Cubs' longest homers before 1900, Part 2
Cubs' longest homers before 1900, Part 2 By JohnW53 on Dec 14, 2020, 6:53am CST + .......... As noted in the previous post, of all the home runs hit by batters for the future Cubs from 1876-1900, an actual distance is cited in the Chicago Tribune for only 1: a blast by Fred Pfeffer at Detroit on Sept. 5, 1887: "The ball hit a fence nearly 600 feet from the plate, and hadn't begun to come home when Fritz crossed the plate." ... In lieu of distances in feet, extraordinary home runs often were described in terms of where they landed. "[Mark] Baldwin's hit in the third was a long one,...