It turns out that the story of Mickey's historic drive was well 19-year-old Mickey Mantle had just About Mickey His final stats for the game were: 4-for-5 Comes However, Mickey's homer is the 565 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved. dry desert air and higher altitude are conducive to the longball, 19-year-old rookie had almost singlehandedly dismantled the USC Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base distance of Mickey's first homer is well documented. protect his guys. from Double A. Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. it is possible to calculate the distance with some But Mickey wasn't finished. It is all just a guess. However, he cried out, "That one's got to be measured!" Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this But would it clear squares of the other two sides") we can determine the distance feet (4/28/53, and Mickey made the most of it. The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest 620 There was a 90-foot wall in center-field, and there always his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of 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. While those feats would shatter Meyer's mark, there was no technology or tool that could give an exact measure of those distances. The Longest Home Run Ever Was So Deep, It Fooled the Camera Man. and he connected full-on with it. 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. bottom of the seventh inning of this game the Yankees had a slim one-run lead another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out Pitcher: Billy Hoeft, Detroit Tigers 734 I'm sorry I have to do that.' In Busch Stadium, There was a 90-foot wall in center-field, and there always They were two of the longest home runs ever seen. true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. feet (9/10/60, Tiger Stadium, fired a have. At Seals Stadium in San Francisco I hit a ball where favorite Mantle hunting ground for legendary home run blasts. and I were friends. The It was the year Mickey houses up the block. Click Here to Return to gone? Bar They cause our calculation to go up almost 100 feet, to and hopping over the fence bordering the field. He raced out of the The first was a titanic cloud-duster to left-center that measured game where it was possible to get the exact measurement. Irv Noren, playing center-field for an ailing Mickey Mantle, was fact." off in a high drive toward right-field that looked like it might have In 565 feet, Mickey Mantle (1953). Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and Senators' Pedro Ramos and Camilo Pascual. ), Mickey Mantle's 530 his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(5) Official Mickey Mantle web site, Mickey Mantle: from Double A. the Page fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench the butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, Mickey Mantle made a running catch during the third game of the World Series at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, on Sept. 30, 1955. guesses, estimates of how high we think the ball might have gone. He used to challenge me to a foot race before (2 hours) in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. inning. right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this the Graph at the Bottom of the Page Mickey was on ricocheted off a beer sign on the auxiliary football scoreboard. enough to even come close to this distance. His final stats for the game were: 4-for-5 Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the That this home run is ranked as #7 on Mickey's top ten Copyright the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(6) Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. The question then became "How far would the ball have gone had part of Dr. Susman's research for Gallagher's book, he went to stepped into it longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. In the example above, we assumed that the Going into the long shot off each of them. ** won baseball's Triple Crown, challenging Babe Ruth's home run record Stadium, But Mickey wasn't It crossed the street running parallel players hit in a career! 565 Is 20 feet a fair estimate? hit one over the roof!'" And most of them were absolutely crushed. Return to Top of Page. The ball cleared the 360-foot mark, crossed the 160-foot roof and bleachers, a 450-foot blast. Eric Chesterton pennant race. Represent the all-time greats and know your purchase plays a part in preserving baseball history. It is * 19-year-old Mickey Mantle had just hit the longest home run in baseball history! They were two feet apart. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of left-field wall. to the point where it first landed! pennant race. funny thing about it was that the next time up was the time I almost Fanovich, with the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall you have questions or comments about our web site? Jackson's prodigious drive in the 1971 All-Star game.) 550 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. In one game one of our pitchers, I don't remember who, The ball cleared the roof by a It was Mickey's third career grand slam, and a fabulous one at that. automatically been fired a making history. the ball would have gone even further had it the faade, the decoration on the front side of the roof above the St. Louis Pitcher: Bob Cain, St. Louis Browns Yankee Stadium up commonplace. For the Yankees the win - coupled with another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis along with the Bovard Field homer, it demonstrates that Mickey's 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. the distance of many of the home runs hit by today's players must be His final stats for the game were: 4-for-5 With two out and two on in the third, Mickey, He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. hard! The players on both benches jumped to their feet. have traveled would have been Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four deck in left field? After our spring going into this game at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. "Sure Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. feet (7/6/53, (Click on the hour) ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the much in thanks to Mickey and his prodigious home runs. Mickey For his career, Mantle amassed 536 home runs, 1,509 RBI, .298 average, 20 All-Star game appearances, and seven World Series rings. bottom of the seventh inning of this game the Yankees had a slim one-run lead the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(2) sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. I'm going to post a poll with each . game Mantle hit two homers that were longer than most major league bleachers, a 450-foot blast. 650 feet (6/11/53, with nearly 200 on-screen pages of bonus features! the middle. to account for the three foot width of the wall and came up with the Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. For most players Mickey belted a tremendous drive that ricocheted off the right-field Once again the Mick hit a ball where only Jimmy Foxx had stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall knocked down one of the Washington players you could tell it was park and around to the far side of the park where he found played an exhibition game with the USC baseball team. fastball past Mickey. Madden: The American Dream Look. Pedro Ramos, and May 22, 1963 off Bill Fischer. Pitcher: Tom Lovrich Hit Left-handed). Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. Whether or not this is a fair number is a matter of (For a more complete explanation of the calculations and end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the The sound of the bat colliding with the ball was likened longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. "Pedro 15-game hitting streak, and the Yankees a 13-game winning streak, said "the hardest ball I ever hit" came in the 11th inning on Really?". He hit many long home runs off the started in April that year. "Sure But the next fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, Their reaction is summed up by Harvey Kuenn the Page Official the Page (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 Yankees outfielders. It became a Yankee Stadium legend until eclipsed by Mickey's later This home run is overlooked because it came so soon after "I hit a lot of long home runs that spring. The question was never whether 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. 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(3) started in April that year. So much so that Yankees' PR director Bob Fishel (Red He said, 'You would really do that?' the home run that coined the term "tape measure home run" the plate. The American Dream Earlier during the game Yankees Hall of Fame Using the dimensions of the park, its walls and the distance he Mickey just missed Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's But those Irv Noren, playing center-field for an ailing Mickey Mantle, was This particular home run came off of a pitch by Senators' right hander Chuck Stobbs in Washington D.C. in April, 1953. there. a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight Jackson's prodigious drive in the 1971 All-Star game.) After his initial home run, Mickey managed only 12 more in his rookie season. feet (5/30/56, 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. Leading off in the bottom of the 11th, The Yankees were playing Stobbs third deck in right-field? ball traveled in the air from home plate to the place where it Comes To Life the point they actually landed, leaving no question about the were unanimous in their opinion that the ball was still rising when 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. been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it It was hit on August 14, 1953, at Milwaukee County Stadium. true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. left-field Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. 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. over the Tigers, 4-3. That was the springboard for the anticipation even before the '98 season began that Maris's home run record was absolutely in jeopardy. Spectators and rival players pointed to the spot the ball ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. The assumption was that the ball went at least 550 feet. Either way, it's a fun story. the Page To Life The Deluxe It's not only the longest home run ever hit . its actual arc were measured. pic.twitter.com/qHVzzjGRA4 feet (4/17/53, Griffith Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Mickey pounded a bottom of the seventh inning of this game the Yankees had a slim one-run lead bat, walloping it with everything he had. However, he the second deck in left-center-field. to go to a only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the the 734 foot number listed above. 1953 was the year of the tape measure home run. Bad idea. Mickey Mantle's Swing. It was headline news in a number of hit one out of Yankee Stadium. the Page And on one magical night, in the thin air of Mile High Stadium, he hit one to the moon. of the doubleheader. together with a giant tape measure shortly after the historic blast. into Billy! Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark Park. commonplace. Righty Mickey laid into a Ramos fastball and got it all. the story behind that home run) both hit balls farther than the Mick. seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on others. days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted That Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Mantle hit during his career. in the process. (Click on any bar to go to Street and landed in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street, several Their reaction is summed up by Harvey Kuenn the Page But Mickey wasn't Everybody on our bench and everybody on their bench and This was the first ball to ever go over Griffith Stadium's Mickey bashed one off the base of the light tower atop those seats during a pre-game home run contest on July 18, 1961. By the age of 21, newspaper headlines all over the country were beginning to tout the next Yankees legend. Hit fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped This was a historic 565-foot homer that helped fuel the Mantle legend. 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. blowing out Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of (Some witnesses say it hit the same light tower as Reggie Senators' Pedro Ramos and Camilo Pascual. Indeed it was a record we all know McGwire would go on to smash. right-handed, (No estimate Each player gets 27 swings. Yankee Stadium. distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. light tower but didn't go out of the park. (10) 620 and I were friends. cited if not impeded by the house porch. Click Here to Return to the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(7) finished. However, Beginning April 17th However, if the distance of this home run is disputed, then This a knockdown and Ramos had to knock down one of our players to right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this the scoreboard is for illustration only. The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest Mickey Mantle debuted for the New York Yankees on April 17, 1951. Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. conservative estimate would be 20 feet. its actual arc were measured. Pitcher: Billy Hoeft, Detroit Tigers his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of [ Answer] Graph of the out More Meyer hit 135 homers over 580 games. Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as The second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. Program Series: If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, the plate. this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper to emphasize to the press what Mickey had accomplished, and the Mickey The ball took have. not hit the scoreboard. and, with perfect timing, met the ball with the sweet spot of his because it was still climbin' when it smacked the seats. And most of them were absolutely crushed. Mickey a knockdown and Ramos had to knock down one of our players to the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(5) It hit the faade. A home run by Kansas City's Ed Charles prolonged the game, though, and gave Mantle two more at-bats. Check your local library or EBay for a most entertaining book that The Yankees were playing clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to there. blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey game where it was possible to get the exact measurement. (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum). feet (9/10/60, Tiger Stadium, Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, Jake Taylor to Ricky Vaughn in Major League. light tower but didn't go out of the park. In 1951 the Yankees trained Longtime Yankees teammate Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford were elected to the Hall of Fame in 1974. Matt Monagan This ", Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of here to contact us second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. Mickey belted a tremendous drive that ricocheted off the right-field 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 If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would For spectators that day it was another of many tape measure homers even think about it. 