On June 3, 1967 — Harmon Killebrew launches the longest home run ever hit in Metropolitan Stadium, a 503-foot shot which travels deep in the second deck of the left-center field bleachers.
Killebrew, said, “I think it was a fastball, up, that I hit. How can you compare homers? This one felt good, but then the one I hit in Detroit carried over the roof in left field.” The pitcher, California Angel Lew Burdette, was more loquacious. “Heck,” said ancient Lew, “I’ve thrown longer ones than that. Once in Milwaukee, Orlando Cepeda of the Giants bounced one against the outer fence, which has got to be 500 and something. “What did Killebrew hit? It was a knuckleball which started too high and it got higher. Killebrew’s blast put the twins up 6-1.
The stadium chair the ball hit by the Twins’ outfielder is mounted high on a wall overlooking the flume ride at Nickelodeon Universe in the Mall of America, the former site of the Met, in the precise spot the ball landed in the upper deck in deep left-center field.
