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Useless information department

By Jayson Stark
ESPN.com

Thursday, June 13, 2002

We know Barry Bonds hit a realllllll lonnnngggg home run at Yankee Stadium last Saturday. What nobody seemed to know was howwwwww lonnnnngggg it was. Well, Bill Jenkinson knows. Jenkinson has devoted his life to the study of long-distance home runs. So he can tell us that Mickey Mantle hit a slew of home runs into the right-field upper deck at Yankee Stadium -- including a fabled 535-foot bolt off the roof façade that Mantle said was the hardest he ever hit a baseball. And Bill Jenkinson c ...

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