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The next time some guy starts gushing about a 450 foot home run, think about what you read in the link below regarding Mickey Mantle's titanic home run shots- many over his long career.
The 630-plus foot figure they come up with is the CONSERVATIVE estimate of the ball he hit against Kansas City in Yankee Stadium. A more liberal estimate is over a 100 feet more.
What he did is unbelievable to me especially when one takes into account he was not “big” in size, had no weight training, no steroids, and he did not take care of his body like most modern athletes.
Just like with our trucks, new is not always better. I saw a comparison of Mantle's home runs to the modern slugger Mark McGuire's and it showed that Mantle hit many more long home runs, even though he was 50# lighter, and did not work out with weights, etc.
http://www.themick.com/10homers.html
The 630-plus foot figure they come up with is the CONSERVATIVE estimate of the ball he hit against Kansas City in Yankee Stadium. A more liberal estimate is over a 100 feet more.
What he did is unbelievable to me especially when one takes into account he was not “big” in size, had no weight training, no steroids, and he did not take care of his body like most modern athletes.
Just like with our trucks, new is not always better. I saw a comparison of Mantle's home runs to the modern slugger Mark McGuire's and it showed that Mantle hit many more long home runs, even though he was 50# lighter, and did not work out with weights, etc.
http://www.themick.com/10homers.html
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