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How Far Is The Pitcher's Mound To Home Plate?

A regulation pitcher's mound is an 18 foot (5.5 m) circle, its center, 59 feet away from the back of the home plate. More »

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Actually it's 60 feet 6 inches. The original baseball field designers wanted it to be 60 feet but when the "landscapers" were reading the diagram drawn up it read 60 ' 0" and they read the 0 to be a 6 by mistake.
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The length for a pitcher's mound in the Majors is 60 feet. But in the Little League the length is 46 feet.
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It depends where on the pitcher's mound you're talking about. Rule 1.04 says the distance between first base and third base is 127 feet, 3 3/8 inches. So the midpoint of that is 63 feet 7 11/16 inches. However the center of the mound is located a little more than 3 feet in front of the straight line between 1st and 3rd base since the rubber is 60'6" from home plate which is 127 feet 3 3/8 inches from second base. That means the rubber is 66 feet 9 3/8 inches from 2nd base. So if you measure from ...
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Rule 1.07 of MLB states: The pitcher's plate... ...be set in the ground... ...so that the distance between the pitcher's plate and home base (the rear point of home plate) shall be 60 feet, 6 inches. But you asked "to the pitcher's mound". Since the pitcher's circle is 9 feet in diameter, one might think the answer would be (60 feet, 6 inches) minus the radius (4 feet, 6 inches) of the pitcher's circle, but the pitcher's plate is not necessarily in the center of the pitchers circle. As a result, ...
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How far is it from the pitcher's mound to home plate? 60 feet and 6 inches. ... You're reading How far is it from the pitcher's mound to home plate?
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