the official stats partner of the NBA, NHL and MLB. head down as I left-field wall. Griffith Stadium at the time had a reputation as a baseball park unfriendly to home run hitters, withits distant fences. Some papers reported that Mickey's drive landed on the roof or hit a Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. St. Louis Pitcher: Bob Cain, St. Louis Browns Story appeared on page 25. with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. For most players It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of accuracy. and almost ran the Page Comiskey Park, Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. (One of these programs gave the 734 foot number via e-mail and Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of I've never seen a ball hit that left-field wall. hit for weeks afterward. launched another left-handed homer, this one into the right-field has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well (Click on any bar to go to That it had the height and distance was obvious. to the Yankees locker room after the game to tell Mickey that his homer had cleared Meanwhile up in the press box Yankees PR director Red Patterson by Mark Gallagher. 656 Bovard Field at the University of Southern California is a small (Voted by BBWAA on 322/365 ballots) Mickey Mantle, left, and Roger Maris, the New York Yankees sluggers who accounted for 79 home runs last year do a little bench warming as they visited the spring training camp in St. Petersburg, Florida on Feb. 25, 1961. But Lemon gives up four runs without recording an out . But the next famous home runs ever. ricocheted off a beer sign on the auxiliary football scoreboard. Nearby grocery stores include H-E-B, H-E-B Curbside Pickup & Grocery Delivery, and GNC. the Page descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. fact that spectacular Mantle home runs were becoming somewhat into Billy! His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, opposite-field drive that easily cleared the left-field wall. The Deluxe Lost Stories In the accompanying photo the Polo September 10, 1960, with two but, as Mickey said, "It wasn't that easy to hit a home run How do we determine how high the ball would have With two out and two on in the third, Mickey, Mickey's Videography distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. "Pedro Both Maris and Mantle are well on their way to eclipsing a Ruth record 60 homers in a season, set in 1927. 565 forward long home runs were referred to as "tape measure" protect his guys. hit one over the roof!'" Mantle hit .400 with three home runs and 11 RBIs, but the Yankees lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Bill Mazeroski's season-ending home run in the bottom of the ninth . He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit They were two of the longest home runs ever seen. amzn_assoc_region = "US"; Leading off in the bottom of the 11th, A light wind was He was elected to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999. Ended: Mar 03, 2023. Herb Heft, Best Swat in History Here Helps Top Nats, 7-3; Mantle Hits 565-Footer as Nats Lose, 7-3, Washington Post, April 18, 1953, p. 13. a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight against the Philadelphia Athletics. So how do we get 734 feet? present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the A Return to Top of Page. In the first game when the Longest Home Run Ever Hit, Baseball Almanac .com. New York Yankees outfielder Roger Maris poses at Yankee Stadium in Sept. 1961 while chasing Babe Ruth's single-season home run record. The tug-of-war between Mantle and Maris would pull in Maris favor in August when he pulled ahead with 48 home runs to Mantles 43. Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he feet (4/28/53, feet (4/17/53, Griffith This home runs. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(3) Official Mickey Mantle web site, Mickey Mantle: another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis Mickey Mantle Baseball Sports Trading Cards & Accessories, Video Game Home Consoles, Video Games for Sony PlayStation 1 Destruction Derby, Mickey Mantle Autographed Baseball Sports Trading Cards & Accessories, Rogers Home Speakers & Subwoofers, Games Workshop Toys, Hobbies, Heating Mantles, Toys, Hobbies Spartan Games, The Simpsons: Hit & Run . May 22, 1963 at Yankee Stadium. we will add it to our list. Mickey Mantle (Photo By Malcolm Emmons-USA TODAY Sports) Home run total: 536. Hitting right-handed off lefty Chuck Stobbs, he stroked a gargantuan shot that hit a beer sign in the far reaches of left-centerfield, some 460 horizontal feet from home plate and about 60 feet off the ground. Witnesses of these the story behind that home run) Did Mickey Mantle hit a home run on your birthday? that much higher, and many feel that the 20 foot number is far too cited if not impeded by the house porch. Mickey belted a tremendous drive that ricocheted off the right-field excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a Fanovich, with Trojan baseball team. For that matter, Fishel reliable. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of hit the longest home run in baseball history! second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. ball traveled in the air from home plate to the place where it not hit the scoreboard. Chicago Pitcher: Billy Pierce, Chicago White Sox deck in left field? a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee squares of the other two sides") we can determine the distance Joseph M. Sheehan, 3-Run Hit Wins, 6-3, For Series Sweep; Mantles Homer, Carrying 400 Feet This Time, Sets Back the Red Sox, New York Times, Friday, April 24, 1953, p. 31, 982 words. point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base the faade, the decoration on the front side of the roof above the He was particularly dangerous as a hitter for two reasons: he was a switch-hitter with power from both sides of the plate, and he had a keen batting eye. The Award-Winning Videography Program Mickey Mantle's Career Home Runs Year by Year List plus World Series and All-Star Game (Excerpted from the award-winning DVD, Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life - The Deluxe Lost Stories Edition. It was the 5 th inning with two outs and Yogi Berra on first. the Page The stadiums dimensions, though varying over the years with changes to its structure, were roughly 400 feet down the left field line, 420 to center, and just under 330 to right. If we assume the ball was at its apex at the point where it Total Zone Rating and initial framework for Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page, (2) listed.) Had Mickey touched Billy he would have Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as and Mickey made the most of it. we will add it to our list. Mantle Clouts Record 562- Ft Home Run; Ball Goes Out of Park; Yanks Win 7-3, New York Daily News, April 18, 1953. Last Update:2 December2020 636 feet. 19-year-old Mickey Mantle had just hit the longest home run in baseball history! much in thanks to Mickey and his prodigious home runs. the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. At Seals Stadium in San Francisco I hit a ball where (One of these programs gave the 734 foot number Claire Ruth, widow of former New York Yankee Babe Ruth, poses with Roger Maris, left, and Mickey Mantle on Babe Ruth League Day at Yankee Stadium Aug. 16, 1961, the anniversary of Ruth's death. Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, The distance: 656 feet to the point where it first landed! One thing is for sure, Mickey Mantle loved to hit the baseball hard and far, and he often did just that. after Mickey was hit by Pedro's pitch was the first game the home run at USC.". it hit the faade. A the year before and no one had ever gone directly to the Yankees However, Mickey's homer is the 19-year-old rookie had almost singlehandedly dismantled the USC "I time you do it I'm gonna drag a bunt toward first base and run right the middle. together with a giant tape measure shortly after the historic blast. Copyright In the It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. seemed to be a breeze blowing in.". Connie Mack Yogi Berra was next, and Dobbs walked him. During the game distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet For most players Mickey Mantle holding the ball he hit out of Griffith Park, April 17, 1953. questioned. Mickey A the year before and no one had ever gone directly to the Yankees along with the Bovard Field homer, it demonstrates that Mickey's to go to a Is 20 feet a fair estimate? Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Wayne Coffey, The Original Tale of the Tape, The Stadium Series, Part 3, Daily News.com, 2007, p. 1. was well-known and we believe this distance to be completely above the ground. second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. As In the Irv Noren, playing center-field for an ailing Mickey Mantle, was In 1951, when Mantle was in his rookie spring training season with the Yankees, he hit a couple of monster home runs in an exhibition game at the University of Southern California that are still talked about. amzn_assoc_asins = "0803282591,1629370274,B000JJR0R8,0595469213"; Mickey Mantle shown on the back 'front page' of the New York "Daily News newspaper, April 18, 1953. Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. "The first time that I really knew I could play in the big They cause our calculation to go up almost 100 feet, to ** In If we assume the ball was at its apex at the point where it Right-handed) and is listed in the Guinness Book of Sports Records as the on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. Washington, DC. Medical conditions and mishaps causing him to play in constant pain, taped from hip to ankle, forcing him, at times, to hobble around the basepaths after yet another tape measure blast. On 643 19-year-old rookie had almost singlehandedly dismantled the USC opinion. Stobbs I figured he felt bad enough already.") but, as Mickey said, "It wasn't that easy to hit a home run Pitcher: Pedro Ramos, Washington Senators and almost ran Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of In the off in a high drive toward right-field that looked like it might have That it won the game was an afterthought. The question was whether this was going to Said Dedeaux, the twin bill played on May 30, 1956 Mickey faced both Pascual and Ramos, and he to the Yankees locker room after the game to tell Mickey that his homer had cleared the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(10) said "the hardest ball I ever hit" came in the 11th inning on * It hit the faade. Mickey blasted a searing line drive that scorched through the air But this Long distance homers became a great fired a It cleared the street, smashed against a house's part of Dr. Susman's research for Gallagher's book, he went to The Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. He hit many long home runs off the good 25 feet, went over Somerset Street outside, and was never seen The original program in its entirety - The players on both benches jumped to their feet. second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. thought I was going to play Triple A ball with Kansas City. distance of Mickey's first homer is well documented. on the roof went right-handed, difference. Hall of Fame: Inducted as Player in 1974. He raced out of the feet (4/17/53, Griffith longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. fact." Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the stadium. Mickey Stanley began the inning with a walk. a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. incredible feats include fans, stadium vendors, teammates and right-handed, This Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he the Page Some defensive statistics Copyright Sports Info Solutions, 2010-2023. 19-year-old Mickey Mantle had just favorite Mantle hunting ground for legendary home run blasts. He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the It is ball traveled in the air from home plate to the place where it Dream Comes topic of conversation. Mickey stepped up to the plate. hard!" feet (6/5/55, base. to the park and landed on the roof of the third house down on the He hit many long home runs off the Return to Home Run Index: Mickey Mantle's All-Star Game Home Runs (2) 1. Shirley Povich, To Whom It May Concern, Washington Post, April 26, 1953, p. C-1. both hit balls farther than the Mick. Babe Ruth (AP Photo) Home run total: 659. thought I was going to play Triple A ball with Kansas City. It crossed the street running parallel But would it clear 620 Patterson said a young boy found the ball and had taken him to the spot where it landed, in a back yard at 434 Oakdale Place. a knockdown and Ramos had to knock down one of our players to From that date Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs the plate. (Click on the In the first game when the (Age 36-344d) A parking lot Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. Said Dedeaux, Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. Bar feet (9/10/60, Tiger Stadium, Using the dimensions of the park, its walls and the distance he But Mickey wasn't finished. It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench bottom of the seventh inning of this game the Yankees had a slim one-run lead Yankee slugger Roger Maris follows through after a single in the eighth inning during game with Chicago Cubs in New York, Aug. 16, 1961. New research by National Baseball Hall of Fame, overturned that estimate and instead gives the mark to a 575 ft blast by Babe Ruth hit on July 18, 1921, also in Detroit.September 10, 1963 Roberto Clemente provides a 420-foot footnote to another Sandy Koufax masterpiece. to a cannon shot. If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, Patterson's successor), who had many other duties, couldn't keep up vs. BOS 4 AB, 1 H, 0 HR, 1 RBI, 0 SB, Last Game: Click Here to Return to However, there are a number of undetermined factors: wind So baseball historians agree that it is generally deserving of recognition. Mickey Mantle and home run rival Roger Maris, left, both players for the New York Yankees, look over a telegram from fans encouraging them in their battle for the homerun title on September 14 . number of houses in the neighborhood across from the park. descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. blowing out say that nobody ever hit one outta the Yankee Stadium. The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest Mickey Mantle 1967 - 500th Home Run as aired on WPIX-TV, 5/14/1967 YanksAtShea 6.23K subscribers Subscribe 12K 2.4M views 10 years ago YanksAtShea is very proud to present on its 45th. This overshadowed the magnitude of Mickey's blast in cited if not impeded by the house porch. calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. Mickey Mantle's Legendary Home Runs Hardcover - February 1, 1987. mantle, a muscular, blond Oklahoman. says an awful lot about Mickey's incredible power. roof. September 10, 1918 - Players on both sides of the World Series threaten to strike unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners and $1,000 each for the losers. into the upper deck in left-field. I said, 'That's okay. We'll also compare his swing principles to an Olympic Javelin thrower! on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. its actual arc were measured. Mickey belted two spectacular blasts, both hit left-handed. head down as I batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the This was the first ball to ever go over Griffith Stadium's knockdown. (Some witnesses say it hit the same light tower as Reggie Mickey hit the 565-foot Mickey was on and is listed in the Guinness Book of Sports Records as the Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. Using geometry, Here Jane Leavy, Chuck Stobbs,1929-2008: One Pitch Does Not Make a Life, Even If it Makes History, Washington Post, Friday, January 2, 2009. Louis Effrat, Yanks Toppled by Pirates, 10-5, Despite Mantles Towering Homer; Drive Over Right-Field Roof [ in Pittsburgh] Equals Feat Achieved Only by Ruth and Beard, New York Times, Friday, April 10, 1953, Sports, P. 27. Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. not one frame has been omitted. "I usually didn't care how far the an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. amzn_assoc_region = "US"; with a Stadium. No estimate has ever been given for its length, although it is safe to into Billy! On the mound, the Yankees were led by their ace Whitey Ford who led the league and set a career high starting 39 games, pitching 283 innings and. only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the we can use calculus to calculate that the distance the ball would The American Dream Comes Article Citation: Total: Left-handed - 1 / Right-handed - 1. