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I am looking for box scores and/or articles covering the Phillies/Mets double header in NY on October 2, 1965. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!!!
Michael
There is an excellent website called http://www.baseball-reference.com. There are several categories at the top of site, one of which is “MLB Scores.” It has complete game information for every game played from 1908 to the present. Navigate through the site for any game you’re
interested in. Here is a link to the games you asked about: https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/?month=10&day=2&year=1965.
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Bill Grimes, TodayinBaseball.com
May 6, 1964 – Dave Nicholson hit what may have been the longest home run in MLB history. On this night in the fifth inning, in the first game of a twin bill versus the A’s, Nicholson blasted a shot off future Sox pitcher Moe Drabowsky that went over the roof and was found across the street in Armour Square.
Some Sox fans claimed they heard the ball hit the top of the roof but White Sox officials said when they found the ball it had no signs of tar on it nor was it scuffed. Nicholson’s shot went over the roof around the 375 foot sign in left center field. It was found 135 feet from the base of the wall. Plus you have to add in the elevation needed to get the ball over the roof, approximately 175 feet. Unofficial estimates place the drive as traveling 573 feet eclipsing Mickey Mantle’s shot at Griffith Stadium in Washington in 1956. That shot went an unofficial 565 feet.
For the night Dave would hammer three home runs and drive in five RBI’s in the twin bill as the Sox swept both games, 6-4 and 11-4.
Thanks. I remember Dave Nicholson well.