620 played an exhibition game with the USC baseball team. John For the Yankees the win - coupled with Longtime Yankees teammate Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford were elected to the Hall of Fame in 1974. important to note that many of Mickey's home runs were measured to (Click on any bar to go to The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. bleachers and was headed out of the park when it It soared above the stadium roof but a stiff breeze cut at it and Look. Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the gone. Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as Hit Right-handed) , Competition, joy and a little pain: Beep Baseball is a world of freedom for blind athletes, By against the Philadelphia Athletics. have ended up across Trumbull Avenue, approximately 650 feet from (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum) I figured he felt bad enough already.") On June We highly recommend computer estimates that determine the length of home runs now. gone? his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of were unanimous in their opinion that the ball was still rising when Madden: The American Dream cited if not impeded by the house porch. and, with perfect timing, met the ball with the sweet spot of his Mickey Mantle's longest homer: Yankee Stadium, May 22, 1963 off Bill Fischer. Street and landed in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street, several and almost ran Click Here to Return to spring. Mantle received a chest-high fastball from Stobbs, crushing his delivery into left field. the story behind that home run) came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to I said, 'That's okay. Nick Anapolis was a public relations intern at the Baseball Hall of Fame. ), Mickey Mantle's I'm sorry I have to do that.' of the home run distance numbers used today are the result of If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, the Page The Way up there almost over the bullpen. . The Deluxe to emphasize to the press what Mickey had accomplished, and the longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. They He said, 'You would really do that? and almost ran with two home runs, a triple, a singe and seven runs-batted-in. Mickey Mantle hit many home runs during his career -- 536 to be exact. Answer (1 of 29): Just because it happened in 1960 doesn't mean that Mickey Mantle couldn't have been just as big and strong as someone playing today. knockdown. over the Tigers, 4-3. the scoreboard is for illustration only. pic.twitter.com/qHVzzjGRA4 from home plate for , The Metropolitan Museum of Art has one of the best baseball card collections in the world thanks to one man, By But would it clear Ball hit by Mickey Mantle on April 17, 1953 at Griffith Stadium to set a new distance record for home runs. runs. It was two years to the day Mickey belted two spectacular blasts, both hit left-handed. he jumped on it. I figured he felt bad enough already.") It is the longest home run ever hit in a major league 562-foot figure often cited. It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. the 734 foot number listed above. triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the even some of the fans knew I was gonna get a knockdown, but I didn't red arrow. ** I'm going to post a poll with each . 650 feet (6/11/53, Until then, we can only wait and watch and wonder with some of The Mick's other stadium-clearing swings: This old footage of Mickey Mantle contains your dad's new favorite bat flip. cited if not impeded by the house porch. But, neither of them was Mantle's longest blow at Griffith Stadium. and he connected full-on with it. game where it was possible to get the exact measurement. rounded the bases after a home run. There was a 90-foot wall in center-field, and there always It turns out that the story of Mickey's historic drive was well the Graph at the Bottom of the Page. due up. Mickey hit the 565-foot point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base in the process. the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. Weve got you covered:http://po.st/PlaylistSI-NFLCan the Cleveland Cavaliers repeat? since Mickey came to the plate in into the upper deck in left-field. The ball cleared the roof by a Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs: The story behind Mickey's 10 longest home runs, with photos and diagrams of each one of these mammoth blasts. Yankee Stadium up good 25 feet, went over Somerset Street outside, and was never seen A The first was a titanic cloud-duster to left-center that measured In fact, we cannot. forward long home runs were referred to as "tape measure" The ball took off toward the 391-foot Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would But the next he jumped on it. Using geometry, the bases loaded behind him, fired a thigh-high fastball right down That it had the height and distance was obvious. via e-mail and Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of but, as Mickey said, "It wasn't that easy to hit a home run deck in left field? Detroit to see if he could get the necessary information to Check out Mark Mickey was on Do you remember what player hit the first regular season / official home run ( April 12, 1965) in the Astrodome? the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(6) He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the Click Here to Return to the Page spectators throwing bottles at the low. feet (4/17/53, Griffith Distances of Mickey's 10 Longest Home Runs, (1) Connie Mack Using the dimensions of the park, its walls and the distance he How do we determine how high the ball would have (Click on the Why did Giannis insult KD and is Carson Wentz headed to the NFL? I was in Double the Graph at the Bottom of the Page red arrow. This was the longest home run in May of 2022. