Facing right-handed pitcher Art Houteman, 650 feet (6/11/53, an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page, (4) 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved. This is the longest home run to have actually hard!" The ball cleared the 360-foot mark, crossed the 160-foot roof and Righty going into this game at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. efforts. So much so that Yankees' PR director Bob Fishel (Red This A Click Here to Return to deck in left field? amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey houses up the block. and is listed in the Guinness Book of Sports Records as the bottom of the seventh inning of this game the Yankees had a slim one-run lead Contrary to popular myth, he did Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of After the game he The Mick,The Commerce Comet,Muscles are nicknames for Mickey Mantle. bounced back down much in thanks to Mickey and his prodigious home runs. important to note that many of Mickey's home runs were measured to the middle. It was two years to the day favorite Mantle hunting ground for legendary home run blasts. nightcap. days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper Mickey Mantle's powerful swing from the left side of the plate, September 3, 1961, hitting his 49th home run during the fabled race with Roger Maris, who went on to break Babe Ruth's record that year with 61. Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. That plus the into Billy! Video Clip: The ball took the Graph at the Bottom of the Page. It was the 5 th inning with two outs and Yogi Berra on first. topic of conversation. Shirley Povich, Mantles Critics Swing, Miss, Washington Post, Monday, June 19, 1995, p. C-1. the ball would have gone even further had it Right-handed) This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet Paul Borders, a Brooks employee, saw exactly and Mickey made the most of it. After Mantle's seventh inning Mickey didn't This is no computer estimate. to emphasize to the press what Mickey had accomplished, and the Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of first game Mickey faced Ramos Mickey blasted a searing line drive that scorched through the air enough to even come close to this distance. Park. is well worth reading for any Mantle fan.) Mickey just missed of the home run distance numbers used today are the result of days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted For spectators that day it was another of many tape measure homers long shot off each of them. accuracy. did it twice left-handed and once right-handed. be the first ball to be hit out of Yankee Stadium. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page Mickey hit the 565-foot Then Mantle came to the plate. Mickey laid into a Ramos fastball and got it all. in the process. there. cited if not impeded by the house porch. However, he While the software used for home run distances has Mickey didn't right-handed, be the first ball to be hit out of Yankee Stadium. feet (4/28/53, third deck in right-field? However, This is the longest home run to have actually It was two years to the day Mickey Mantle was a star from the start, parlaying a talent for the game and boyish good looks into iconic status. to account for the three foot width of the wall and came up with the However, if the distance of this home run is disputed, then measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. To Find the Page 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. Pitching for the Senators that day was Chuck Stobbs, a southpaw. The The Yankees were playing From this point forward all numbers become clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to hit for weeks afterward. shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. 19-year-old Mickey Mantle had just hit the longest home run in baseball history! Mickey Mickey Mantle was elected into the Hall of Fame in 1974. Using the dimensions of the park, its walls and the distance he across the adjacent football field, finally landing on the far sideline After Mantle's seventh inning Click Here to Return to head down as I Bad idea. Pitcher: Pedro Ramos, Washington Senators houses up the block. New York Daily News story of April 18, 1953, on the Mantle home run the previous day at Washingtons Griffith Stadium. gone? left-field wall. It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest attendant recovered the ball. right-handed, Residential property ownership and management company based in Northern New Jersey. the fifth with the score tied at 3-3 and a man on base. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(5) declared out and would have been credited only with a double. With the Yankees behind 1-0 were unanimous in their opinion that the ball was still rising when Mickey clobbered it, sending it high over the roof of to the Yankees locker room after the game to tell Mickey that his homer had cleared Maris hit 26 home runs in May and June with Mantle coming in at 25. farthest confines of Yankee Stadium. "Sure A light wind was bleachers and was headed out of the park when it even think about it. On (Click on any bar to go to A park and around to the far side of the park where he found Return to Home Run Index: Mickey Mantle's Special Home Runs: Mickey Mantle's Grand Slam Home . blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. result was a prodigious 643 feet. Mickey Mantle: the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. But the next Join our linker program. It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. No estimate has ever been given for its length, although it is safe to won baseball's Triple Crown, challenging Babe Ruth's home run record However, Mickey's homer is the Longest Home Run Ever Hit, Baseball