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180ft Homer + Ancient Fertility Symbol = Angry Pagans

There's a headline I never thought I'd type. Perhaps they can do some "get a sense of humor" magic. (Ever so slightly "Not Work Safe," due to Fertility Symbol)
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fry6beeu9.jpgJeremy - 9475 Posts
07/16/2007 @ 03:27:24 PM
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It's really crisp in Google Maps.

(The symbol that is, Homer isn't there.)
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face.bmpCarlos44ec - 2079 Posts
07/16/2007 @ 04:27:47 PM
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That's great!

I can understand how someone would be upset, but that's fine...
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wendy.gifWendy - 163 Posts
07/16/2007 @ 08:16:46 PM
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Don't even try to tell me that this Homer doesn't inspire procreation & fertility, especially with those undies and the aphrodisiac he's got in his left hand.
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2887.gifAlex - 3619 Posts
07/16/2007 @ 08:48:35 PM
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When I saw this in the "Current Threads" I start[ed] wondering what park they were playing in to be able to hit a 180 foot homer.
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Alex messed with this at 07/16/2007 8:48:45 pm
face.bmpCarlos44ec - Since 1980!
07/17/2007 @ 07:56:16 AM
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talk about playing it shallow!
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thumbnailCAW1I0O3.gifMatt - 3875 Posts
07/17/2007 @ 10:35:08 AM
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Alex Wrote - 07/16/2007 @ 08:48:35 PM
When I saw this in the "Current Threads" I start[ed] wondering what park they were playing in to be able to hit a 180 foot homer.


This made me wonder what the shortest distance was that you could hit a home run (over a fence, and limited to the Major Leagues). So after some quick looking it seems that, of the stadiums currently in use, the shortest distance is 302 ft. down the right field line to Pesky's Pole in Fenway Park.

If you go back to ballparks that are no longer used, then it would be either L.A. Memorial Coliseum, or the Polo Grounds.

The Coliseum was used by the Dodgers for a few years and was only 250 ft. down the left field line during the first year they used it and then about 252 ft. after that.

The Polo Grounds was about 279 ft. to left and about 258 ft. to right field, but the second deck apparently overhang left field so much that it was effectively about 250 ft. for a fly ball.

The Polo Grounds were demolished 43 years ago, so you obviously can't play a game there, but the Coliseum is still standing, although I'm not sure when the last time was that baseball was even played there.

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Polo Grounds
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jeremy.jpgJeremy - 9475 Posts
07/17/2007 @ 10:40:07 AM
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Yet another reason why comparing records in baseball is somewhat comparing apples to oranges.
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thumbnailCAW1I0O3.gifMatt - Nutcan.com's MBL
07/17/2007 @ 10:45:37 AM
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Yeah, of course the Polo Grounds was about 500 ft. to center, so it kind of evened out. emoticon
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fry6beeu9.jpgJeremy - 9475 Posts
07/17/2007 @ 01:57:51 PM
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Though I wonder what the least amount of distance from home plate ever traveled is on an inside-the-park homerun.
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thumbnailCAW1I0O3.gifMatt - 3875 Posts
07/17/2007 @ 02:29:46 PM
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This guy says it's 2 ft, when in 1900 Andy Oyler of the Minneapolis Millers (a minor league team) hit a ball into a mud puddle just in front of home plate (he does note, however, that historians disagree to the truth of this account).

This site adds that when he hit it, he was the only one to see where it went, and as all the fielders were searching, he ran the bases and scored.

If your looking for dubious, minor league, home runs, then there is your answer. If you only want confirmed, Major League, home runs, then you're on your own.
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07/17/2007 @ 02:32:51 PM
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That is all could find.
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