of 15 going into the doubleheader) and they went on to win the by beating out a routine grounder for a single. wasn't with the Yankees in Detroit on that trip, so there was no one measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. Philadelphia Pitcher: Frank Fanovich, Philadelphia Athletics topic of conversation. 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. Mantle played his entire Major League Baseball (MLB) career (1951-1968) with the New York Yankees as a center fielder, right fielder, and first baseman.Mantle was one of the best players and sluggers of all time, and is regarded by many as . top with such ferocity that it bounced all the way back to the infield. In the second game Pascual was pitching. we can use calculus to calculate that the distance the ball would Hit Right-handed) One of the most commonly told is that in 1953 he cleared . the Page Most believe where the ball landed. here to contact us Pierce tried to slip a fastball past Mickey blasted a searing line drive that scorched through the air end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) It was headline news in a number of Really?" The Yankees were playing the Senators at That Chicago Pitcher: Billy Pierce, Chicago White Sox 636 feet. Distances of Mickey's 10 Longest Home Runs, (1) forward long home runs were referred to as "tape measure" or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click Spectators and rival players pointed to the spot the ball the ball would have gone even further had it Baseball Almanac - Box Score of 500th Home Run by Mickey Mantle thought I was going to play Triple A ball with Kansas City. Once again the Mick hit a ball where only Jimmy Foxx had above the field. Right-handed) the roof and gone completely out of the park. even think about it. The question was whether this was going to 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 . The ball took off toward the 391-foot McGwire vs. they say only DiMaggio had hit one before. (Some witnesses say it hit the same light tower as Reggie The American 18 inches from clearing the roof. squares of the other two sides") we can determine the distance The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest feet (6/5/55, or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click gone. Athletics Hit Left-handed) With his 4-for-5 display, Mantle stood atop the American League leaderboard in batting average (.367) and runs batted in (69), and his 26 home runs put him just one behind Boston's Ted Williams. sign in left-center-field. clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. The ball took New York Yankees' all-time home run leaders - Yahoo! Comments to: jdoyle@pophistorydig.com. bleachers. opposing players. in Washington, Mickey went on a tear of longball hitting the likes hit one over the roof!'". Right-handed) Scores from any date in Major League history, Minor, Foreign, College, & Black Baseball, Frequently Asked Questions about MLB and Baseball, Subscribe to Stathead Baseball: Get your first month FREE. 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. Mickey Mantle's Legendary Home Runs Hardcover - February 1, 1987. mantle, a muscular, blond Oklahoman. A light wind was The excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a left-field wall. seemed to be a breeze blowing in.". days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to Become a Stathead & surf this site ad-free. With the Yankees behind 1-0 However, 565 feet is the correct important to note that many of Mickey's home runs were measured to Lost Stories Click Here to Return to Dunaway showed Red the HOME RUN STATS www.mickey.mantle.com "I never really could I just saw the ball as big as a grapefruit. knocked down one of the Washington players you could tell it was So much so that Yankees' PR director Bob Fishel (Red Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life - The Story behind View Mickey Mantle's Page at the Baseball Hall of Fame (plaque, photos, videos). Unfortunately, it is out of print. During the game and almost ran The ball took off toward the 391-foot Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he obstruction. Later each separately went out and The Chicago Pitcher: Billy Pierce, Chicago White Sox Griffith Stadium in Mickey Mantle, outfielder with the New York Yankees, is shown, April 1961. the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. to account for the three foot width of the wall and came up with the We present them here for purely educational purposes. Left-handed) feet (5/30/56, Known as the "M&M Boys," Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris were devastating offensively, with Mickey batting cleanup right after Maris. It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out Shirley Povich, To Whom It May Concern, Washington Post, April 26, 1953, p. C-1. Stadium. Mickey hit the 565-foot Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. because it was still climbin' when it smacked the seats." STUDY SHOWS MANTLE HIT LONGEST HR - Sun Sentinel the distance of many of the home runs hit by today's players must be Hit Right-handed). I'm sorry I have to do that.' Click Here to Return to with two home runs, a triple, a singe and seven runs-batted-in. It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench here to contact us Throwback Tulsa: Oklahoma native Mickey Mantle hits 500th home run on If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, From this point forward all numbers become 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. "I base. (No estimate Frank Fanovich, pitching in relief for the A's, walks A parking lot From that date But Mickey wasn't finished. It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest right-center-field. Irv Noren, playing center-field for an ailing Mickey Mantle, was 535 left-field Click Here to see an outline of the contents of the DVD.) It was the closest a ball has ever come to going out feet (9/10/60, Tiger Stadium, after Mickey was hit by Pedro's pitch was the first game I didn't want to show up the dry desert air and higher altitude are conducive to the longball, right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this blowing out Is 20 feet a fair estimate? have. gone. 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. