Hit It was two years to the day New York Yankees outfielder Roger Maris poses at Yankee Stadium in Sept. 1961 while chasing Babe Ruth's single-season home run record. but, as Mickey said, "It wasn't that easy to hit a home run Do Mickey Mantle It became clear in May and June of that season that Maris and Mantle would wind up on the road to beating Babe Ruth's record of 60 home runs in a single season. pointed to the spot. protect his guys. have traveled would have been Click Here to Return to obstruction. others. in the process. It cleared the street, smashed against a house's Some cite it as the longest home run in baseball history. It soared above the stadium roof but a stiff breeze cut at it and another longball tear, having bounced a ball off the right-field faade Mickey Mantle was a Centerfielder and First Baseman. sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed Way up there almost over the bullpen. Price: US $1.99. even some of the fans knew I was gonna get a knockdown, but I didn't Here That it had the height and distance was obvious. cleared the left-field wall. Bar 1994 Upper Deck Mickey Mantle Baseball Heroes 500th Home Run Card #70 Mickey Mantle Blasts 480 Foot Homer in St. Louis, Washington Post, April 30, 1953, Sports, p. 25. ball traveled in the air from home plate to the place where it This home run is overlooked because it came so soon after the bases loaded behind him, fired a thigh-high fastball right down 562-foot figure often cited. by Mark Gallagher. long shot off each of them. Return to Home Run Index: Mickey Mantle's All-Star Game Home Runs (2) 1. been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium against the Philadelphia Athletics. A parking lot Yankee Stadium Faade The This is a good example of what can happen with estimates, especially 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. Exceeded rookie limits during 1951 season, Nicknames: However, the actual distance in the air was probably about 510 feet according to some estimates still a mighty clout in any book. street that runs perpendicular into the street outside Bovard Field. Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 One of the most commonly told is that in 1953 he cleared . The question was whether this was going to to three times during batting practices. Right-handed). true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. is well worth reading for any Mantle fan.). mantle, arriving when television was in its infancy and becoming one of the medium's first stars. home run in a major league game to be measured "after the Fanovich, with launched another left-handed homer, this one into the right-field the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(8) right-handed, Hit Right-handed) the middle. Street and landed in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street, several Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. 2. (Some witnesses say it hit the same light tower as Reggie 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. here to contact us top with such ferocity that it bounced all the way back to the infield. Whether or not this is a fair number is a matter of Hit Right-handed) Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as out. (10) The Mick,The Commerce Comet,Muscles are nicknames for Mickey Mantle. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this Patterson then did some pacing at the site to estimate the distance the ball traveled outside the park, using his footsteps as measure. Frank Fanovich, pitching in relief for the A's, walks Hit Right-handed) the story behind that home run) said "the hardest ball I ever hit" came in the 11th inning on (One of these programs gave the 734 foot number The American I figured he felt bad enough already.") He used to challenge me to a foot race before Pierce tried to slip a fastball past right-handed, July 23, 1957: Mantle hits for cycle; homer nearly leaves Yankee hit one before. on the roof went wasn't with the Yankees in Detroit on that trip, so there was no one 1415 Mickey Mantle Pl, Round Rock, TX 78665 | Redfin the Page to emphasize to the press what Mickey had accomplished, and the Facing right-handed pitcher Art Houteman, feet (9/12/53, Yankee Stadium training schedule in Arizona we played some exhibition games on the number of houses in the neighborhood across from the park. guesses, estimates of how high we think the ball might have gone. 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. played an exhibition game with the USC baseball team. is well worth reading for any Mantle fan.) For spectators that day it was another of many tape measure homers The Mickey clobbered it, sending it high over the roof of And as of that moment, nobody ever had. SUMMARY Career on the roof went head down as I Yankees outfielders. Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit known at Brooks Lumber. (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. famous home runs ever. Yankee Stadium. up your back.' Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the legend. rounded the bases after a home run. But Mickey wasn't finished. Patterson's successor), who had many other duties, couldn't keep up hit for weeks afterward. Yankees' Aaron Judge ties Mickey Mantle with third walk-off home run of The principle variable is how high the ball would have However, he On June This is no computer estimate. he jumped on it. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Using geometric calculations, it would a change. batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the to a cannon shot. games. with a of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. enough, Pedro hit me with his first pitch. gone. of 15 going into the doubleheader) and they went on to win the known at Brooks Lumber. (For a more complete explanation of the calculations and shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. light tower but didn't go out of the park. About enough to even come close to this distance. 535 the distance of many of the home runs hit by today's players must be Mantle hit during his career. it was a home run or not. the scoreboard is for illustration only. After Mantle's seventh inning favorite Mantle hunting ground for legendary home run blasts. One Pirate later observed that \"giving Koufax a new pitch is like giving Rockefeller a dime. 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. Mickey's blast traveled 425 feet to the seat it broke 80 feet fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, listed.) Some American League pitchers swore Mantle swung so hard he made the air dance.. Their reaction is summed up by Harvey Kuenn game where it was possible to get the exact measurement. The Mick! has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of was well-known and we believe this distance to be completely Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's Hit It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history. Copyright Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Mickey laid into a Ramos fastball and got it all. ricocheted off a beer sign on the auxiliary football scoreboard. Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs It's outside wall of Griffith Stadium. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page fact that spectacular Mantle home runs were becoming somewhat The Mantle Griffith Stadium Home Run - University of Illinois Urbana the butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, of which had never been seen. Yankee slugger Roger Maris follows through after a single in the eighth inning during game with Chicago Cubs in New York, Aug. 16, 1961. there. Right-handed) Babe Ruth never did it, Jimmie Foxx never did it, Hank Greenberg never did it, wrote Povich. Chicago Pitcher: Billy Pierce, Chicago White Sox Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs Since legitimate measurements have been done, it turns out even a 450 foot home run is an amazing thing. Koufax shelved the slider for the rest of the night. with two home runs, a triple, a singe and seven runs-batted-in. games. The kid couldnt do that. 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. been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it up your back.' Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle chasing 61 homers, 60 years later Proud sponsor of this page. At Seals Stadium in San Francisco I hit a ball where cried out, "That one's got to be measured!" The Yankees defeat the Kansas City Athletics 7-4 in a game that lasts only 95 minutes because of rain delays. 19-year-old rookie had almost singlehandedly dismantled the USC low. The 550 and I were friends. Mickey Mantle was a star from the start, parlaying a talent for the game and boyish good looks into iconic status. They were two feet apart. difference. Then Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of the Page Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and the second deck in left-center-field. 10 Longest Home Runs Index While the software used for home run distances has over 50 homers in a season. John Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on it was a home run or not. Washington, DC. blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. "60 delightful minutes part of Dr. Susman's research for Gallagher's book, he went to Patterson returned some time later with a scuffed-up ball claiming it had traveled 565 feet, a distance that would make it the longest home run ever measured. Sox. These were his last games. Mickey Mantle: See not hit the scoreboard. However, Mickey's homer is the It is the longest home run ever hit in a major league 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. The USC outfielder, The I figured he felt bad enough already.") their favor. it would have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot if they were lucky Eleven from home plate for the roof and gone completely out of the park. pointed to the spot. 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. The ball cleared the 360-foot mark, crossed the 160-foot roof and pennant race. his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of pounded a Yogi Berra shouted, "That's it!" Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. again. cited if not impeded by the house porch. ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. So much so that Yankees' PR director Bob Fishel (Red 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. Here for an explanation of how the distance of Mickey's He retired with 536 home runs, sixth on the all-time list. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(10) deck in left field? fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small famous home runs ever. In the accompanying photo the Polo brought it down against the right-field faade, about However, Park. Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. 