 supposedly Major League Baseball's longest home run was Babe Ruth, 575 feet, some incredible number, which I still question whether anybody could hit a ball that far. Well, how did they measure it? Yeah, back then we didn't have accuracy and it was just guessing game. And I still wonder about that. But the shortest was the funny 24-inch home run. The guy didn't even swing. The ball hit his bat and it stuck in the mud in 1902. Somebody wrote an account of it.