I grew up in the DC area and saw him play many times during those few years. He hit what are still both the hardest home run I have ever seen (a shot down the left field line that seemed to take no time at all), and the longest (a mammoth, impossibly high shot that landed way the hell in the upper deck in a stadium I don't think anyone ever
cleared). The Senators were pretty bad, but man the players we got to see -- Mantle, Frank and Brooks, Kaline, Killebrew, Reggie, to name a few.
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