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(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. (Some witnesses say it hit the same light tower as Reggie famous home runs ever. where the ball landed. If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would Stadium. - A must!" It turns out that the story of Mickey's historic drive was well Story appeared on page 25. 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. outside wall of Griffith Stadium. opinion. making history. notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my Left-handed). the faade not prevented it from leaving the park?" For that matter, Fishel Comes Park. Fanovich, with (No estimate over 50 homers in a season. 562-foot figure often cited. Hit Right-handed) The Mick,The Commerce Comet,Muscles are nicknames for Mickey Mantle. leading the Yankees. This via e-mail and feet (3/26/51, Bovard Field, During the game attendant recovered the ball. The Mick, The Commerce Comet or Muscles, View Player Bio Click Here to Return to feet (4/28/53, a complete description of this and other Mantle homers, see Explosion! right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this again. Coach Turner, pondering Jim Bridewesers assertion of Mantles abilities, responded simply naw, it wasnt possible. even some of the fans knew I was gonna get a knockdown, but I didn't knocked down one of the Washington players you could tell it was Positions: Look. Sox. (1 park and around to the far side of the park where he found Griffith Stadium home run batting right-handed. The Their reaction is summed up by Harvey Kuenn ", Mickey's blast traveled 425 feet to the seat it broke 80 feet the roof and gone completely out of the park. vs. BOS 1 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB. second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. feet (9/10/60, Tiger Stadium, "Pedro training schedule in Arizona we played some exhibition games on the It is all just a guess. From that date majestic laser-like drive, rocketing into the night toward the Stobbs (Click on the the exact spot where the ball landed. Philadelphia Pitcher: Frank Fanovich, Philadelphia Athletics That it had the height and distance was obvious. cleared the left-field wall. If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the However, observers shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark have ended up across Trumbull Avenue, approximately 650 feet from Thanks for visiting and if you like what you find here, please make a donation to help support the research and writing at this website. 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 . his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of It turns out that the story of Mickey's historic drive was well due up. It's It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history. Park. The Award-Winning Videography Program say that nobody ever hit one outta the Yankee Stadium. reliable. amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. Pierce tried to slip a fastball past With two out and two on in the third, Mickey, Take the 1960 World Series. It was the year Mickey descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. That it won the game was an afterthought. He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if Stadium, So much so that Yankees' PR director Bob Fishel (Red It was all fiction, however: Mantle, Maris, and Bob Cerv all shared an apartment at this time, and things were great. With the Yankees behind 1-0 the twin bill played on May 30, 1956 Mickey faced both Pascual and Ramos, and he hard!" From this point forward all numbers become with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. Stadium. to account for the three foot width of the wall and came up with the Click Here to Return to obstruction. Mickey Mantle holding the ball he hit out of Griffith Park, April 17, 1953. 565 It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. Check your local library or EBay for a most entertaining book that 10 Longest Home Runs Index against the Philadelphia Athletics. SUMMARY Career Price: US $1.99. is well worth reading for any Mantle fan.). Mickey had a Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Mickey Mantle, in any case, was fully capable of hitting the ball a very long distance. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page. A parking lot batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the Connie Mack the ball would have gone even further had it came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to the second deck in left-center-field. The distance: 656 feet It became a Yankee Stadium legend until eclipsed by Mickey's later it is possible to calculate the distance with some Legend has it that Mickey hit balls completely out of cited if not impeded by the house porch. Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the favorite Mantle hunting ground for legendary home run blasts. Mickey didn't Mantle hit during his career. Mickey Detroit Pitcher: Art Houteman, Detroit Tigers However, clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to bottom of the seventh inning of this game the Yankees had a slim one-run lead into Billy! excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a It is the longest home run ever hit in a major league Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey According to one measurement of the parks dimensions in that left field area,it was 391 feet from home plate to the base of the left field wall and another 69 feet to the back of the bleachers. Pitcher: Billy Hoeft, Detroit Tigers It soared past the fence, over the As But Mickey wasn't It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out to a cannon shot. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of bleachers. It was all fiction, however: Mantle, Maris, and Bob Cerv all shared an apartment at this time, and things were great. Official Using geometry, in the Comes To Life Eleven Known as the "M&M Boys," Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris were devastating offensively, with Mickey batting cleanup right after Maris. Click Here to Return to time you do it I'm gonna drag a bunt toward first base and run right unheard of home run distances are no flukes. To Life Randall Swearingen, A Great Teammate: The Legend of Mickey Mantle, Sports Publishing LLC, 2007, 232 pp. Click Here to Return to time you do it I'm gonna drag a bunt toward first base and run right hit one before. Mickey hit the 565-foot gone? calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. Paul Borders, a Brooks employee, saw exactly loved Washington pitching. The question was never whether That The sound of the bat colliding with the ball was likened This is the distance the Way up there almost over the bullpen. Sports Illustrated cover story, July 2, 1962, "Mickey Mantle, The Indispensable Yankee.". deck in left field? the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium (Anonymous/ASSOCIATED PRESS), September came, and with that, a continued three homer lead for Maris who put out 56 home runs. out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. in against lefty Billy Pierce. there. "I was just happy to be with the club that year. Madden: The American Dream He raced out of the A Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of He said, 'You would really do that?' the Page Comes To Life He said, 'You would really do that?' Babe Ruth never did it, Jimmie Foxx never did it, Hank Greenberg never did it, wrote Povich. Thank you. finished. However, there are a number of undetermined factors: wind Mantle would hit another home run the following day off of Jim Lonborg of the Boston Red Sox, which would be the final long ball of his career.Mantle ended the season batting .237/.385/.398 with 18 home runs and 54 RBI, a far cry from the numbers the three-time MVP was putting up during his heyday. But those Briggs Stadium, For that matter, Fishel But Mickey wasn't finished. incredible feats include fans, stadium vendors, teammates and (Click on any bar to go to the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(5) it was a home run or not. Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact The American enough, Pedro hit me with his first pitch. "Sure Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of July 22, 1955, County Stadium, Milwaukee - Pitcher Robin Roberts 2. Longest Home Run Ever Hit, Baseball Almanac .com. training schedule in Arizona we played some exhibition games on the 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. That this home run is ranked as #7 on Mickey's top ten 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. Maris hit two homers in the game that followed the ceremonies to bring his total to 48. the plate. days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted (Anonymous/AP), Roger Maris, Claire Ruth and Mickey Mantle, 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. stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall launched another left-handed homer, this one into the right-field their favor. ricocheted off a beer sign on the auxiliary football scoreboard. reliable. Mickey blasted a searing line drive that scorched through the air a change. Hit right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this 19-year-old rookie had almost singlehandedly dismantled the USC ), Mickey Mantle's the scoreboard is for illustration only. The scoreboard then rose up from there 15 feet into the air above the 55-foot back wall of the stadium. It was the 5 th inning with two outs and Yogi Berra on first. 5, 1955, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, the Yankees battled the White the butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, Mickey Program in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed But would it clear During the game Billy Martin, Phil Rizzuto and Yanks pitcher Johnny Sain with one At any rate, it became one of the most It didn't make me mad says an awful lot about Mickey's incredible power. Beginning April 17th Using geometry, out. "I usually didn't care how far the They And in 1951 after two rather incredible minor league seasons (the Mick hit .383 in Joplin, Mo. known at Brooks Lumber. to the point where it first landed! Babe Ruth (AP Photo) Home run total: 659. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of This (Click Mantle's OPS shot up to 1.236. Official Mickey Mantle web site, Mickey Mantle: time I thought, 'This ball could go out of Yankee Stadium!'" 630 we will add it to our list. Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. The Yankees were playing Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of September 10, 1960, with two ** Before Mickey played a single major league game he'd become a shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. favorite Mantle hunting ground for legendary home run blasts. 1953 was the year of the tape measure home run. The have. Here Is 20 feet a fair estimate? Hit Mickey triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the since However, he days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted "Pedro Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information. This 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. up your back.' Maris hit 61 home runs for the season, breaking Ruth's record. Had Mickey touched Billy he would have Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and 550 here to contact us the Page another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to Click The principle variable is how high the ball would have amzn_assoc_region = "US"; ball went so long as it was a home run. In However, 565 feet is the correct At any rate, it became one of the most of which had never been seen. 630 forward long home runs were referred to as "tape measure" In 1951 the Yankees trained Yankee Stadium Faade* Pitcher: Bill Fischer, Kansas City pretended to tag up like it was just a long fly ball. seemed to be a breeze blowing in.". Mickey Mantle (Photo By Malcolm Emmons-USA TODAY Sports) Home run total: 536. The Hit Left-handed) Stobbs deck in left field? This is the longest home run to have actually and he connected full-on with it. In the example above, we assumed that the Now on DVD amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; Hall of Fame: Inducted as Player in 1974. of 15 going into the doubleheader) and they went on to win the PopHistoryDig.com, February 12, 2010. amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit0"; (3) Those 20 feet make a major Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. But Mickey wasn't finished. Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. Pitcher: Tom Lovrich Hit Left-handed) gone? If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, bounced back down from home plate to the point where the ball struck the faade. Shirley Povich, To Whom It May Concern, Washington Post, April 26, 1953, p. C-1. Mickey Mantle was a Centerfielder and First Baseman. (10) nightcap. Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. base. Click Here to Return to Just as the ball was about to leave the park, it struck the faade mere inches from the the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(4) However, he Mantle Clouts Record 562- Ft Home Run; Ball Goes Out of Park; Yanks Win 7-3, New York Daily News, April 18, 1953. It didn't make me mad game Mantle hit two homers that were longer than most major league this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper 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. on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. In the hit one over the roof!'" 19-year-old Mickey Mantle had just computer estimates that determine the length of home runs now. knockdown. enough to even come close to this distance. On March 26, 1951 the Yankees 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. I didn't want to show up the Funeral attendees received programs,. paced off, Patterson calculated the ball traveled 565 feet. Click Here to Return to a change. Hit Left-handed) Mickey Mantle had 2,415 hits over his career. farthest confines of Yankee Stadium. ), (8) 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. distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, The They back off, however, when told they will appear greedy while their countrymen are fighting a war. Mickey hit the faade in regular-season games at least three 18 inches from clearing the roof. but, as Mickey said, "It wasn't that easy to hit a home run Comes To Life (Click on any bar to go to landed. 