Hitting object in fair, then going over fence

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Originally Posted by David Emerling

Do you know what the ground rules were concerning that? What if a ball hit off a flagpole and went over the fence?

The monuments were in play, not sure about hitting the flagpole and going over, but no one ever did that. It was 461 ft. to the fence (shortened from 490 in 1937). I believe Mick and Bill (Moose) Skowron were the only ones to hit it over that fence. The only guy I ever saw who could hit it as far as Mantle was Strawberry. (OK, let the debate begin).