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Dunn's 535-foot home run that landed in the Ohio River, on May 21/05 the announcers referred to that hit and said that its probably the only home run in history to get hit out of the state. Is this correct? Is the Ohio River technically Kentucky territory at that point? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.148.42.175 (talk • contribs).
I know that Kentucky territory extends to the a certain point on the opposite bank of the Ohio River, and I've definently heard that said about Dunn's HR (that it's the only one that left a state). This would probably be an interesting thing to mention in the article, especially with a source. --W.marsh00:45, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The dispute between Ohio and Kentucky over its border actually ended up in the US Supreme Court. In a 1973 decision (http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=410&invol=641), the court stated that the Kentucky's northern border was the low-water mark of the Ohio River in 1792. Since their were no dams on the river back then, it would follow that the border would be closer to the middle of the river than to the edge of the river where the stadium is located. Dunn's ball actually bounced on Mehring Way, which runs between the stadium and the river and landed on a piece of driftwood in the river. Thus, I believe the ball did not actually leave the state since it would have had to travel almost to the middle of the river.
