the one hit on April 24 off the Cardinal's Al Brazle,—has been paired with Clemente's 1959 near miss. However, a recent study by Chicago historian Sam Pathy, documenting the longest home runs ever hit at Wrigley Field and drawing on a multitude of contemporaneous news stories, uncovered no evidence of this alleged proximity. Moreover, Nicholson himself, though apparently never consulted about the 1989 story, had been quoted as early as April 20, 1953—exactly 2 days before Mathews would make his own scoreboard bid—to the effect that the longest home run he'd ever hit had exited Wrigley Field "over the flower pot in [sic] the center-field scoreboard" and was given up by pitcher Luke Hamlin, a longtime Dodger whose final season in the National League, 1942, was spent with Pittsburgh (where he'd been sent as part of the package bringing Arky Vaughan to Brooklyn). According to Baseball Reference, and notwithstanding the Inquirer's parenthetical insertion of "Brooklyn" after Hamlin's name, Nicholson, in the course of his major league career, hit exactly two home runs off Hamlin, both occurring in the same game, on August 15, 1942. That being said, there's absolutely no indication in all the reporting on Nicholson's two home runs off Hamlin, plus the other he hit that day, that any one of them was particularly prodigious, much less that any of them actually escaped the 'Friendly Confines' altogether, near the scoreboard or otherwise. However, exactly one week later, Hamlin and his home run prowess were once again in the headlines, as Chicago walked off the lowly Reds when "Nicholson crashed a home run into Sheffield Avenue."<ref>"Cubs Outlast Reds". San Bernardino Sun. August 23, 1942. Retrieved February 3, 2020. </ref>}} and April 22, 1953, respectively.Jenkinson, Bill (2010). Baseball's Ultimate Power. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press. p. 39. . In 2010, the Cubs considered adding a video screen to the stadium, but the hand-turned scoreboard cannot be moved due to the park's landmark status, which also prohibits even simple facelifts, such as adding two more games on either side (there are 15 teams in both the National and American Leagues) of the 12-game, 24-team scoreboard (reflecting the MLB from 1969 to 1976), so up to three games (one NL, one AL and the interleague) each day cannot be posted. Those games may eventually be part of the auxiliary video board currently on the right field that may also be added in left