This made me dig out an old book, "A rooters guide to the Red Sox" from 1974. It has an interesting section on Home runs, including a number of long ones.
At the time there had only been five hit completely out to the right of the flagpole. An interesting list
May22, 1937 Hank Greenberg
Aug 12, 1937 Jimmy Foxx
Apr 20, 1957 Bill Skowron
May 16, 1970 Yaz
Sept. 29, 1973 Bobby Mitchell
Jim Rice joined that club in 1975
Most of those were about 8-10 feet to the right,
Mantle came very close, hitting one that nearly cleared but being 30-40 feet to the right didn't quite make it - still hit at around 480 ft.
The renovations and scoreboard in 76 made it nearly impossible, But Nomar had one that would have been out. It hit on the "new" wall section above the brick. (And of course was probably aided by chemistry)
That section of wall is gone now, so there will be others.
Of the homers I've seen in person Rice was by far the most powerful.
The longest Homer I've ever seen televised was one Kingman hit at Fenway during his brief time with the Yankees. It hit up in the bank of lights on the second tower over from the leftfield line at Fenway. I never even see it mentioned, but it was amazing.
Steve B
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