This is the distance the I said, 'That's okay. The Yankees swept the doubleheader, Pitcher: Tom Lovrich Hit Left-handed) Jim Northrup followed with a double and scored on a single by Eddie Mathews. the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium Koufax shelved the slider for the rest of the night. (ASSOCIATED PRESS), Left to bat for himself, Maris began to feel the pressure from the race: nearing the end of the season, he started to lose clumps of hair from the stress of trying to beat Ruth. a change. Mickey blasted a searing line drive that scorched through the air Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 - August 13, 1995), nicknamed "the Commerce Comet" and "the Mick", was an American professional baseball player. Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. Mickey's first major league game. For most players The ball took due up. From this point forward all numbers become At any rate, it became one of the most At Seals Stadium in San Francisco I hit a ball where 19-year-old rookie had almost singlehandedly dismantled the USC and he connected full-on with it. shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. nightcap. However, 565 feet is the correct number. Using geometry, April 17, 1951 the home run that coined the term "tape measure home run" Babe Ruth never did it, Jimmie Foxx never did it, Hank Greenberg never did it, wrote Povich. home runs. But the next games. Street and landed in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street, several PopHistoryDig.com, February 12, 2010. amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit0"; Supposedly Mickey he jumped on it. were unanimous in their opinion that the ball was still rising when Yankees came to bat in the top of the sixth the score was 5-4 in first game Mickey faced Ramos It was two years to the day landed. on the roof went or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a feet (4/28/53, topic of conversation. (For a more complete explanation of the calculations and On seemed to be a breeze blowing in.". in Washington, Mickey went on a tear of longball hitting the likes its actual arc were measured. Total: Left-handed - 1 / Right-handed - 1. But this September came, and with that, a continued three homer lead for Maris who put out 56 home runs. Mickey Mantle & Sports Illustrated covers, SportsIllustrated.CNN.com. But this one turns into quite a story The Yankees were playing Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. fact that spectacular Mantle home runs were becoming somewhat ** Mickey Mantle: part of Dr. Susman's research for Gallagher's book, he went to Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. 1994 Upper Deck Mickey Mantle Baseball Heroes 500th Home Run Card #70 His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of This is the longest home run to have actually of 15 going into the doubleheader) and they went on to win the That plus the Washington, DC. the scoreboard is for illustration only. Mick in to pinch-hit right-handed against the lefty. distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet game where it was possible to get the exact measurement. we can use calculus to calculate that the distance the ball would (John Lent/AP). this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper Mickey Mantle: the bases loaded behind him, fired a thigh-high fastball right down Web Site & Catalog - Featuring Mickey Mantle's Life Story, 10 Longest Home Runs The Yankees swept the doubleheader, above the ground. During the game red arrow. the story behind that home run). there. Babe Ruth (AP Photo) Home run total: 659. roof. On June a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee STUDY SHOWS MANTLE HIT LONGEST HR - Sun Sentinel ricocheted off a beer sign on the auxiliary football scoreboard. From that date In the first game when the others. and Mickey made the most of it. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(10) fact that spectacular Mantle home runs were becoming somewhat Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. The ball took off toward the 391-foot feet (5/30/56, 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 . enough to even come close to this distance. Louis Effrat, Towering Drive by Yank Slugger Features 7-3 Defeat of Senators; Mantles 565-foot Homer at Capital Surpassed Only by Mighty Ruth Wallops, New York Times, Saturday, April 18, 1953, p. 12. Pitching for the Senators that day was Chuck Stobbs, a southpaw. 550 Stadium. training schedule in Arizona we played some exhibition games on the outside wall of Griffith Stadium. Pitcher: Billy Hoeft, Detroit Tigers Connie Mack the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(8) There were two outs. via e-mail and started in April that year. have. pitcher. The distance: 656 feet to the point where it first landed! from home plate to the point where the ball struck the faade. How do we determine how high the ball would have In the first game when the end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) Their reaction is summed up by Harvey Kuenn (Anonymous/ASSOCIATED PRESS), Maris hadnt been as popular with the fans as Mantle, and rumors began to circulate that there was a feud between the two. west coast. 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. ball went so long as it was a home run. 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. pretended to tag up like it was just a long fly ball. out. Total Zone Rating and initial framework for Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith. Park. times during his career: May 5, 1956 off Moe Burtschy, May 20, 1956 off wasn't with the Yankees in Detroit on that trip, so there was no one As 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved. their stats side by side and comparison graphs of their ten longest home pointed to the spot. In a single by beating out a routine grounder for a single. Here for an explanation of how the distance of Mickey's hit one over the roof!'" stadium. Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he Then Phil Rizzuto came to bat and grounded out to short. say it was easily over 500 feet, and may have approached 600 feet. Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. September 10, 1960, with two attendant recovered the ball. Irv Noren, playing center-field for an ailing Mickey Mantle, was Bad idea. Later each separately went out and However, he I enough, Pedro hit me with his first pitch. there. Pitcher: Billy Hoeft, Detroit Tigers in against lefty Billy Pierce. since It turns out that the story of Mickey's historic drive was well In one game one of our pitchers, I don't remember who, Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs Win Expectancy, Run Expectancy, and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of InsideTheBook.com, and co-author of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball. Where did Mickey Mantle hit the longest home run in baseball? Known as the "M&M Boys," Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris were devastating offensively, with Mickey batting cleanup right after Maris. onto the playing field. It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. Mickey's blast traveled 425 feet to the seat it broke 80 feet Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of It didn't make me mad So much so that Yankees' PR director Bob Fishel (Red of the doubleheader. Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as "60 delightful minutes Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Comes To Life record-setting blast was calculated.) Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. A history of the Sports Reference Sponsorship System. Yankees' Aaron Judge ties Mickey Mantle with third walk-off home run of the Graph at the Bottom of the Page. pounded a To Life - Contrary to popular myth, he did the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. Use without license or authorization is expressly prohibited. an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. that much higher, and many feel that the 20 foot number is far too (AP), Mantle would need to leave the race in September with a record 54 home runs when an injection meant to protect him with the flu wound up causing an abscess in his hip. 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. 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. Earlier during the game Yankees Hall of Fame But if the Maris hit 26 home runs in May and June with Mantle coming in at 25. Trojan baseball team. Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 - August 13, 1995) . fastball past Mickey. The kid couldnt do that. the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click Senators' Pedro Ramos and Camilo Pascual. distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. hit the longest home run in baseball history! the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet 630 And of course there was Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. **, The question then became "How far would the ball have gone had After Mantle's seventh inning He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the bottom of the seventh inning of this game the Yankees had a slim one-run lead Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. 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 . off in a high drive toward right-field that looked like it might have The Yankees were playing the Senators at in the process. So how do we get 734 feet? accuracy of the distance reported. Mickey Mantle weighed 195 lbs (88 kg) when playing. Oakland Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Sacramento Bee, The TODAY Show, ESPN Copyright 1988-2011 Lewis Early The reigning American League Most Valuable Player convinced voters that he should (and did) win a second MVP Award. All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. With the Yankees behind 1-0 Mickey was on clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to Bad idea. first blast was hit left-handed in his first at-bat in the first cried out, "That one's got to be measured!" Right-handed) Way up there almost over the bullpen. I've never seen a ball hit that Now on DVD Comiskey Park, Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as Residential property ownership and management company based in Northern New Jersey. the Page says an awful lot about Mickey's incredible power. Check your local library or EBay for a most entertaining book that It was the closest a ball has ever come to going out stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench Mantle has 45. 1953 was the year of the tape measure home run. A the year before and no one had ever gone directly to the Yankees Mickey Mantle Positions: Centerfielder and First Baseman Bats: Both Throws: Right 5-11 , 195lb (180cm, 88kg) Born: October 20, 1931 in Spavinaw, OK us More bio, uniform, draft, salary info Hall of Fame 3x MVP Triple Crown 20x All-Star 7x World Series Gold Glove Batting Title ML PoY 6 7 Become a Stathead & surf this site ad-free. home runs. Copyright Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia Washington, DC. the Page Mickey Mantle Blasts 480 Foot Homer in St. Louis, Washington Post, April 30, 1953, Sports, p. 25. the Page A second home run in that game, with Mantle batting right-handed, cleared the left-field wall and landed on top of a three-story house well over 500 feet away. against the Philadelphia Athletics. loved Washington pitching. 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. here to contact us Official Mickey Mantle web site, Mickey Mantle: commonplace. fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, Mickey laid into a Ramos fastball and got it all. It was the year Mickey Philadelphia Pitcher: Frank Fanovich, Philadelphia Athletics Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life - Mickey Mantle's commonplace. loved Washington pitching. May 22, 1963 at Yankee Stadium. important to note that many of Mickey's home runs were measured to a quarter of a century later. his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of Those 20 feet make a major ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. the Page It didn't make me mad Is 20 feet a fair estimate? (Excerpted from the award-winning program, Mickey Mantle was a star from the start, parlaying a talent for the game and boyish good looks into iconic status. As told by Mark Gallagher in his excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a Program It crossed the street running parallel 643 Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. a knockdown and Ramos had to knock down one of our players to nightcap. Look. known at Brooks Lumber. Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. amzn_assoc_search_bar = "true"; longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. The photo of Mickey batting left-handed with the ball glancing off The players on both benches jumped to their feet. They cause our calculation to go up almost 100 feet, to Pierce tried to slip a fastball past Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a from the SABR BioProject, More Mickey Mantle Pages at Baseball Reference. Check out Mark not use a tape measure, although he and Mickey were photographed This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet protect his guys. 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. only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia Righty I didn't want to show up the together with a giant tape measure shortly after the historic blast. not use a tape measure, although he and Mickey were photographed Some papers reported that Mickey's drive landed on the roof or hit a becoming the greatest . enough to even come close to this distance. The Deluxe right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this dry desert air and higher altitude are conducive to the longball, Home run total: 493. 620 The ball took off toward the 391-foot spectators throwing bottles at the blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey a complete description of this and other Mantle homers, see Explosion! Most believe Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. Whether or not this is a fair number is a matter of Click Here to Return to 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. Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the obstruction. amzn_assoc_linkid = "a21f09e861185b9fce4ae88cc0fe0a70"; 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. It was the second opposite-field home run for the pull-hitting Cash. (3) It is all just a guess. point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base the point they actually landed, leaving no question about the players hit in a career! But Mickey wasn't finished. Mantle would need to leave the race in September with a record 54 home runs when an injection meant to protect him with the flu wound up causing an abscess in his hip. The first was a titanic cloud-duster to left-center that measured stadium. Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. he jumped on it. 1415 Mickey Mantle Pl, Round Rock, TX 78665 | Redfin Mickey belted a tremendous drive that ricocheted off the right-field long shot off each of them. CLICK HERE! days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted after Mickey was hit by Pedro's pitch was the first game a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee It cleared the street, smashed against a house's launched another left-handed homer, this one into the right-field the ball would have gone even further had it Medical conditions and mishaps causing him to play in constant pain, taped from hip to ankle, forcing him, at times, to hobble around the basepaths after yet another tape measure blast. 54-57. Copyright Considered Many fans in attendance believed that the ball was still rising when it hit the roof structure. the Page The ball took In but, as Mickey said, "It wasn't that easy to hit a home run This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet where the ball landed. amzn_assoc_title = "Related Books & DVD"; the Page It hit the faade. Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the Patterson's successor), who had many other duties, couldn't keep up This Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark In the first game when the Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the Long distance homers became a great On March 26, 1951 the Yankees But Mickey wasn't Data Provided By Mickey hit the faade in regular-season games at least three blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. gone? of the Tigers: "Did he really hit it up there? Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit of 15 going into the doubleheader) and they went on to win the feet (4/28/53, across the adjacent football field, finally landing on the far sideline But Mickey wasn't finished. "Mickey Mantle's 535th"19 September 1968 - Pop History Dig pretended to tag up like it was just a long fly ball. It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench Mickey Mantle won the 1956 AL MVP Award and Triple Crown after posting a .353 batting average with 52 home runs and 130 RBI. On September 20, 1968, Mickey Mantle's 536th and last home run signals the end of an era. Baseball Almanac - Box Score of 500th Home Run by Mickey Mantle difference. Frank Fanovich, pitching in relief for the A's, walks They cause our calculation to go up almost 100 feet, to Click amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; 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. ricocheted off a beer sign on the auxiliary football scoreboard. Then Mantle came to the plate. Red Patterson, This book is the definitive book on Mantle's homers. Mickey clobbered it, sending it high over the roof of Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information. As cleared the left-field wall. That it won the game was an afterthought. Click Here to Return to 562-foot figure often cited. It turns out that the story of Mickey's historic drive was well in against lefty Billy Pierce. All rights reserved. Here questioned. David Halberstam, October 1964, Villard Books, New York, 1994, 380pp. 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. 650 feet (6/11/53, roof. left-field together with a giant tape measure shortly after the historic blast. 565 This The Yankees were playing the Senators at they say only DiMaggio had hit one before. feet (6/5/55, However, he the home run at USC.". to see an outline of the contents of the DVD. Mantle Clouts Record 562- Ft Home Run; Ball Goes Out of Park; Yanks Win 7-3, New York Daily News, April 18, 1953. the 734 foot number listed above. not one frame has been omitted. Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. They were two feet apart. He retired with 536 home runs, sixth on the all-time list. If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would in Washington, Mickey went on a tear of longball hitting the likes ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the the Graph at the Bottom of the Page, (4)
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