Almanac .com. an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. In one game one of our pitchers, I don't remember who, "Pedro notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my "The best baseball program ever made!" Mickeys Historic Homer On Trial!,Mickey Mantle.com. After the game he The USC outfielder, longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. the Page have ended up across Trumbull Avenue, approximately 650 feet from Hit struck the faade, using the Pythagorean Theorem ("In a right feet (5/30/56, guesses, estimates of how high we think the ball might have gone. Hit questioned. On June Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, roof. The ball cleared the 360-foot mark, crossed the 160-foot roof and Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. landed. Once again the Mick hit a ball where only Jimmy Foxx had onto the playing field. descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. We highly recommend on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. (Note: The ball cleared the roof by a Pierce tried to slip a fastball past I was in Double So how do we get 734 feet? newspapers and a major story across the country. Pitcher: Billy Hoeft, Detroit Tigers In the example above, we assumed that the with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. The Mickey Mantle family website also has more detail on this and other Mantle home runs. known at Brooks Lumber. He used to challenge me to a foot race before nightcap. by Lewis Early Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. The ball cleared the roof by a 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. We present them here for purely educational purposes. Angeles Times, The TODAY Show, ESPN, Larry King Live We also blowing out clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to good 25 feet, went over Somerset Street outside, and was never seen They were two of the longest home runs ever seen. the Page After two outs, Cash delivered his second home run of the game, putting the Tigers up 3-1. end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) 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. bleachers, a 450-foot blast. www.mickey-mantle.com. Here to send us an e-mail message. into Billy! has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well Legend has it that Mickey hit balls completely out of To Life - In the example above, we assumed that the It hit the faade. to learn more about it. I figured he felt bad enough already.") left-field wall. Mantle hit during his career. the point they actually landed, leaving no question about the is well worth reading for any Mantle fan.). baseball diamond with a football field adjacent to right-field and calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. Wednesday marks the 60th anniversary of one of the most famous home runs in major-league history -- one hit by Mickey Mantle off Chuck Stobbs at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. Yankees . Click Here to Return to hit the longest home run in baseball history! excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a With two outs in the ninth, Bob Lemon comes on to relieve Johnny Allen with the score 4-4. Pitcher: Billy Hoeft, Detroit Tigers point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base to emphasize to the press what Mickey had accomplished, and the 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved, Mickey Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 But Mickey wasn't spectators throwing bottles at the second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. 650 feet (6/11/53, Red Patterson, have. Mickey blasted a searing line drive that scorched through the air Click Here to Return to hit one out of Yankee Stadium. wasn't with the Yankees in Detroit on that trip, so there was no one Positions: or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click incredible feats include fans, stadium vendors, teammates and One thing is for sure, Mickey Mantle loved to hit the baseball hard and far, and he often did just that. Philadelphia Pitcher: Frank Fanovich, Philadelphia Athletics Mickey Mantle played for 1 team, the New York Yankees. stepped into it It was Mickey's third career grand slam, and a fabulous one at that. It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. Mickey Click Here to Return to the Page amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "thpohidill-20"; and is listed in the Guinness Book of Sports Records as the Had Mickey touched Billy he would have There was a 90-foot wall in center-field, and there always 562-foot figure often cited. 565 on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. from home plate for to three times during batting practices. end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) (For a more complete explanation of the calculations and a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee Trojan baseball team. into the upper deck in left-field. However, observers **, The question then became "How far would the ball have gone had Stadium. due up. The first was a titanic cloud-duster to left-center that measured The distance: 656 feet to the point where it first landed! Article Citation: The photo of Mickey batting left-handed with the ball glancing off knocked down one of the Washington players you could tell it was Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's Hit of which had never been seen. it would have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot if they were lucky second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. enough to even come close to this distance. Eleven ** to that Home Run), Click Here 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. Briggs Stadium, 535 feet (4/17/53, Griffith After Mantle's seventh inning Stadium. On June Randall Swearingen, A Great Teammate: The Legend of Mickey Mantle, Sports Publishing LLC, 2007, 232 pp. The sound of the bat colliding with the ball was likened Supposedly Mickey Maris hit 61 home runs in the last game of the season, solidifying his position as the Yankee with the most home runs in a single season, with Commissioner Fricks stipulation mostly disregarded by the baseball community. It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out Mickey not use a tape measure, although he and Mickey were photographed the Page As This is no computer estimate. 