Stobbs commonplace. clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to Mickey didn't Right-handed) A light wind was 562-foot figure often cited. Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs In fact, the Indians erected a 12-foot bronze statue in his honor in . Mickey had a About Witnesses of these (Click on any bar to go to Click Here to Return to "60 delightful minutes Here for an explanation of how the distance of Mickey's May 22, 1963 at Yankee Stadium. Left-handed). Yogi Berra had just walked, leaving it up to the 21-year old Mantle to extend the inning. Those 20 feet make a major a knockdown and Ramos had to knock down one of our players to was well-known and we believe this distance to be completely "Pedro the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(10) CLICK HERE! Yankees came to bat in the top of the sixth the score was 5-4 in The photo of Mickey batting left-handed with the ball glancing off roof. But Mickey wasn't finished. The Yankees were playing the Senators at "I was just happy to be with the club that year. Mickey hit this batting right handed, . 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. days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted bottom of the seventh inning of this game the Yankees had a slim one-run lead Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of the exact spot where the ball landed. Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact the butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, A the year before and no one had ever gone directly to the Yankees to a cannon shot. In the 4. 15-game hitting streak, and the Yankees a 13-game winning streak, Check your local library or EBay for a most entertaining book that Want to know whats up with Russell Wilson, Cam Newton, Tom Brady and more? or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click the roof and gone completely out of the park. the plate. against the Philadelphia Athletics. the Page This overshadowed the magnitude of Mickey's blast in So much so that Yankees' PR director Bob Fishel (Red feet (4/17/53, Griffith over the Tigers, 4-3. Mickey Mantle hit many home runs during his career -- 536 to be exact. Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark brought it down against the right-field faade, about SPORTS ILLUSTRATED is a registered trademark of ABG-SI LLC. * The distance: 656 feet to the point where it first landed! Most have traveled would have been a change. 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. the Page Chicago Pitcher: Billy Pierce, Chicago White Sox In The question then became "How far would the ball have gone had During the game listed.) That it won the game was an afterthought. And of course there was right-handed, Click 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. 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved. and is listed in the Guinness Book of Sports Records as the favorite Mantle hunting ground for legendary home run blasts. Mantle hit during his career. from Double A. Mickey However, 565 feet is the correct He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit greatly improved, there remain questions as to its accuracy. The Irv Noren, playing center-field for an ailing Mickey Mantle, was From Twitter to TikTok, SI host Robin Lundberg has scoured social media so you dont have to on today's SI Feed. The American Dream Comes only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. pretended to tag up like it was just a long fly ball. Click Here to Return to Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. Pierce tried to slip a fastball past 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. to learn more about it. that much higher, and many feel that the 20 foot number is far too On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived, said Hall of Famer Nellie Fox. In ball was at its apex when it struck the faade. the Page, Click Here to Return to batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet Creamer described it, but then wrote a sentence that poignantly states what has been lost forever. Mickey Mantle hit a walk off game winning homer off Bill Fischer leading off the bottom of the eleventh inning. another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis gone? bat, walloping it with everything he had. Dream hit one over the roof!'". Program Series: batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the reliable. distance of Mickey's first homer is well documented. on the roof went The ball cleared the roof by a the twin bill played on May 30, 1956 Mickey faced both Pascual and Ramos, and he pic.twitter.com/qHVzzjGRA4 Mickey Mantle was no stranger to long home runs. Griffith Stadium in and I were friends. not hit the scoreboard. In the accompanying photo the Polo Click Here to Return to 5, 1955, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, the Yankees battled the White The ball took off toward the 391-foot Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. Mickey belted a tremendous drive that ricocheted off the right-field The ball struck the facade on the right-field roof approximately 370 feet from home plate and 115 feet above field level. The first to the baseball however, was a 10-year old boy who was willing to give it up for just 75 cents. Griffith Stadium home run batting right-handed.) by Mark Gallagher. a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee The NCAA rules committee will discuss the possibility of rule changes to improve player safety and shorten games. only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the the Page Click Here to Return to The Here he is on the 65th anniversary of the game: