1971 All Star Baseball Game Used Ticket Stub Hank Aaron

This is a ticket stub from the 7/13/71 Major League Baseball All Star Game played at Tiger Stadium.   Considered by many to be the greatest All-Star game ever played as six future Hall-Of-Famers hit homers; Johnny Bench, Hank Aaron, Frank Robinson, Harmon Killebrew, Roberto Clemente and Reggie Jackson.  Clemente's homer came in his final All-Star at bat while Reggie Jackson's homer is the longest homer hit in baseball history.  

  On July 13, 1971, Reggie Jackson blasted what almost certainly is the longest home run ever hit in an All-Star game, and one of the longest of all time. Jackson's home run came at Tiger Stadium in Detroit off the NL pitcher, Dock Ellis from the Pirates. Jackson hammered a slider on a line to right-center field, clearing the roof and slamming into an electrical transformer about 100 feet above field level, at a distance from home plate of about 380 feet. Timing the home run was impossible to do directly, but with some physics, we have arrived at a reasonable estimate. The ball disappeared out of frame as the camera focused on the right field upper deck (a reasonable place to look for a normal home run at Tiger Stadium), and dropped back into frame after about 4.8 seconds, at a height of 60 feet above field level. The time required to drop 40 feet, with some small amount of downward velocity at impact, was determined using equations of motion to be about 1.35 seconds, leaving a time in flight of 3.45 seconds. As for atmospherics, the temperature at the time was about 90 degrees, and the wind was recorded as varying from 17 to 31 mph out to right field, so a value of 24 mph was chosen. To approximate the shielding effect of the high stadium walls at Tiger Stadium, a "floor" of 70 feet was chosen, removing the wind effects below that height above field level. When combined together, we get a result that is quite impressive: a speed off the bat of 122.4 mph at an angle of 31.5 degrees (slightly on the line drive end of the spectrum). This hit, combined with the atmospherics, would have propelled the ball an incredible 532 feet if the ball had not impacted the transformer. Reggie Jackson's '71 All-Star Game homer will be remembered forever as one of the most awesome feats of power in baseball history.

In the second inning of the 1971 All-Star game, Reggie Jackson, who was a last minute substitution for the injured Tony Oliva, hit, what is considered, through serious scientific analysis, the longest home run ever recorded in professional baseball history. This is the ball that Jackson hit off of Pirate pitcher Dock Ellis on an 0 and 2 count. The ball hit the light tower at Tiger Stadium over 400 feet from home plate and was seen to still be rising. A study done by Wayne State University says the ball was on a trajectory to travel 650 feet!

After it hit the light tower, the ball came down in rightfield to Willie Mays, who threw it in to Jackson to keep as a memento. Jackson later gave the ball to an old friend and business associate whose notarized recollection says: "As I recall, Jackson visited my office a few days following the 1971 All Star game. He said, 'I have a present for you,' and handed me this ball. He then retold the experience of hitting the home run. I don't think either of us could have fathomed this ball's significance at the time.”

Many baseball experts now point to this homer as Jackson's "arrival," his notice to the sports world(there were 21 future Hall of Famers playing in the 1971 All-Star game) that he was a legend in the making. His third home run in Game 6 of the 1977 World Series made him a legend!

Some corner and edge wear does not detract from this great piece of baseball memorabilia.  High bidder to add $4.00 S/H and payment expected within 7 days of auction end.  Thanks for looking!