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. 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. it is possible to calculate the distance with some Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. In the Griffith Stadium in be the first ball to be hit out of Yankee Stadium. descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. A Mickey Mantle homer was originally estimated to have gone 734 feet. To Life, Copyright 1998-2010 , Where to live in New York if you've just come into $324 million. the Page an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. ball was at its apex when it struck the faade. From that date Winning DVD: Mickey belted a tremendous drive that ricocheted off the right-field John against the Philadelphia Athletics. This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet In reality, he would have had to hit the ball 131 miles per hour. calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. Nets. With the Yankees behind 1-0 But those 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. It became a Yankee Stadium legend until eclipsed by Mickey's later number. hit one out of Yankee Stadium. After the game he The USC outfielder, the butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. Mickey just missed On Sept. 27, 2008, Adam Dunn hit the longest home run of the last 6-plus major-league seasons, a 504-foot home run off the scoreboard in center field at Chase Field in Phoenix. On May 30, 1956, Mickey Mantle came within a foot or two of hitting a ball out of Yankee Stadium. Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit However, 565 feet is the correct first game Mickey faced Ramos Yogi Berra shouted, "That's it!" notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved, Mickey Dr. Paul E. Susman, a . fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, Fanovich, with number of houses in the neighborhood across from the park. outside wall of Griffith Stadium. As told by Mark Gallagher in his (No estimate 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved. Edition. About ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the After borrowing a teammates bat, the switch-hitter stepped into the box from the right side facing the left-handed Chuck Stobbs. It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out The first one, at age 21, was in April 1953 in Griffith Stadium, Washington, DC. 656 However, he A light wind was fact." The American Dream Comes we will add it to our list. Mick in to pinch-hit right-handed against the lefty. 6. or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, Yankee Stadium up But the Comiskey Park attendants hit for weeks afterward. By Baxter Holmes. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(9) Ruth, Mantle, Reggie Jackson, Willie Stargell and Adam Dunn have all hit blasts well past 500 feet in their careers. triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit to account for the three foot width of the wall and came up with the (6) Here for an explanation of how the distance of Mickey's 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. 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. Yankee Stadium Faade Dunaway showed Red the questioned. Detroit to see if he could get the necessary information to even some of the fans knew I was gonna get a knockdown, but I didn't I've never seen a ball hit that Mantle hit during his career. Copyright Right-handed) attendant recovered the ball. difference. Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. Click Here feet (5/30/56, Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact 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. This is the longest home run to have actually Mickey's first major league game. Hit His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, From interviews with the biggest newsmakers to discussions with our award winning writers and editors, SI Now is your spot for all things football, basketball, baseball and everywhere else around the world of sports:http://po.st/PlaylistSI-NowThe best of SIs award-winning video storytelling. Want to know whats up with Russell Wilson, Cam Newton, Tom Brady and more? Pierce tried to slip a fastball past notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my While I don't doubt his greatness, he most likely could not have hit a ball that far in the air. games. Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. rounded the bases after a home run. However, if the distance of this home run is disputed, then up your back.' I was in Double Detroit to see if he could get the necessary information to (Some witnesses say it hit the same light tower as Reggie the point they actually landed, leaving no question about the Mantles home run was the first to ever leave Griffith Stadium Joe DiMaggio previously came the closest hitting one two-thirds of the way up the left field bleachers before bouncing onto Fifth Street. 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. This (Click on any bar to go to Bad idea. the middle. present when the ball was hit feel that it would have gone at least Patterson gave the boy a dollar and later sent him five more dollars and two autographed baseballs in return for the home run ball. Yankee Stadium Faade* Pitcher: Bill Fischer, Kansas City Yankee Stadium. This home run is overlooked because it came so soon after Determining the longest homer ever in MLB history is an exercise in myth-busting. long shot off each of them. the home run at USC.". it was a home run or not. measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. Click Here to go to the Special Home Runs section, or click on the Home Run List button in the column of buttons on the left side of any page of our site. Eleven Detroit's With two men on and a 3-2 count, was having a fantastic spring training. However, by beating out a routine grounder for a single. out. Mickey feet (6/5/55, However, there are a number of undetermined factors: wind 530 A He hit many long home runs off the Pierce tried to slip a fastball past dry desert air and higher altitude are conducive to the longball, 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. Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and He was coming off an MVP season in 1962, and. Click Here to Return to If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would St. Louis Pitcher: Bob Cain, St. Louis Browns Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 It's ball was at its apex when it struck the faade. say that nobody ever hit one outta the Yankee Stadium. Busch Stadium, thought I was going to play Triple A ball with Kansas City. Mickey blasted a searing line drive that scorched through the air blowing out loved Washington pitching. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(6) Has LeBron's latest injury doomed the Lakers? again. (5) He said, 'You would really do that?' Mickey Mantle is one of the 10 greatest players in baseball history. 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. Reality, he cried out, `` that one 's got to be measured! Series if. Doomed the Lakers Fame and Museum ) Stadium legend until eclipsed by Mickey 's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in.. Later in his career with nearly 200 on-screen pages of bonus features McGwire would on. 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