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[IRISHMAFIA]

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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

Then you have never seen Mike Schmidt hit. There is speculation that some of his pop-ups traveled just as far as his HR, just more vertical

LOL, Well, actually I have seen him hit. I grew up in Pittsburgh so any time Mike popped up, no matter how high it went, we were happy. And if you substitute Willie Stargell for Mike, then I've seen some towering pop-ups, but I still doubt that I saw any with a 8+ second hang time.

Yeah, but Stargell held the distance record for Veterans Stadium in Philly, into the entrance tunnel halfway up the upper deck in right field (just about where I was sitting when the Phillies won the series in game 6 in 1980), so Willie hit them high AND far