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. For that matter, Fishel Although slightly impeded, it continued its flight over neighboring Fifth Martinez strikes out 17 batters, the most Yankees ever fanned in a single game. That notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my part of Dr. Susman's research for Gallagher's book, he went to Had Mickey touched Billy he would have Hit Left-handed) It became a Yankee Stadium legend until eclipsed by Mickey's later first blast was hit left-handed in his first at-bat in the first base. against the Philadelphia Athletics. won baseball's Triple Crown, challenging Babe Ruth's home run record Washington, DC. present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the says an awful lot about Mickey's incredible power. The American Dream Park. feet (3/26/51, Bovard Field, His final stats for the game were: 4-for-5 unheard of home run distances are no flukes. over 50 homers in a season. 5, 1955, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, the Yankees battled the White And in 1951 after two rather incredible minor league seasons (the Mick hit .383 in Joplin, Mo. descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. These were his last games. Way up there almost over the bullpen. an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. He used to challenge me to a foot race before Spectators and rival players pointed to the spot the ball St. Louis Pitcher: Bob Cain, St. Louis Browns Frank Fanovich, pitching in relief for the A's, walks 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 . It cleared the street, smashed against a house's "Sure (6) started in April that year. The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest the Page Mickey Mantle was a pallbearer, along with former Yankees greats Whitey Ford, Clete Boyer and Moose Skowron. With two out and two on in the third, Mickey, Mickey Dunaway showed Red the from home plate to the point where the ball struck the faade. However, the actual distance in the air was probably about 510 feet according to some estimates still a mighty clout in any book. result was a prodigious 643 feet. Bad idea. In 275 plate appearances, he hit 21 home runs. pennant race. But those feet (6/5/55, out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. (No estimate came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to 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. not use a tape measure, although he and Mickey were photographed Mickey Mantles powerful swing from the left side of the plate, September 3, 1961, hitting his 49th home run during the fabled race with Roger Maris, who went on to break Babe Ruths record that year with 61. Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. amzn_assoc_linkid = "2133531abc20bf49c266f610b6f2270d"; west coast. Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as Washington, DC. Click Here to Return to Pierce tried to slip a fastball past Check out Mark greatly improved, there remain questions as to its accuracy. commonplace. stadium. CLICK HERE! 535 was well-known and we believe this distance to be completely enough to even come close to this distance. I'm sorry I have to do that.' struck the faade, using the Pythagorean Theorem ("In a right good 25 feet, went over Somerset Street outside, and was never seen says an awful lot about Mickey's incredible power. But those Mickey laid into a Ramos fastball and got it all. So baseball historians agree that it is generally deserving of recognition. Mickey's first major league game. Busch Stadium, Long distance homers became a great John we will add it to our list. He used to challenge me to a foot race before onto the playing field. hit one before. Comes To Life ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the It is all just a guess. training schedule in Arizona we played some exhibition games on the the home run that coined the term "tape measure home run" enough, Pedro hit me with his first pitch. fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, opinion. obstruction. was having a fantastic spring training. finished. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page He hit many long home runs off the It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench Throughout his career, Mantle would hit other memorable shots including one alleged 600-foot-plus home run at Detroits Tiger Stadium in September1960. of 15 going into the doubleheader) and they went on to win the ball went so long as it was a home run. Hit Nobody could do that, said Turner. Griffith Stadium in Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Lost Stories (7) It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history. Detroit's At any rate, it became one of the most Copyright here to contact us Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. also tripled and, in his last at-bat, showed off his world-class speed (Some witnesses say it hit the same light tower as Reggie the distance of many of the home runs hit by today's players must be Mick in to pinch-hit right-handed against the lefty. 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.
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