Icons of the game have issued numerous prodigious blasts worthy of awe, but the actual distance is apocryphal and subject to much hyperbole. Examples include: Mickey Mantle - 660 Feet. Mickey Mantle - 634 feet. On 4/15/1961, Cincinnati Reds outfielder Wally Post hit a shot in St. Louis that traveled 569 feet. In the news article from the Cincinnati papers, Stan Musial was quoted it was by far the longest homer he ever witnessed.
Seating at the Colosseum-The Auditorium (the Cavea) The auditorium or seating area of the Colosseum was called the cavea which surrounded the central arena. The arena was the area of the Colosseum where the events were held and was separated from the seating areas by a massive wall, faced with marble.here was no wood used in the seating area of the Colosseum. The seating at the Colosseum consisted of concrete barrel vaulting which held the marble seating that was eventually installed. The seats were made of marble, numbered with lines inscribed on the marble showing the limits of each seat.
It was built as an amphitheatre and is regarded as an architectural wonder even today. It was a huge structure and according to historians had a capacity to hold 80,000 people. The Colosseum was designed so that it would only take ten minutes to empty the amphitheatre without causing a stampede.