Baseball's Most Memorable HRs

[Gregory Pratt]

What a shock, it's another Yankee blowjob courtesy of SI.

 

 

Simply because of how much of a roller-coaster game it was, PK's GS is the biggest HR to me and by far the most memorable. I punched the damn ceiling as it flew over the wall in left-center. Easily the most memorable moment to me.

 

You...punched the ceiling? How small is your house?

[SoxFan1]

You...punched the ceiling? How small is your house?

It's an 8 foot ceiling. I'm 6'4.

[GoRowand33]

My most memorable HR (games I was at) had to be Joe Crede's Walk-Off against Cleveland last September. 

 

I wish I was at that game

 

that has to be my favorite regular season game I have ever watched

[witesoxfan]

My most memorable HR (games I was at) had to be Joe Crede's Walk-Off against Cleveland last September. 

 

Birth of THE Rally Crede.

[southsideirish]

QUOTE(SoxAce @ Apr 30, 2006 -> 01:21 AM)

I don't care what anybody says. As far as World Series homeruns go, Joe Carters' homer to me, was the greatest homerun in a World Series ever. To hit one in a game 7, in the bottom of the 9th, to win a World Series is every kids dream and the perfect timing.

 

As far as the Whitesox homerun, I would consider Blums to be huge. The guy barely gets an at-bat for about 3 weeks and to hit one in your ONLY AB in the playoffs (yet alone the W.S.) in the longest W.S game in history was simply amazing.

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Kirk Gibson's was the best I have ever seen. This quote comes from Baseball America about the home run:

 

The Dodgers line-up crept within 4-3 in the sixth, but still trailed by one in the bottom of the ninth with no one on. With the A's ace reliever, Dennis Eckersley (forty-five saves) on the mound Oakland figured it was over, but the resilient Dodgers weren't going down without a fight. Pinch-hitter Mike Davis managed to force a walk, but Lasorda sent in a crippled Kirk Gibson to bat for their reliever Alejandro Pena. At first, the decision appeared completely irrational, but somehow the outfielder worked past his pain and launched a bleacher blast (with a 3-2 count) for the game winning run. It was the first time a World Series game had ever been won on a come-from-behind home run in the last inning and the fact that Gibson could hold his stance, let alone swing the bat made the blast even more amazing.