Definitely! My first MLB game ever was at Tiger Stadium and Detroit was at home against the Yankees. I recall that Dave Rigetti started for New York. The Yankees were leading in the bottom of the 9th when Gibson came to the plate with runners aboard. He belted a mammoth home run to the upper deck, center field and won the game. What memories that Tiger team gave us!
Life was Soo good back then🙁we live in a bad time now. With everyone mad about something. I really miss the 70's and 80's. I wish we could go back and change what was coming 😓😢😢
Well, that's what happens with 8 years of a President that was literally all about division, hatred, race baiting, anti-police, anti-religion, anti-constitution and a full blown anti-American ideology.... so yeah, I miss the old days too! Unfortunately it's getting even worse by the day after they finally were able to successfully pull off that 4+ year coup 😕
the 70s and 80s a better time? fresh off of Vietnam and the gas crisis, the horror of the Embassy getting taken in Tehran, the bloody Munich Olympics, no summer Olympics in 1980 for the US, Three Mile Island . . . sounds like happy times.
Loved that stadium. Worked there one season as a scoreboard operator. Worked the '87 playoffs as a reporter for a dinky radio station that had no business having a reporter there. But I wasn't going to fight it.
@@dwaynemingus5955 You're making it sound like the Tigers moved out of Detroit. They didn't. They just moved out of Tiger Stadium and into Comerica Park. I'm a diehard Chicago White Sox fan, and I wish they hadn't torn down old Comiskey Park. That ballpark was a shrine for the ages, and the Eighth Wonder Of The World.
What amazes me is no one ever talks about his career in Detroit yet that is where he made his bones and chose to retire at. It's all about his game 1 home run which was phenomenal but should not be the pinnacle of his great career.
Remember one of his 1st MLB AB’s in ‘clutch time’ on the road at Yankee Stadium against Goose Gossage; Gibby used to be ‘1st ball-Fast ball’ hitter; it was like Godzilla vs Kong; intense!! the Goose won that AB and I wish we had closers in MLB like Goose and more dynamic 5-tool players like Gibby!
Tiger Stadium was a hitter's park in a big way, especially to right field and in the power alleys. It was marked 370 to right center, but it was closer to 360. Down the line in right it was 325 feet but the upper deck hung over the lower deck by 10 feet, thus making it 315 to the corner. It was 440 to center, though. I remember one game against the Blue Jays at Tiger Stadium there were a combined 10 HRs in that game. The ball had a distinctive sound coming off the bat at Tiger Stadium.
Iv'e been to a lot of games there starting in 67 and you aint joking my man. I am answering 9 years after your comment but pray to God you are still good and healthy, only to have our Tigers to break us down.
The one he hit over the roof against Mike Brown in 1983 went even further! It went across Trumbull Avenue into an ACE lumberyard. It was the best one-game display of power, speed, and intensity I've ever seen (actually heard on radio). He had an unofficial inside-the-park HR in the same game where he ran over the umpire at home plate. :)
I saw George Brett hit a wind blown shot over the roof in the early 90's, saw Cecil Fielder hit one off the left field roof off Dave Stewart in 1990 that bounced over the roof in the same inning that Mark Mcgwire and Jose Canseco hit back to back shots over the 440 foot marker in dead center on one of the hottest days I ever saw at Tiger stadium.. I remember watching Cecil Fielder also hit one out of County stadium on tv that had George Kell going absolute nuts over how far it was hit
Reggie Jackson in 71,all star game hit the transformers w/ no tail wind. I was no Yankee fan or Athletics but Reggie was the straw that stirred the drink wherever he went!
@RichardMorris… What the f**k are you talking about saying Jackson had “No Tail Wind”??? LOL!! They had a 30mph wind going straight out to right center that game!!!! That’s why so many players went into the right center upper deck that night! And that’s what made Killabrew’s left field homer so impressive… Because he actually pulled it out against the wind. “Jackson had NO TAILWIND!!” 😂😂🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
I think Rupert Jones and Greg Luzinski also both hit homeruns either that hit the roof or went over but I can't remember for sure. Tiger Stadium was such a great place to see a game!
Rupert Jones did for sure. Saw that. My Dad took me to Tiger games as a kid and I saw Jim Northrup jack one into the right field upper deck. Think he was a lefty. We were in the left field upper deck and it was the 1968 World series team. I was 5 and my Dad was 33. Both parents are gone now but I have good memories of that stuff.
