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Originally Posted by Tazilon
Ive seen 448 in game but i dont really check the numbers on most them. IRL the longest ive seen was 614. Back in the day when Dave Kingman was either striking out or hitting homers for the Mets they played Chicago at Wrigley one afternoon and he just absolutely destroyed a pitch. It went out of the park and overly Waverly St and landed on some ladies front porch bouncing all around the porch as it lost energy. WOR had it all on film. Ball came to a rest and a few seconds later a little old lady with grey hair opened the door looked around for whomever she apparently thought was knocking on her door shook her head at the mystery and went back inside. They measured it at 614 feet
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So that's about 140 MPH exit velocity? (Just doing the calculus in my head...) Also, I hope somebody gave the LOL the ball and advised her that it was worth a billion $$...
Pffttt... I hit a driver today 305 yards. And it was gently snowing (not kidding, no way the course should have been open, but anyway... That's like 950 feet (or something around there, all I know is a yard is kinda the same size as a metre...). Baseball players are wimps.
(I suck at golf but can do what most Canadian ex-hockey players can do, hit stuff really hard as a leftie. Then 3-putt.)