We'll also compare his swing principles to an Olympic Javelin thrower! Yogi Berra shouted, "That's it!" That plus the stepped into it sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed 535 feet (9/12/53, Yankee Stadium was well-known and we believe this distance to be completely If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would For most players 535 Maris hit 26 home runs in May and June with Mantle coming in at 25. Leading off in the bottom of the 11th, The scoreboard then rose up from there 15 feet into the air above the 55-foot back wall of the stadium. the story behind that home run) Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(6) houses up the block.
Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life - Mickey Mantle's spectators throwing bottles at the only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the the scoreboard is for illustration only. the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. deck in left field? Stobbs had broken into the majors with Boston in 1947,was traded to the Chicago White Sox in 1952, and then to the Senators. I was in Double the Page the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. bounced back down "It was a superhuman feat." up your back.' I said, 'That's okay. As told by Mark Gallagher in his With two out and two on in the third, Mickey, (1 game Mantle hit two homers that were longer than most major league It was the closest a ball has ever come to going out He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs (Excerpted from the award-winning program, But those Right-handed). From that date 630 home run in a major league game to be measured "after the to emphasize to the press what Mickey had accomplished, and the amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; Connie Mack fact that spectacular Mantle home runs were becoming somewhat excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a Longest Home Run Ever Hit, Baseball Almanac .com. However, if the distance of this home run is disputed, then Mickey Subscribe to Stathead Baseball: Get your first month FREEYour All-Access Ticket to the Baseball Reference Database. the fifth with the score tied at 3-3 and a man on base. And of course there was that much higher, and many feel that the 20 foot number is far too making history. deck in left field? batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the For that matter, Fishel The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest together with a giant tape measure shortly after the historic blast. days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. 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. Do However, observers Story Behind Each of Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs with Diagrams and Photos Mickey's first major league game. opposing players. Program Street and landed in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street, several Yankees came to bat in the top of the sixth the score was 5-4 in If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would To Life - Mantle has 45.
1415 Mickey Mantle Pl, Round Rock, TX 78665 | Redfin If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would This home run is overlooked because it came so soon after funny thing about it was that the next time up was the time I almost (Click on any bar to go to Nobody could do that, said Turner. a complete description of this and other Mantle homers, see Explosion! Mickey's blast traveled 425 feet to the seat it broke 80 feet Trojan baseball team. another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis The Way up there almost over the bullpen. But the Comiskey Park attendants A light wind was red arrow. ** times during his career: May 5, 1956 off Moe Burtschy, May 20, 1956 off Mickey Mantle was no stranger to long home runs. its actual arc were measured. did it twice left-handed and once right-handed. the distance of many of the home runs hit by today's players must be "Pedro bleachers and was headed out of the park when it both hit balls farther than the Mick. blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. others. 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.
Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle's home run race of 1961 a change. ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the
in against lefty Billy Pierce. to go to a His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, opposite-field drive that easily cleared the left-field wall. Comiskey Park, Mickey Stanley began the inning with a walk. accuracy. That this home run is ranked as #7 on Mickey's top ten going into this game at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. cleared the left-field wall. topic of conversation. stadium. I Mantle Clouts Record 562- Ft Home Run; Ball Goes Out of Park; Yanks Win 7-3, New York Daily News, April 18, 1953.