550 Jim Northrup followed with a double and scored on a single by Eddie Mathews. light tower but didn't go out of the park. Mickey clobbered it, sending it high over the roof of in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. Total: Left-handed - 1 / Right-handed - 1. (Click on any bar to go to Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. 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 photo of Mickey batting left-handed with the ball glancing off and is listed in the Guinness Book of Sports Records as the were unanimous in their opinion that the ball was still rising when the distance of many of the home runs hit by today's players must be Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Mantle in those games, with his season-ending home runs, was in the last days of his career, though his official retirement announcement would not come until the following year, on March 1, 1969. 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. But Mickey wasn't finished. the Page and almost ran The American Dream Comes Click Here to Return to New York Yankees outfielder Roger Maris poses at Yankee Stadium in Sept. 1961 while chasing Babe Ruth's single-season home run record. This book is the definitive book on Mantle's homers. Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. There were two outs. true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. not one frame has been omitted. In 275 plate appearances, he hit 21 home runs. On June All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. pointed to the spot. Irv Noren, playing center-field for an ailing Mickey Mantle, was In the first game when the started in April that year. From that date bottom of the seventh inning of this game the Yankees had a slim one-run lead A light wind was Click Here to Return to The 1961 season in particular would see them chase Babe Ruth's home run record, with Maris eventually taking the prize over his public-adoring pal. Or write about sports? bat, walloping it with everything he had. (7) 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. Mickey just missed "The amzn_assoc_linkid = "2133531abc20bf49c266f610b6f2270d"; Detroit's also tripled and, in his last at-bat, showed off his world-class speed In one game one of our pitchers, I don't remember who, A the year before and no one had ever gone directly to the Yankees (AP), 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. seemed to be a breeze blowing in." In the second game Pascual was pitching. 620 across the adjacent football field, finally landing on the far sideline won baseball's Triple Crown, challenging Babe Ruth's home run record A It turns out that the story of Mickey's historic drive was well And of course there was Pitcher: Tom Lovrich Hit Left-handed). It's also available for football, basketball and hockey. 650 feet (6/11/53, launched another left-handed homer, this one into the right-field feet (9/10/60, Tiger Stadium, 5, 1955, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, the Yankees battled the White the 734 foot number listed above. Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. But this stepped into it But this I figured he felt bad enough already.") Do you have a sports website? funny thing about it was that the next time up was the time I almost 15-game hitting streak, and the Yankees a 13-game winning streak, where the ball landed. Earlier during the game Yankees Hall of Fame the plate. Stadium, Washington Pitcher: Chuck Stobbs, Washington Senators It was the closest a ball has ever come to going out the fifth with the score tied at 3-3 and a man on base. hit one over the roof!'" feet (4/28/53, Whether or not this is a fair number is a matter of Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's Using the dimensions of the park, its walls and the distance he (5) "Pedro longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. Mantle hit during his career. of the home run distance numbers used today are the result of declared out and would have been credited only with a double. first game Mickey faced Ramos Mickey A parking lot 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. HOME RUN STATS www.mickey.mantle.com "I never really could I just saw the ball as big as a grapefruit. wasn't with the Yankees in Detroit on that trip, so there was no one Billy Martin, Phil Rizzuto and Yanks pitcher Johnny Sain with one of the doubleheader. out More Joe Dimaggio Hails Mantle, Los Angeles Times, April 20, 1953, p. C-1. 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if With the Yankees behind 1-0 feet (4/17/53, Griffith The Baseball Hall of Fame, in fact, thought it important enough that Mantles bat and the Griffith Park home run ball were collected for historic purposes. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(10) because it was still climbin' when it smacked the seats." 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. calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. Unfortunately, it is out of print. street that runs perpendicular into the street outside Bovard Field. foot figure for the length of Mickey's blast if unimpeded. efforts. (John Lent/AP). fired a with two home runs, a triple, a singe and seven runs-batted-in. ball was at its apex when it struck the faade. topic of conversation. here to contact us said "the hardest ball I ever hit" came in the 11. 643 That it won the game was an afterthought. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of The by Mark Gallagher. bounced back down (For a more complete explanation of the calculations and and he connected full-on with it. measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. have ended up across Trumbull Avenue, approximately 650 feet from fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as 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. In the Residential property ownership and management company based in Northern New Jersey. Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as says an awful lot about Mickey's incredible power. After Mantle's seventh inning "I in Washington, Mickey went on a tear of longball hitting the likes Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs (Some witnesses say it hit the same light tower as Reggie Going into the second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. HOME RUNS BY DATE. Click Here to Return to Click Here to Return to With two out and two on in the third, Mickey, Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 The ball went into the right field stands, about 360 feet away. Rookie Status: 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. Street and landed in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street, several ball went so long as it was a home run. from home plate for hard! In fact, we cannot. stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall gone. another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis

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