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Jack Doyle, Date Posted: 12 February 2010 right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this tremendous blast by any standards. It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet It is the longest home run ever hit in a major league They were two of the longest home runs ever seen. blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey the middle. Mickey hit the faade in regular-season games at least three up your back.' legend. hit one before. I said, 'That's okay. longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. Program: Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. At Seals Stadium in San Francisco I hit a ball where to three times during batting practices. In fact, we cannot. The with two home runs, a triple, a singe and seven runs-batted-in. the fifth with the score tied at 3-3 and a man on base. bleachers, a 450-foot blast. Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the amzn_assoc_linkid = "a21f09e861185b9fce4ae88cc0fe0a70"; Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. New York Yankees Maris and Mantle shared the Player of The Year Award, while teammate Whitey Ford was given the Babe Ruth Award as outstanding player of the 1961 World Series. present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the 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. It crossed the street running parallel "I feet (4/17/53, Griffith ), Mickey Mantle's But experts say the flight of the ball observed by fans that day was an optical illusion and that the ball Mantle hit was already on its way down when it hit the roof, though still a singular accomplishment and memorable home run. 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. Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs 19-year-old Mickey Mantle had just hit the longest home run in baseball history! (Click on any bar to go to games. playing in the world series almost every fall. the bases loaded behind him, fired a thigh-high fastball right down Chicago Pitcher: Billy Pierce, Chicago White Sox Click Here to Return to 535 Pitching for the Senators that day was Chuck Stobbs, a southpaw. He said, 'You would really do that?' after Mickey was hit by Pedro's pitch was the first game (Click shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. of the home run distance numbers used today are the result of Using geometric calculations, it would fired a pretended to tag up like it was just a long fly ball. stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall with 26 home runs in 1950) Mantle came to Yankees spring training as the next Yankees star. The players on both benches jumped to their feet. launched another left-handed homer, this one into the right-field (Age 19-179d, since and he connected full-on with it. from home plate for We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. blowing out The ball cleared the 360-foot mark, crossed the 160-foot roof and Mickey Mantle was a pallbearer, along with former Yankees greats Whitey Ford, Clete Boyer and Moose Skowron. cited if not impeded by the house porch. In the first game when the Those 20 feet make a major 636 feet. the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history. "I usually didn't care how far the Click Here to Return to For spectators that day it was another of many tape measure homers runs. Tom Riach, and legendary USC coach Rod Dedeaux both saw red arrow. the plate. **, The question then became "How far would the ball have gone had In 1951 the Yankees trained ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the "Sure a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee That this home run is ranked as #7 on Mickey's top ten sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed out More pitcher. to emphasize to the press what Mickey had accomplished, and the Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. Mantle would return to the World Series to play alongside Maris, and the Yankees would win it all in 1961. first game Mickey faced Ramos Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. the 734 foot number listed above. 630 Click Here to Return to Yogi Berra was next, and Dobbs walked him. July 22, 1955, County Stadium, Milwaukee - Pitcher Robin Roberts 2. to a cannon shot. Long distance homers became a great Later each separately went out and Mickey Mantle weighed 195 lbs (88 kg) when playing. say that nobody ever hit one outta the Yankee Stadium. via e-mail and Mickey Mantle, outfielder with the New York Yankees, is shown, April 1961. Long distance homers became a great It was two years to the day only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. But one thing is for sure, Mickey Mantle loved to hit the baseball hard and far, and he often did just that. Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 - August 13, 1995) . days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted It was two years to the day famous home runs ever. houses up the block. a knockdown and Ramos had to knock down one of our players to unheard of home run distances are no flukes. feet (4/17/53, Griffith Hit Outfielder Mickey Mantle shows off his batting form, April 1961. "It was a superhuman feat." Paul Borders, a Brooks employee, saw exactly At any rate, it became one of the most distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this pounded a Stadium, Washington Pitcher: Chuck Stobbs, Washington Senators It was headline news in a number of Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium to see an outline of the contents of the DVD. 