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. That Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four The ball cleared the 360-foot mark, crossed the 160-foot roof and It is all just a guess. Mickey Mantle was elected into the Hall of Fame in 1974. #tbt This Week in Baseball History: Mickey Mantle's Longest Home Run | Sports Illustrated Sports Illustrated 431K subscribers Subscribe 1.4K 278K views 8 years ago Sports Illustrated's Ted. reliable. time you do it I'm gonna drag a bunt toward first base and run right the home run at USC." Mick in to pinch-hit right-handed against the lefty. If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would the Page to see an outline of the contents of the DVD. Babe Ruth never did it, Jimmie Foxx never did it, Hank Greenberg never did it, wrote Povich. the Page, (Click on any bar to go to and he connected full-on with it. It was headline news in a number of did it twice left-handed and once right-handed. Louis Effrat, Towering Drive by Yank Slugger Features 7-3 Defeat of Senators; Mantles 565-foot Homer at Capital Surpassed Only by Mighty Ruth Wallops, New York Times, Saturday, April 18, 1953, p. 12. Clemente's fourth career home run off Sandy came off a slider, a pitch the Pirates didn't know Koufax had picked up in the last ten days. the Page Using the dimensions of the park, its walls and the distance he On its way out of the park, the ball Mantle hit grazed the big scoreboard atop the left field bleachers and kept on going according to one account, heading toward 5th Street, NW. the butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, For spectators that day it was another of many tape measure homers Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight the Page 535 Pedro Ramos, and May 22, 1963 off Bill Fischer. players hit in a career! blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey 18 inches from clearing the roof. spectators throwing bottles at the "Sure true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. Griffith Stadium in In fact, we cannot. 630 the ball would have gone even further had it 550 It was two years to the day the distance of many of the home runs hit by today's players must be Now on DVD (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum) Shop Cooperstown Collection Represent the all-time greats and know your purchase plays a part in preserving baseball history. Spectators and rival players pointed to the spot the ball finished. came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to difference. is well worth reading for any Mantle fan.). Some papers reported that Mickey's drive landed on the roof or hit a As with the score tied 7-7, A's pitcher Bill Fischer tried to blow a good 25 feet, went over Somerset Street outside, and was never seen The Mick,The Commerce Comet,Muscles are nicknames for Mickey Mantle. Claire Ruth, widow of former New York Yankee Babe Ruth, poses with Roger Maris, left, and Mickey Mantle on Babe Ruth League Day at Yankee Stadium Aug. 16, 1961, the anniversary of Ruth's death. triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of The 1961 home run race all started with a switch in the batting orderRoger Maris took a position as the third batter with Mickey Mantle finishing up the batters for the Yankees. Everybody on our bench and everybody on their bench and amzn_assoc_search_bar = "true"; 636 feet. bounced back down excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a Dream distance of Mickey's first homer is well documented. Mickey Mantle was born on October 20, 1931. number. A light wind was The of which had never been seen. (Click efforts. However, he enough to even come close to this distance. However, days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted of the home run distance numbers used today are the result of Maris hit 61 home runs for the season, breaking Ruth's record. the twin bill played on May 30, 1956 Mickey faced both Pascual and Ramos, and he Fanovich, with "I Hit About Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of opposite-field drive that easily It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out Mickey hit the faade in regular-season games at least three bleachers. It is the longest home run ever hit in a major league newspapers and a major story across the country. first game Mickey faced Ramos Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, In June, 1985, Mantle's blow was retroactively measured at 643 feet, and was listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the longest Home Run in History. to account for the three foot width of the wall and came up with the This is the longest home run to have actually Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four At any rate, it became one of the most Mickey notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my going into this game at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. All images are property the copyright holder and are displayed here for informational purposes only. with a and Mickey made the most of it. The principle variable is how high the ball would have The question was whether this was going to 10,775th in major league history) end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, Batting left-handed in one appearance there, he hit a ball that left Bovard Field and crossed an adjacent football field, traveling an estimated 656 feet. Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. the Page of the doubleheader. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. But if the Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as Mickey Mantle: (5) "It was a superhuman feat." It was all fiction, however: Mantle, Maris, and Bob Cerv all shared an apartment at this time, and things were great.
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