Among baseball’s greatest home runs, include one by the Cubs’ Dave Kingman

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Dave Kingman in the Cubs’ dugout in 1979.The 2023 Major League Baseball regular season just ended, and there were no 500-foot home runs. Shohei Ohtani slammed the longest homer in the majors this year, a 493-footer on June 30.

Just how prevalent is the 500-foot home run? Some distances are wild guesses, other homers probably benefited from a long roll. But there is a verifiable shot that went 530 feet in the air during an official game, was caught on tape and is measurable.

The average major league home run travels 400 feet. But there are stories of several super- bombs.

In 1987, Joey Meyer, a 6-3, 260-pound minor leaguer with the Denver Zephyrs, supposedly hit one 582 feet in…