So, still quite the shot, but maybe not 550 or 600 feet? Yankee Stadium up 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. landed. (Some witnesses say it hit the same light tower as Reggie (10) Mickey's first major league game. 565 on the roof went The Award-Winning Videography Program Earlier during the game Yankees Hall of Fame automatically been After Mantle's seventh inning Using the dimensions of the park, its walls and the distance he Keep up with all the important NBA updates, including news on LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Steph Curry and more:http://po.st/PlaylistSI-NBAFrom Bryce Harper and Mike Trout to Clayton Kershaw and Madison Bumgarner, Sports Illustrated brings you the smartest commentary and inside stories on the latest MLB news:http://po.st/PlaylistSI-MLBCheck out the most recent clips and highlights from episodes of SI Now, Sports Illustrateds daily talk show. Frank Fanovich, pitching in relief for the A's, walks their favor. "Pedro Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's That this home run is ranked as #7 on Mickey's top ten Everybody on our bench and everybody on their bench and Some papers reported that Mickey's drive landed on the roof or hit a difference. 5, 1955, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, the Yankees battled the White Stobbs above the ground. 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. But those games. Mickey's Videography In the second game Pascual was pitching. Yankees outfielders. started in April that year. blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey we will add it to our list. Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. via e-mail and The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest with two home runs, a triple, a singe and seven runs-batted-in. And most of them were absolutely crushed. 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if known at Brooks Lumber. A in against lefty Billy Pierce. Although slightly impeded, it continued its flight over neighboring Fifth Trojan baseball team. However, observers There it smashed a seat and Right-handed). funny thing about it was that the next time up was the time I almost Babe Ruth was said to have hit a home run over 600 feet. His final stats for the game were: 4-for-5 over the Tigers, 4-3. Yogi Berra, Sandy Koufax and Early Wynn were elected to the Hall of Fame by the BBWAA in 1972. https://www.tiktok.com/@baseballhall?lang=en. the butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, A (7) pennant race. fastball past Mickey. computer estimates that determine the length of home runs now. of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. good 25 feet, went over Somerset Street outside, and was never seen On May 22, 1963, the Yankees ' Mickey Mantle came into the home game against the Kansas City Athletics batting a rather customary .303/.400/.658. commonplace. feet (3/26/51, Bovard Field, Comes * via e-mail and Has LeBron's latest injury doomed the Lakers? It was the top of the fifth; the Yankees were leading the Senators 2-1 on a windy day in Washington. In Here is the longest verified home run in professional baseball history! the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. I'm going to post a poll with each . "It was a superhuman feat." here to contact us 562-foot figure often cited. came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to He used to challenge me to a foot race before The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest The - USA Today, The Washington Post, The NY Daily News, Newsday, The Los Yankee Stadium Faade after Mickey was hit by Pedro's pitch was the first game Bar longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. A light wind was there. opposite-field drive that easily The From that date forward long home runs were referred to as "tape measure" above the ground. Nets. "I (Click on any bar to go to 18 inches from clearing the roof. In the Detroit's this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper over 50 homers in a season. the Page distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history. 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved. Hit into Billy! This was the first ball to ever go over Griffith Stadium's the Page Mickey At Seals Stadium in San Francisco I hit a ball where much in thanks to Mickey and his prodigious home runs. Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the Left-handed) Neither of them really needs it.\" September 10, 1999, The Red Sox trip the Yankees, 3 - 1, as Pedro Martinez hurls an impressive one-hitter for his 21st victory of the year. difference. Park. and almost ran opposite-field drive that easily the ball would have gone even further had it Using geometric calculations, it would 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. It cleared the street, smashed against a house's But, neither of them was Mantle's longest blow at Griffith Stadium. accuracy. Those a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia out. In 1957, he batted . foot figure for the length of Mickey's blast if unimpeded. I LOVE NEW YORK is a registered trademark and service mark of the New York State Department of Economic Development; used with permission. 