I know the short porch in left can make this slightly deceptive and this HR is probably not as long as it probably was necessarily. But when I watch this particular one; among others (specifically in the steroid era), it really makes me wonder if that legendary and storied HR is probably nonsense.

I may be bias of course but to me this ball had a 630 ft trajectory distance in my heart 😂

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  1. Obviously I’m talking about the Mantle and Ruth ones reported at 565 and 575 respectively

  2. Lidge told a pretty funny story another flight into St. Louis after that game.

    “We’re an hour, half-hour into the flight,” Lidge said. “The pilot’s like, ‘If you look out to your left, you can see whatever, whatever. And if you look out to your right, we can see Albert Pujols’ home run still flying by.'”

  5. I will never forget this. I was almost 8 at the time, and it was the first time I had seen my dad sprint outside and up and down the driveway out of excitement. The ONLY other time was the waino curve against Beltran the year after.

  6. Somewhere a film clip exist showing Barbara & George Bush standing open mouthed slack jawed in amazement. I thought THIS was that clip. At the very beginning you can see Barbara Bush in the 1st row to the right of Pujols

  7. This team was soooooo good. So, so, so good. We’re twenty years removed from it. I wonder if we’ll ever return to that kind of St. Louis Cardinals baseball.

  8. Great memories of watching this in my college dorm – started screaming when he hit this and so did my neighbor, we ran out of our rooms and screamed in the hallway

  10. Those 2004 and 2005 NLCS series against the Astros were epic. What a great rivalry with so many great players on those teams.

    Albert’s HR was an all-time moment, I’ll never forget it, but I’ve always given Roy Oswalt credit for shutting down the Cards in the next game and winning the series for the Stros. When he struck out Albert swinging in the first inning it felt like a signal: not tonight.

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