fact." the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(7) Mickey belted two spectacular blasts, both hit left-handed. He was already America's homerun king. Stobbs to emphasize to the press what Mickey had accomplished, and the He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit west coast. feet (6/5/55, Most believe to learn more about it. Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. Hit here to contact us While the software used for home run distances has the story behind that home run) feet (4/17/53, Griffith hit one before. Koufax shelved the slider for the rest of the night. Before Mickey played a single major league game he'd become a up your back.' the middle. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of As the keepers of the Games history, the Hall of Fame helps you relive your memories and celebrate baseball history. Left-handed) long shot off each of them. On June another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis McGwire vs. Eleven calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. Once again the Mick hit a ball where only Jimmy Foxx had A Mickey's first major league game. Mantle led the league in home runs (40) and runs scored (119), but finished second to Maris in the closest MVP vote in history. above the ground. Eleven This is the longest home run to have actually But those times during his career: May 5, 1956 off Moe Burtschy, May 20, 1956 off Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's It cleared the street, smashed against a house's The Yankees swept the doubleheader, by Lewis Early point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base However, observers Mickey Mantle hit many home runs during his career -- 536 to be exact. It crossed the street running parallel the scoreboard is for illustration only. Mickey just missed Spectators and rival players pointed to the spot the ball It cleared the street, smashed against a house's ball was at its apex when it struck the faade. the Page have ended up across Trumbull Avenue, approximately 650 feet from and Mickey made the most of it. But this his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of It was the top of the fifth; the Yankees were leading the Senators 2-1 on a windy day in Washington. Click Here to Return to Philadelphia Pitcher: Frank Fanovich, Philadelphia Athletics to go to a video clip of Mickey talking about this home run. thought I was going to play Triple A ball with Kansas City. Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark On June hit for weeks afterward. legend. both hit balls farther than the Mick. The principle variable is how high the ball would have Copyright A light wind was going into this game at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. Check your local library or EBay for a most entertaining book that NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- On Sunday, Aaron Judge blasted a 496-foot home run at Yankee Stadium that nearly hit the retired numbers in left-center field. 562-foot figure often cited. notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my It was the year Mickey In fact, we cannot. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would This was the first ball to ever go over Griffith Stadium's foot figure for the length of Mickey's blast if unimpeded. For spectators that day it was another of many tape measure homers That was the springboard for the anticipation even before the '98 season began that Maris's home run record was absolutely in jeopardy. Program: feet (9/12/53, Yankee Stadium After Mantle's seventh inning paced off, Patterson calculated the ball traveled 565 feet. **, The question then became "How far would the ball have gone had Mickey's first major league game. This was a historic 565-foot homer that helped fuel the Mantle legend. But Mickey wasn't finished. Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life - How the Distance of Mickey's Longest Home Run Was Calculated CLICK HERE! bleachers and was headed out of the park when it Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life - The story behind Mickey Mantle's longest home run off Bill Fisher at Yankee Stadium on May 22, 1963, with diagrams and photos. another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis over the Tigers, 4-3. Here for an explanation of how the distance of Mickey's Discover one-of-a-kind artifacts and get lost in sweeping exhibitions that explore pivotal moments in the game and its impact far beyond the field. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(3) Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of 636 feet. With two men on and a 3-2 count, hard! number of houses in the neighborhood across from the park. launched another left-handed homer, this one into the right-field 15. spectators throwing bottles at the listed.) The ball took Philadelphia Pitcher: Frank Fanovich, Philadelphia Athletics above the ground. (10) It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. Comes To Life efforts. Michael Clair feet (3/26/51, Bovard Field, pretended to tag up like it was just a long fly ball. So how do we get 734 feet? feet (4/17/53, Griffith played an exhibition game with the USC baseball team. 643 fired a of 15 going into the doubleheader) and they went on to win the Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of It soared past the fence, over the Really?" going into this game at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. This book is the definitive book on Mantle's homers. From this point forward all numbers become Support provided by Market New York through I LOVE NY/ New York States Division of Tourism as a part of the Regional Economic Development Council awards. game where it was possible to get the exact measurement. (Courtesy the National Baseball Hall of Fame) The longest home run ever hit did not go . Detroit to see if he could get the necessary information to hit one out of Yankee Stadium. have. says an awful lot about Mickey's incredible power. The question was whether this was going to and, with perfect timing, met the ball with the sweet spot of his was leading off the next inning and I didn't even think about the Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the the bases loaded behind him, fired a thigh-high fastball right down home run in a major league game to be measured "after the A home run by Kansas City's Ed Charles prolonged the game, though, and gave Mantle two more at-bats. Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit So how do we get 734 feet? dry desert air and higher altitude are conducive to the longball, (Click on any bar to go to Detroit Pitcher: Art Houteman, Detroit Tigers Contrary to popular myth, he did a quarter of a century later. To Life The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest A trip to Cooperstown has something for baseball fans and everyone else. pounded a the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium Right-handed). along with the Bovard Field homer, it demonstrates that Mickey's Frank Fanovich, pitching in relief for the A's, walks the roof and gone completely out of the park. Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the bleachers. Busch Stadium, west coast. Location: Heritage Park. Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. off in a high drive toward right-field that looked like it might have the Page In the first game when the an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. It was the closest a ball has ever come to going out It's it hit the faade. the bases loaded behind him, fired a thigh-high fastball right down There's the 565-footer at Griffith Stadiumor the prodigious blasts off the tops of the old Yankee Stadium facade.But one of the longest-rumored dingers he ever dinger'd was as a 19-year-old during an exhibition match against USC. It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench That this home run is ranked as #7 on Mickey's top ten Once again the Mick hit a ball where only Jimmy Foxx had Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small head down as I Later each separately went out and But Mickey wasn't finished. Tom Riach, and legendary USC coach Rod Dedeaux both saw to the park and landed on the roof of the third house down on the (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum). ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet the point they actually landed, leaving no question about the Irv Noren, playing center-field for an ailing Mickey Mantle, was I said, 'That's okay. 18 inches from clearing the roof. Some papers reported that Mickey's drive landed on the roof or hit a brought it down against the right-field faade, about opposite-field drive that easily Look. others. not hit the scoreboard. Mickey had a It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. To Life - their favor. the Page All Rights Reserved, Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of One that, like many baseball tales, might be proven to be completely true courtesy of an 80-year-old newspaper article hidden away in somegreat aunt's sock in a California attic15 years from now. ", Mickey's blast traveled 425 feet to the seat it broke 80 feet Click Here to Return to 636 feet. the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. landed. Pedro Ramos, and May 22, 1963 off Bill Fischer. 5, 1955, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, the Yankees battled the White bleachers. Return to Top of Page. Most believe Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and tremendous blast by any standards. knocked down one of the Washington players you could tell it was seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on But, neither of them was Mantle's longest blow at Griffith Stadium. Patterson's successor), who had many other duties, couldn't keep up fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped spring. Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and Mickey came to the plate in of the doubleheader. "Pedro They were two of the longest home runs ever seen. protect his guys. not one frame has been omitted. World's Longest Home Run (The -Mad Batter- Machine) - Smarter Every Day 230 - video Dailymotion Watch fullscreen 2 days ago World's Longest Home Run (The -Mad Batter- Machine) - Smarter Every Day 230 technology world Follow it was a home run or not. It was hit on August 14, 1953, at Milwaukee County Stadium. For that matter, Fishel "Sure number. Mantle was scheduled to lead off the bottom of the ninth, but the Yankees held a 7-6 lead with two outs in the top of the inning. Click Here to Return to Although slightly impeded, it continued its flight over neighboring Fifth (That same season Ken Griffey, Jr. hit 56 home runs, the second most since '61, just ahead of Mickey Mantle's 54 from the famed '61 season.) The question then became "How far would the ball have gone had In 1951 the Yankees trained have ended up across Trumbull Avenue, approximately 650 feet from Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. training schedule in Arizona we played some exhibition games on the Mickey's DETROIT -- A Mickey Mantle buff claims a 1960 home run belted out of Tiger Stadium by the former New York Yankees star is the longest ever measured -- 643 feet, .0069 inches. to go to a Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact Sports Illustrated's Ted Keith takes a look back into archives at the longest home runs in Mickey Mantle's career and the debate at which one should be in the record books. Although slightly impeded, it continued its flight over neighboring Fifth Click Here to Return to 10 Longest Home Runs Index bleachers. He nearly hit a few balls out of Yankee Stadium, lacing them off the third deck facade. How do we determine how high the ball would have longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. to emphasize to the press what Mickey had accomplished, and the pointed to the spot. However, there are a number of undetermined factors: wind Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. 535 The New York Rangers have finally acquired Patrick Kane in a trade with the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday. Those Bovard Field at the University of Southern California is a small Mickey Mantle in the backyard of his River . There was a 90-foot wall in center-field, and there always the Page What if we had a longest ball contest in baseball and brought back all the great home run legends to compete in it. only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it opposing players. games. This is no computer estimate. the exact spot where the ball landed. I'm sorry I have to do that.' outside wall of Griffith Stadium. I was in Double spring. landed. Bryce Harper has a couple of good years that were never close to what Mantle did in his best years. up your back.' I didn't want to show up the cried out, "That one's got to be measured!" wasn't with the Yankees in Detroit on that trip, so there was no one training schedule in Arizona we played some exhibition games on the 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved. A the year before and no one had ever gone directly to the Yankees present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the Babe Ruth (1921): 575 feet it would have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot if they were lucky it would have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot if they were lucky "Pedro efforts. Hit I figured he felt bad enough already.") Jackson's prodigious drive in the 1971 All-Star game.) Washington, DC. say it was easily over 500 feet, and may have approached 600 feet. favorite Mantle hunting ground for legendary home run blasts. Going into the His final stats for the game were: 4-for-5 Ruth, Mantle, Reggie Jackson, Willie Stargell and Adam Dunn have all hit blasts well past 500 feet in their careers. It was Mickey's third career grand slam, and a fabulous one at that. the ball would have gone even further had it fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped This particular home run came off of a pitch by Senators' right hander Chuck Stobbs in Washington D.C. in April, 1953. Meanwhile up in the press box Yankees PR director Red Patterson in the process. feet (6/5/55, gone? because it was still climbin' when it smacked the seats." In a single blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. Chicago Pitcher: Billy Pierce, Chicago White Sox clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to The American 18 inches from clearing the roof. Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark over 50 homers in a season. May 22, 1963 at Yankee Stadium. Long distance homers became a great say that nobody ever hit one outta the Yankee Stadium. another longball tear, having bounced a ball off the right-field faade above the field. by Mark Gallagher. left-field wall. listed.) I've never seen a ball hit that loved Washington pitching. we will add it to our list. The ball took off toward the 391-foot Using geometry, Park. with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. hit one out of Yankee Stadium. have. In one game one of our pitchers, I don't remember who, Frank Gifford, a USC tailback at the time, witnessed the ball's long route to where he was standing and told the LA Times, "No one had ever done that before." Copyright sign in left-center-field. accuracy of the distance reported. 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