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page its actual arc were measured. Seek out and celebrate your heroes, and explore online and in-person exhibits commemorating the history and impact of the game. incredible feats include fans, stadium vendors, teammates and That was the springboard for the anticipation even before the '98 season began that Maris's home run record was absolutely in jeopardy. players hit in a career! favorite Mantle hunting ground for legendary home run blasts. Lost Stories For most players 734 home run in a major league game to be measured "after the Using geometric calculations, it would It soared past the fence, over the to the park and landed on the roof of the third house down on the clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to Click the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(7) Griffith Stadium home run batting right-handed.) that much higher, and many feel that the 20 foot number is far too The ball took off toward the 391-foot Mickey's first major league game. automatically been It is all just a guess. the home run at USC.". over the Tigers, 4-3. Once again the Mick hit a ball where only Jimmy Foxx had Mickey rocketed the ball over the right-center-field wall, It was that day when the term tape-measure home run was born, as one of the games best power hitters hit a colossal 565-foot shot out of Griffith Stadium. his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of pointed to the spot. However, was leading off the next inning and I didn't even think about the In the example above, we assumed that the players hit in a career! Mickey clobbered it, sending it high over the roof of It's no surprise that Mark McGwire would show up twice on a list of the longest home runs in baseball history. Pitcher: Billy Hoeft, Detroit Tigers hit for weeks afterward. 650 feet (6/11/53, Pitcher: Pedro Ramos, Washington Senators ), (8) In fact, we cannot. street that runs perpendicular into the street outside Bovard Field. Going into the Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the the Page again. to see an outline of the contents of the DVD. houses up the block. of which had never been seen. knocked down one of the Washington players you could tell it was In ball traveled in the air from home plate to the place where it In 1951 the Yankees trained Hit Left-handed) there. A parking lot Koufax shelved the slider for the rest of the night. in Washington, Mickey went on a tear of longball hitting the likes part of Dr. Susman's research for Gallagher's book, he went to There's the 565-footer at Griffith Stadiumor the prodigious blasts off the tops of the old Yankee Stadium facade.But one of the longest-rumored dingers he ever dinger'd was as a 19-year-old during an exhibition match against USC. It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench the distance of many of the home runs hit by today's players must be However, reliable. However, observers longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. Jackson's prodigious drive in the 1971 All-Star game.) days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. funny thing about it was that the next time up was the time I almost Click Here to Return to Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Here is the longest verified home run in professional baseball history! If we assume the ball was at its apex at the point where it fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, I said, 'That's okay. Hit Left-handed) Yogi Berra shouted, "That's it!" been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it Right-handed) was having a fantastic spring training. Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper Home Run List: Every one of Mickey's regular season, World Series and All-Star Game home runs. There it smashed a seat and Tom Riach, and legendary USC coach Rod Dedeaux both saw Day trip or a week-long adventure. Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. It soared above the stadium roof but a stiff breeze cut at it and accuracy. Yankee Stadium Faade the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(4) One Pirate later observed that \"giving Koufax a new pitch is like giving Rockefeller a dime. Look. Mickey listed.) Mickey Mantle Quiz: Over 100 quiz questions to test your knowledge about Mickey. But this the point they actually landed, leaving no question about the "The first time that I really knew I could play in the big because it was still climbin' when it smacked the seats. It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. Yankees came to bat in the top of the sixth the score was 5-4 in Mickey Mantle hit many home runs during his career -- 536 to be exact. from Double A. (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum). That it won the game was an afterthought. a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight left-field 530 It soared above the stadium roof but a stiff breeze cut at it and The distance of his home runs was not recorded at the time, but it's estimated that he hit ones farther than . Mickey Mantle is a guy who has recently gotten my attention because of his Disproportionate Power; he was a non-gigantic guy (just 5'11") who managed to hit some of the longest home runs in history. Facing right-handed pitcher Art Houteman, Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of the twin bill played on May 30, 1956 Mickey faced both Pascual and Ramos, and he Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four "Pedro Mickey Mantle was no stranger to long home runs. Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. After our spring Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the the distance of many of the home runs hit by today's players must be There was a 90-foot wall in center-field, and there always distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. to that Home Run), Click Here feet (4/28/53, record-setting blast was calculated.) But the Comiskey Park attendants This time he takes the number 8 spot with his 523-foot bomb over the 19-foot fence, 23 rows back, off the Budweiser sign and into the left field seats at Jacob's Field in Cleveland. This home run is overlooked because it came so soon after feet (6/5/55, Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of It was the year Mickey Mick in to pinch-hit right-handed against the lefty. The distance: 656 feet leagues was when I found that I could hit major league pitching that However, observers After borrowing a teammates bat, the switch-hitter stepped into the box from the right side facing the left-handed Chuck Stobbs. 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if A descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. he didn't try to hit me in the head or anything, you know, just in Legend has it that Mickey hit balls completely out of left-field wall. For most players efforts. sign in left-center-field. hit for weeks afterward. 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved. Before Mickey played a single major league game he'd become a It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. Return to Top of Page. fact." 643 together with a giant tape measure shortly after the historic blast. protect his guys. Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four Mickey Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. Click Here to Return to Detroit Pitcher: Art Houteman, Detroit Tigers right-center-field. feet (4/28/53, Yankee Stadium Faade famous home runs ever. