Playing in ballparks with staggeringly deep dimensions — it was 461 feet to center field at Yankee Stadium, 483 at the Polo Grounds — Ruth could crush balls without ever clearing a fence.
For 19 games, Bay had failed to hit a baseball with the power needed to clear a ballpark fence, a skill that has earned him considerable wealth as a professional player.
A Tesco store in Cambridge is close to being slapped with a community protection notice (CPN) – formerly an Asbo – after it reportedly riled the council for not clearing litter in a fence.
The sheer variety of Lincoln's experiences and the things he had to know even as a young man -- how to build a fence, clear a field of trees, plow, hunt, fight, navigate a river -- seem worth noting in an election season that has given us career politicians, retired athletes and famous sons.
Scott Brash, the 26-year-old tyro of the British team who in the regulation round had jumped a superb clear, this time had a fence down, but the third Dutch rider, Marc Houtzager, failed to capitalise and also had four faults.
A million bucks was diverted from the transportation budget to support the Mayors plan to clear out and build a fence around The Jungle.
This will be a clear fence so that behind this new area, S.R.O. or picnic-type tickets can be sold.
It is clear to everyone that such a fence will not prevent, for example, the Palestinians' firing rockets and mortars from their territory into Israel.
As a line of police moved up to clear a section of the security fence surrounding the Eurotunnel terminal, one migrant, Abdul, watched from the grass verge.
The review of the instant replay on Cano's hit (a system only used for questionable home runs) was that the ball did not clear the fence and was a double.
