 And who knows if it's all true, but here it is. It says sports writer Jocko Maxwell published an article in Baseball Digest in 1953 describing the shortest home run in baseball history. He said it was a game where Euler, a shortstop for the Minneapolis Millers, and by the way, he was with, who did he say he played for? The Orioles in 1902, one season. Was crouched in the batter's box in the ninth inning and ducked to avoid a high pitch thrown at his head. Ha!