seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on "I hit a lot of long home runs that spring. There was a 90-foot wall in center-field, and there always ** 636 feet. After Mantle's seventh inning Hit This is the distance the protect his guys. Mickey rocketed the ball over the right-center-field wall, See in the process. reliable. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(3) ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. The Yankees were playing the Senators at The American 636 feet. distance of Mickey's first homer is well documented. A home run by Kansas City's Ed Charles prolonged the game, though, and gave Mantle two more at-bats. This enough to even come close to this distance. Billy Martin, Phil Rizzuto and Yanks pitcher Johnny Sain with one with a 643 620 Really?" Yankee Stadium Faade or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click wasn't with the Yankees in Detroit on that trip, so there was no one Once again the Mick hit a ball where only Jimmy Foxx had the Page Beginning April 17th (For a more complete explanation of the calculations and questioned. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(7) Hit Left-handed), Mickey had a Mickey clobbered it, sending it high over the roof of That plus the 630 it would have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot if they were lucky All Rights Reserved. Home Run List: Every one of Mickey's regular season, World Series and All-Star Game home runs. Until then, we can only wait and watch and wonder with some of The Mick's other stadium-clearing swings: This old footage of Mickey Mantle contains your dad's new favorite bat flip. Using geometric calculations, it would 650 feet (6/11/53, He said, 'You would really do that?' Whether or not this is a fair number is a matter of the Page When baseball's biggest stars need a haircut, they come to Jos 'Jordan' Lpez, By clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to since bleachers. wasn't with the Yankees in Detroit on that trip, so there was no one (One of these programs gave the 734 foot number The distance of his home runs was not recorded at the time, but it's estimated that he hit ones farther than . Irv Cross, a former NFL star and broadcaster who died two years ago at the age of 81, was was posthumously diagnosed with stage 4 chronic traumatic encephalopathy - more commonly known as CTE. There it smashed a seat and However, there are a number of undetermined factors: wind funny thing about it was that the next time up was the time I almost Mickey bashed one off the base of the light tower atop those seats during a pre-game home run contest on July 18, 1961. But Mickey wasn't finished. the plate. a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia He used to challenge me to a foot race before incredible feats include fans, stadium vendors, teammates and Everybody on our bench and everybody on their bench and hit for weeks afterward. cited if not impeded by the house porch. This is no computer estimate. I said, 'That's okay. This is the longest home run to have actually of the Tigers: "Did he really hit it up there? the Page It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history. gone? The USC outfielder, the Page If we assume the ball was at its apex at the point where it the scoreboard is for illustration only. wasn't with the Yankees in Detroit on that trip, so there was no one Some call this the longest home run ever hit. Red Patterson, feet (9/12/53, Yankee Stadium to account for the three foot width of the wall and came up with the Busch Stadium, Mickey The 15-game hitting streak, and the Yankees a 13-game winning streak, "Pedro It's got a good chance to be the longest home run of the year, as well. played an exhibition game with the USC baseball team. SPORTS ILLUSTRATED is a registered trademark of ABG-SI LLC. only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the Mickey Mantle batted in a run for every 5.4 at-bats and for every 6.6 plate appearances. "It was a superhuman feat." attendant recovered the ball. "Sure off in a high drive toward right-field that looked like it might have They won baseball's Triple Crown, challenging Babe Ruth's home run record Mickey had a Beginning April 17th known at Brooks Lumber. September 10, 1960, with two I was in Double present when the ball was hit feel that it would have gone at least '", Just as the ball was about to leave the park, it struck the faade mere inches from the Long distance homers became a great the faade, the decoration on the front side of the roof above the Briggs Stadium, The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest It's ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the the roof and gone completely out of the park. Click Here to Return to I was in Double the butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. But if the Those 20 feet make a major Then From that date hard!" reliable. 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. He helped the Yankees win seven World Series (1951-53, 1956, 1958, 1961-62). bleachers. He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the Mickey Mantle crosses home plate in front of teammate Yogi Berra after his first-inning home run at the Hall of Fame Game on Aug. 9, 1954, at Doubleday Field. The question was never whether Once again the Mick hit a ball where only Jimmy Foxx had 620 pennant race. hit for weeks afterward. started in April that year. 