Thanks so much; this is great. I just have a couple of more questions:
1) You say it was still rising on the way out. Did you continue to follow its flight until it finally dropped out out of your line of vision?
2) Also, I know you didn't really have the ideal angle for this, but do you have a sense of how far to the left of the scoreboard it was?
3) Combining 1 and 2, do you have any sense of where the ball might have landed? (As a frame of reference, for '59, I had estimates of 10 to 20 feet from the board, and it turns out it landed on the curb, near the NW corner of Waveland and Sheffield.)
In the meantime, I'll check with Rich Buhrke, the ballhawk who witnessed the '59 shot. He never saw any of RC's other HRs, but he may know some who have, especially for something as late as '69.
Finally, speaking of RC's familiar "still rising" trajectory, here are
a couple of entertaining anecdotes I'm still trying to verify, regarding RC BP bombs at Wrigley.
Thanks again.
From my perspective it looked just to the left of the scoreboard. Looking at Google Earth that fits with a landing at Waveland and Sheffield.
I Don’t recall seeing it much after it cleared the scoreboard, I was looking back inside the ball park.
It sure looked like it was rising to me as it passed the scoreboard.
If it landed at that corner, I wonder if it hit a building and bounced back? It sure looked like it was going to go a lot farther....
FYI the local Chicago Public High School in my neighborhood ( 1 block from my home) was ... Roberto Clemente High. Tough to take for a Cubbies fan.