Every year in Miami, Florida, a sports competition attracts the attention of the best scouts: it is the “Power Showcase“, where the best talents in world baseball challenge each other with… bats.
It is a kind of "home run derby", or rather a contest where the hitters who alternate in the batter's box try to send as many balls as possible out of the fence, thus scoring "home runs". Whoever makes the most wins a prize, but what matters most is that the best names are noted in the notebooks of talent scouts, always looking for new prodigies to sign in professional teams.
The home run is an athletic feat that requires great explosive strength and technical perfection, so a hitter capable of doing many during the championship represents an important added value. More or less like a specialist in free kicks a la Roberto Carlos or Cristiano Ronaldo.
In the Miami competition, a young Californian talent named David Denson just yesterday hit a new record: during the "Power Showcase" he hit the longest home run in history. The ball traveled well 157 meters starting from the "plate" of "home base", ending the journey even beyond the stands. A bit like if a goalkeeper, during the throw-in from the baseline, kicked the ball beyond the gates to the stadium, well beyond the goal of the opponents.
This is a record, but it should be noted that the bat used by David is not your typical bat Wood used in Major Leagues: it is instead in aluminum, lighter, more reactive and more elastic than those in maple wood used by Majors champions.
If the strongest hitters playing in the American pro teams used aluminum bats, David's record would most likely be crumbled.
