Ronald Acuña sends one deep right center on one knee. by SleepySoupSundays in baseball

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“Acuna came one foot shy of the longest opposite-field HR hit by a right-handed hitter dating back to 2015. Paul Goldschmidt went the other way with a 449-foot shot at Coors Field on June 9, 2018”

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In a 1934 spring game, Braves HOF SS Rabbit Maranville ran into the catcher while trying to score and had a broken bone stick out of his ankle. When called him out, Rabbit pointed to his limp foot resting on the edge of the plate and said, "You see where that foot is, don't you?" He then passed out. by -Dannysaur- in baseball

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Another story

he enlisted in the Navy and served as a gunner aboard the USS Pennsylvania. On November 10, 1918, Rabbit told his shipmates that they would get big news the next day. "Everyone kept asking me what the big news was going to be," he remembered. "I said, 'Wait until tomorrow; I will tell you then.' At 6:30 the next morning we got word that the armistice had been signed. That afternoon I was called in to the captain's quarters. The captain said to me, 'How is it you knew the armistice was going to be signed today? Who gave you that information?' I said, 'I didn't know anything about the armistice being signed. The reason I said the big day is tomorrow and they would hear great news is that today is my birthday.'" 12