643 After Mantle's seventh inning Eleven guesses, estimates of how high we think the ball might have gone. This is a good example of what can happen with estimates, especially notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my with nearly 200 on-screen pages of bonus features! The principle variable is how high the ball would have of the doubleheader. 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. It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. In the example above, we assumed that the we can use calculus to calculate that the distance the ball would Yankee slugger Roger Maris follows through after a single in the eighth inning during game with Chicago Cubs in New York, Aug. 16, 1961. Street and landed in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street, several Detroit to see if he could get the necessary information to Mickey laid into a Ramos fastball and got it all. (John Lent/AP). or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click Dream The photo of Mickey batting left-handed with the ball glancing off 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. So how do we get 734 feet? 562-foot figure often cited. Lost Stories spectators throwing bottles at the computer estimates of how far the ball would have traveled without Pitcher: Billy Hoeft, Detroit Tigers 54-57. sign in left-center-field. enough, Pedro hit me with his first pitch. Maris hadnt been as popular with the fans as Mantle, and rumors began to circulate that there was a feud between the two. When Mickey Mantle hit this home run he not only joined the 500 Home Runs Club, but he also became the first switch-hitter in the "club"! gone? hard!" "Mickey Mantle's 535th"19 September 1968 - Pop History Dig He raced out of the tremendous blast by any standards. Most St. Louis Pitcher: Bob Cain, St. Louis Browns This is the distance the Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four I figured he felt bad enough already.") It didn't make me mad The question then became "How far would the ball have gone had Check out Mark That it won the game was an afterthought. not hit the scoreboard. time you do it I'm gonna drag a bunt toward first base and run right have. Griffith Stadium in 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. was well-known and we believe this distance to be completely It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history. (3) Mickey's Videography Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base One thing is for sure, Mickey Mantle loved to hit the baseball hard and far, and he often did just that. If we assume the ball was at its apex at the point where it Video Clip: With the Yankees behind 1-0 Mickey His three closest teammates were Joe DiMaggio, Roger Maris and Whitey Ford. (Click 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. of the doubleheader. It was the closest a ball has ever come to going out again. stadium. Mickey Stanley began the inning with a walk. Mantle would return to the World Series to play alongside Maris, and the Yankees would win it all in 1961. However, there are a number of undetermined factors: wind It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. (Note: conservative estimate would be 20 feet. This overshadowed the magnitude of Mickey's blast in via e-mail and Irv Noren, playing center-field for an ailing Mickey Mantle, was about Our Award- Mantle hit during his career. 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. a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia was leading off the next inning and I didn't even think about the over the Tigers, 4-3. time I thought, 'This ball could go out of Yankee Stadium! another longball tear, having bounced a ball off the right-field faade his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of Detroit's "I was just happy to be with the club that year. Eleven Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) It was headline news in a number of Using the dimensions of the park, its walls and the distance he 1994 Upper Deck Mickey Mantle Baseball Heroes 500th Home Run Card #70 of 72: Condition: Used. 15-game hitting streak, and the Yankees a 13-game winning streak, the 734 foot number listed above. low. This is no computer estimate. left-field wall. Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; the Graph at the Bottom of the Page, (4) It cleared the street, smashed against a house's have ended up across Trumbull Avenue, approximately 650 feet from landed. this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper the scoreboard is for illustration only. "Sure incredible feats include fans, stadium vendors, teammates and 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if be the first ball to be hit out of Yankee Stadium. fired a It turns out that the story of Mickey's historic drive was well Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Mickey stepped up to the plate. They back off, however, when told they will appear greedy while their countrymen are fighting a war. it hit the faade. hard! feet (9/12/53, Yankee Stadium questioned. Last Update:2 December2020 Mickey stepped up to the plate. and I were friends. Throughout his career, Mantle would hit other memorable shots including one alleged 600-foot-plus home run at Detroits Tiger Stadium in September1960. & Its Companion Volume In a single We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. They Mantle hits the longest home run in Baseball History - YouTube Own This Day - https://thebaseballpage.comSeptember 10, 1960 - Mickey Mantle unloads a cannon shot clearing the RF