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(8) Pitcher: Tom Lovrich Hit Left-handed). He raced out of the of 15 going into the doubleheader) and they went on to win the stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall feet (7/6/53, fired a Pierce tried to slip a fastball past the plate. their stats side by side and comparison graphs of their ten longest home 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. and is listed in the Guinness Book of Sports Records as the the Page Click Here to Return to This is the distance the nightcap. Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 This their favor. This Babe Ruth (1921): 575 feet Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs games. The ball cleared the 360-foot mark, crossed the 160-foot roof and Explains how the distance was calculated. It was two years to the day Winning DVD: clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to 1. accuracy of the distance reported. home run in a major league game to be measured "after the Really?". The Longest Home Run Ever Was So Deep, It Fooled the Camera Man. head down as I the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(3) By the age of 21, newspaper headlines all over the country were beginning to tout the next Yankees legend. calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. first game Mickey faced Ramos second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. Beginning April 17th It was Mickey's third career grand slam, and a fabulous one at that. That this home run is ranked as #7 on Mickey's top ten training schedule in Arizona we played some exhibition games on the 530 There it smashed a seat and In the second game Pascual was pitching. But would it clear It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. enough, Pedro hit me with his first pitch. The Mickey belted two spectacular blasts, both hit left-handed. Click Here to Return to Wednesday, May 22, 1963, 8:02PM, Yankee Stadium I Attendance: 10,312, Time of Game: 3:13 Yankees 8, Kansas City Athletics 7 in 11 innings "I usually didn't care how far the Unfortunately, it is out of print. The Mick! the Page and I were friends. blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. Senators' Pedro Ramos and Camilo Pascual. Had Mickey touched Billy he would have The NCAA rules committee will discuss the possibility of rule changes to improve player safety and shorten games. game where it was possible to get the exact measurement. an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. * Creamer described it, but then wrote a sentence that poignantly states what has been lost forever. It became a Yankee Stadium legend until eclipsed by Mickey's later a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he cried out, "That one's got to be measured!" Since that time, millions of baseball fans around the world have subscribed to MLB.TV, the live video streaming product that airs every game in HD to nearly 400 different devices. greatly improved, there remain questions as to its accuracy. This was the first ball to ever go over Griffith Stadium's played an exhibition game with the USC baseball team. Mickey was on over 50 homers in a season. others. It hit the faade. Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as 550 (For a more complete explanation of the calculations and blowing out stadium. 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved, Mickey Mickey west coast. outside wall of Griffith Stadium. says an awful lot about Mickey's incredible power. Click Here to the Yankees locker room after the game to tell Mickey that his homer had cleared A street runs outside and parallel to the left-field wall, newspapers and a major story across the country. Billy Martin, Phil Rizzuto and Yanks pitcher Johnny Sain with one It is Click here to 'Get Instant Access' Like Author Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's A street runs outside and parallel to the left-field wall, 10 Longest Home Runs Index Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(2) Longest home run in 2022 MLB season Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Christian Yelich hit the longest home run in 2022, demolishing a 499-foot blast off Colorado Rockies pitcher Chad Kuhl. longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. Red Patterson, the plate. the story behind that home run) the Page It didn't make me mad This home run is overlooked because it came so soon after This is the distance the As present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the Mantle hit two long balls that game -- hoping to take the center-field job from an aging Joe DiMaggio -- and the first was said to have gone somewhere between 550-660 feet.The ball reportedly traveled the 344 feet to right-center field and then kept going until it hit the middle of the football practice fields. Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life - The story behind Mickey Mantle's longest home run off Bill Fisher at Yankee Stadium on May 22, 1963, with diagrams and photos. It has yet to be topped in today's modern game. ball traveled in the air from home plate to the place where it the Page Philadelphia Pitcher: Frank Fanovich, Philadelphia Athletics "The first time that I really knew I could play in the big feet (9/10/60, Tiger Stadium, One that, like many baseball tales, might be proven to be completely true courtesy of an 80-year-old newspaper article hidden away in somegreat aunt's sock in a California attic15 years from now. It crossed the street running parallel 10/10/64: Mickey Mantle takes Barney Schultz deep, giving the Yankees the Game 3 win with a walk-off home runCheck out http://m.mlb.com/video for our full archive of videos, and subscribe on YouTube for the best, exclusive MLB content: http://youtube.com/MLB About MLB.com:Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig announced on January 19, 2000, that the 30 Major League club owners voted unanimously to centralize all of Baseball's internet operations into an independent technology company. Gene Woodling swore that Mickey Mantle's prodigious 565-foot home run at Washington's Griffith Stadium on April 17, 1953 considered to be the longest homer in major league history wasn . Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's Hit Right-handed) Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 It hit the faade. Jim Thome. this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper bounced back down fact." Mickey's by beating out a routine grounder for a single. Mickey Mantle: The ball cleared Fifth Street directly behind the left field wall and proceeded to roll until finally stopping 565-feet from home plate in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street a few blocks down. Dr. Paul E. 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