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1953 - 565'
1953 - 565'
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Challenge: Time Capsule (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Kodak DX7440
Location: Front yard of my house.
Date: Aug 9, 2005
Aperture: F/3.4
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/64
Galleries: Sports, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Aug 9, 2005

 The bat in this picture belonged to my father. He gave it to me in my early teens. I have cherished this bat for a very long time and I was thrilled to use it in the challenge!

A quick bit of facts about Mickey Mantle, quoted from his official web site:


"No one in the history of the game has hit the ball farther than Mickey Mantle. His 565-foot home run hit at Griffith Stadium in Washington on April 17, 1953 is the home run that coined the term "tape measure home run." It's listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest home run ever measured. Guinness also notes that Mickey's 643-foot homer hit at Detroit's Tiger Stadium on September 10, 1960 is the longest home run measured "mathematically after the fact." But neither of those home runs is Mickey's longest.

In an exhibition game at the University of Southern California during his rookie spring training in 1951 Mickey walloped a 656-foot shot left-handed that left Bovard Field and crossed an adjacent football field. It may be the longest home run in history. It was also his second monster homer of the game. He also hit a ball right-handed that cleared the left-field wall and landed on top of a three-story house well over 500 feet away. As Mickey's teammate and close friend Billy Martin put it, "No man in the history of baseball had as much power as Mickey Mantle. No man. When you're talking about Mickey Mantle - it's an altogether different level. Separates the men from the boys."

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/13/2005 07:56:05 AM
Cool, Good luck
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 08/11/2005 08:14:59 PM
wonderfull job~!
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 08/11/2005 01:44:08 PM
Nice detail and texture.
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 08/10/2005 10:01:49 AM
I have heard this name many times in American movies so I guess this is a baseball bat, wonder if other non-Americans will understand this? The texture is very nice and this must mean a lot to you if you own it..
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