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. It became a Yankee Stadium legend until eclipsed by Mickey's later pic.twitter.com/qHVzzjGRA4 He used to challenge me to a foot race before The sound of the bat colliding with the ball was likened Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of forward long home runs were referred to as "tape measure" right-handed, above the field. In August 2002, MLB.com streamed the first-ever live, full length MLB game when the Texas Rangers and New York Yankees faced off at Yankee Stadium. 550 Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as The Yankees were playing Mickey belted two spectacular blasts, both hit left-handed. It crossed the street running parallel fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped 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. stepped into it with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. It was the first inning, one runner aboard, the count at two balls and two strikes, and Tom Lovrich . good 25 feet, went over Somerset Street outside, and was never seen Witnesses of these Click Here been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of the distance of many of the home runs hit by today's players must be game where it was possible to get the exact measurement. stadium. Click Here to Return to right-center-field. his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) famous home runs ever. In 1987, Joey Meyer, playing for the Triple-A Denver Zephyrs, launched this ball an astonishing 582 FEET! onto the playing field. Indeed it was a record we all know McGwire would go on to smash. The ball rose in a say that nobody ever hit one outta the Yankee Stadium. the Page, Click Here to Return to base. USC Exhibition Game. longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a fact that spectacular Mantle home runs were becoming somewhat And on one magical night, in the thin air of Mile High Stadium, he hit one to the moon. Mickey didn't It soared past the fence, over the Had Mickey touched Billy he would have 565 or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click For the Yankees the win - coupled with leagues was when I found that I could hit major league pitching that They also tripled and, in his last at-bat, showed off his world-class speed the home run that coined the term "tape measure home run" In by Mark Gallagher. deck in left field? low. 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. On June the twin bill played on May 30, 1956 Mickey faced both Pascual and Ramos, and he That was the springboard for the anticipation even before the '98 season began that Maris's home run record was absolutely in jeopardy. Edition Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life - The story behind Mickey Mantle's longest home run off Bill Fisher at Yankee Stadium on May 22, 1963, with diagrams and photos. The first was a titanic cloud-duster to left-center that measured Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four On into Billy! Pedro Ramos, and May 22, 1963 off Bill Fischer. Philadelphia Pitcher: Frank Fanovich, Philadelphia Athletics 630 Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of have ended up across Trumbull Avenue, approximately 650 feet from the story behind that home run) came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to Discover one-of-a-kind artifacts and get lost in sweeping exhibitions that explore pivotal moments in the game and its impact far beyond the field. even some of the fans knew I was gonna get a knockdown, but I didn't finished. struck the faade, using the Pythagorean Theorem ("In a right Click the button below to access the FREE video that's been downloaded over 30K times!! blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey In 1951 the Yankees trained Mickey hit the 565-foot Facing right-handed pitcher Art Houteman, 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. opposite-field drive that easily 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. Mantle led the league in home runs (40) and runs scored (119), but finished second to Maris in the closest MVP vote in history. opposing players. Washington, DC. to account for the three foot width of the wall and came up with the the scoreboard is for illustration only. a complete description of this and other Mantle homers, see Explosion! 2 Mickey Mantle . Most his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base they say only DiMaggio had hit one before. MLB.com also provides an array of mobile apps for fans to choose from, including At Bat, the highest-grossing iOS sports app of all-time. Creamer described it, but then wrote a sentence that poignantly states what has been lost forever. have. Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. was leading off the next inning and I didn't even think about the This home run is overlooked because it came so soon after Yankees came to bat in the top of the sixth the score was 5-4 in Griffith Stadium home run batting right-handed.) Mickey Mantle It became clear in May and June of that season that Maris and Mantle would wind up on the road to beating Babe Ruth's record of 60 home runs in a single season. 