quicker bat speed through the strike zone will produce the longer homerun.

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one of my best buddies, a former Bama All-American pitcher in the mid-70's says he threw the pitch to Mike Miley that was the longest....well over 500 ft.

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Is that the little blonde-headed baby faced guy that was their top reliever? He reminded me of my cousin. Usually when he came in, game over.

If so, I was there for that game winning shot by MM that went over into the Tiger Stadium parking lot. I can still remember the look on the kids face, absolutely stunned! Longest HR I ever saw at the Box and I saw a lot of them! Also, MM hit that with a wooden bat.


I know no one is going to believe this but I swear it's true. Vaughn Meiners hit a hr that WOBBLED over the left field corner just inside the foul pole! The thing was hit so that I first thought it was gonna be a pop-up but it just kept going and going and barely cleared the fence. You could actually see the thing wobbling through the air. Damnedest thing I ever saw in a baseball game!

Great shots; but there has to be an acknowledgement of the use of super jungle juice(if you know what I mean) and the minus 5 plus bats that were used then. I mean this is pretty much a fact.