With a thud, the ball landed in the upper deck in right field – the first time any ball had landed that high at Olympic Stadium.“He made perfect contact,” Twitchell would later admit. The team also presented Stargell with a life preserver to commemorate “all the swimmers he chased out of the pool” with his homers at old Jarry Park.Stargell would go on to claim the World Series MVP and his second Fall Classic title the following season in 1979. Dunn hit 462 Home Runs before retiring at the end of last season. On May 22, 1968, Willie Stargell of the Pirates went 5-for-5 with three home runs against the Cubs at Wrigley FIeld. 9. Of the six home runs hit in the upper deck of Three Rivers Stadium, Forbes Field’s replacement, four were hit by Stargell. The well-travelled Adam Dunn was a slugger in the Kingman mold both in terms of physical size and approach at the plate. T6. Though others would famously hit tape-measure long balls at the Big O – Vladimir Guerrero’s 502-foot blast in 2003 is also legendary – nobody would surpass Stargell’s mark before the Expos left Montreal in 2004.In a show of good sportsmanship, the Expos painted the seat where Stargell’s blast landed in a shade of Pirates yellow. It was like trying to watch a tracer bullet – you could hear it when it hit. BL-250-2001 (Eric Enders / National Baseball Hall of Fame Library) Willie Stargell - Baseball Hall of Fame Biographies 00:54 Rookie Status: Exceeded rookie limits during 1963 season Full Name: Wilver Dornel Stargell Nicknames: Pops. His biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable), career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this comprehensive Willie Stargell baseball stats page.Willie 'Pops' Stargell Autograph on a 1983 Fleer Baseball Card (#324 | Most home runs 1970s: 296 Further Reading . The well-travelled Adam Dunn was a slugger in the Kingman mold both in terms of physical size and approach at the plate. Willie Stargell was born on Wednesday, March 6, 1940, in Earlsboro, Oklahoma. Torre, Stargell homer in Braves’ debut in Atlanta Exactly 105 years after the Confederacy opened fire on Fort Sumter, the North retaliated with their own blast – in the form of a two-run home run by Willie Stargell.
Asked to describe the talents of Hall of Famer Willie Stargell, fellow inductee Sparky Anderson famously said the Pirates slugger had “power enough to hit home runs in any park, including Yellowstone.”While Montreal’s Olympic Stadium, home of the Expos, didn’t possess the acreage of America’s iconic national park, it certainly carried a reputation for being cavernous. Stargell was 22 years old when he broke into the big leagues on September 16, 1962, with the Pittsburgh Pirates. “He doesn't just hit pitchers, he takes away their dignity.”Stargell had also terrorized pitchers at the Expos’ former home, Jarry Park, by slugging many home runs into the public pool behind the right-field scoreboard.So when Stargell arrived in Quebec for the Pirates’ first road set in Montreal in 1978, he was certainly on the Expos’ radar. Willie Stargell owns the record for longest home run hit at Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers Stadium, along with a handful of other major league ballparks. In addition to smacking the longest home run at Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers Stadium, he was also the first player to hit a homer out of Dodger Stadium.Willie Stargell hit a home run an estimated 535 feet at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium, the longest blast in the stadium’s history. ISBN 978-0-7864-6534-7; Richard "Pete" Peterson: Pops: The Willie Stargell Story, Triumph Books LLC, Chicago, IL, 2013. Many thanks to him. Stargell’s homer kept carrying until it looked like it might hit the far side of the dome. Stargell was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1988. Willie Stargell, 535 Feet (1978) 13 of 16.