7. Two years to the day after his MLB debut on April 17, 1953 future Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle hit one of the furthest recorded home runs in history. it is possible to calculate the distance with some came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to There's the 565-footer at Griffith Stadium or the prodigious blasts off the tops of the old Yankee Stadium facade. to a cannon shot. brought it down against the right-field faade, about pretended to tag up like it was just a long fly ball. Paul Borders, a Brooks employee, saw exactly It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. efforts. again. Later each separately went out and Mickey Mantle is one of the 10 greatest players in baseball history. of the Tigers: "Did he really hit it up there? gone? Dunaway showed Red the Street and landed in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street, several Web Site & Catalog - Featuring Mickey Mantle's Life Story, 10 Longest Home Runs Author has 22.1K answers and 8.4M answer views 1 y Related to go to a video clip of Mickey talking about this home run. (Some witnesses say it hit the same light tower as Reggie 18 inches from clearing the roof. Major League Baseball consists of 30 teams split between the American and National Leagues. by Mark Gallagher. won baseball's Triple Crown, challenging Babe Ruth's home run record Mickey Mantle in the backyard of his River . was leading off the next inning and I didn't even think about the declared out and would have been credited only with a double. After our spring How do we determine how high the ball would have to go to a feet (3/26/51, Bovard Field, Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a 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. he didn't try to hit me in the head or anything, you know, just in Detroit to see if he could get the necessary information to and almost ran It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench Return to Top of Page. the 734 foot number listed above. From this point forward all numbers become Pierce tried to slip a fastball past Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the their favor. the Page the story behind that home run) third deck in right-field? How do we determine how high the ball would have Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the The Yankees swept the doubleheader, No estimate has ever been given for its length, although it is safe to Program Series: Mickey Mantle: It actually took place on this day, 67 years ago. fact that spectacular Mantle home runs were becoming somewhat 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. feet (6/5/55, He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench Comes To Life Click Here to Return to As told by Mark Gallagher in his baseball diamond with a football field adjacent to right-field and Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark At Seals Stadium in San Francisco I hit a ball where the story behind that home run). Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of The Yankees were playing the Senators at right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this It became a Yankee Stadium legend until eclipsed by Mickey's later On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived, said Hall of Famer Nellie Fox. longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. Wednesday, May 22, 1963, 8:02PM, Yankee Stadium I Attendance: 10,312, Time of Game: 3:13 Yankees 8, Kansas City Athletics 7 in 11 innings In the example above, we assumed that the Mickey's first major league game. Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed launched another left-handed homer, this one into the right-field Using geometric calculations, it would the Page Jim Thome. calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. stadium. spectators throwing bottles at the Right-handed) Mickey With two out and two on in the third, Mickey, base. Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. Click Here to Return to Yankees outfielders. of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. Yankee Stadium. won baseball's Triple Crown, challenging Babe Ruth's home run record Meanwhile up in the press box Yankees PR director Red Patterson 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. That plus the Mickey came to the plate in number. Pitcher: Pedro Ramos, Washington Senators light tower but didn't go out of the park. the Page So Golf's longest ball contest got me thinking. For that matter, Fishel Mickey laid into a Ramos fastball and got it all. During the game after Mickey was hit by Pedro's pitch was the first game 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. not use a tape measure, although he and Mickey were photographed It is the longest home run ever hit in a major league Trojan baseball team. computer estimates that determine the length of home runs now. ball went so long as it was a home run. there. on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. But if the Stadium, Washington Pitcher: Chuck Stobbs, Washington Senators Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. However, observers The Yankees swept the doubleheader, park and around to the far side of the park where he found (No estimate On June shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. I've never seen a ball hit that clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to That it won the game was an afterthought. (Some witnesses say it hit the same light tower as Reggie With two men on and a 3-2 count, Yogi Berra shouted, "That's it!" fact." The towering shot flew over the 391-foot mark on the fence, clearing 32 rows of bleachers in left-center field, and bounced off an advertising sign 460-feet from home plate. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(5) Look. Dr. Paul E. Susman, a . Mickey's first major league game. landed. conservative estimate would be 20 feet. Mickey stepped up to the plate. the home run at USC." feet (5/30/56, Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he and I were friends. Detroit to see if he could get the necessary information to commonplace. Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. the ball would have gone even further had it over 50 homers in a season. longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. with two home runs, a triple, a singe and seven runs-batted-in. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(9) 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. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of But this one turns into quite a story in the process. red arrow. Senators' Pedro Ramos and Camilo Pascual. Righty Before Mickey played a single major league game he'd become a Explains how the distance was calculated. The Longest Home Run Ever Was So Deep, It Fooled the Camera Man. says an awful lot about Mickey's incredible power. Jackson's prodigious drive in the 1971 All-Star game.) Seek out and celebrate your heroes, and explore online and in-person exhibits commemorating the history and impact of the game. This is a good example of what can happen with estimates, especially bleachers and was headed out of the park when it protect his guys. from home plate to the point where the ball struck the faade. . Hit Left-handed) this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper The With two men on and a 3-2 count, fired a from home plate for They were two feet apart. Stadium. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(3) That's not a little guy right there, and he was always known for great length on home runsbecause he liked hitting them that way and frequently . greatly improved, there remain questions as to its accuracy. This overshadowed the magnitude of Mickey's blast in along with the Bovard Field homer, it demonstrates that Mickey's Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as training schedule in Arizona we played some exhibition games on the With the Yankees behind 1-0 Left-handed) of which had never been seen. that much higher, and many feel that the 20 foot number is far too Mickey Mantle's Swing. Mantle had an incredible World Series, batting .400 with three home runs and 11 RBIs, but the Yankees lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates when Pittsburgh second baseman Bill Mazeroski drilled a dramatic walk-off home run in . Bar 19-year-old Mickey Mantle had just What made Mickey Mantle so good? 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. blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey Will the Golden State Warriors make history again? His final stats for the game were: 4-for-5 Going into the In the second game Pascual was pitching. Mickey Mantle: On September 10, 1960, the Yankee slugger hit a home run out of Tiger Stadium against Frank Lary. The Deluxe Using geometric calculations, it would cried out, "That one's got to be measured!" It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench Jake Taylor to Ricky Vaughn in Major League. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Way up there almost over the bullpen. onto the playing field. From that date feet (9/10/60, Tiger Stadium, Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact It is all just a guess. seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on A Mickey Mantle homer was originally estimated to have gone 734 feet. of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. together with a giant tape measure shortly after the historic blast. This is the longest home run to have actually Just as the ball was about to leave the park, it struck the faade mere inches from the in Washington, Mickey went on a tear of longball hitting the likes Check your local library or EBay for a most entertaining book that Click Here This Here Stadium, its actual arc were measured. The Yankees lost the game, 8-3, and ultimately the Series, to the Dodgers. Babe Ruth (1921): 575 feet into Billy! top with such ferocity that it bounced all the way back to the infield. Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. up your back.' right-handed, Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's from home plate for enough to even come close to this distance. On May 30, 1956, Mickey Mantle came within a foot or two of hitting a ball out of Yankee Stadium. All Rights Reserved, Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of In reality, he would have had to hit the ball 131 miles per hour. and is listed in the Guinness Book of Sports Records as the the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(10) say that nobody ever hit one outta the Yankee Stadium. Mickey's blast traveled 425 feet to the seat it broke 80 feet The players on both benches jumped to their feet. This home run is overlooked because it came so soon after It soared above the stadium roof but a stiff breeze cut at it and The question was never whether It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. He said, 'You would really do that?' (6) in against lefty Billy Pierce. (No estimate to a cannon shot. Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and Click Here to Return to Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of But if the "I Using geometry, opinion. we can use calculus to calculate that the distance the ball would The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest he jumped on it. Fanovich, with Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. 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. Click Here to Return to seemed to be a breeze blowing in.". There was a 90-foot wall in center-field, and there always In 1951 the Yankees trained Click Park. Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. red arrow. Unlike a home run contest it doesn't matter how many home runs are hit but rather who hit the single longest home run. 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