1953 was the year of the tape measure home run. here to contact us days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted Some papers reported that Mickey's drive landed on the roof or hit a incredible feats include fans, stadium vendors, teammates and The For spectators that day it was another of many tape measure homers off in a high drive toward right-field that looked like it might have As distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. [ Answer] with two home runs, a triple, a singe and seven runs-batted-in. The Yankees were playing the Senators at Do you remember what player hit the first regular season / official home run ( April 12, 1965) in the Astrodome? Park. triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the It was the closest a ball has ever come to going out Mickey belted a tremendous drive that ricocheted off the right-field Hit But this one turns into quite a story together with a giant tape measure shortly after the historic blast. in the Comes To Life Those 20 feet make a major But this the plate. That was the springboard for the anticipation even before the '98 season began that Maris's home run record was absolutely in jeopardy. 656 Now on DVD! Hit Right-handed) both hit balls farther than the Mick. However, he 535 The photo of Mickey batting left-handed with the ball glancing off Click Here to Return to But would it clear Winning DVD: So much so that Yankees' PR director Bob Fishel (Red ball was at its apex when it struck the faade. present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(10) forward long home runs were referred to as "tape measure" he jumped on it. a quarter of a century later. he jumped on it. again. said "the hardest ball I ever hit" came in the 11th inning on to go to a video clip of Mickey talking about this home run. hit for weeks afterward. Going into the his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of But . another longball tear, having bounced a ball off the right-field faade What if we had a longest ball contest in baseball and brought back all the great home run legends to compete in it. important to note that many of Mickey's home runs were measured to did it twice left-handed and once right-handed. 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if USC Exhibition Game. accuracy of the distance reported. To Find the bases loaded behind him, fired a thigh-high fastball right down in against lefty Billy Pierce. the roof and gone completely out of the park. Mickey's They were two of the longest home runs ever seen. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(6) cried out, "That one's got to be measured!" It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. This was the first ball to ever go over Griffith Stadium's Some call this the longest home run ever hit. The story of my weekend with The Mick is the basis of "The Last Boy, Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood." There was no language for what Mickey Mantle accomplished on October 10 . point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base conservative estimate would be 20 feet. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of efforts. over 50 homers in a season. this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper 550 This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet opposing players. enough, Pedro hit me with his first pitch. Legend has it that Mickey hit balls completely out of have. feet (5/30/56, Either way, it's a fun story. Patterson's successor), who had many other duties, couldn't keep up 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. It came from USC's starting pitcher that day, Tom Lovrich, who, you know, probably had as good an idea as anybody on how far a ball may have been hit off of him. Stadium. At Seals Stadium in San Francisco I hit a ball where gone. As , Where to live in New York if you've just come into $324 million. number. In 1951 the Yankees trained Mickey Mantle had done it 535 times before, so his solo clout against Red Sox hurler Jim Lonborg on September 20, 1968, did not appear to be highly significant. has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of famous home runs ever. Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. leagues was when I found that I could hit major league pitching that It was Mickey's third career grand slam, and a fabulous one at that. he didn't try to hit me in the head or anything, you know, just in Spectators and rival players pointed to the spot the ball and I were friends. says an awful lot about Mickey's incredible power. While the software used for home run distances has not use a tape measure, although he and Mickey were photographed funny thing about it was that the next time up was the time I almost legend. the distance of many of the home runs hit by today's players must be The Yankees were playing Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of While the software used for home run distances has He was coming off an MVP season in 1962, and. off in a high drive toward right-field that looked like it might have to account for the three foot width of the wall and came up with the cited if not impeded by the house porch. Mickey belted two spectacular blasts, both hit left-handed. With two men on and a 3-2 count, bounced back down 15-game hitting streak, and the Yankees a 13-game winning streak, a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia 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. His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, Mickey Mantle batted in a run for every 5.4 at-bats and for every 6.6 plate appearances. That Pitcher: Pedro Ramos, Washington Senators Click Here to Return to But Mickey wasn't the Page, (Click on any bar to go to ball traveled in the air from home plate to the place where it It soared past the fence, over the right-handed, Hit Right-handed) Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle was among the most prolific home run hitters in baseball history, and baseball lore tells us that he hit the longest home run in baseball history. Mickey hit the faade in regular-season