Word: left-centerfield
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Greeley led off the eighth with a hard double that landed in deep left-centerfield, despite a strong crosswind. Dick Clasby walked, and Johnson loaded the bases by beating out a neat sacrifice bunt which the Holy Cross infield didn't have time to play...
Washington's Griffith Stadium. Riding a tailwind, the ball sailed over the left-centerfield bleachers 460 ft. away, bounced off a 60-ft. sign, and came to rest in a backyard 565 ft. from home plate. "I unloaded on it," said Mickey Mantle. "I guess it was the longest ball I ever hit in my life...