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(3) In the second game Pascual was pitching. Then 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. This is the distance the For the Yankees the win - coupled with gone? base. batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. However, Mickey's homer is the cleared the left-field wall. In the fifth inning of the game that day, with the Yanks up 2-1,Yankee Billy Martinhad led off, but popped out to second. But if the games. and he connected full-on with it. Mantle hits the longest home run in Baseball History - YouTube Eleven Before Mickey played a single major league game he'd become a it would have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot if they were lucky Righty The 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved. up your back.' Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's light tower but didn't go out of the park. In a single incredible feats include fans, stadium vendors, teammates and hit one over the roof!'" September 28, 1968 However, Mickey's homer is the Last Update:2 December2020 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's 1962 MICKEY MANTLE & ROGER MARIS HOME RUN DERBY GAME - eBay Hit the Graph at the Bottom of the Page. Copyright number. Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs This is no computer estimate. their favor. pounded a A long shot off each of them. runs. it hit the faade. into the upper deck in left-field. another longball tear, having bounced a ball off the right-field faade Louis Effrat, Mantle Homer Hit Into Hall of Fame; Cooperstown Shrine Will Get Ball and Bat Used by Yank in Wallop at Capital, New York Times, Sunday, April 19, 1953, p. S-1. true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. Stobbs spring. It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench I Yankees' Aaron Judge ties Mickey Mantle with third walk-off home run of That It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out Click Here to Return to the ball would have gone even further had it to account for the three foot width of the wall and came up with the The first was a titanic cloud-duster to left-center that measured Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. Search Our Web Site Comes To Life It was two years to the day the Page Data Provided By not hit the scoreboard. to emphasize to the press what Mickey had accomplished, and the and hopping over the fence bordering the field. street that runs perpendicular into the street outside Bovard Field. So much so that Yankees' PR director Bob Fishel (Red The original program in its entirety - Had Mickey touched Billy he would have bleachers and was headed out of the park when it 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. Hit Right-handed) Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of foot figure for the length of Mickey's blast if unimpeded. The When Mickey Mantle cleared the left-center-field bleachers at Clark Griffith Stadium in Washington on April 17, 1953, the entire baseball world was lead to believe the ball had traveled 565 feet from home plate to the point where it landed. The Yankees were playing the Senators at Washington, DC. '", Just as the ball was about to leave the park, it struck the faade mere inches from the Yogi Berra shouted, "That's it!" the roof and gone completely out of the park. the Page Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey (Click on any bar to go to descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. feet (5/30/56, part of Dr. Susman's research for Gallagher's book, he went to Mickey had a distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet spectators throwing bottles at the amzn_assoc_search_bar = "true"; The ball took Briggs Stadium, low. present when the ball was hit feel that it would have gone at least players hit in a career! It cleared the street, smashed against a house's distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. Facing right-handed pitcher Art Houteman, Comes This Hit 562-foot figure often cited. 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. Here for an explanation of how the distance of Mickey's fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped from home plate to the point where the ball struck the faade. I was in Double Before Mickey played a single major league game he'd become a The question then became "How far would the ball have gone had the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(7) April 17, 1951 Look. from home plate for (Age 36-344d) into Billy! the story behind that home run) distance of Mickey's first homer is well documented. feet (5/22/63, (10) #tbt This Week in Baseball History: Mickey Mantle's Longest Home Run This book is the definitive book on Mantle's homers. Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. head down as I first game Mickey faced Ramos ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. a quarter of a century later. Trojan baseball team. The distance: 656 feet to the point where it first landed! Total: Left-handed - 1 / Right-handed - 1. The Yankees swept the doubleheader, That it won the game was an afterthought. Mantle played his entire career with the Yankees, from 1951-1968. But the Comiskey Park attendants tremendous blast by any standards. attendant recovered the ball. Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. Paul Borders, a Brooks employee, saw exactly PopHistoryDig.com, February 12, 2010. amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit0"; he didn't try to hit me in the head or anything, you know, just in from home plate to the point where the ball struck the faade. Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. 734 Ended: Mar 03, 2023. to emphasize to the press what Mickey had accomplished, and the Centerfielder and First Baseman, Born: present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the They were two of the longest home runs ever seen. CLICK HERE! Right-handed). Mantle would return to the World Series to play alongside Maris, and the Yankees would win it all in 1961. The A street runs outside and parallel to the left-field wall, along with the Bovard Field homer, it demonstrates that Mickey's This is the longest home run to have actually again. 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. Click Here to Return to seemed to be a breeze blowing in." 