Talk:Inside-the-park home run

So what's the record?
"The record for most inside-the-park home runs for a single season was set by Sam Crawford in 1901" - how many?

12 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.44.121.22 (talk) 15:52, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Ed Delahanty
I see that Baseball-Almanac.com says that recent research shows that only two of the homeruns were inside-the-park, but they don't list their source and the box score they show doesn't say anything about it either. Are there any sources that could be listed that say where this recent information was found? Gorrister 14:27, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Inside-the-park home runs are rare events...
...but only in modern baseball. Before the Babe Ruth era, most ballparks were larger than they are today, so instead of going out of the park (as most hard hits do today), a home-run ball hit during the 19th or early 20th century was more likely to stay in the park and the fielder would be unable to throw the ball in time to put out the baserunner. 4.242.147.205 22:06, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

List of players?
Wouldn't it be cool to have a list of all the players in modern baseball who have hit one? PhilCosby 02:55, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Too numerous and crowds the page.  An  editor since 10.28.2010.  05:40, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

inside the park grand slam
Anybody know of a reliable list we could post of these? All I could find was here, and I know this is an incomplete list, I remember witnessing one by the Brewers inside the Big O back in 2001. Any help is appreciated! 209.105.207.181 20:49, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

The Discussion section
So, I really want to edit this section, because I don't like the concept of this "classic situation" and such. But I'm not sure if I'd be correct... It's just that the examples given sound cartoony and rare. Perhaps it's just what I know from modern baseball, but I feel like the classic example has nothing to do with outfielders colliding, rather it's normally a fast player who hits the ball into the corner, usually accompanied by a misplay of some sort on the part of the outfielder. Both of these "classic situation"s seem way too much of a description of a scant few events that have likely happened over time. I could swear that most ITPHRs involve a line drive skidding into the corner of the outfield and hanging near the fence after an outfielder's miscue, or when line drive takes a strange hop in the outfield or strange carom off a fence. I'd like to clean this section up for the baseball novice who reads this and believes this is some sort of comical event, rather than a mostly legit display of a baseball player's speed and the randomness that makes baseball so great. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.194.87.8 (talk) 05:05, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Walk-off Inside-the-park home run?
Has there ever been one? I did a little Googling and checked here and haven't found mention of it ever happening. 67.163.59.128 (talk) 20:16, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

There have been quite a lot of them, not as many as normal home runs but they used to be pretty common in the old really spacious stadiums. Here is a link of one that occured not too long ago. http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=18240093&partnerId=aw-5206876244680512706-996 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.44.121.22 (talk) 15:56, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Pare back the list
Some of those "rare occurrences" may have been notable when they were new, but they aren't that notable now. Prince Fielder the third heaviest is on the list but not the heavier two.DavidRF (talk) 02:54, 17 February 2011 (UTC)


 * I know I'm replying to a very old comment, but the problem has become worse over the past dozen years since it was first written. This article shouldn't and can't include a description of every inside the park homer ever hit in the "rare occurrences" section. It seems that well-meaning readers come running here to add every ITPH they just saw, which is not sustainable. Barring objection, I'll be paring back the list to include only truly unusual examples sometime this week. Zeng8r (talk) 18:58, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

Inside the Park Grand Slams
Why does it say that Roberto Clemente is the only player to ever hit an IPGS but then it says many people have hit like 5 of them. Something ain't right here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.44.121.22 (talk) 15:46, 14 September 2011 (UTC)


 * It says that Clemente is the only player to hit a WALKOFF inside the park grand slam. Van Vidrine (talk) 18:40, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Erick Aybar
Erick Aybar appears to have done it as well but only due to errors. Not sure how it was scored? Was it actually a home run or advancement due to errors as mentioned in the comments. Someone should look into it. --168.215.131.150 (talk) 21:23, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

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"First inside-the-parker in Mariner's history"
I've deleted reference to Dan Wilson's 1998 grand slam as a rare occurrence. The claim that it was the first inside-the-parker in M's history simply isn't true. The |cited Seattle Times article even mentions a previous one in 1996, and the M's even had an inside-the-park grand slam before that, in the 1995 American League West tie-breaker game. — Preceding unsigned comment added by HeighHoTheHolly (talk • contribs) 21:04, 2 April 2020 (UTC)