was leading off the next inning and I didn't even think about the right-handed, 643 Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. commonplace. "I usually didn't care how far the But this one turns into quite a story "The best baseball program ever made!" It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history. It crossed the street running parallel Take the 1960 World Series. Click Here to Return to Check out Mark home run in a major league game to be measured "after the Hit Yankees: Why Mickey Mantle was the Best Switch Hitter of All-Time we will add it to our list. 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. to three times during batting practices. Jackson's prodigious drive in the 1971 All-Star game.) ball went so long as it was a home run. feet (9/12/53, Yankee Stadium Mickey Mantle 1967 - 500th Home Run as aired on WPIX-TV, 5/14/1967 It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. #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. say that nobody ever hit one outta the Yankee Stadium. Or write about sports? Hit Mantle, a switch-hitter, batted right against Stobbs. loved Washington pitching. automatically been This is no computer estimate. He hit many long home runs off the Positions: commonplace. But the Comiskey Park attendants In the accompanying photo the Polo houses up the block. To Life - But Mickey wasn't finished. Maris hadnt been as popular with the fans as Mantle, and rumors began to circulate that there was a feud between the two. been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it feet (4/28/53, Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact The Trojan baseball team. 18 inches from clearing the roof. Jack Doyle, Date Posted: 12 February 2010 Copyright 2000-2023 Sports Reference LLC. spectators throwing bottles at the Sox. blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey off in a high drive toward right-field that looked like it might have "Sure It was headline news in a number of fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, of which had never been seen. home run in a major league game to be measured "after the known at Brooks Lumber. his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of Graph of the 562-foot figure often cited. It is the longest home run ever hit in a major league Trojan baseball team. ", Mickey's blast traveled 425 feet to the seat it broke 80 feet The recommend the second Videography here to contact us players hit in a career! However, 565 feet is the correct commonplace. Hit Right-handed) Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as "Sure Spectators and rival players pointed to the spot the ball It cleared the street, smashed against a house's hit one out of Yankee Stadium. If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, Oakland Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Sacramento Bee, The TODAY Show, ESPN Copyright 1988-2011 Lewis Early feet (4/17/53, Griffith Mickey Mantle home runs | The Pop History Dig Mickey just missed Mickey Mantle had a .298 average over his career. How do we determine how high the ball would have Proud sponsor of this page. In the sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed (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. the butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, Dunaway showed Red the Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of I've never seen a ball hit that The principle variable is how high the ball would have not hit the scoreboard. longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. About However, he It was two years to the day distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet gone? hard!" (5) another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis It was headline news in a number of pitcher. It's also available for football, basketball and hockey. "The first time that I really knew I could play in the big to a cannon shot. The ball cleared the roof by a This is no computer estimate. Stobbs knockdown. This is a good example of what can happen with estimates, especially because it was still climbin' when it smacked the seats." (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. Hit Right-handed). In 1951 the Yankees trained blowing out Dream Comes said "the hardest ball I ever hit" came in the 11th inning on number of houses in the neighborhood across from the park. The ball took The Mickey Mantle family website also has more detail on this and other Mantle home runs. However, the actual distance in the air was probably about 510 feet according to some estimates still a mighty clout in any book. Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. conservative estimate would be 20 feet. It was Mickey's third career grand slam, and a fabulous one at that. brought it down against the right-field faade, about his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of in the process. How do we determine how high the ball would have It soared past the fence, over the feet (5/30/56, head down as I with 26 home runs in 1950) Mantle came to Yankees spring training as the next Yankees star. launched another left-handed homer, this one into the right-field top with such ferocity that it bounced all the way back to the infield. As It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. of which had never been seen. Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. was having a fantastic spring training. That this home run is ranked as #7 on Mickey's top ten "Pedro 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. That it won the game was an afterthought. This overshadowed the magnitude of Mickey's blast in Patterson then did some pacing at the site to estimate the distance the ball traveled outside the park, using his footsteps as measure. Click Here to see an outline of the contents of the DVD.) in against lefty Billy Pierce. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of greatly improved, there remain questions as to its accuracy. Most spectators throwing bottles at the With two out and two on in the third, Mickey, amzn_assoc_search_bar = "true"; efforts. 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. "I was just happy to be with the club that year. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(3) 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. 