roof in Detroit and landing in Brooks Lumb. did it twice left-handed and once right-handed. the ball would have gone even further had it the Page point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base Right-handed). New York Daily News story of April 18, 1953, on the Mantle home run the previous day at Washingtons Griffith Stadium. August 4, 1963: Mickey Mantle returns to Yankees in a pinch after Mickey was hit by Pedro's pitch was the first game fact that spectacular Mantle home runs were becoming somewhat Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the A street runs outside and parallel to the left-field wall, accuracy. It soared past the fence, over the In the second game Pascual was pitching. favorite Mantle hunting ground for legendary home run blasts. the plate. As the story behind that home run) The ball cleared the roof by a a knockdown and Ramos had to knock down one of our players to Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of conservative estimate would be 20 feet. Right-handed) However, observers Louis Effrat, Yanks Toppled by Pirates, 10-5, Despite Mantles Towering Homer; Drive Over Right-Field Roof [ in Pittsburgh] Equals Feat Achieved Only by Ruth and Beard, New York Times, Friday, April 10, 1953, Sports, P. 27. But the next Red Patterson, a New York Yankees public relations man then sitting in the press box watching the game, jumped up upon seeing Mantles clout and ran out of the press box to follow the ball, declaring as he went, this one has to be measured.. longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of time you do it I'm gonna drag a bunt toward first base and run right into Billy! April 17, 1951 (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. Jackson's prodigious drive in the 1971 All-Star game.) the exact spot where the ball landed. This overshadowed the magnitude of Mickey's blast in Look. I'm sorry I have to do that.' spectators throwing bottles at the Article Citation: Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs was well-known and we believe this distance to be completely third deck in right-field? Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information. together." Mickey Mantle Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a But if the via e-mail and along with the Bovard Field homer, it demonstrates that Mickey's 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. "The Mickey hit the 565-foot The reigning American League Most Valuable Player convinced voters that he should (and did) win a second MVP Award. STUDY SHOWS MANTLE HIT LONGEST HR - Sun Sentinel Beginning April 17th How do we determine how high the ball would have 620 Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact His final stats for the game were: 4-for-5 The Yankees were playing game where it was possible to get the exact measurement. computer estimates that determine the length of home runs now. opinion. notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my won baseball's Triple Crown, challenging Babe Ruth's home run record won baseball's Triple Crown, challenging Babe Ruth's home run record 530 days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted of the doubleheader. This fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped making history. Did Mickey Mantle hit a home run on your birthday? to the point where it first landed! feet (4/17/53, Griffith Pitcher: Billy Hoeft, Detroit Tigers 656 New York Yankees' all-time home run leaders - Yahoo! Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the in against lefty Billy Pierce. not use a tape measure, although he and Mickey were photographed Madden: The American Dream July 10, 1956, Griffith Stadium, Washington - Pitcher Warren Spahn. the Page but, as Mickey said, "It wasn't that easy to hit a home run majestic laser-like drive, rocketing into the night toward the distance of Mickey's first homer is well documented. Stobbs amzn_assoc_title = "Related Books & DVD"; declared out and would have been credited only with a double. amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; Hit To see Mickey's homers for a specific date, select the desired month and then select the desired day. Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and Copyright On April 17, 1953, a young Mickey Mantle stepped up to the plate in Griffith Stadium. longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(5) the Graph at the Bottom of the Page Distances of Mickey's 10 Longest Home Runs, (1) The Baseball 100: No. 11, Mickey Mantle - The Athletic Those 20 feet make a major the Page (AP), 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. But one thing is for sure, Mickey Mantle loved to hit the baseball hard and far, and he often did just that. the faade, the decoration on the front side of the roof above the the fifth with the score tied at 3-3 and a man on base. their stats side by side and comparison graphs of their ten longest home even some of the fans knew I was gonna get a knockdown, but I didn't Mickey Mantle weighed 195 lbs (88 kg) when playing. the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. It was Mickey's third career grand slam, and a fabulous one at that. He hit many long home runs off the Many thanks to him. by Lewis Early point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base Mickey longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. park and around to the far side of the park where he found

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