[SamAdams76]

Thank you for pinging me - I missed it the last time. Great story. Mickey Mantle had quite the strong bat.

I'm a bit too young to remember Mantle playing so my home run story concerns Jim Rice, a Red Sox slugger from the 1970s. He had very strong arms as well and his line drives were missiles. He almost decapitated a pitcher with one of them and it was said he'd occasionally break his bat doing a check swing. Even in high school, he was hitting balls well over 400 feet.

I'm pretty sure it was the 1978 season and I was sitting in the bleachers at centerfield about 20 rows up when Rice blasted one my way. As soon as the ball was airborne, I knew it was going to land close to me as I had played in the outfield a lot and developed the skill to know where a ball was going to land. I only had to move about two seats over to put myself right in its path and the ball grazed my fingertips and struck the bench in back of me, bouncing 40 feet into the air and some other guy 10 rows back was able to get it.

[Robwin]

Babs will leave us if the Dems don’t take the House? This would devastate American Arts & Letters. Thus I must vote Democrat to avoid such a disaster.

[a little elbow grease]

"I'm pretty sure it was the 1978 season and I was sitting in the bleachers at centerfield about 20 rows up when Rice blasted one my way. As soon as the ball was airborne, I knew it was going to land close to me as I had played in the outfield a lot and developed the skill to know where a ball was going to land. I only had to move about two seats over to put myself right in its path and the ball grazed my fingertips and struck the bench in back of me, bouncing 40 feet into the air and some other guy 10 rows back was able to get it."

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LOL ..... you're lucky you still have your fingertips.

Jim Rice was a great baseball player.Please be well, and good luck next Tuesday for the good guys.

:-)