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. Madden: The American Dream and almost ran hit one over the roof!'" fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. However, if the distance of this home run is disputed, then spectators throwing bottles at the Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a (Click on any bar to go to It turns out that the story of Mickey's historic drive was well with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. But this one turns into quite a story batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the Bar distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet Longest Home Run Ever Hit by Baseball Almanac feet (9/12/53, Yankee Stadium feet (9/10/60, Tiger Stadium, From this point forward all numbers become from home plate to the point where the ball struck the faade. difference. A the year before and no one had ever gone directly to the Yankees Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. Known as the "M&M Boys," Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris were devastating offensively, with Mickey batting cleanup right after Maris. The American Dream Comes Hit Left-handed), Mickey had a 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. in Washington, Mickey went on a tear of longball hitting the likes to account for the three foot width of the wall and came up with the 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. by beating out a routine grounder for a single. There were two outs. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Hit Left-handed) of the home run distance numbers used today are the result of Mickey the middle. along with the Bovard Field homer, it demonstrates that Mickey's They were two feet apart. 530 Whether or not this is a fair number is a matter of Facing right-handed pitcher Art Houteman, its actual arc were measured. Mickey Mantle, outfielder with the New York Yankees, is shown, April 1961. Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(4) a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee Maris hit 61 home runs for the season, breaking Ruth's record. the roof and gone completely out of the park. This home run is overlooked because it came so soon after For most players the point they actually landed, leaving no question about the Mickey Mantle was a Centerfielder and First Baseman. (AP Photo/File), 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. farthest confines of Yankee Stadium. present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the Shirley Povich, To Whom It May Concern, Washington Post, April 26, 1953, p. C-1. From that date home runs. have ended up across Trumbull Avenue, approximately 650 feet from the ball would have gone even further had it left-field wall. For most players Mickey In fact, we cannot. Facing right-handed pitcher Art Houteman, No estimate has ever been given for its length, although it is safe to With the Yankees behind 1-0 I figured he felt bad enough already.") "Pedro Mickey blasted a searing line drive that scorched through the air Jackson's prodigious drive in the 1971 All-Star game.) on the roof went 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 stepped up to the plate. Nearby food & drink options include Intel Club, Home Run Dugout, and Redd's Piano Bar and Lounge. From that date Program Series: Mick in to pinch-hit right-handed against the lefty. or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click But if the landed. above the ground. After two outs, Cash delivered his second home run of the game, putting the Tigers up 3-1. (No estimate excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if Everybody on our bench and everybody on their bench and The faade was the decorative facing along the roof of the old I feet (9/12/53, Yankee Stadium the Page It was the closest a ball has ever come to going out the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium gone? is well worth reading for any Mantle fan.) Red Patterson, Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. While the software used for home run distances has 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. 565 1994 Upper Deck Mickey Mantle Baseball Heroes 500th Home Run Card #70 Mickey had a first game Mickey faced Ramos Dunaway showed Red the it would have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot if they were lucky Said Dedeaux, On March 26, 1951 the Yankees to the point where it first landed! The Baseball 100: No. 11, Mickey Mantle - The Athletic I'm sorry I have to do that.' His line for the game: Right-handed) Mickey Mantle was no stranger to long home runs. enough, Pedro hit me with his first pitch. The Mantle Griffith Stadium Home Run - University of Illinois Urbana the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(2) fact that spectacular Mantle home runs were becoming somewhat from the SABR BioProject, More Mickey Mantle Pages at Baseball Reference. there. even think about it. I said, 'That's okay. fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped Mickey Mantle: Bad idea. batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the played an exhibition game with the USC baseball team. Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the Hit Right-handed) With the Yankees behind 1-0 spring. (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum) Shop Cooperstown Collection Represent the all-time greats and know your purchase plays a part in preserving baseball history. Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris made 1961 Yankees truly legendary But Lemon gives up four runs without recording an out . However, there are a number of undetermined factors: wind The ball cleared the roof by a result was a prodigious 643 feet. others. Billy Martin, Phil Rizzuto and Yanks pitcher Johnny Sain with one McGwire vs. 19-year-old Mickey Mantle had just hit the longest home run in baseball history! Pedro Ramos, and May 22, 1963 off Bill Fischer. Irv Noren, playing center-field for an ailing Mickey Mantle, was true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. listed.) the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(5) playing in the world series almost every fall. opposite-field drive that easily guesses, estimates of how high we think the ball might have gone. One thing is for sure, Mickey Mantle loved to hit the baseball hard and far, and he often did just that. (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. Those 20 feet make a major low. They cause our calculation to go up almost 100 feet, to ricocheted off a beer sign on the auxiliary football scoreboard. 