This is an MLB video, with Mel Allen ("The Voice of the Yankees") narrating.

If you don't want to watch the whole thing, be sure to set it to 26:00 to see Luke Appling bat against Warren Spahn, and at 38:30 to see Sadaharu Oh break Henry Aaron's home run record:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HERQvOeBKhM#t=2392.304583

I saw the Appling home run on TV; he was 75 at the time.
Interviewed after the game he said "When I get home I'm gonna tell the boys that sucker went 400 feet."

Hit it over the 335 Ft leftfield fence at RFK. Still pretty good. Gives my golf game some hope.

Jack Clark off of Niedenfuer in the '85 playoffs. Lasorda in the dugout talking with Perranoski about walking him to pitch to that blankity blank Vanslyke. Clark normally took the first pitch, which drove Herzog nuts, because Clark was a great fastball hitter. On the first pitch he hit a laser into the LF seats. Lasorda was losing his mind..


https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/0/v20045845/1985-nlcs-gm6-clark-blasts-a-three-run-homer&ved=0ahUKEwjBwpzGmfbLAhWJJB4KHf4gDiUQyCkIHTAA&usg=AFQjCNFVHCjMOBx0YrJtmFHP9z64hbx0Bw&sig2=v2q5hU_dL-mFppZUC-ZKAA

Clark was a former Giant. He hated the Dodgers. He milked the trip around the bases for all it was worth...

Best "Should've Been" Homer - Miguel Sano hitting the second catwalk at the Trop in Tampa last season.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3k2xLTToFw

That Hendu homer off Moore seems like it happened yesterday.

and seeing old Spahn with the familiar warm up so many years later was very cool (even if he may not have liked the result)

Bill Mazeroski in Game 7 of the 1960 series. Berra-"we made too many wrong mistakes."

Posted by redwingscup on 4/5/2016 6:46:00 PM (view original):
and seeing old Spahn with the familiar warm up so many years later was very cool (even if he may not have liked the result)

Henry Aaron tells the story of batting against Spahn in an old-timers game, and says he left the batters' box after two strikes: "Spahn was throwing screwballs."

I did see Mickey Mantle homer off Whitey Ford in the 1976 old-timers game at Yankees Stadium, we had tickets from my dad's work clients, so we were right behind home plate. Only time I ever saw either of them play.

Have not watched the video, but remember a couple of huge ones I saw in person. First one that comes to mind was Mark McGwire off of Randy Johnson in the Kingdome in 1997. Left Center (more center than left), bounced off the second deck concession stands. I think the official measurement was short.

The other one was a non home run. Home Opener, 1989, M's-White Sox. Dave Valle crushes one dead center, its still on the way up when it hits a speaker and comes straight down, hits the top of the wall and rolls into left field. A gassed Valle get thrown out at the plate by about 20 feet. If the ball had not hit the speaker, it would have been upper deck, CF in the Kingdome.

I also remember Ken Griffey, Jr's first inside the park HR. Sinking line drive, Roberto Kelly misses it on the dive, ball hits off his forehead and rolls into the corner. I think Kelly had the exact same thing happen again a few days later against a different team.

Posted by redwingscup on 4/5/2016 6:45:00 PM (view original):
That Hendu homer off Moore seems like it happened yesterday.

I was at that game...I mentioned it in the Hendu RIP thread that appeared last year...still the most incredible moment I've ever seen live at an MLB game.

The level of improbability cannot be described...I've seen the Al Michaels TV call a few times...he was incredulous. I think his line was "And Dave Henderson, in obscurity in Seattle in August..." which was absolutely true. No one knew Hendu before that home run.

The tragic aftermath with Donnie Moore is, of course, just awful and gut-wrenching. And that has tempered my joy over the years. But for a 16-year old spending an unforgettable moment with his dad...it was the epitome of what baseball is all about.

The longest one I ever saw in person was Boog Powell at Tiger Stadium off (I think) Joe Coleman. It was a liner that kept going up and up until it hit the back wall of the upper deck in right center. Sounded like a rifle shot when it hit the back wall, got there in no time.