T or F: Babe Ruth Hit longest dinger in MLB history (575 ft)

I’ll take the field

He somehow hit a baseball 575 feet but when we have finally been given the tools to measure stuff like this, we have never estimated anything over 505.

Its not impossible I guess, but I ain't buying it

I just watched Ken Burns series again.

The doc insinuates that Mantle would have hit the longest homer ever (or Josh Gibson) - they claim Mantle came within a foot of hitting it out of Yankee Stadium and given the height would've traveled further than any ball.

But it hit the top the building and fell back down.



The other claim is that Mantle did hit a 565 foot homer knocking it out of Griffith Stadium.

I’ve heard about the Mantle shots. I don’t think anybody disputed the one in Griffith Stadium.

Jim Thome July 3rd 1999, 511 feet

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Unless every single sports writer was just blatantly lying, Ruth did hit 460-490+ foot homeruns with regularity. I don't really see how that's disputable

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Going Mantle here.

Mantle would be a Top 3 choice if someone asked who hit the longest homerun.

Dude was just fricking country strong and swung with such a force...

He admitted in the Ken Burn's doc that he tried to hit it out of the park on every swing. He was not hitting anyone over or bunting. Dude wanted to destroy the ball on every pitch.

His swing, his whole body would coil and then explode twisting down to his knees like he was going to topple over.