Neill Sheridan hits one of the longest home runs ever measured

This Day In Baseball

On July 8, 1953 — In the second game of a Pacific Coast League doubleheader at Edmonds Field in Sacramento, CA Neill Sheridan hits one of the longest home runs ever measured. The line drive shot by the Sacramento Solons hitter disappears into the night behind the left-field fence and brings little immediate notice. The next day, however, a spectator will show up claiming that the ball landed on the back seat of his car, breaking the back window, while the car was parked on a residential street behind the stadium’s parking lot. A surveying firm will officially measure the blast at 613.80 feet, from home plate to the parking spot. However, as there was no witness to the ball’s touching down, a doubt will remain as to whether the automobile was really parked where its owner said it was, and whether it did in fact have its back window shattered by the mighty blast.

 
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