'Google Maps' Unravels Mystery of XNASA Legend.

XNASA

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Mon May-02-05 12:13 PM
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'Google Maps' Unravels Mystery of XNASA Legend.

When I was 15, I once hit a Walk-Off Home Run during a Pony League All-Star Game against a neighboring community. This was over 30 years ago.

There was another baseball diamond that was used for softball games out beyond left field. I managed to hit a ball, on a fly, over third base of the softball field. At the time there was some consideration that I may have hit the ball close to 400 feet on a fly. Thanks to Google Maps, I can now estimate that distance as around 380 ft.

The yellow line shows the path of the ball, the house inside the green box is the house I lived in during high school.

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tridim

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Mon May-02-05 12:21 PM
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1. Heh, that's funny

You should email it to all your old teammates. :)

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XNASA

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Mon May-02-05 12:23 PM
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2. After 30 years......

....who cares? :shrug:

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northzax

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Mon May-02-05 03:06 PM
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7. you obviously do!

:evilgrin:

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Rabrrrrrr

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Mon May-02-05 12:25 PM
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3. Those baseball diamonds are really close!

You must have been shooting balls into each other's territory constantly.

But, anyway, that's not important - kudos to you on the 380 foot hit! That's pretty impressive, indeed!

Also cool that you found that image.

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XNASA

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Mon May-02-05 12:33 PM
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4. True.

I remember that during the regular season, the softball right fielder and the baseball left-fielder would be back-to-back. For the All-Star Game, there was a temporary fence that ran across the softball infield from 1st to 2nd and then extended until it met the fence by the tennis court (shown in right-field).

However, at the time of the HR, there was a team of softballers having practice and I nearly hit one of the coaches. This is how I know where the ball landed, more or less. I spoke with the coach afterwards.

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underpants

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Mon May-02-05 12:43 PM
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5. So, the shooter or shooters was most likely HERE in the green area....

That is what that reminds me of-courtroom photographs.

came in with the twenty seven eight-by-ten
colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back
of each one

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XNASA

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Mon May-02-05 02:54 PM
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6. Peeping Tom's more likely...

There were three boys in our house. Our bedroom windows faced south. There were 3 girls in the house to the south, and their bedroom windows faced north.

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northzax

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Mon May-02-05 03:07 PM
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8. hey, that's my sister, mister!

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