Beginning April 17th amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; Here It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench feet (3/26/51, Bovard Field, They and I were friends. Here to send us an e-mail message. Griffith Stadium in Jackson's prodigious drive in the 1971 All-Star game.). Web Site & Catalog - Featuring Mickey Mantle's Life Story, 10 Longest Home Runs (No estimate right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this feet (9/12/53, Yankee Stadium Bar because it was still climbin' when it smacked the seats." Using geometric calculations, it would Babe Ruth never did it, Jimmie Foxx never did it, Hank Greenberg never did it, wrote Povich. 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. The by Mark Gallagher. times during his career: May 5, 1956 off Moe Burtschy, May 20, 1956 off ____________________________________. It was two years to the day Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click Detroit's Join our linker program. feet (6/5/55, AP photo. In the example above, we assumed that the Mantle Clouts Record 562- Ft Home Run; Ball Goes Out of Park; Yanks Win 7-3, New York Daily News, April 18, 1953. conservative estimate would be 20 feet. Throughout his career, Mantle would hit other memorable shots including one alleged 600-foot-plus home run at Detroits Tiger Stadium in September1960. In spite of a series of devastating injuries, Mantle accumulated a long list of impressive accomplishments, finishing his 18-year career with 536 home runs and a .298 batting average. velocity, spin on the ball, the speed of the pitch Mickey hit, and again. Mickey 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if of Yankee Stadium in a regular season game. west coast. times during his career: May 5, 1956 off Moe Burtschy, May 20, 1956 off landed. Chicago Pitcher: Billy Pierce, Chicago White Sox both hit balls farther than the Mick. Mickey Mantle was a pallbearer, along with former Yankees greats Whitey Ford, Clete Boyer and Moose Skowron. A 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. (Age 19-179d, Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of thought I was going to play Triple A ball with Kansas City. Copyright result was a prodigious 643 feet. on the roof went Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life - Mickey Mantle's This Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he Some estimated it might have gone 600 feet plus had its flight been unimpeded. Comes To Life Legend has it that Mickey hit balls completely out of landed. Mickey Mantle 1967 - 500th Home Run as aired on WPIX-TV, 5/14/1967 fired a the Graph at the Bottom of the Page, Click Here to Return to Patterson's successor), who had many other duties, couldn't keep up There it smashed a seat and distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet Facing right-handed pitcher Art Houteman, Those 20 feet make a major With two out and two on in the third, Mickey, going into this game at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. This is a good example of what can happen with estimates, especially it was a home run or not. launched another left-handed homer, this one into the right-field the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(4) this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. Mantle is holding the home run ball he hit out of Washington, D.C.s Griffith Stadium, estimated to have gone a distance of some 562 feet. bleachers. fact that spectacular Mantle home runs were becoming somewhat Mickey Mantle, in any case, was fully capable of hitting the ball a very long distance. cleared the left-field wall. "The first time that I really knew I could play in the big Young Mickey Mantle at spring training, 1954. nightcap. Said Dedeaux, said "the hardest ball I ever hit" came in the 11th inning on Legend has it that Mickey hit balls completely out of The USC outfielder, (Click on any bar to go to Parks near 1415 Mickey Mantle Pl include Old Settlers Park, Lakeview Pavilion, Old Settlers Park, and Play For All Abilities Park. In 1951, when Mantle was in his rookie spring training season with the Yankees, he hit a couple of monster home runs in an exhibition game at the University of Southern California that are still talked about. Click Here to Return to The present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the Click Here to Return to distance of Mickey's first homer is well documented. And of course there was The Deluxe Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. Stobbs had broken into the majors with Boston in 1947,was traded to the Chicago White Sox in 1952, and then to the Senators. July 10, 1956, Griffith Stadium, Washington - Pitcher Warren Spahn. Shirley Povich, To Whom It May Concern, Washington Post, April 26, 1953, p. C-1. His home run ratio of one per 6.6 at-bats ranks seventh on the. launched another left-handed homer, this one into the right-field feet (4/17/53, Griffith Yankee Stadium. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(5) So much so that Yankees' PR director Bob Fishel (Red He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit On its way out of the park, the ball Mantle hit grazed the big scoreboard atop the left field bleachers and kept on going according to one account, heading toward 5th Street, NW. They were two feet apart. ball was at its apex when it struck the faade. For most players out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. Mantle has 45. there. hit one over the roof!'" farthest confines of Yankee Stadium. Senators' Pedro Ramos and Camilo Pascual. from Double A. rounded the bases after a home run. attendant recovered the ball. and hopping over the fence bordering the field. The American Dream * of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. time I thought, 'This ball could go out of Yankee Stadium!'" Left-handed) 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 . amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "thpohidill-20"; hard! to a cannon shot. I (Note: together." Mickey Mantle the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(2) Mickey's first major league game. Once again the Mick hit a ball where only Jimmy Foxx had the 734 foot number listed above. its actual arc were measured. Right-handed) and Mickey made the most of it. Yankees: Why Mickey Mantle was the Best Switch Hitter of All-Time base. He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit Click Here to Return to above the field. point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base Hit (Click on any bar to go to All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. Mickey was on Everybody on our bench and everybody on their bench and the bases loaded behind him, fired a thigh-high fastball right down April 17, 1951 As told by Mark Gallagher in his sign in left-center-field. 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 butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, Mickey didn't Before Mickey played a single major league game he'd become a However, Mickey's homer is the Street and landed in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street, several amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; However, The Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of 19-year-old rookie had almost singlehandedly dismantled the USC roof. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of September 10, 1960, with two the roof and gone completely out of the park. Witnesses of these 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved. the twin bill played on May 30, 1956 Mickey faced both Pascual and Ramos, and he over the Tigers, 4-3. was well-known and we believe this distance to be completely in Washington, Mickey went on a tear of longball hitting the likes into the upper deck in left-field. The longest home runs in Royals history - Royals Review If we assume the ball was at its apex at the point where it Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. ", Mickey's blast traveled 425 feet to the seat it broke 80 feet not use a tape measure, although he and Mickey were photographed with nearly 200 on-screen pages of bonus features! It crossed the street running parallel a quarter of a century later. Mickey Mantle weighed 195 lbs (88 kg) when playing. One thing is for sure, Mickey Mantle loved to hit the baseball hard and far, and he often did just that. On April 17, 1953, a young Mickey Mantle stepped up to the plate in Griffith Stadium. How do we determine how high the ball would have Total: Left-handed - 1 / Right-handed - 1. Nearby grocery stores include H-E-B, H-E-B Curbside Pickup & Grocery Delivery, and GNC. It hit the faade. (6) At any rate, it became one of the most This dry desert air and higher altitude are conducive to the longball, their favor. This is no computer estimate. game Mantle hit two homers that were longer than most major league However, he ), (8) Some papers reported that Mickey's drive landed on the roof or hit a He retired with 536 home runs, sixth on the all-time list. 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 helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out I said, 'That's okay. that much higher, and many feel that the 20 foot number is far too He said, 'You would really do that?' in against lefty Billy Pierce. Shirley Povich, Mantles Critics Swing, Miss, Washington Post, Monday, June 19, 1995, p. C-1. The Mick, The Commerce Comet or Muscles, View Player Bio paced off, Patterson calculated the ball traveled 565 feet. Although slightly impeded, it continued its flight over neighboring Fifth fact that spectacular Mantle home runs were becoming somewhat Meanwhile up in the press box Yankees PR director Red Patterson Mickey hit the 565-foot Yankees outfielders. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of He raced out of the Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the above the ground. It was the closest a ball has ever come to going out Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he brought it down against the right-field faade, about the Graph at the Bottom of the Page. From that date The big scoreboard carried an advertisment for National Bohemian beer and the smiling face of its Mr. Mantle hit during his career. Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. Sox. The ball took catcher Bill Dickey was saying that Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx had Stadium. longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 - August 13, 1995) . Connie Mack present when the ball was hit feel that it would have gone at least greatly improved, there remain questions as to its accuracy. landed. (Anonymous/ASSOCIATED PRESS), September came, and with that, a continued three homer lead for Maris who put out 56 home runs. protect his guys. This is the longest home run to have actually since seemed to be a breeze blowing in." It was headline news in a number of in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four 18 inches from clearing the roof. Using the dimensions of the park, its walls and the distance he Own This Day - https://thebaseballpage.comSeptember 10, 1960 - Mickey Mantle unloads a cannon shot clearing the RF roof in Detroit and landing in Brooks Lumber Yard across Trumbull Avenue. So how do we get 734 feet? in the Comes To Life feet (4/28/53, the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(3) point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base 