Scroll below and check our most recent updates about Wally Post Net Worth, Salary, Biography, Age, Career, Wiki. He started out as a pitcher before being converted to an outfielder and breaking into the MLB. Then there was the time in 1957 that Post, in batting practice, sent a ball through the new scoreboard at Crosley Field just as the scoreboard's designer was touting its indestructibility to Reds General Manager Gabe Paul. He once beat Hall of Fame slugger Hank Aaron in a Home Run Derby. Post's teammate, Jay Hook, an erstwhile engineering student, calculated the distance the ball would have traveled if its flight had not been interrupted by the clock and concluded that the ball would have come to rest some 569 feet from its point of departure.
Many longtime baseball observers who saw the shot described it as the longest they had ever witnessed. It is also believed that Post may have hit one of the longest home runs ever when he smashed a ball off the scoreboard clock at old Busch Stadium in St.
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Post was often described as the 'best dressed Red' thanks to all of the free suits he acquired by virtue of his long home runs that hit the famous Hit Sign Win Suit billboard located atop the The Laundry building that loomed across the street from Crosley Field's left field wall. While these men might have exceeded his raw total, it is doubtful that any of them hit home runs harder or farther than Post, the pride of St. "Only 10 players bested Wally Post's 172 home runs while wearing a Reds uniform.
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