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Home run

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Clash Royale CLAN TAG #URR8PPP For other uses, see Home run (disambiguation). Barry Bonds holds the all-time home run record in Major League Baseball Sadaharu Oh, pictured here in 2006, holds the officially verified all-time world home run record in professional baseball. New York Met player Tommie Agee hit a home run as far as up in section 48 at the former Shea Stadium on April 10, 1969. In baseball, a home run (abbreviated HR ) is scored when the ball is hit in such a way that the batter is able to circle the bases and reach home safely in one play without any errors being committed by the defensive team in the process. In modern baseball, the feat is typically achieved by hitting the ball over the outfield fence between the foul poles (or making contact with either foul pole) without first touching the ground, [1] resulting in an automatic home run. There is also the "inside-the-park" home run where the batter reaches home safely while the baseball is in play on the fi

Switch Island

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Switch Island From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Coordinates: 53°29′37″N 2°57′10″W  /  53.4936°N 2.9527°W  / 53.4936; -2.9527 Switch Island Dunnings Bridge Road looking towards Ormskirk and showing the characteristic flat and isolated landscape Location Merseyside, England Roads at junction M57 motorway M58 motorway A59 road A5036 road A5758 road Construction Type Roundabout Opened 1930s (small roundabout), 1970s (current formation) Switch Island is a major road junction near Aintree in Merseyside, England in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton. The junction is at the western terminus of both the M57 and M58 motorways, which converge on the A59 trunk road, the north-south route from Liverpool. The junction is also the terminus of the A5036, a road which serves the Port of Liverpool and the A5758 road which serves as a bypass for the village of Thornton. For the period between the 1930s and mid 1970s