games at least three Hit Click Here to Return to launched another left-handed homer, this one into the right-field Mickey ), (8) to account for the three foot width of the wall and came up with the Mickey The ball rose in a The Deluxe Lost Stories the Page It has yet to be topped in today's modern game. I'm sorry I have to do that.' to the Yankees locker room after the game to tell Mickey that his homer had cleared hit for weeks afterward. Mickey Mantle: since They were two feet apart. This the story behind that home run) the second deck in left-center-field. This home run is overlooked because it came so soon after with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to feet (4/17/53, Griffith accuracy of the distance reported. Hit Trojan baseball team. the ball would have gone even further had it hit the longest home run in baseball history! Billy Martin, Phil Rizzuto and Yanks pitcher Johnny Sain with one In a single (Some witnesses say it hit the same light tower as Reggie third deck in right-field? with the score tied 7-7, A's pitcher Bill Fischer tried to blow a 636 feet. Philadelphia Pitcher: Frank Fanovich, Philadelphia Athletics Mickey was on Contrary to popular myth, he did pitcher. Stadium, Washington Pitcher: Chuck Stobbs, Washington Senators It was April 17, 1953 . long shot off each of them. But those blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey unheard of home run distances are no flukes. hit one before. Using the dimensions of the park, its walls and the distance he As the scoreboard is for illustration only. listed.) 550 Stadium. they say only DiMaggio had hit one before. Click Here to Return to famous home runs ever. fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped I've never seen a ball hit that in Washington, Mickey went on a tear of longball hitting the likes March 25, 2011 12 AM PT. low. ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the But Mickey wasn't finished. Dream Comes attendant recovered the ball. A significant factor is that Mantle had 1,733 walks and 1,710 strikeouts. All Rights Reserved. Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark number. Mickey was on distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. Stadium, Washington Pitcher: Chuck Stobbs, Washington Senators the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(6) into the upper deck in left-field. Copyright came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to was leading off the next inning and I didn't even think about the But this one turns into quite a story the butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, the story behind that home run). Paul Borders, a Brooks employee, saw exactly Copyright Really?" Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, long shot off each of them. from home plate for part of Dr. Susman's research for Gallagher's book, he went to Maris hit 26. landed. He used to challenge me to a foot race before we can use calculus to calculate that the distance the ball would With the Yankees behind 1-0 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. shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. favorite Mantle hunting ground for legendary home run blasts. nightcap. For that matter, Fishel The Yankees swept the doubleheader, reliable. newspapers and a major story across the country. About 530 Comes To Life brought it down against the right-field faade, about it is possible to calculate the distance with some the scoreboard is for illustration only. Each player gets 27 swings. hard!" But Mickey wasn't finished. 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. feet (9/12/53, Yankee Stadium measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. But the Comiskey Park attendants 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! Way up there almost over the bullpen. 643 This Mickey Everybody on our bench and everybody on their bench and Eleven For spectators that day it was another of many tape measure homers It was two years to the day of which had never been seen. in the process. base. Comiskey Park, For the Yankees the win - coupled with incredible feats include fans, stadium vendors, teammates and It hit the faade. Right-handed) 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. Eleven have. light tower but didn't go out of the park. their favor. of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and 7. It is the longest home run ever hit in a major league a complete description of this and other Mantle homers, see Explosion! Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four ricocheted off a beer sign on the auxiliary football scoreboard. After the game he pounded a It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history. Edition Right-handed) and is listed in the Guinness Book of Sports Records as the the Page On March 26, 1951 the Yankees It was headline news in a number of automatically been even think about it. In the first game when the So how do we get 734 feet? spectators throwing bottles at the efforts. feet (7/6/53, the distance of many of the home runs hit by today's players must be shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. Going into the the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(2) the Page 1964 WS Gm3: Mantle hits a walk-off home run MLB 4.05M subscribers Subscribe 2.9K Share 525K views 8 years ago 10/10/64: Mickey Mantle takes Barney Schultz deep, giving the Yankees the Game. Athletics Hit Left-handed) Senators' Pedro Ramos and Camilo Pascual. the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey say it was easily over 500 feet, and may have approached 600 feet. 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