re: Longest Homerun you've seen hit in your team's ballpark

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Trey McClure hit 1 on the roof of those apts back in the day

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Albert/Joey Belle did also in 86 or 87. Too far back to remember the specific year.

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ottothewise

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Bryce, is that you??

Matt Cepicky hit one to put Hogs in Loser's bracket of 99 NCAA went dead center.
Ralph Krause hit one onto deck of HPER vs Texas.

As far as my alma mater Steve Hacker hit one over light pole when we played at Meador Park vs MU in a rainstorm, when we usually handled them easily.

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pankReb

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I was just thinking That I remembered seeing somebody hit one into the tennis courts once while I was in school but couldn't remember who.

Connor Powers for Mississippi State hit one out of Dudy Noble about 450+ feet to dead center vs Ole Miss.

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Connor Powers for Mississippi State hit one out of Dudy Noble about 450+ feet to dead center vs Ole Miss.

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450 is just 50 - 60 feet beyond CF. Clark used to hit line drive home runs half way up the light standards in right center. Clark and Castoria were more towering type hitters.

Wasn't there, but...

https://thesoulofbaseball.blogspot.com/2007/06/bo-directors-cut.html

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The Georgia crowd hooted and taunted Bo Jackson as he stood in the batter’s box, looking all out of place. You have to understand that there is plenty of bad blood between the kids at Georgia and the kids at Auburn. They are not rivals, exactly – Auburn already has Alabama and/or Tennessee, Georgia already has Florida and/or Georgia Tech. But one good thing about Southern football schools – the fans have plenty of animosity to spread around, and there’s more passion in Georgia-Auburn than there is in most rivalries across America.

“Wrong field, Bo!” a few Georgia fans taunted … this was the perfect time and place to get in a few shots at Bo. Nobody messed with Bo on the football field. He was a phenomenon there – he was bigger, stronger, faster than anyone. He averaged 7.7 yards per carry as a sophomore, and later, in his Heisman Trophy senior season, he once gained 100-plus yards in a game when he had two broken ribs. Georgia fans may not like Auburn any more than Auburn fans like Georgia – but both sides respect football greatness when they see it.

But this was Bo on the baseball field, and that was a different thing. The fans hooted and mocked – a couple had brought footballs they waved. Bo never looked particularly at ease in the batter’s box; his batting stance was always a jangle of nerves. The first pitch, Bo swung and missed by three feet, and that taunting went up another level, laughter mixed in, poor Bo, poor misplaced Bo, what was he doing out there?

Bo Jackson hit the next pitch 550 feet.

Actually, nobody knows exactly how far Bo hit it – they only know it was the longest ball ever hit at the University of Georgia. It might have been 500 feet, it might have been 4000 feet, but the distance didn’t matter. Bo Jackson hit the longest home run any of those kids had ever seen.

And there was silence. Eerie, stunned, pitch silence. Bo ran around the bases in that silence. By the time he reached third base, the college had snapped out of their state of shock and they finally reacted. They started cheering and bowing to Bo Jackson.

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https://joeposnanski.si.com/2010/05/05/greatest-homers-redux/

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17. Bo
Date: Sometime in 1985
Hitter: Bo Jackson
Why it was great: My good friend Tommy Tomlinson tells it best — he was there. He says that there was a big crowd of Georgia fans at Foley Field, there to mock Bo Jackson for playing baseball. They brought out footballs, they were signaling football penalties, they were laughing at Bo. As we’ve pointed out here, you don’t mock Bo. His first time up, first pitch, Bo hit a home run that — well, even years later, Bo would say that for one only two times in his life he was so locked in he actually saw the stitches on the ball clearly enough to count them.

Tommy says there is no way to describe just how hard he hit that ball. The best he could do is say that as soon as Bo hit it, there was an instant sound in the crowd that was like “OOF” — something like that sound you hear on television shows when someone gets hit in the stomach. And then there was silence. Dead silence. Crickets stopped chirping. Birds stopped singing. It was so quiet, you could hit Bo’s spikes scraping dirt. It was like the silence at the end of the movie ‘Babe.” And then, suddenly, everybody in Georgia just started cheering and bowing to the man.

Bo hit two more home runs that day.

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I am sure Bo and Frank Thomas hit some shots at Dudy Noble but the OP said "you've seen" and I don't recall seeing either of those play/hit home runs in Starkville

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My bad for adding an interesting story to this sad thread.

I think anybody mentioned outside the years of early to late 90s probably isn't in the running. From about 1991 until they changed the bats of death you had the perfect combination of 'roided up 20 year olds and bats that just launched the ball.

LSU had a guy hit 40 homers. Bama had a team with four 20 homer guys. It was glorified slow pitch softball.

The bats have really changed the game, and in my opinion for the better and the way it was supposed to be played.

If I want to see 10 homers in a game I can go to Sokol Park and watch Chico's Bailbonds versus Bama Concrete.