Has anyone ever hit a 600 foot home run?

Has anyone ever hit a 600 foot home run?

Mickey Mantle's famous 600-foot homer at USC may have been debunked. Mickey Mantle hit many home runs during his career — 536 to be exact. The ball reportedly traveled the 344 feet to right-center field and then kept going until it hit the middle of the football practice fields.

Who has the strongest arm in the MLB?

Ichiro has the strongest and most powerful arm of any outfielder in the major leagues today. Runners will not even try to advance extra bases when the ball is in Ichiro's hands. Ichiro has won a Gold Glove all 10 years that he has been in the major leagues.

Is it possible to throw a football 100 yards?

I'm a little surprised, but the answer is “yes”. Below is a video of a college player apparently throwing a football 100 yards. You see people in the NFL regularly throw the ball 70 yards in the air (though rarely completing those passes).

How do you throw a ball farther faster?

When you think of the all-time strongest arms in baseball history, you tend to think of names such as Bo Jackson, Mickey Mantle or Ty Cobb. Yet one of our very own, Canadian Glen Gorbous holds the record for the longest throw in baseball history with a distance of 445'10”.

How far can a human throw a ball?

Probably about 100 feet, not even enough to reach second base from home plate.

At what angle should you toss the ball?

In most cases you should see that a medium, 45-degree angle made the ball go the farthest. When you throw the ball at a very shallow angle, gravity pulls it down and the ground is closer, which ends the throw sooner so it does not have as much time to travel as far forward.

How far can a tennis ball be thrown?

How far you can throw a tennis ball horizontally? – Quora. I've personally hit 50 yards (~46 meters) if thrown at any angle and measured horizontally. Throwing the ball directly horizontally (an angle of release of 0 degrees), I'm guessing I'd reach about 15 yards, maybe 20 if I really stepped into it.

How fast does a home run ball travel?

Major League baseballs have an average mass of 5.125 ounces, and a 90-mph fastball can leave the bat at 110 mph. Extrapolating Newton's second law of motion, Russell determined that, in a collision lasting less than one-thousandth of a second, the average pro swing imparts 4145 pounds of force to the ball.

Who hit the first golf ball on the moon?

Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard famously took a golf ball along with him to the Moon, making him the first person to play golf on another world.