by Hilary Barta
A pop-up Dave Kingman once popped
Was a feat no one since then has topped
In the ‘Dome, hit so high
Through a hole toward the sky
That today there’s no sign it has stopped.
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Hilary explains: “It was 26 years ago when one of quirkiest moments in Metrodome history occurred. Oakland’s Dave Kingman — one of baseball’s all-time feast-or-famine hackers — hit a pop-up off left-hander Frank Viola that was so high that it went through a hole in the roof of the Dome and never came down.”
Title by Sky-High Jim Siergey.