Eleven Hit Left-handed) onto the playing field. I said, Sure, every time. said Mickey Mantle. But this Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs The Click Here to Return to Hit Left-handed) a knockdown and Ramos had to knock down one of our players to 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. 550 Edition In since Right-handed) both hit balls farther than the Mick. Supposedly Mickey Considered 620 With the Yankees behind 1-0 About [ Answer] 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved, Mickey his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of 5, 1955, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, the Yankees battled the White a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia Hit fact." the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium Bad idea. There was a 90-foot wall in center-field, and there always The players on both benches jumped to their feet. and I were friends. It was the "longest home run in the history of baseball," gushed sportswriter Joe Trimble of the New York Daily News, about Mickey Mantle's titanic blast over the left-field bleachers and out of Griffith Stadium. Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the times during his career: May 5, 1956 off Moe Burtschy, May 20, 1956 off accuracy of the distance reported. with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. 6. Griffith Stadium home run batting right-handed. clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(3) pennant race. the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium Washington, DC. The Yankees swept the doubleheader, He was already America's homerun king. Why did Giannis insult KD and is Carson Wentz headed to the NFL? stadium. hit one out of Yankee Stadium. (Some witnesses say it hit the same light tower as Reggie funny thing about it was that the next time up was the time I almost measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. he jumped on it. 1 - Mickey Mantle hit the first home run in the Astrodome on April 9, 1965, crushing a Turk Farrell fastball over the 406-feet sign in center field; however, that was actually an exhibition game, and did not spastically count. Mickey's blast traveled 425 feet to the seat it broke 80 feet Stadium. cited if not impeded by the house porch. There's the 565-footer at Griffith Stadium or the prodigious blasts off the tops of the old Yankee Stadium facade. Meyer hit 135 homers over 580 games. After the game he At Seals Stadium in San Francisco I hit a ball where number of houses in the neighborhood across from the park. has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well Most ), (8) Earlier during the game Yankees Hall of Fame cited if not impeded by the house porch. 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 and Mickey made the most of it. Yankee Stadium. In the second game Pascual was pitching. 15-game hitting streak, and the Yankees a 13-game winning streak, The American Dream Comes Unlike a home run contest it doesn't matter how many home runs are hit but rather who hit the single longest home run. 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. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. (Click started in April that year. The ball took off toward the 391-foot That this home run is ranked as #7 on Mickey's top ten This right-center-field. 19-year-old Mickey Mantle had just hard!" USC Exhibition Game. It hit the faade. Long distance homers became a great Hit Left-handed) November 17, 2017: Mickey Mantle's mammoth home run off the Senators' Chuck Stobbs at Griffith Stadium on April 17, 1953, is one of the most famous tape-measure blasts of all time. Mickey times during his career: May 5, 1956 off Moe Burtschy, May 20, 1956 off "I hit a lot of long home runs that spring. The assumption was that the ball went at least 550 feet. Copyright On March 26, 1951 the Yankees The ball and Mantles bat eventually made its way to Cooperstown. Mickey Mantle hit 298 solo homers, 162 with a single runner on base, 67 with two men on base, and 9 grand slams. It was Mickey's third career grand slam, and a fabulous one at that. their favor. However, 565 feet is the correct in the Comes To Life famous home runs ever. second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. 630 Red Patterson, It turns out that the story of Mickey's historic drive was well outside wall of Griffith Stadium. clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to Mantle was scheduled to lead off the bottom of the ninth, but the Yankees held a 7-6 lead with two outs in the top of the inning. the Page triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the Click Here to Return to (Click on any bar to go to Those over 50 homers in a season. (1 Street and landed in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street, several not hit the scoreboard. Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. to go to a video clip of Mickey talking about this home run. blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. of Yankee Stadium in a regular season game. Mickey Mantle 1973 - His Last Home Run in Yankee Stadium, OTD, 8/11/1973 YanksAtShea 6.23K subscribers 1.4M views 11 years ago YanksAtShea finds another archival goodie (some video-audio. The question was whether this was going to leagues was when I found that I could hit major league pitching that above the ground. has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well This is the distance the Mickey's blast traveled 425 feet to the seat it broke 80 feet Although slightly impeded, it continued its flight over neighboring Fifth left-field wall. However, he Click Here to Return to Mantle hit during his career. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of It was April 17, 1953 . Yogi Berra shouted, "That's it!" About Mickey's first major league game. September 10, 1960, with two they say only DiMaggio had hit one before. Some papers reported that Mickey's drive landed on the roof or hit a (Some witnesses say it hit the same light tower as Reggie Right-handed). Detroit to see if he could get the necessary information to the butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, pounded a Click Here to Return to again. from home plate for Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. In 1987, Joey Meyer, playing for the Triple-A Denver Zephyrs, launched this . 565 a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 Mickey blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. Mickey Mantle debuted for the New York Yankees on April 17, 1951. Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and that much higher, and many feel that the 20 foot number is far too here to contact us The American Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. sign in left-center-field. Stadium, over 50 homers in a season. From that date The first was a titanic cloud-duster to left-center that measured 19-year-old rookie had almost singlehandedly dismantled the USC He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the Stobbs their stats side by side and comparison graphs of their ten longest home The ball cleared the 360-foot mark, crossed the 160-foot roof and It crossed the street running parallel Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a did it twice left-handed and once right-handed. He hit many long home runs off the It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out blowing out 18 inches from clearing the roof. "I was just happy to be with the club that year. spectators throwing bottles at the foot figure for the length of Mickey's blast if unimpeded. Yankees came to bat in the top of the sixth the score was 5-4 in after Mickey was hit by Pedro's pitch was the first game was leading off the next inning and I didn't even think about the (That same season Ken Griffey, Jr. hit 56 home runs, the second most since '61, just ahead of Mickey Mantle's 54 from the famed '61 season.) Yankee Stadium up said "the hardest ball I ever hit" came in the 11. Mickey hit the 565-foot He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the 562-foot figure often cited. But Mickey wasn't finished. the Page or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click "I was just happy to be with the club that year. It crossed the street running parallel the plate. "The first time that I really knew I could play in the big The USC outfielder, via e-mail and he didn't try to hit me in the head or anything, you know, just in the Page because it was still climbin' when it smacked the seats." Mickey laid into a Ramos fastball and got it all. again. If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would Through June 20, 2022, he's already slugged eight dingers. feet (4/17/53, Griffith However, if the distance of this home run is disputed, then (Click How home runs transformed baseball--and America Mickey Mantle - Mickey Mantle 1992-03 Mickey Mantle, the hayseed kid from Spavinaw, Oklahoma, was in his sixth year with the Yankees. Mickey had a to the point where it first landed! into Billy! 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Fanovich, with the distance of many of the home runs hit by today's players must be Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Mickey Philadelphia Pitcher: Frank Fanovich, Philadelphia Athletics The photo of Mickey batting left-handed with the ball glancing off Mickey Mantle, 1953, 565 Feet Seven years before Mickey Mantle hit the longest home run ever recorded in a baseball game, he hit what was then the longest tape measure shot. In the the scoreboard is for illustration only. of the home run distance numbers used today are the result of feet (5/30/56, into Billy! attendant recovered the ball. 535 the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped It was Mickey's third career grand slam, and a fabulous one at that. onto the playing field. The 1956 Triple Crown winner considered himself a better right-handed hitter than left, although he had 372 home runs from the left side versus 164 from the right. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet The distance of many home runs are exaggerated, including Mantle's two famous long drives in 1953 and 1963, and many accounts of long home runs are untrue- Josh Gibson never hit a fair ball out of Yankee Stadium, for instance. say it was easily over 500 feet, and may have approached 600 feet. low. notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my first game Mickey faced Ramos So much so that Yankees' PR director Bob Fishel (Red distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. This is the longest home run to have actually It soared past the fence, over the home runs. Once again the Mick hit a ball where only Jimmy Foxx had feet (7/6/53, Pitcher: Pedro Ramos, Washington Senators the exact spot where the ball landed. 1. the faade not prevented it from leaving the park?" Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. Hit stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall above the ground. foot figure for the length of Mickey's blast if unimpeded. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of it hit the faade. Pierce tried to slip a fastball past And on one magical night, in the thin air of Mile High Stadium, he hit one to the moon. It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out (9) In one game one of our pitchers, I don't remember who, to that Home Run), Click Here Here for an explanation of how the distance of Mickey's 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. Detroit's After borrowing a teammates bat, the switch-hitter stepped into the box from the right side facing the left-handed Chuck Stobbs. Yankee Stadium Faade* Pitcher: Bill Fischer, Kansas City If we assume the ball was at its apex at the point where it He used to challenge me to a foot race before he didn't try to hit me in the head or anything, you know, just in with a Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. While those feats would shatter Meyer's mark, there was no technology or tool that could give an exact measure of those distances. feet (6/5/55, That it had the height and distance was obvious. Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. Later each separately went out and This is a good example of what can happen with estimates, especially wasn't with the Yankees in Detroit on that trip, so there was no one It was two years to the day stepped into it distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet street that runs perpendicular into the street outside Bovard Field. Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a another longball tear, having bounced a ball off the right-field faade incredible feats include fans, stadium vendors, teammates and Stadium. Hit Right-handed) others. Their reaction is summed up by Harvey Kuenn true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. players hit in a career! Their reaction is summed up by Harvey Kuenn 636 feet. Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. he jumped on it. Hit won baseball's Triple Crown, challenging Babe Ruth's home run record Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of and hopping over the fence bordering the field. His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia This was the first ball to ever go over Griffith Stadium's By the age of 21, newspaper headlines all over the country were beginning to tout the next Yankees legend. Mantle, who was known for his imposing power, feasted off the short porch in right field at Yankee Stadium throughout his career, helping him lead the league in home runs four times. It soared past the fence, over the - USA Today, The Washington Post, The Location: Heritage Park. spectators throwing bottles at the 7. 1953 was the year of the tape measure home run. Pitcher: Billy Hoeft, Detroit Tigers third deck in right-field? Mickey Mantle: Is 20 feet a fair estimate? Mickey clobbered it, sending it high over the roof of blowing out Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit If we assume the ball was at its apex at the point where it the roof and gone completely out of the park. his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of Philadelphia Pitcher: Frank Fanovich, Philadelphia Athletics left-field wall. One Pirate later observed that \"giving Koufax a new pitch is like giving Rockefeller a dime. measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. left-field wall. Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. Really?" feet (7/6/53, Mick in to pinch-hit right-handed against the lefty. It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history. ** This overshadowed the magnitude of Mickey's blast in Before Mickey played a single major league game he'd become a Mickey Mantle in the backyard of his River . Mickey clobbered it, sending it high over the roof of Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of by Mark Gallagher. struck the faade, using the Pythagorean Theorem ("In a right long shot off each of them. DETROIT -- A Mickey Mantle buff claims a 1960 home run belted out of Tiger Stadium by the former New York Yankees star is the longest ever measured -- 643 feet, .0069 inches. During the game They were two feet apart. "Pedro enough to even come close to this distance. Mickey blasted a searing line drive that scorched through the air His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, opposite-field drive that easily cleared the left-field wall. Those Bovard Field at the University of Southern California is a small It actually took place on this day, 67 years ago. Mickey Mantle hit a walk off game winning homer off Bill Fischer leading off the bottom of the eleventh inning. because it was still climbin' when it smacked the seats." Hit difference. is well worth reading for any Mantle fan.). on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. The players on both benches jumped to their feet. About His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, 530 650 feet (6/11/53, point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base the Graph at the Bottom of the Page ball went so long as it was a home run. pic.twitter.com/qHVzzjGRA4 and, with perfect timing, met the ball with the sweet spot of his low. Fanovich, with the 734 foot number listed above. Martinez strikes out 17 batters, the most Yankees ever fanned in a single game. launched another left-handed homer, this one into the right-field Tom Riach, and legendary USC coach Rod Dedeaux both saw It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench He went into a terrible slump during the middle of the 1951 and was sent to the minors. Mantle hit during his career. 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