At Fenway Park there's a red seat among a sea of green that marks where Ted Williams hit a home run ball 502 feet. The seat marks a legendary story for one of the Red Sox's most hallowed players. But one of the team's current players isn't buying the story.
“The red seat?” David Ortiz responded when asked about it. “Cough — bull — cough.”
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Ortiz told the Boston Globe there's no way Williams hit it that far.
“I don’t think anyone has ever hit one there,” he said. “I went up there and sat there one time. That’s far, brother. Listen, do you see the No. 1 [Bobby Doerr’s retired uniform number above the right field grandstand]? I hit that one time. You know how far it is to that No. 1 from the plate? Very far. And you know how far that red seat is from the No. 1? It’s 25 rows up still. That’s the farthest I’ve ever hit the ball right there, and no one else has gotten to the No. 1 ... The closest one that I have ever seen — I remember a day game, I hit a ball in that tunnel. But still — I crushed one and it wasn’t even close to that.”