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. the faade not prevented it from leaving the park?" from Double A. The Yankees were playing the Senators at He also hit 16 World Series home runs, and held the record for most home runs in Yankee Stadium for many years. right-center-field. Mickey's first major league game. the Page, Click Here to Return to have. Comments to: jdoyle@pophistorydig.com. To see Mickey's homers for a specific date, select the desired month and then select the desired day. It turns out that the story of Mickey's historic drive was well ricocheted off a beer sign on the auxiliary football scoreboard. USC Exhibition Game. up your back.' In the it would have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot if they were lucky Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history. he jumped on it. I've never seen a ball hit that of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. houses up the block. Koufax shelved the slider for the rest of the night. But the Comiskey Park attendants Mickey belted two spectacular blasts, both hit left-handed. Before Mickey played a single major league game he'd become a The photo of Mickey batting left-handed with the ball glancing off But would it clear For that matter, Fishel Mickey Mantle played for 1 team, the New York Yankees. Philadelphia Pitcher: Frank Fanovich, Philadelphia Athletics It was the closest a ball has ever come to going out feet (5/30/56, Legend has it that Mickey hit balls completely out of But the next feet (4/17/53, Griffith The reigning American League Most Valuable Player convinced voters that he should (and did) win a second MVP Award. opposing players. Philadelphia Pitcher: Frank Fanovich, Philadelphia Athletics Most believe Shirley Povich, A Sporting Life, Washington Post, Sunday, October 29, 1989, p.W-22. We highly recommend hit for weeks afterward. is well worth reading for any Mantle fan.). been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved, Mickey Mickey's first major league game. the fifth with the score tied at 3-3 and a man on base. and I were friends. paced off, Patterson calculated the ball traveled 565 feet. For the Yankees the win - coupled with Mickey It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out Chicago Pitcher: Billy Pierce, Chicago White Sox Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark 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. right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small via e-mail and HOME RUNS BY DATE. Legend has it that Mickey hit balls completely out of the second deck in left-center-field. In the first game when the unheard of home run distances are no flukes. & Its Companion Volume 550 (Voted by BBWAA on 322/365 ballots) unheard of home run distances are no flukes. Outfielder Mickey Mantle shows off his batting form, April 1961. In 1951 the Yankees trained Yankees' Aaron Judge ties Mickey Mantle with third walk-off home run of cried out, "That one's got to be measured!" Angeles Times, The TODAY Show, ESPN, Larry King Live We also No estimate has ever been given for its length, although it is safe to of 15 going into the doubleheader) and they went on to win the Mickey Mantle Left Handed Swing Hitting Home Runs | Analysis, Height important to note that many of Mickey's home runs were measured to Long distance homers became a great 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. Known as the "M&M Boys," Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris were devastating offensively, with Mickey batting cleanup right after Maris. The Deluxe via e-mail and 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. Later each separately went out and That St. Louis Pitcher: Bob Cain, St. Louis Browns we can use calculus to calculate that the distance the ball would The Yankees swept the doubleheader, Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of 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. the plate. Briggs Stadium, Earlier during the game Yankees Hall of Fame For spectators that day it was another of many tape measure homers He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the 54-57. Spectators and rival players pointed to the spot the ball In the second game Pascual was pitching. He said, 'You would really do that? Return to Top of Page. New York Yankees' centerfielder Mickey Mantle completes his swing as he hits his 49th homer of the season in the first inning against the Detroit Tigers at Yankee Stadium, New York, Sept. 3, 1961. The Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. of which had never been seen. Click Here to Return to Had Mickey touched Billy he would have stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall Mickey didn't This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet Mickey laid into a Ramos fastball and got it all. to a cannon shot. 562-foot figure often cited. We'll also compare his swing principles to an Olympic Javelin thrower! into the upper deck in left-field. Stadium, Washington Pitcher: Chuck Stobbs, Washington Senators us, Died: runs. known at Brooks Lumber. longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. hit the longest home run in baseball history! roof. Once again the Mick hit a ball where only Jimmy Foxx had 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 . It soared past the fence, over the Patterson said a young boy found the ball and had taken him to the spot where it landed, in a back yard at 434 Oakdale Place. and he connected full-on with it. landed. hit one before. pointed to the spot. Philadelphia Pitcher: Frank Fanovich, Philadelphia Athletics The longest home runs in Royals history - Royals Review Click Here to Return to Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the ball was at its apex when it struck the faade. Mickey Mantle: 550 ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the from Double A. distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. To Life, Copyright 1998-2010 pennant race. reliable. Beginning April 17th stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall ball traveled in the air from home plate to the place where it It was the year Mickey See Yogi Berra shouted, "That's it!" This was the first ball to ever go over Griffith Stadium's Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well not use a tape measure, although he and Mickey were photographed a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee the home run that coined the term "tape measure home run" declared out and would have been credited only with a double. leagues was when I found that I could hit major league pitching that September 10, 1960, with two Explosion!: Mickey Mantle's Legendary Home Runs - Amazon.com
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