Stormin Norman Cash my young brother of milled lumber. No workout nut or famous athlete but could launch balls like very few others. Four over the roof in games and countless in practice@@esteban1487
I was actually at that game with my dad. We couldn't believe it...he was a monster that day. I had to ask my dad again years later if we'd actually really seen that...it was so unbelievable. Got into a discussion with a Red Sox fan just recently about that game. He watched it on TV in Boston.
I'm a die hard Red Sox fan but I recognize greatness.I also like the Dodgers & when Kirk hit that ball in 88, I know there's no crying in baseball but I did!
Mickey Mantle once hit one over the roof, light (0:12) over the road/highway, and into the end of a parking lot over from the road/highway. Absolutely mindblowing.
@@uncletony6210 you got that right. I used to know half the league,now my newspaper doesn't even post the standings.They say you can get that online..wtf, no more newspaper for me.Sports in general is not what it used to b.Everyone is about the $$. I watch MMA & not much else & oh yea, I live in Tampa so I'll watch the BUCS for another year till Brady retires.
@@richardmorris7063 I grew up with the 1970s Dodgers-Reds rivalry. I knew both teams rosters because both teams came back with the same players each season, i.e., they were real "teams," not just temporary collections of random players wearing the LA and Cincy logos.
@Tom Best of luck in your mom finding a new job after her dismissal from her recent job giving 25 cent hummers at the truck stop Gloryhole for gargling semen before swallowing.
I was at the All Star game when Reggie Jackson hit the light transformer just to the left of where Gibson’s ball left the park. The only difference was that Reggie’s ball was still going up.
Well the MAIN DIFFERENCE was Reggie had a 30 plus MPH wind blowing right out to right center that game too ;) If Gibson had that type of wind with this shot… it would’ve went a legit 600 plus feet.
Nice vid! The hardest ball I ever saw hit was a line drive off the facing of the center field bleachers by Larry Herndon. I'm not sure what game that was but I was there. :D
Yup opening day. maybe the hardest ball for me too. 1985. I have seen rockets since my first in 67 with F Howard nearly breaking the stadium wall in left , to Oliva third deck pop-up, Cash a couple times roofing it and twice I missed. Kaline was a direct line drive barrel hitter but he could put one in the upper deck that could hurt someone. catch that wind blowing hard to right and Cesar Guiterez is Babe Ruth@@Jleed989
Not everything that is successful on the field requires an announcer to squirt in his pants. If you are a John Sterling fan, who goes through his laundry list with every blast these days, I appreciate your perspective.
I was fortunate to witness in person in 1992 Mickey Tettleton knock one over the right field roof at the old Tiger Stadium. It is one heck of a thing to witness.
Check out the great hittrackeronline for more info on that. Based on the height of the roof, I am guessing more like 450 ft. (a HR to clear the roof would have to go more "up" than "out"). Also, it's interesting how rare 500 ft HR really are. Definitely cool to see, though. A HR clearing the left field roof might be in the 500+ ft territory.
Kirk was natural strong,I can only imagine if he juiced but I'm glad he didnt.That shot in 88 off Eckersely was just upper body,he had no legs left.Love that dude!
I remember that quite well.. Gibby hit that ball on top of the ace lumberyard roof and it bounced some 125 feet after that.. then next time he came up he hit one to the 440 sign in dead center and got an inside the park homer after Lynn jones got tagged out the umpire got in Gibby's way and he got blasted lol.. next day Gibby gave that umpire a football helmet as a gift
w.o.w 523 ft over the tigers stadium roof. I wonder which one had more distance, the one that went over waveland avenue on to the roof across the street, or this one?
Anyone know what this home run measured? Wouldn't it take at least a 500ft shot to get it over the roof? I know the right field fence wasn't that deep, and others hit it over too, but what kind of distance would it take?
Holy crap, did you hear that beginning at :44? That was Gibson's second HR of the night, the Tiger's third of the inning and fifth of the game. "And that'll be all from (Chris) Bosio." Yeah, I bet so.
True story: My father, who is a big time Tigers fan, was sitting behind the Tigs dugout with my brother-in-law. Gibby struck out and was trudging back to the dugout, my Dad jumped to his feet and yelled “Go sit down Gibson, you’re no fucking good you bum!” Gibby looked up and pointed the bat at my Dad and shook it. Gibby started to come toward the end of the dugout between home plate and the stairs to the dugout, and my Dad started down the aisle to go toward Gibby, and Gibby peeled off, stopped, and waved the bat at my Dad. My Dad yelled at him again and called him a “fucking bum” again. My brother-in-law grabbed my Dad to hold him back. Just then two Tigers came out of the dugout and ushered Gibby down the stairs. My brother-in-law tells that story to this very day. My Dad hated Gibson.