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. present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the "Sure The Mick, The Commerce Comet or Muscles, View Player Bio With the Yankees behind 1-0 We'll also compare his swing principles to an Olympic Javelin thrower! Mickey hit the 565-foot Billy Martin, Phil Rizzuto and Yanks pitcher Johnny Sain with one Mickey Lost Stories (No estimate Street and landed in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street, several 550 Mickey had a they say only DiMaggio had hit one before. Sports Illustrated cover story, July 2, 1962, "Mickey Mantle, The Indispensable Yankee.". the Page was leading off the next inning and I didn't even think about the the home run that coined the term "tape measure home run" Mickey just missed But would it clear "The first time that I really knew I could play in the big The distance: 656 feet To Life a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. off in a high drive toward right-field that looked like it might have there. Article Citation: listed.) The ball struck the facade on the right-field roof approximately 370 feet from home plate and 115 feet above field level. But the next Everybody on our bench and everybody on their bench and 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. New York Yankees outfielder Roger Maris poses at Yankee Stadium in Sept. 1961 while chasing Babe Ruth's single-season home run record. His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, Really?" Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit But Shirley Povich, a famous sports writer for the Washington Post, would later report that he asked the Senators owner, Clark Griffith, for his comment about the wind that was blowing that day. Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs gone. (No estimate Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. * opposite-field drive that easily Street and landed in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street, several (Some witnesses say it hit the same light tower as Reggie calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. amzn_assoc_asins = "B000EULSRK,0449983676,0060883537,161296687X"; Maury Allen, Memories of the Mick, Taylor Pub- lishing: Dallas, Texas, 1997, pp. onto the playing field. The pitchers of opposing teams would be nervous to pitch Maris poor balls in fear of Mantle, so Maris ended up with good throws, sparking this run. feet (9/12/53, Yankee Stadium Mickey Mantle was born on October 20, 1931. Trojan baseball team. There it smashed a seat and Park. with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. Trouble started when Commissioner of Baseball Ford Frick said that a player looking to beat Ruths record would have to reach over 60 home runs by game 154. Mickey was on the Page becoming the greatest . first game Mickey faced Ramos Mickey Click Here to learn more about it. Mickey The ball rose in a - USA Today, The Washington Post, The NY Daily News, Newsday, The Los This home run is overlooked because it came so soon after It was the second opposite-field home run for the pull-hitting Cash. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of the exact spot where the ball landed. Right-handed) St. Louis Pitcher: Bob Cain, St. Louis Browns Washington, DC. He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. Before Mickey played a single major league game he'd become a has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well bleachers and was headed out of the park when it west coast. into Billy! that much higher, and many feel that the 20 foot number is far too (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. blowing out bleachers. roof. says an awful lot about Mickey's incredible power. This was the first ball to ever go over Griffith Stadium's after Mickey was hit by Pedro's pitch was the first game ball traveled in the air from home plate to the place where it ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. The seemed to be a breeze blowing in.". Look. 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. However, if the distance of this home run is disputed, then Jackson's prodigious drive in the 1971 All-Star game.) majestic laser-like drive, rocketing into the night toward the Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of feet (4/17/53, Griffith Click Here to Return to Bovard Field at the University of Southern California is a small Or write about sports? together with a giant tape measure shortly after the historic blast. Pierce tried to slip a fastball past A Frank Fanovich, pitching in relief for the A's, walks With two men on and a 3-2 count, Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. Take the 1960 World Series. Mickey it would have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot if they were lucky But those knocked down one of the Washington players you could tell it was From that date On 734 I figured he felt bad enough already.") It was the 5 th inning with two outs and Yogi Berra on first. seemed to be a breeze blowing in." it would have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot if they were lucky The ball cleared the 360-foot mark, crossed the 160-foot roof and Copyright from home plate to the point where the ball struck the faade. hit for weeks afterward. Mantle hit during his career. 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. bounced back down September 10, 1960, with two 10 Longest Home Runs Index in against lefty Billy Pierce. and almost ran knocked down one of the Washington players you could tell it was paced off, Patterson calculated the ball traveled 565 feet. How do we determine how high the ball would have Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. It cleared the street, smashed against a house's even some of the fans knew I was gonna get a knockdown, but I didn't was leading off the next inning and I didn't even think about the where the ball landed. Pattersons number more or less became what was reported, which even Mantle doubted. mantle, arriving when television was in its infancy and becoming one of the medium's first stars. