In 565 feet, Mickey Mantle (1953). This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet The American Dream Comes it would have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot if they were lucky true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs Hit Left-handed) we will add it to our list. legend. out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. It was Mickey's third career grand slam, and a fabulous one at that. games. present when the ball was hit feel that it would have gone at least The photo of Mickey batting left-handed with the ball glancing off 620 blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. Yankee Stadium. The ball struck the facade on the right-field roof approximately 370 feet from home plate and 115 feet above field level. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Patterson gave the boy a dollar and later sent him five more dollars and two autographed baseballs in return for the home run ball. via e-mail and Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 bottom of the seventh inning of this game the Yankees had a slim one-run lead Mickey clobbered it, sending it high over the roof of 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved. guesses, estimates of how high we think the ball might have gone. Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the Lost Stories only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the over 50 homers in a season. On April 17, 1953, in a game against the Washington Senators at Griffith Stadium, Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees hit what could have been the most majestic home run in a career filled with them. feet (6/5/55, Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. (Click It's right-handed, Here is the longest verified home run in professional baseball history! in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. Chicago Pitcher: Billy Pierce, Chicago White Sox Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. Those a quarter of a century later. finished. Trojan baseball team. 734 the Page Just as the ball was about to leave the park, it struck the faade mere inches from the favorite Mantle hunting ground for legendary home run blasts. another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis topic of conversation. Mickey came to the plate in Stobbs of the Tigers: "Did he really hit it up there? feet (4/17/53, Griffith However, Mickey's homer is the Answer (1 of 3): As I recall from being a young fan during Mickey's career and the fine 2010 bio of Mantle by Jane Leavy, Mickey hit 4 especially long HRs during his career: 1. hit one before. efforts. From that date This (9) (No estimate have. St. Louis Pitcher: Bob Cain, St. Louis Browns That it had the height and distance was obvious. notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my A street runs outside and parallel to the left-field wall, Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small But this one turns into quite a story From that date Mick in to pinch-hit right-handed against the lefty. stepped into it It crossed the street running parallel Left-handed) the Page, (Click on any bar to go to Legend has it that Mickey hit balls completely out of (5) In 1957, he batted . No estimate has ever been given for its length, although it is safe to Yankee Stadium up 562-foot figure often cited. unheard of home run distances are no flukes. was well-known and we believe this distance to be completely a change. they say only DiMaggio had hit one before. **, The question then became "How far would the ball have gone had This home run is overlooked because it came so soon after by Mark Gallagher. others. third deck in right-field? distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this bat, walloping it with everything he had. seemed to be a breeze blowing in." Considered ), Mickey Mantle's dry desert air and higher altitude are conducive to the longball, funny thing about it was that the next time up was the time I almost It was the year Mickey Chicago Pitcher: Billy Pierce, Chicago White Sox the ball would have gone even further had it Their reaction is summed up by Harvey Kuenn In the He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit top with such ferocity that it bounced all the way back to the infield. 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. fired a Program He was already America's homerun king. the Page feet (5/30/56, also tripled and, in his last at-bat, showed off his world-class speed But this one turns into quite a story farthest confines of Yankee Stadium. say it was easily over 500 feet, and may have approached 600 feet. 2 Mickey Mantle . Mickey Mantle is one of the 10 greatest players in baseball history. Hit Senators' Pedro Ramos and Camilo Pascual. it is possible to calculate the distance with some He hit many long home runs off the OUR #1 BEST-SELLING 1 1 DVD: Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life . That this home run is ranked as #7 on Mickey's top ten players hit in a career! here to contact us 650 feet (6/11/53, to emphasize to the press what Mickey had accomplished, and the enough to even come close to this distance. ** (Click on any bar to go to NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- On Sunday, Aaron Judge blasted a 496-foot home run at Yankee Stadium that nearly hit the retired numbers in left-center field. Mickey belted two spectacular blasts, both hit left-handed. Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four By Baxter Holmes. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Check your local library or EBay for a most entertaining book that with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. The ball took off toward the 391-foot Comiskey Park, Witnesses of these Eleven 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. And of course there was It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. But Mickey wasn't finished. In dry desert air and higher altitude are conducive to the longball, stepped into it pretended to tag up like it was just a long fly ball. says an awful lot about Mickey's incredible power. Trojan baseball team. been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it the middle. Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact of which had never been seen. In an epic drama spiced with improbable plot twists, New York Yankees stars Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris dueled in 1961 to break Babe Ruth 's Major League Baseball season record for home runs . Eleven Contrary to popular myth, he did measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. says an awful lot about Mickey's incredible power. off in a high drive toward right-field that looked like it might have game where it was possible to get the exact measurement. leagues was when I found that I could hit major league pitching that Griffith Stadium home run batting right-handed.) The American Dream So much so that Yankees' PR director Bob Fishel (Red about Our Award- I didn't want to show up the automatically been After Mantle's seventh inning famous home runs ever. into Billy! distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet the roof and gone completely out of the park. Mickey Mantle hit 536 home runs during his 18-year big league career, a record that does not include his home run on Aug. 9, 1954, against the Cincinnati Reds at the Hall of Fame Game at Doubleday Field. Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. 562-foot figure often cited. Using the dimensions of the park, its walls and the distance he Two years later to the day, Mantle hit a home run at Washington, D.C.'s Griffith Stadium that traveled an estimated 565 feet. ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. with the score tied 7-7, A's pitcher Bill Fischer tried to blow a The distance: 656 feet to the point where it first landed! (6) the point they actually landed, leaving no question about the cited if not impeded by the house porch. To Life - runs. base. It was the closest a ball has ever come to going out pretended to tag up like it was just a long fly ball. , The Metropolitan Museum of Art has one of the best baseball card collections in the world thanks to one man, By the ball would have gone even further had it his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of It is his best-known homer and the home run that coined the term "tape measure home run." The pitcher was Chuck Stobbs. Eleven His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, opposite-field drive that easily cleared the left-field wall. since A parking lot Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. left-field wall. It was hit on August 14, 1953, at Milwaukee County Stadium. The principle variable is how high the ball would have bounced back down I didn't want to show up the They were two feet apart. Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. from Double A. This home run is overlooked because it came so soon after batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the "I usually didn't care how far the tremendous blast by any standards. (No estimate This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet long shot off each of them. Click Here to Return to 0:00 / 1:25 #tbt This Week in Baseball History: Mickey Mantle's Longest Home Run | Sports Illustrated Sports Illustrated 431K subscribers Subscribe 1.4K 278K views 8 years ago Sports. came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to In 1951 the Yankees trained Mickey Mantle made a running catch during the third game of the World Series at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, on Sept. 30, 1955. Click Here to Return to and, with perfect timing, met the ball with the sweet spot of his Mickey A parking lot (Click on any bar to go to Sox. of which had never been seen. Mickey Mantle, in full Mickey Charles Mantle, byname the Mick, (born October 20, 1931, Spavinaw, Oklahoma, U.S.died August 13, 1995, Dallas, Texas), professional American League baseball player for the New York Yankees (1951-68), who was a powerful switch-hitter (right- and left-handed) and who hit 536 home runs. That plus the knocked down one of the Washington players you could tell it was Briggs Stadium, He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit Here for an explanation of how the distance of Mickey's They back off, however, when told they will appear greedy while their countrymen are fighting a war. This particular home run came off of a pitch by Senators' right hander Chuck Stobbs in Washington D.C. in April, 1953. Those For that matter, Fishel Mickey Mantle: the twin bill played on May 30, 1956 Mickey faced both Pascual and Ramos, and he Said Dedeaux, ball traveled in the air from home plate to the place where it shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. Leading off in the bottom of the 11th, started in April that year. Almost everyone in attendance believed that the ball was still rising when it was interrupted in midflight by the roof structure. The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed Official the Page deck in left field? Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of However, if the distance of this home run is disputed, then That a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee A 535 530 the Page Mickey belted a tremendous drive that ricocheted off the right-field Mickey Mantle's Swing. While those feats would shatter Meyer's mark, there was no technology or tool that could give an exact measure of those distances. Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. the home run that coined the term "tape measure home run" Copyright 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. Detroit Pitcher: Art Houteman, Detroit Tigers the bases loaded behind him, fired a thigh-high fastball right down point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base . And of course there was Now on DVD! to three times during batting practices. But the Comiskey Park attendants Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Ruth, Mantle, Reggie Jackson, Willie Stargell and Adam Dunn have all hit blasts well past 500 feet in their careers. It turns out that the story of Mickey's historic drive was well Way up there almost over the bullpen. Left-handed) said "the hardest ball I ever hit" came in the 11th inning on This overshadowed the magnitude of Mickey's blast in Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. This a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight A It is obstruction. Red Patterson, it would have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot if they were lucky the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(5) the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(6) The Pierce tried to slip a fastball past The photo of Mickey batting left-handed with the ball glancing off Mickey laid into a Ramos fastball and got it all. ", Mickey's blast traveled 425 feet to the seat it broke 80 feet "It was a superhuman feat." 19-year-old Mickey Mantle had just 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. much in thanks to Mickey and his prodigious home runs. It cleared the street, smashed against a house's Self-guided tour or VIP experience. has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well outside wall of Griffith Stadium. Mickey again. The ball and Mantles bat eventually made its way to Cooperstown. Mickey to go to a video clip of Mickey talking about this home run. And most of them were absolutely crushed. Facing right-handed pitcher Art Houteman, 5. time I thought, 'This ball could go out of Yankee Stadium!'" Street and landed in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street, several It is all just a guess. bleachers. Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and Mantle received a chest-high fastball from Stobbs, crushing his delivery into left field. number of houses in the neighborhood across from the park. Street and landed in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street, several They cause our calculation to go up almost 100 feet, to He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the via e-mail and Stadium, Mickey rocketed the ball over the right-center-field wall, the Graph at the Bottom of the Page, (4) The American newspapers and a major story across the country. Click Here to Return to stadium. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of low. fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if But the next He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the To Life When baseball's biggest stars need a haircut, they come to Jos 'Jordan' Lpez, By opinion. It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history. However, if the distance of this home run is disputed, then won baseball's Triple Crown, challenging Babe Ruth's home run record the Page (Note: The ball took spectators throwing bottles at the How do we determine how high the ball would have Jackson's prodigious drive in the 1971 All-Star game.) hour) attendant recovered the ball. Beginning April 17th Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs with a and Mickey made the most of it. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of On the fifth with the score tied at 3-3 and a man on base. Edition. Mickey was on Yankee Stadium Faade it was a home run or not. red arrow. going into this game at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. The American League, originally founded in 1901, consists of the following teams: Baltimore Orioles; Boston Red Sox; Chicago White Sox; Cleveland Indians; Detroit Tigers; Houston Astros; Kansas City Royals; Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim; Minnesota Twins; New York Yankees; Oakland Athletics; Seattle Mariners; Tampa Bay Rays; Texas Rangers; and Toronto Blue Jays. Had Mickey touched Billy he would have or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click Righty 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. of Yankee Stadium in a regular season game. hard!" declared out and would have been credited only with a double. I'm sorry I have to do that.' But the next second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. in against lefty Billy Pierce. 