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Gallo's also put up significantly better numbers in the minors than the players mentioned in this thread.
Gallo - 1.010 career minor league OPS, 2.3 K/BB
McPherson - .932 career minor league OPS, 2.6 K/BB
Branyan - .935 career minor league OPS, 2.4 K/BB
Wood - .839 career minor league OPS, 2.8 K/BB
Dopirak (really?) - .815 career minor league OPS, 2.9 K/BB
So the closest player on the list is Branyan, who had a .814 career major league OPS and spent 14 seasons in the majors.
This is not some silly theory that's unsupported and deserves being mocked by photos of Xena. ![[Image: ITgoyeg.png]](http://i.imgur.com/ITgoyeg.png)
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Those K/BB rates are pretty telling. Gallo also seems to be a better hitter in terms of batting average at least over the past couple of seasons relative to that peer group. His early minor league stats, which weren't as consistently great, were as an 18/19 year-old. Probably deserves a pass.
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Not Major League but noteworthy. The longest home run in professional baseball history was Gil Carter's 733-foot minor league shot. He died yesterday. he's from here in Topeka.
http://www.wibw.com/sports/headlines/Top...13821.html
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Was that 733' shot confirmed or just part of baseball lore? If true that is really cool stuff.
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Don't call it a "myth" or a "claim." Era, youthful pitching, and the clear air of the three-thousand-foot elevation combined with the hitter himself to produce it. Carter's distance was as well documented as Bauman's total numbers. Carlsbad real estate and insurance agent C. F. (Charley) Montgomery was owner and general manager of the Potashers. Speculation about the length of the homer might have been wretched excess but for this detail: A homeowner found a baseball, <i>the</i> baseball, in her backyard the next day at the foot of a peach tree, surrounded by unripe peaches knocked from trees as the ball crashed through limbs and leaves, came down, and bounced. There were no other fallen peaches in the tract. Fences, clotheslines, trees and flowerbeds all interposed to limit an unusual roll. It was a quiet neighborhood. There was no reason to imagine anyone moving the ball, moving it farther in a direct line but not taking it. And this detail: Montgomery was the developer of the subdivision beyond the left field fence of Montgomery Field. He knew the exact width of streets and alleys. He knew the depth of each lot. He spread maps and plats on a conference table in an office at his agency.
The sports editor of the Carlsbad <i>Current-Argus</i>, who was the official scorer that night, was also a service-trained aerial photographer. He was flown over the field the next day and photographed the scene. Prints were laid out on Montgomery's desk. The monstrous stroke was measured and triangulated. Give-or-take a couple of inches, the ball was found <i>seven hundred thirty feet</i> from the vertex of home plate.
<i>The Sporting News </i>ran a story two weeks later. <i>Sports Illustrated</i> ran a story twenty-one years later. Each time, editors insisted on softening characterization of the hit as the longest home run of all time. The site where the professional stadium stood is now a complex of Little League, Babe Ruth, American Legion, and softball fields. Gil Carter's present whereabouts are unknown. Describing the distance as 650 feet, said the official scorer/sports editor who covered the game that night, was an attempt by him and the team to allow for deflection after impact, and an effort to keep the announcement believable. "We just wanted to be conservative," he remembered forty years later. "It would have been okay with me to call it a 730-foot home run."
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Really, who knows. At 650, it's still the record.
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So this is awesome.
Quote:The magic of baseball is that on any given night, you might see something at the ballpark that you’ve never seen before.
Tuesday night, at least some fans at Nats Park saw something they’ve never seen before.
Based on several social media accounts, a woman in right field threw her cell phone to Bryce Harper, who took a selfie on the field and then tossed the phone back, leading to this amazing photograph.
“We are sitting front row right field and the lady behind us threw her phone down and Bryce Harper took this selfie on her phone,” the person who posted this photo wrote on Instagram.
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This is not some silly theory that's unsupported and deserves being mocked by photos of Xena.
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Gallo is lighting up Shark tonight.
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That's pretty funny.
Edit: The selfie...but Gallo lighting up Shark is pretty great too.
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The image of his dad crying was pretty great.
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Quote:The image of his dad crying was pretty great.
Link?
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Quote:The image of his dad crying was pretty great.
Shark's dad?
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