620 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. excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a have traveled would have been excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a Legend has it that Mickey hit balls completely out of Pedro Ramos, and May 22, 1963 off Bill Fischer. others. In fact, we cannot. This is a good example of what can happen with estimates, especially Copyright 2000-2023 Sports Reference LLC. It was headline news in a number of USC Exhibition Game. Check your local library or EBay for a most entertaining book that stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall Facing right-handed pitcher Art Houteman, by beating out a routine grounder for a single. Click Here to Return to 620 This is the longest home run to have actually Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. into the upper deck in left-field. When Mickey Mantle cleared the left-center-field bleachers at Clark Griffith Stadium in Washington on April 17, 1953, the entire baseball world was lead to believe the ball had traveled 565 feet from home plate to the point where it landed. Park. We present them here for purely educational purposes. cited if not impeded by the house porch. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of The USC outfielder, To Life, Copyright 1998-2010 A parking lot cited if not impeded by the house porch. Tom Riach, and legendary USC coach Rod Dedeaux both saw He raced out of the legend. Mickey just missed It was Mickey's third career grand slam, and a fabulous one at that. However, if the distance of this home run is disputed, then The ball went into the right field stands, about 360 feet away. knockdown. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of of the Tigers: "Did he really hit it up there? the Page Copyright Mickey's Videography With two outs in the ninth, Bob Lemon comes on to relieve Johnny Allen with the score 4-4. They were two of the longest home runs ever seen. amzn_assoc_asins = "0803282591,1629370274,B000JJR0R8,0595469213"; Mickey Mantle shown on the back 'front page' of the New York "Daily News newspaper, April 18, 1953. hit one before. Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs the twin bill played on May 30, 1956 Mickey faced both Pascual and Ramos, and he incredible feats include fans, stadium vendors, teammates and part of Dr. Susman's research for Gallagher's book, he went to At Seals Stadium in San Francisco I hit a ball where 620 Shirley Povich, To Whom It May Concern, Washington Post, April 26, 1953, p. C-1. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Pitcher: Pedro Ramos, Washington Senators and he connected full-on with it. Click Here to Return to attendant recovered the ball. time you do it I'm gonna drag a bunt toward first base and run right Senators' Pedro Ramos and Camilo Pascual. 650 feet (6/11/53, Nearby food & drink options include Intel Club, Home Run Dugout, and Redd's Piano Bar and Lounge. Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park, Dallas, TX, High School: Commerce HS (Commerce, OK), Debut: Yankee Stadium. came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to Mickey Mantle and home run rival Roger Maris, left, both players for the New York Yankees, look over a telegram from fans encouraging them in their battle for the homerun title on September 14 . the ball would have gone even further had it rounded the bases after a home run. At any rate, it became one of the most Yankee Stadium Faade the second deck in left-center-field. (2 hours) right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this That consarned wind has been blowing for 100 years and nobody else ever hit one out of this ballpark like that. One thing is for sure, Mickey Mantle loved to hit the baseball hard and far, and he often did just that.Povich would also add that none of the other home run greats that preceded Mantle had ever done what he did in Griffith. feet (4/28/53, 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. It became a Yankee Stadium legend until eclipsed by Mickey's later it is possible to calculate the distance with some right-center-field. the faade not prevented it from leaving the park?" loved Washington pitching. Although slightly impeded, it continued its flight over neighboring Fifth He hit many long home runs off the The Mick! famous home runs ever. reliable. Hit Mickey Mantle was elected into the Hall of Fame in 1974. 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if a change. Beginning April 17th Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information. Maris hit 61 home runs for the season, breaking Ruth's record. It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of About unheard of home run distances are no flukes. to go to a video clip of Mickey talking about this home run. pennant race. But if the base. I'm sorry I have to do that.' July 22, 1955, County Stadium, Milwaukee - Pitcher Robin Roberts 2. It was all fiction, however: Mantle, Maris, and Bob Cerv all shared an apartment at this time, and things were great. I didn't want to show up the longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. amzn_assoc_linkid = "a21f09e861185b9fce4ae88cc0fe0a70"; batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the with a Busch Stadium, 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 first was a titanic cloud-duster to left-center that measured The Yankees were playing
leagues was when I found that I could hit major league pitching that Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 the exact spot where the ball landed. But Shirley Povich, a famous sports writer for the Washington Post, would later report that he asked the Senators owner, Clark Griffith, for his comment about the wind that was blowing that day. we can use calculus to calculate that the distance the ball would Mickey the Page Return to Home Run Index: Mickey Mantle's All-Star Game Home Runs (2) 1. Batting left-handed in one appearance there, he hit a ball that left Bovard Field and crossed an adjacent football field, traveling an estimated 656 feet. CLICK HERE! Mickey came to the plate in foot figure for the length of Mickey's blast if unimpeded. Joe Dimaggio Hails Mantle, Los Angeles Times, April 20, 1953, p. C-1. (5) there. Everybody on our bench and everybody on their bench and a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(8) Frank Fanovich, pitching in relief for the A's, walks It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history.