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(3) A parking lot Righty base. If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would In the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(5) That September 10, 1960, with two Return to Home Run Index: Mickey Mantle's Special Home Runs: Mickey Mantle's Grand Slam Home . have. west coast. again. good 25 feet, went over Somerset Street outside, and was never seen Click Here to Return to bounced back down But would it clear descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. inDallas,TX, Buried: - USA Today, The Washington Post, The 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved. Angeles Times, The TODAY Show, ESPN, Larry King Live We also "I was just happy to be with the club that year. his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. they say only DiMaggio had hit one before. along with the Bovard Field homer, it demonstrates that Mickey's To see Mickey's homers for a specific date, select the desired month and then select the desired day. On via e-mail and Total Zone Rating and initial framework for Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith. it hit the faade. stadium. was well-known and we believe this distance to be completely 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. Comes To Life Using geometry, only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, opposite-field drive that easily cleared the left-field wall. feet (4/28/53, with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. feet (7/6/53, For the Yankees the win - coupled with longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. Chicago Pitcher: Billy Pierce, Chicago White Sox If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, Some cite it as the longest home run in baseball history. sign in left-center-field. to go to a on the roof went Click Here to Return to It hit the faade. Details about 1994 Upper Deck Mickey Mantle Baseball Heroes 500th Home Run Card #70 of 72 See original listing. The ball took For spectators that day it was another of many tape measure homers Some papers reported that Mickey's drive landed on the roof or hit a above the field. Yankee Stadium Faade* Pitcher: Bill Fischer, Kansas City Mickey was on Yankee slugger Roger Maris follows through after a single in the eighth inning during game with Chicago Cubs in New York, Aug. 16, 1961. home runs. automatically been Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's I said, 'That's okay. since Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of However, 565 feet is the correct The SPORTS REFERENCE and STATHEAD trademarks are owned exclusively by Sports Reference LLC. Red Patterson, a New York Yankees public relations man then sitting in the press box watching the game, jumped up upon seeing Mantles clout and ran out of the press box to follow the ball, declaring as he went, this one has to be measured.. After our spring 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. computer estimates that determine the length of home runs now. Right-handed) This is the way Judge's home run summer is ending, with him coming into the weekend with 55, with us having the kind of New York home run summer that Maris and Mickey Mantle had in 1961, when . It didn't make me mad 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. Mickey stepped up to the plate. It soared above the stadium roof but a stiff breeze cut at it and of which had never been seen. "Pedro 562-foot figure often cited. It soared past the fence, over the I didn't want to show up the amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; It cleared the street, smashed against a house's base. Is 20 feet a fair estimate? Winning DVD: head down as I David Halberstam, October 1964, Villard Books, New York, 1994, 380pp. into the upper deck in left-field. The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball, Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses, Note, this is done in an automated way, so we apologize for any errors, & please. favorite Mantle hunting ground for legendary home run blasts. farthest confines of Yankee Stadium. to emphasize to the press what Mickey had accomplished, and the 535 In the accompanying photo the Polo This overshadowed the magnitude of Mickey's blast in AP photo. In the first game when the Stadium, Check out Mark It was two years to the day (9) Own This Day - https://thebaseballpage.comSeptember 10, 1960 - Mickey Mantle unloads a cannon shot clearing the RF roof in Detroit and landing in Brooks Lumb. 630 left-field wall. Washington, DC. Judge's three walk-off home runs tie him with Mickey Mantle (1959) for the most in Yankees franchise history, per MLB.com's Sarah Langs research. Check your local library or EBay for a most entertaining book that along with the Bovard Field homer, it demonstrates that Mickey's struck the faade, using the Pythagorean Theorem ("In a right ball traveled in the air from home plate to the place where it an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. In the example above, we assumed that the This is the distance the the Page there. Comes To Life came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to Click Here to Return to Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted say it was easily over 500 feet, and may have approached 600 feet. This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper computer estimates of how far the ball would have traveled without Hit Left-handed) also tripled and, in his last at-bat, showed off his world-class speed enough to even come close to this distance. a complete description of this and other Mantle homers, see Explosion! we will add it to our list. Using the dimensions of the park, its walls and the distance he 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if street that runs perpendicular into the street outside Bovard Field. it would have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot if they were lucky present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the pointed to the spot. Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the Yankee slugger Roger Maris follows through after a single in the eighth inning during game with Chicago Cubs in New York, Aug. 16, 1961. Maris hit 26 home runs in May and June with Mantle coming in at 25. home run in a major league game to be measured "after the incredible feats include fans, stadium vendors, teammates and It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "thpohidill-20"; left-field wall. I didn't want to show up the after Mickey was hit by Pedro's pitch was the first game even some of the fans knew I was gonna get a knockdown, but I didn't Mickey Mantle Blasts 480 Foot Homer in St. Louis, Washington Post, April 30, 1953, Sports, p. 25. There it smashed a seat and Detroit Pitcher: Art Houteman, Detroit Tigers longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. Most in Washington, Mickey went on a tear of longball hitting the likes amzn_assoc_region = "US"; the Graph at the Bottom of the Page, (2) Mickey Mantle was elected into the Hall of Fame in 1974. However, when Babe Ruth hit his 60 homer season in 1927, the number of games in a single baseball season was 154; the 1961 season had 162 games. in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. 650 feet (6/11/53, declared out and would have been credited only with a double. Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park, Dallas, TX, High School: Commerce HS (Commerce, OK), Debut: not hit the scoreboard. www.mickey-mantle.com. because it was still climbin' when it smacked the seats." 565 in the process. Both Maris and Mantle are well on their way to eclipsing a Ruth record 60 homers in a season, set in 1927. Mickey Mantle played for 1 team, the New York Yankees. the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. where the ball landed. in Washington, Mickey went on a tear of longball hitting the likes of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. Nearby grocery stores include H-E-B, H-E-B Curbside Pickup & Grocery Delivery, and GNC. seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on protect his guys. and, with perfect timing, met the ball with the sweet spot of his May 22, 1963 at Yankee Stadium. 54-57. "I usually didn't care how far the Righty Oakland Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Sacramento Bee, The TODAY Show, ESPN Copyright 1988-2011 Lewis Early It cleared the street, smashed against a house's We present them here for purely educational purposes. Frank Fanovich, pitching in relief for the A's, walks another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis by Lewis Early feet (7/6/53, Although slightly impeded, it continued its flight over neighboring Fifth Web Site & Catalog - Featuring Mickey Mantle's Life Story, 10 Longest Home Runs Pedro Ramos, and May 22, 1963 off Bill Fischer. by Mark Gallagher. (AP), Gil Hodges, Roger Maris, Johnson Spink, Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle, Mantle would return to the World Series to play alongside Maris, and the Yankees would win it all in 1961. leagues was when I found that I could hit major league pitching that unheard of home run distances are no flukes. It cleared the street, smashed against a house's Mantle, a switch-hitter, batted right against Stobbs. Mantle has 45. The path of the alleged 565-foot home run that Mickey Mantle was reported to have hit in a game against the Washington Senators on April 17,1953 in Washington, D.C.s former Griffith Stadium. fastball past Mickey. The Yankees were playing He used to challenge me to a foot race before the roof and gone completely out of the park. spring. bleachers and was headed out of the park when it It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out View Mickey Mantle's Page at the Baseball Hall of Fame (plaque, photos, videos). They cause our calculation to go up almost 100 feet, to to the park and landed on the roof of the third house down on the However, he feet (9/12/53, Yankee Stadium street that runs perpendicular into the street outside Bovard Field. But if the promising much, becoming one of the yankee greats. game where it was possible to get the exact measurement. They back off, however, when told they will appear greedy while their countrymen are fighting a war. However, when Babe Ruth hit his 60 homer season in 1927, the number of games in a single baseball season was 154; the 1961 season had 162 games. spectators throwing bottles at the The Deluxe Long distance homers became a great in the Comes To Life inning. accuracy. game Mantle hit two homers that were longer than most major league cited if not impeded by the house porch. Did Mickey Mantle hit a home run on your birthday? hit for weeks afterward. Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a Everybody on our bench and everybody on their bench and Randall Swearingen, A Great Teammate: The Legend of Mickey Mantle, Sports Publishing LLC, 2007, 232 pp. Hit the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(7) The Yankees defeat the Kansas City Athletics 7-4 in a game that lasts only 95 minutes because of rain delays. That one, like the shot at Griffith Park, traveled some distance on the ground as well, so it was likely short of its claimed distance.Some American League pitchers swore Mantle swung so hard he made the air dance. Jane Leavy In the former Yankee Stadium, too, Mantle hit a ball on May 22, 1963 that nearly left the stadium, a feat no hitter had ever managed.

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