100th ANNIVERSARY OF BABE RUTH’S “LONGEST HOME RUN”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Tim Reid: Member of Babe Ruth’s Historic Home Runs Research Team

kingofclout@gmail.com (754-368-1295)

100^th ANNIVERSARY OF BABE RUTH’S “LONGEST HOME RUN” 

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY - THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2019

Hit on April 4, 1919, at Plant Field in Tampa, Florida

True Landing Spot Revealed for First Time

(Tampa, Florida – March 27, 2019)  On April 4, 1919, Babe Ruth hit a home run of such incredible distance that it stunned the baseball world. Hit during a spring exhibition game at the Florida State Fair between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Giants, this home run is widely believed to have been Babe Ruth’s longest home run ever. One of the many national sports writers who witnessed it called it “A Wonder of Wonders,” a description which now serves as the title of a new website dedicated to accurately documenting the history of epic event.  The link to this new website is:

“A Wonder of Wonders” www.homerunintampa.jimdofree.com

With new and never-before-published evidence, analyses, and diagramming, this new website reveals the true distance, direction, and landing spot of Babe Ruth’s Home Run in Tampa, which has been inaccurately reported for many years, due primarily to a significant (45-degree counter-clockwise) reorientation of the Plant Field baseball field subsequent to when Babe hit his home run in 1919.  The true landing location of Babe’s home run was more than 600-feet from the plaque currently commemorating it at the University of Tampa, and the distance was 552’8” (not the 587’ stated on the plaque.)

The findings in this new website are based on decades of detailed historical research, map analyses, photographic analyses, and on-site surveys, by Bill Jenkinson, “the Babe Ruth of Babe Ruth Home Run Historians.”

Quoting Arthur Daley of the New York Times:

“Four extremely curious baseball writers ... borrowed a steel tape ... and measured [the home run to be] the incredible distance of 552 feet and eight inches.”

[Daley’s full quote, along with others, is included in Bill Jenkinson’s definitive history of the home run’s measurement, at Page 2 of the new website, titled “Centennial”.]

Interviews and quotes available to media upon request. Please contact Tim Reid of the Babe Ruth's Historic Home Runs Research Team at: 

kingofclout@gmail.com and (754) 368-1295