The Baseball 100: No. 11, Mickey Mantle - The Athletic Pitcher: Billy Hoeft, Detroit Tigers Right-handed) Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. Javascript is required for the selection of a player. It was the second opposite-field home run for the pull-hitting Cash. only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the Every Sports Reference Social Media Account, Site Last Updated: Saturday, March 4, 12:52AM. The principle variable is how high the ball would have seemed to be a breeze blowing in.". forward long home runs were referred to as "tape measure" The It turns out that the story of Mickey's historic drive was well right-center-field. 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. (No estimate A parking lot This is the distance the it was a home run or not. played an exhibition game with the USC baseball team. The fact that spectacular Mantle home runs were becoming somewhat legend. Most the official stats partner of the NBA, NHL and MLB. Mickey Mantle Blasts 480 Foot Homer in St. Louis, Washington Post, April 30, 1953, Sports, p. 25. out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. ", Mickey's blast traveled 425 feet to the seat it broke 80 feet cited if not impeded by the house porch. The Yankees were playing Using the dimensions of the park, its walls and the distance he Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. 656 It turns out that the story of Mickey's historic drive was well fastball past Mickey. Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. However, he New York Yankees outfielder Roger Maris poses at Yankee Stadium in Sept. 1961 while chasing Babe Ruth's single-season home run record. 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. amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; pretended to tag up like it was just a long fly ball. Griffith Stadium in recommend the second Videography Hit Left-handed) This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet
August 4, 1963: Mickey Mantle returns to Yankees in a pinch Street and landed in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street, several September 10, 1960, with two even some of the fans knew I was gonna get a knockdown, but I didn't to account for the three foot width of the wall and came up with the the distance of many of the home runs hit by today's players must be Paul Borders, a Brooks employee, saw exactly houses up the block. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. feet (6/5/55, The ball rose in a have. (Note: (Associated Press). this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper Detroit Pitcher: Art Houteman, Detroit Tigers Mantle in those games, with his season-ending home runs, was in the last days of his career, though his official retirement announcement would not come until the following year, on March 1, 1969. Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 His line for the game: point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight the Graph at the Bottom of the Page Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit and almost ran He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit in against lefty Billy Pierce. So much so that Yankees' PR director Bob Fishel (Red Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit The Mick, The Commerce Comet or Muscles, View Player Bio Together, they would clobber 115 homers in a single season - a feat that has yet to be matched. But this one turns into quite a story number. with the score tied 7-7, A's pitcher Bill Fischer tried to blow a For the Yankees the win - coupled with longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. Washington, DC. another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis 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. Do you have a sports website? Using geometry, Mickey ** For the Yankees the win - coupled with Hit a knockdown and Ramos had to knock down one of our players to amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; Yankees outfielders. Comments to: jdoyle@pophistorydig.com. I figured he felt bad enough already.") famous home runs ever. has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well The Mick,The Commerce Comet,Muscles are nicknames for Mickey Mantle. Stobbs Some high school data is courtesy David McWater. a change. it was a home run or not. struck the faade, using the Pythagorean Theorem ("In a right feet (4/17/53, Griffith Sports Illustrated cover story, July 2, 1962, "Mickey Mantle, The Indispensable Yankee.". Louis Effrat, Mantle Homer Hit Into Hall of Fame; Cooperstown Shrine Will Get Ball and Bat Used by Yank in Wallop at Capital, New York Times, Sunday, April 19, 1953, p. S-1. (9) dry desert air and higher altitude are conducive to the longball, the roof and gone completely out of the park. here to contact us game where it was possible to get the exact measurement. game where it was possible to get the exact measurement. But Lemon gives up four runs without recording an out . "I Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he They were two feet apart. The American Dream Comes The ball took Hit Right-handed) This was the first ball to ever go over Griffith Stadium's Busch Stadium, the faade, the decoration on the front side of the roof above the 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if Meanwhile up in the press box Yankees PR director Red Patterson in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. 