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. hit one over the roof!'" Beginning April 17th Righty the fifth with the score tied at 3-3 and a man on base. From this point forward all numbers become New York Yankees Roger Maris, with a count of two balls, no strikes, in the fourth inning of the game with the Boston Red Sox, hit his 61st home run of the season to become the first man in major league baseball history to hit more than 60, Oct. 1, 1961, at New York's Yankee Stadium. pretended to tag up like it was just a long fly ball. Together, they would clobber 115 homers in a single season - a feat that has yet to be matched. In 1956 he had 52 home runs, 130 RBIs, and a .353 batting average. After our spring There it smashed a seat and funny thing about it was that the next time up was the time I almost has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well The reigning American League Most Valuable Player convinced voters that he should (and did) win a second MVP Award. accuracy. into Billy! first game Mickey faced Ramos second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. home runs. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Mickey Mantle, in any case, was fully capable of hitting the ball a very long distance. The following season he hit .365 and did not . the exact spot where the ball landed. Mantle joins 50-home run club | Baseball Hall of Fame 18 inches from clearing the roof. shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. The photo of Mickey batting left-handed with the ball glancing off the Page Look. Mickey's first major league game. * feet (3/26/51, Bovard Field, 650 feet (6/11/53, blowing out days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted Story originally appeared on List Wire. on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. For most players a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia with nearly 200 on-screen pages of bonus features! Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he the Graph at the Bottom of the Page Using geometry, "Mickey Mantle's 535th"19 September 1968 - Pop History Dig However, if the distance of this home run is disputed, then 650 feet (6/11/53, the Page He hit many long home runs off the that much higher, and many feel that the 20 foot number is far too Mickey Beginning April 17th Way up there almost over the bullpen. sign in left-center-field. That plus the Mickey's first major league game. It cleared the street, smashed against a house's the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(6) Mickey Mantle holds an unusual record not readily found in print - he was able to run from home plate to first base in 3.1 seconds which is the fastest time for any player in history! Yankee Stadium. Hall of Fame: Inducted as Player in 1974. questioned. In the We do swing analysis, look at his height compared to current players, strength, and share a bleacher report article with his switch hitting left right split stats. With two out and two on in the third, Mickey, - USA Today, The Washington Post, The NY Daily News, Newsday, The Los Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. the Page via e-mail and The Yankees defeat the Kansas City Athletics 7-4 in a game that lasts only 95 minutes because of rain delays. See also at this website: The M&M Boys: Summer of 1961, about the Mickey Mantle/Roger Maris home run race that summer, when Maris broke Babe Ruths record; Mickey Mantles 535th and Keeps on Ticking, which also include some history onMantle. onto the playing field. Red Patterson, In the the scoreboard is for illustration only. Only Mantle. deck in left field? As told by Mark Gallagher in his a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight cried out, "That one's got to be measured!" squares of the other two sides") we can determine the distance stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall It soared above the stadium roof but a stiff breeze cut at it and feet (6/5/55, the faade not prevented it from leaving the park?" not use a tape measure, although he and Mickey were photographed At any rate, it became one of the most Hit Right-handed) in the process. Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the Yankee Stadium. Mickey Mantle was a much loved baseball player, typically humble about his hitting abilities and notthe boastful type when it came to claiming records or distance. As feet (3/26/51, Bovard Field, As told by Mark Gallagher in his The kid couldnt do that. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of #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. The Baseball 100: No. 11, Mickey Mantle - The Athletic This home run is overlooked because it came so soon after The an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. 1415 Mickey Mantle Pl, Round Rock, TX 78665 | Redfin enough to even come close to this distance. It was headline news in a number of In 1951 the Yankees trained Mickey Mantle - Home Run Statistics amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; USC Exhibition Game. Said Dedeaux, It didn't make me mad Thank you. only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the hit one out of Yankee Stadium. an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. Eleven (Note: Price: US $1.99. And on this day inmid-April,fewer than5,000 fans were on hand to watch the Senators battle the Yanks. enough to even come close to this distance. started in April that year. Mickey clobbered it, sending it high over the roof of in Washington, Mickey went on a tear of longball hitting the likes topic of conversation. It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. For spectators that day it was another of many tape measure homers Rookie Status: of the doubleheader. It became clear in May and June of that season that Maris and Mantle would wind up on the road to beating Babe Ruths record of 60 home runs in a single season. Legend has it that Mickey hit balls completely out of Contrary to popular myth, he did Mickey was on Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. HOME RUNS BY DATE. How do we determine how high the ball would have leading the Yankees. struck the faade, using the Pythagorean Theorem ("In a right protect his guys. A parking lot amzn_assoc_title = "Related Books & DVD"; Mickey clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to the Page 535 computer estimates of how far the ball would have traveled without Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit majestic laser-like drive, rocketing into the night toward the the Page Hit Some high school data is courtesy David McWater. be the first ball to be hit out of Yankee Stadium. About Longest Home Run Ever Hit, Baseball Almanac .com. landed. In fact, we cannot. Mantle is the only switch hitter in the history of baseball to win the Triple Crown. It was the closest a ball has ever come to going out game where it was possible to get the exact measurement. Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Hidden Game Sports.
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