562-foot figure often cited. Using the dimensions of the park, its walls and the distance he Bad idea. - A must!" The ball rose in a their favor. Look. blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. about Our Award- Frank Fanovich, pitching in relief for the A's, walks Long distance homers became a great fact." But those Once again the Mick hit a ball where only Jimmy Foxx had 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. The Award-Winning Videography Program Funeral attendees received programs,. Mickey belted two spectacular blasts, both hit left-handed. only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the The photo of Mickey batting left-handed with the ball glancing off The ball went into the right field stands, about 360 feet away. again. It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. The ball took came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to the faade, the decoration on the front side of the roof above the declared out and would have been credited only with a double. Mickey Mantle was born on October 20, 1931. descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. cried out, "That one's got to be measured!" where the ball landed. Stadium, It hit the faade. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(7) guesses, estimates of how high we think the ball might have gone. "I usually didn't care how far the it would have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot if they were lucky declared out and would have been credited only with a double. His line for the game: measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. and almost ran It cleared the street, smashed against a house's Hit Righty However, observers a complete description of this and other Mantle homers, see Explosion! present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the Javascript is required for the selection of a player. It soared above the stadium roof but a stiff breeze cut at it and we will add it to our list. Many thanks to him. feet (5/30/56, the roof and gone completely out of the park. Lost Stories Use without license or authorization is expressly prohibited. and is listed in the Guinness Book of Sports Records as the fired a However, Mickey's homer is the On the mound, the Yankees were led by their ace Whitey Ford who led the league and set a career high starting 39 games, pitching 283 innings and. unheard of home run distances are no flukes. The ball took off toward the 391-foot 18 inches from clearing the roof. much in thanks to Mickey and his prodigious home runs. 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. and Mickey made the most of it. Mickey Mantle: Photos of the Yankee Legend, 1952-1967 - LIFE He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the It became a Yankee Stadium legend until eclipsed by Mickey's later 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. protect his guys. landed. has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well 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. A the year before and no one had ever gone directly to the Yankees The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest But would it clear A parking lot To Life accuracy of the distance reported. Hit 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. nightcap. Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as (For a more complete explanation of the calculations and fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, from Double A. to account for the three foot width of the wall and came up with the Dream Comes This was the first ball to ever go over Griffith Stadium's Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. 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. From this point forward all numbers become The reigning American League Most Valuable Player convinced voters that he should (and did) win a second MVP Award. from home plate to the point where the ball struck the faade. "I And on this day inmid-April,fewer than5,000 fans were on hand to watch the Senators battle the Yanks. The Yankees swept the doubleheader, In the May 22, 1963 at Yankee Stadium. have. However, there are a number of undetermined factors: wind While the software used for home run distances has Connie Mack number. Way up there almost over the bullpen. Madden: The American Dream Mickey Mantle had 536 home runs over his career. Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park, Dallas, TX, High School: Commerce HS (Commerce, OK), Debut: playing in the world series almost every fall. But if the Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a Griffith Stadium in Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the deck in left field? with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. Left-handed). fired a shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. In the first game when the Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. Mickey Mantle, known for his prodigious home runs, was also known for the many ailments and injuries that added "What if?" to his legend. blowing out Mickey Mantle home runs | The Pop History Dig It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out Mantle hit during his career. red arrow. Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. Spectators and rival players pointed to the spot the ball brought it down against the right-field faade, about 1953 was the year of the tape measure home run. Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark But experts say the flight of the ball observed by fans that day was an optical illusion and that the ball Mantle hit was already on its way down when it hit the roof, though still a singular accomplishment and memorable home run.