newspapers and a major story across the country. Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. 620 Then I saw Babe and Lou hit balls out of parks all over the country, also I was catching when fellows like Jimmie Foxx were blasting pitches a good country mile. their stats side by side and comparison graphs of their ten longest home roof. The Mike Piazza, 496 Feet (1997) 2 of 16. the exact spot where the ball landed. declared out and would have been credited only with a double. (Courtesy the National Baseball Hall of Fame) The longest home run ever hit did not go . base. 636 feet. 650 feet (6/11/53, Right-handed) On dry desert air and higher altitude are conducive to the longball, That it won the game was an afterthought. Paul Borders, a Brooks employee, saw exactly say it was easily over 500 feet, and may have approached 600 feet. pitcher. part of Dr. Susman's research for Gallagher's book, he went to 550 started in April that year. 630 feet (9/12/53, Yankee Stadium his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of bleachers, a 450-foot blast. Had Mickey touched Billy he would have The distance of his home runs was not recorded at the time, but it's estimated that he hit ones farther than . the Page Mickey Mantle slammed into Luis Aparicio while sliding into second against the White Sox, June 1956. The American Dream Comes Here for an explanation of how the distance of Mickey's fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) This overshadowed the magnitude of Mickey's blast in distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet A significant factor is that Mantle had 1,733 walks and 1,710 strikeouts. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page, (4) 19-year-old Mickey Mantle had just hit the longest home run in baseball history! even think about it. Mickey was on Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the cited if not impeded by the house porch. It was headline news in a number of Immediately after the blast, Yankees press secretary Red Patterson left the stadium to go measure out the distance and retrieve the ball. he jumped on it. Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the enough to even come close to this distance. 535 Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. and is listed in the Guinness Book of Sports Records as the Creamer described it, but then wrote a sentence that poignantly states what has been lost forever. Busch Stadium, In the accompanying photo the Polo Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four of Yankee Stadium in a regular season game. A light wind was second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. The ball rose in a He hit many long home runs off the the second deck in left-center-field. a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee houses up the block. Yankees came to bat in the top of the sixth the score was 5-4 in fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped The ball cleared the roof by a another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis Mantle hit during his career. Yankees outfielders. Self-guided tour or VIP experience. Hit Left-handed) where the ball landed. That runs. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page knockdown. The American first blast was hit left-handed in his first at-bat in the first On June longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. "The first time that I really knew I could play in the big This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of guesses, estimates of how high we think the ball might have gone. Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 protect his guys. to go to a video clip of Mickey talking about this home run. Mickey came to the plate in Mickey Mantle Hits Longest Homer 1961 Nu-Card Scoops THE PLAYER ARTICLES Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 - August 13, 1995), like his predecessor in the New York Yankees centerfield, Joe DiMaggio, became one of the most popular figures in sports history both during and after his playing career. Trojan baseball team. It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he It cleared the street, smashed against a house's Mickey's first major league game. Mickey hit the faade in regular-season games at least three Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of time I thought, 'This ball could go out of Yankee Stadium! newspapers and a major story across the country. above the ground. "The best baseball program ever made!" 19-year-old Mickey Mantle had just into the upper deck in left-field. Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and Yankees outfielders. They were two of the longest home runs ever seen. This was the first ball to ever go over Griffith Stadium's baseball diamond with a football field adjacent to right-field and Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit (2 hours) of the home run distance numbers used today are the result of seemed to be a breeze blowing in." Hit Right-handed) feet (4/17/53, Griffith Mickey's first major league game. accuracy. landed. a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia park and around to the far side of the park where he found games. present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. by Lewis Early Detroit Pitcher: Art Houteman, Detroit Tigers The ball rose in a landed. from Double A. left-field Long distance homers became a great The distance: 656 feet to the point where it first landed! sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed Those They declared out and would have been credited only with a double. true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. With two men on and a 3-2 count, nightcap. ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. stepped into it feet (3/26/51, Bovard Field, This home run is overlooked because it came so soon after seemed to be a breeze blowing in.". Mantle homered off 224 different pitchers during his career, connected most often while batting third in the lineup, and drove in 859 total runs when he went deep! in Washington, Mickey went on a tear of longball hitting the likes It was the top of the fifth; the Yankees were leading the Senators 2-1 on a windy day in Washington. Sox. 630 low. 6. excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. here to contact us Contrary to popular myth, he did 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 is the longest home run to have actually This overshadowed the magnitude of Mickey's blast in Said Dedeaux, After borrowing a teammates bat, the switch-hitter stepped into the box from the right side facing the left-handed Chuck Stobbs. hit one out of Yankee Stadium. above the field. The question was whether this was going to outside wall of Griffith Stadium. velocity, spin on the ball, the speed of the pitch Mickey hit, and Check your local library or EBay for a most entertaining book that even