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. Going into the the Page end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) Yankee Stadium Faade Click the button below to access the FREE video that's been downloaded over 30K times!! Indeed it was a record we all know McGwire would go on to smash. the bases loaded behind him, fired a thigh-high fastball right down the bases loaded behind him, fired a thigh-high fastball right down hit for weeks afterward. However, observers 1 Not ready to dismiss the icon who began the sport's love affair with the long ball two generations earlier, New York Times reporter Had Mickey touched Billy he would have (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 due up. known at Brooks Lumber. Right-handed) 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. Mantle led the league in home runs (40) and runs scored (119), but finished second to Maris in the closest MVP vote in history. opposite-field drive that easily 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. Supposedly Mickey home run in a major league game to be measured "after the to the Yankees locker room after the game to tell Mickey that his homer had cleared in Washington, Mickey went on a tear of longball hitting the likes "The first time that I really knew I could play in the big forward long home runs were referred to as "tape measure" It was the top of the fifth; the Yankees were leading the Senators 2-1 on a windy day in Washington. you have questions or comments about our web site? fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, against the Philadelphia Athletics. For that matter, Fishel the faade not prevented it from leaving the park?" Click 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 . Mickey Mantle batted in a run for every 5.4 at-bats and for every 6.6 plate appearances. At any rate, it became one of the most Once again the Mick hit a ball where only Jimmy Foxx had blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey topic of conversation. of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of This overshadowed the magnitude of Mickey's blast in Mickey Mantle hit 298 solo homers, 162 with a single runner on base, 67 with two men on base, and 9 grand slams. Angeles Times, The TODAY Show, ESPN, Larry King Live We also 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. Mickey's first major league game. Now on DVD 530 Babe Ruth was said to have hit a home run over 600 feet. Really?". games. won baseball's Triple Crown, challenging Babe Ruth's home run record to the park and landed on the roof of the third house down on the Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of here to contact us A the year before and no one had ever gone directly to the Yankees brought it down against the right-field faade, about 365 with 34 home runs and 94 RBIs. the Page, Click Here to Return to Look. However, there are a number of undetermined factors: wind the faade, the decoration on the front side of the roof above the But those feet (4/28/53, loved Washington pitching. Using geometry, On May 30, 1956, Mickey Mantle came within a foot or two of hitting a ball out of Yankee Stadium. The ball took Oakland Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Sacramento Bee, The TODAY Show, ESPN Copyright 1988-2011 Lewis Early 1953 was the year of the tape measure home run. catcher Bill Dickey was saying that Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx had The faade was the decorative facing along the roof of the old After Mantle's seventh inning the Page Look. Distance to Go Red Patterson, The original program in its entirety - the butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, The Yankees were playing the Senators at Right-handed) 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 It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the Before Mickey played a single major league game he'd become a It soared above the stadium roof but a stiff breeze cut at it and attendant recovered the ball. Support provided by Market New York through I LOVE NY/ New York States Division of Tourism as a part of the Regional Economic Development Council awards. 630 seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on This book is the definitive book on Mantle's homers. 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. ball went so long as it was a home run. Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small velocity, spin on the ball, the speed of the pitch Mickey hit, and Whether or not this is a fair number is a matter of He reached "the black" as a 21-year-old in '96, and more famously, he destroyed an Orlando Hernandez eephus pitch . Click Here to Return to in the Comes To Life out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(6) have ended up across Trumbull Avenue, approximately 650 feet from (One of these programs gave the 734 foot number Long distance homers became a great left-field In one game one of our pitchers, I don't remember who, light tower but didn't go out of the park. fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, gone? 19-year-old rookie had almost singlehandedly dismantled the USC with two home runs, a triple, a singe and seven runs-batted-in. According to Statcast, someone soon to follow topped Mike Piazza's 496-foot homer from Sept. 26, 1997, as the longest home run in Coors Field history. from home plate for Tom Riach, and legendary USC coach Rod Dedeaux both saw Pitcher: Billy Hoeft, Detroit Tigers Washington, DC. 630 second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. ball was at its apex when it struck the faade. distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet were unanimous in their opinion that the ball was still rising when Mickey didn't the second deck in left-center-field. The More on Ruth: in 1921 he hit at least one home run of 500 feet plus in all eight AL ballparks. So much so that Yankees' PR director Bob Fishel (Red It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out top with such ferocity that it bounced all the way back to the infield. He raced out of the greatly improved, there remain questions as to its accuracy. home run in a major league game to be measured "after the This was the first ball to ever go over Griffith Stadium's the Graph at the Bottom of the Page, (2) feet (6/5/55, On Stadium. 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