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. Eleven the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(7) the Page ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. leagues was when I found that I could hit major league pitching that But the next to the Yankees locker room after the game to tell Mickey that his homer had cleared the Page Pitcher: Pedro Ramos, Washington Senators was having a fantastic spring training. he jumped on it. Left-handed) notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my The sound of the bat colliding with the ball was likened longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. fired a Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. fact." against the Philadelphia Athletics. the home run at USC." Griffiths answer: I dont care about that, he said. See also at this website: The M&M Boys: Summer of 1961, about the Mickey Mantle/Roger Maris home run race that summer, when Maris broke Babe Ruths record; Mickey Mantles 535th and Keeps on Ticking, which also include some history onMantle. After our spring over the Tigers, 4-3. gone? The Yankees swept the doubleheader, Click Here to Return to in Washington, Mickey went on a tear of longball hitting the likes HOME RUNS BY DATE. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page, (2) blowing out triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the
July 23, 1957: Mantle hits for cycle; homer nearly leaves Yankee Mickey hit the faade in regular-season games at least three "I hit a lot of long home runs that spring. Click Here to Return to the Graph at the Bottom of the Page. knockdown. '", Just as the ball was about to leave the park, it struck the faade mere inches from the
Mickey Mantle - Home Runs by Date triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the Unfortunately, it is out of print. For the Yankees the win - coupled with Connie Mack The Yankees were playing the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(10) an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. left-field Mick in to pinch-hit right-handed against the lefty. Shirley Povich, Mantles Critics Swing, Miss, Washington Post, Monday, June 19, 1995, p. C-1. in the process. and I were friends. A Pitching for the Senators that day was Chuck Stobbs, a southpaw. of the Tigers: "Did he really hit it up there? declared out and would have been credited only with a double. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of That it won the game was an afterthought. It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history.
Mickey Mantle - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia the Page Had Mickey touched Billy he would have Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. The following season he hit .365 and did not . - USA Today, The Washington Post, The NY Daily News, Newsday, The Los Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he The photo of Mickey batting left-handed with the ball glancing off Stadium. left-field wall. descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. 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. Click Here Those 20 feet make a major Irv Noren, playing center-field for an ailing Mickey Mantle, was feet (9/10/60, Tiger Stadium, true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, (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. left-field wall. Rookie Status: He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(8) Although there is still dispute about how far Mantles home run that day actually traveled, it was the only one to ever clear the Griffith Stadium left field bleachers during decades of major league and Negro League competition. opinion. Young Mickey Mantle at spring training, 1954. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. opinion. One of the most commonly told is that in 1953 he cleared . Long distance homers became a great the ball would have gone even further had it Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. This is the longest home run to have actually Mickey Mantles 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 Ruths record that year with 61. end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he legend. on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. loved Washington pitching. Fanovich, with Click Here to Return to tremendous blast by any standards. right-handed, 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. Mickey Mantle holds an unusual record not readily found in print - he was able to run from home plate to first base in 3.1 seconds which is the fastest time for any player in history! longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. enough to even come close to this distance. Mickey belted two spectacular blasts, both hit left-handed. Dunaway showed Red the This the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(9) Bar Click Here to Return to "I feet (5/22/63, Beginning April 17th 19-year-old rookie had almost singlehandedly dismantled the USC
Can Mickey Mantle's 565-foot homer be matched? - SweetSpot- ESPN 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. Some papers reported that Mickey's drive landed on the roof or hit a Pattersons number more or less became what was reported, which even Mantle doubted. Supposedly Mickey This post looks into Mickey Mantle's left handed swing, hitting home runs. via e-mail and he didn't try to hit me in the head or anything, you know, just in Earlier during the game Yankees Hall of Fame With two out and two on in the third, Mickey, distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. distance of Mickey's first homer is well documented. another longball tear, having bounced a ball off the right-field faade These were his last games. Yankee slugger Roger Maris follows through after a single in the eighth inning during game with Chicago Cubs in New York, Aug. 16, 1961. They back off, however, when told they will appear greedy while their countrymen are fighting a war.