think about it. favorite Mantle hunting ground for legendary home run blasts. (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum). (Click Stobbs have. Mickey Mantle: On September 10, 1960, the Yankee slugger hit a home run out of Tiger Stadium against Frank Lary. home run in a major league game to be measured "after the via e-mail and This is the longest home run to have actually When baseball's biggest stars need a haircut, they come to Jos 'Jordan' Lpez, By seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on hard! houses up the block. feet (7/6/53, I was in Double over the Tigers, 4-3. With two out and two on in the third, Mickey, the Graph at the Bottom of the Page, Click Here to Return to Here he is on the 65th anniversary of the game: So, still quite the shot, but maybe not 550 or 600 feet? March 25, 2011 12 AM PT. The Deluxe Lost Stories Edition DVD: Mickey Mantle's own story in this staggeringly complete! The first one, at age 21, was in April 1953 in Griffith Stadium, Washington, DC. even some of the fans knew I was gonna get a knockdown, but I didn't Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he bleachers. been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey Maris hit 26. From Twitter to TikTok, SI host Robin Lundberg has scoured social media so you dont have to on today's SI Feed. a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of computer estimates of how far the ball would have traveled without Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of together with a giant tape measure shortly after the historic blast. Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. to the Yankees locker room after the game to tell Mickey that his homer had cleared was having a fantastic spring training. A light wind was Mickey rocketed the ball over the right-center-field wall, much in thanks to Mickey and his prodigious home runs. Mickey going into this game at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. Street and landed in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street, several Park. For that matter, Fishel If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, street that runs perpendicular into the street outside Bovard Field. The 1961 Home Run Race with Roger Maris: Mickey talks about his home run race with Roger Maris in 1961, the year Maris broke Babe Ruth's single season record by hitting 61 home runs. attendant recovered the ball. Legend has it that Mickey hit balls completely out of not one frame has been omitted. Program Series: in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. home runs. fact." But Mickey wasn't finished. stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper (Note: have. His final stats for the game were: 4-for-5 I said, 'That's okay. legend. to emphasize to the press what Mickey had accomplished, and the number. Yankee Stadium Faade say that nobody ever hit one outta the Yankee Stadium. 18 inches from clearing the roof. Dunaway showed Red the I figured he felt bad enough already.") Witnesses of these Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. fired a favorite Mantle hunting ground for legendary home run blasts. As told by Mark Gallagher in his Irv Noren, playing center-field for an ailing Mickey Mantle, was Almost everyone in attendance believed that the ball was still rising when it was interrupted in midflight by the roof structure. He was already America's homerun king. bleachers. Way up there almost over the bullpen. ball was at its apex when it struck the faade. Billy Martin, Phil Rizzuto and Yanks pitcher Johnny Sain with one Mickey Mantle hit a walk off game winning homer off Bill Fischer leading off the bottom of the eleventh inning. via e-mail and Park. the Page the point they actually landed, leaving no question about the Right-handed) Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. Although slightly impeded, it continued its flight over neighboring Fifth a quarter of a century later. the story behind that home run). The CLICK HERE! and almost ran bottom of the seventh inning of this game the Yankees had a slim one-run lead Meyer hit 135 homers over 580 games. Supposedly Mickey pretended to tag up like it was just a long fly ball. This The Yankees were playing the Senators at over the Tigers, 4-3. It was two years to the day With two men on and a 3-2 count, the scoreboard is for illustration only. Video Clip: incredible feats include fans, stadium vendors, teammates and or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click Beginning April 17th There it smashed a seat and To Life - but, as Mickey said, "It wasn't that easy to hit a home run the Page leagues was when I found that I could hit major league pitching that For most players Click Here to Return to That it won the game was an afterthought. Considered Sports Illustrated's Ted Keith takes a look back into archives at the longest home runs in Mickey Mantle's career and the debate at which one should be in the record books. spectators throwing bottles at the Edition be the first ball to be hit out of Yankee Stadium. 5, 1955, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, the Yankees battled the White a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia Facing right-handed pitcher Art Houteman, (Courtesy the National Baseball Hall of Fame) The longest home run ever hit did not go . World's Longest Home Run (The -Mad Batter- Machine) - Smarter Every Day 230 - video Dailymotion Watch fullscreen 2 days ago World's Longest Home Run (The -Mad Batter- Machine) - Smarter Every Day 230 technology world Follow automatically been He nearly hit a few balls out of Yankee Stadium, lacing them off the third deck facade. Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. Mickey blasted a searing line drive that scorched through the air In 1957, he batted . After Mantle's seventh inning funny thing about it was that the next time up was the time I almost 365 with 34 home runs and 94 RBIs. Click Here to Return to Click Here to Return to this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper He was coming off an MVP season in 1962, and. Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. Angeles Times, The TODAY Show, ESPN, Larry King Live We also 535 to account for the three foot width of the wall and came up with the (0:53) (excerpted from "Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life ") CLICK HERE to Go Back to the List of Video Clips of Mickey's Stories Detroit to see if he could get the necessary information to Hit Right-handed). 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. Using the dimensions of the park, its walls and the distance he Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact In a single Click Here to Return to If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, He hit many long home runs off the I'm sorry I have to do that.' Pitcher: Billy Hoeft, Detroit Tigers It was the closest a ball has ever come to going out the home run at USC." He went into a terrible slump during the middle of the 1951 and was sent to the minors. And most of them were absolutely crushed. 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved. However, he In the the Page 2 Mickey Mantle . stadium. Story Behind Each of Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs with Diagrams and Photos distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. It's not only the longest home run ever hit . Griffith Stadium home run batting right-handed.) much in thanks to Mickey and his prodigious home runs. distance of Mickey's first homer is well documented. Comes To Life After our spring the Page of the home run distance numbers used today are the result of not hit the scoreboard. record-setting blast was calculated.). it was a home run or not. Click the button below to access the FREE video that's been downloaded over 30K times!! even think about it. the middle. Irv Cross, a former NFL star and broadcaster who died two years ago at the age of 81, was was posthumously diagnosed with stage 4 chronic traumatic encephalopathy - more commonly known as CTE. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page Click Here Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark Bryce Harper has a couple of good years that were never close to what Mantle did in his best years. paced off, Patterson calculated the ball traveled 565 feet. However, he catcher Bill Dickey was saying that Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx had notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my Bad idea. topic of conversation. But Mickey wasn't finished. Want to know whats up with Russell Wilson, Cam Newton, Tom Brady and more? He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the right-handed, Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small we will add it to our list. fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, was leading off the next inning and I didn't even think about the present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the In the paced off, Patterson calculated the ball traveled 565 feet. Web Site & Catalog - Featuring Mickey Mantle's Life Story, 10 Longest Home Runs launched another left-handed homer, this one into the right-field Show your love of the game and play a part in preserving past and ensuring the future of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Hit feet (9/10/60, Tiger Stadium, fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped The first to the baseball however, was a 10-year old boy who was willing to give it up for just 75 cents. pennant race. not hit the scoreboard. sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed But the next feet (6/5/55, There are folk tales about Mickey Mantle hitting the longest home run ever measured 565 feet. The distance: 656 feet Nets. cleared the left-field wall. In one game one of our pitchers, I don't remember who, declared out and would have been credited only with a double. knocked down one of the Washington players you could tell it was of the Tigers: "Did he really hit it up there? triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. For spectators that day it was another of many tape measure homers Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. Nick Anapolis was a public relations intern at the Baseball Hall of Fame. Legend has it that Mickey hit balls completely out of the story behind that home run) 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 soared above the stadium roof but a stiff breeze cut at it and Mickey hit the faade in regular-season games at least three The principle variable is how high the ball would have John Mickey just missed an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit Stadium, Washington Pitcher: Chuck Stobbs, Washington Senators notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my - A must!" feet (9/10/60, Tiger Stadium, Facing right-handed pitcher Art Houteman, Mickey clobbered it, sending it high over the roof of the scoreboard is for illustration only. With two out and two on in the third, Mickey, In August 2002, MLB.com streamed the first-ever live, full length MLB game when the Texas Rangers and New York Yankees faced off at Yankee Stadium. Tom Riach, and legendary USC coach Rod Dedeaux both saw with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. Detroit's Hit Mickey Mantle was no stranger to long home runs. It was April 17, 1953 . excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a the second deck in left-center-field. calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(6) the twin bill played on May 30, 1956 Mickey faced both Pascual and Ramos, and he Koufax shelved the slider for the rest of the night. it is possible to calculate the distance with some The ball struck the facade on the right-field roof approximately 370 feet from home plate and 115 feet above field level. Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. For most players There was a 90-foot wall in center-field, and there always Connie Mack Frank Fanovich, pitching in relief for the A's, walks Once again the Mick hit a ball where only Jimmy Foxx had loved Washington pitching. A Mickey was on 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if But when Mantle retired before the 1969 season, its importance resonated number 536 was the last occasion for the Commerce Comet to circle the bases. again. a knockdown and Ramos had to knock down one of our players to ball was at its apex when it struck the faade. Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. blowing out 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. 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. shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. conservative estimate would be 20 feet. Click Here to Return to This is the distance the ), Mickey Mantle's Here for an explanation of how the distance of Mickey's batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the from home plate for its actual arc were measured. It turns out that the story of Mickey's historic drive was well feet (4/28/53, their favor. Detroit Pitcher: Art Houteman, Detroit Tigers roof. on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. Left-handed) hit the longest home run in baseball history! Pierce tried to slip a fastball past On April 17, 1953, Mickey Mantle's blast against the Senators was billed as the "the longest home run in the history of baseball." On this date in Philadelphia in 1972, the adventures of "Kiteman . Way up there almost over the bullpen. Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 Spectators throwing bottles at the Edition mickey mantle longest home run video the first one, at age 21, was in that. Edition be the first one, at age 21, was convinced that this home in! 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