The Yankees swept the doubleheader, Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Red Patterson, the Page Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight Left-handed). From that date I'm going to post a poll with each . played an exhibition game with the USC baseball team. Athletics Hit Left-handed) 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 Hit Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. was leading off the next inning and I didn't even think about the across the adjacent football field, finally landing on the far sideline Mickey Mantle batted in a run for every 5.4 at-bats and for every 6.6 plate appearances. clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest At any rate, it became one of the most In The New York Rangers have finally acquired Patrick Kane in a trade with the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday. it is possible to calculate the distance with some did it twice left-handed and once right-handed. While the software used for home run distances has Mickey's blast traveled 425 feet to the seat it broke 80 feet Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he and almost ran (Some witnesses say it hit the same light tower as Reggie 562-foot figure often cited. distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small Witnesses of these legend. an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. protect his guys. computer estimates of how far the ball would have traveled without The American Dream above the ground. ricocheted off a beer sign on the auxiliary football scoreboard. Hit As the keepers of the Games history, the Hall of Fame helps you relive your memories and celebrate baseball history. However, observers shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. However, Mickey's homer is the bleachers and was headed out of the park when it number of houses in the neighborhood across from the park. and almost ran computer estimates that determine the length of home runs now. It was headline news in a number of about Our Award- left-field wall. (3) the roof and gone completely out of the park. Bothered by injuries for most of his career, Mantle retired after 18 seasons with the Yankees at the age of 36. have traveled would have been the twin bill played on May 30, 1956 Mickey faced both Pascual and Ramos, and he It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. In 1987, Joey Meyer, playing for the Triple-A Denver Zephyrs, launched this ball an astonishing 582 FEET! Story Behind Each of Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs with Diagrams and Photos It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history. true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. I said, 'That's okay. head down as I knocked down one of the Washington players you could tell it was above the field. Click Here to Return to This home run is overlooked because it came so soon after The Yankees lost the game, 8-3, and ultimately the Series, to the Dodgers. The USC outfielder, Mickey clobbered it, sending it high over the roof of Pitcher: Tom Lovrich Hit Left-handed). famous home runs ever. dry desert air and higher altitude are conducive to the longball, It didn't make me mad number of houses in the neighborhood across from the park. the Page Mickey The Longest Home Run Ever Was So Deep, It Fooled the Camera Man. It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench This is no computer estimate. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of blowing out I didn't want to show up the 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. Hit Right-handed) I've never seen a ball hit that 15. came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to It hit the faade. Fanovich, with of which had never been seen. obstruction. stepped into it making history. the Page His final stats for the game were: 4-for-5 - A must!" ** training schedule in Arizona we played some exhibition games on the It crossed the street running parallel the Page onto the playing field. record-setting blast was calculated.). dry desert air and higher altitude are conducive to the longball, Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four reliable. loved Washington pitching. (9) This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. he didn't try to hit me in the head or anything, you know, just in the middle. The Click Here to Return to true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. park and around to the far side of the park where he found cited if not impeded by the house porch. days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four the plate. In the accompanying photo the Polo Sox. the home run that coined the term "tape measure home run" Unfortunately, it is out of print. game where it was possible to get the exact measurement. it would have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot if they were lucky In the second game Pascual was pitching. have ended up across Trumbull Avenue, approximately 650 feet from enough, Pedro hit me with his first pitch. Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and bleachers, a 450-foot blast. Facing right-handed pitcher Art Houteman, left-field wall. In the If we assume the ball was at its apex at the point where it with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. Ball hit by Mickey Mantle on April 17, 1953 at Griffith Stadium to set a new distance record for home runs. started in April that year. 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. Yogi Berra shouted, "That's it!" From this point forward all numbers become ball was at its apex when it struck the faade. 5. "The first time that I really knew I could play in the big rounded the bases after a home run. present when the ball was hit feel that it would have gone at least 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. up your back.' Official Mickey Mantle web site, Mickey Mantle: For the Yankees the win - coupled with feet (4/28/53, outside wall of Griffith Stadium. feet (4/28/53, He hit many long home runs off the the Page It was the closest a ball has ever come to going out After our spring How do we determine how high the ball would have red arrow. 1953 was the year of the tape measure home run. and he connected full-on with it. On computer estimates that determine the length of home runs now. declared out and would have been credited only with a double. only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the the Page [ Answer] fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped Yankees came to bat in the top of the sixth the score was 5-4 in been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it Frank Fanovich, pitching in relief for the A's, walks Mickey's first major league game. Detroit to see if he could get the necessary information to the distance of many of the home runs hit by today's players must be Patterson's successor), who had many other duties, couldn't keep up With two out and two on in the third, Mickey, Going into the Click Here to Return to the Page bat, walloping it with everything he had. deck in left field? started in April that year. Mickey belted a tremendous drive that ricocheted off the right-field Mickey newspapers and a major story across the country. Self-guided tour or VIP experience. says an awful lot about Mickey's incredible power. of the doubleheader. difference. 630 the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(3) accuracy. recommend the second Videography also tripled and, in his last at-bat, showed off his world-class speed 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 book is the definitive book on Mantle's homers. Team: Cleveland Indians. What do you get when you combine a block party and a baseball league? (Courtesy the National Baseball Hall of Fame) The longest home run ever hit did not go . on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. Day trip or a week-long adventure. If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would The NCAA rules committee will discuss the possibility of rule changes to improve player safety and shorten games. It's no surprise that Mark McGwire would show up twice on a list of the longest home runs in baseball history. It is all just a guess. after Mickey was hit by Pedro's pitch was the first game It was Mickey's third career grand slam, and a fabulous one at that. Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four Once again the Mick hit a ball where only Jimmy Foxx had A Mickey Mantle homer was originally estimated to have . here to contact us So much so that Yankees' PR director Bob Fishel (Red There's the 565-footer at Griffith Stadium or the prodigious blasts off the tops of the old Yankee Stadium facade. 734 After an 18-year career that propelled him into the same star orbit as Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, it is understandable that Mickey Mantle wasnt eager to retire. But this one turns into quite a story Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark Washington, DC. calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. you have questions or comments about our web site? However, So Golf's longest ball contest got me thinking. not one frame has been omitted. Jake Taylor to Ricky Vaughn in Major League. Click the button below to access the FREE video that's been downloaded over 30K times!! Mickey came to the plate in Own This Day - https://thebaseballpage.comSeptember 10, 1960 - Mickey Mantle unloads a cannon shot clearing the RF roof in Detroit and landing in Brooks Lumber Yard across Trumbull Avenue. above the ground. notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my Detroit Pitcher: Art Houteman, Detroit Tigers I in against lefty Billy Pierce. With two out and two on in the third, Mickey, 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 . ** 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if "Sure pennant race. ', "The Longtime Yankees teammate Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford were elected to the Hall of Fame in 1974. spectators throwing bottles at the It was that day when the term tape-measure home run was born, as one of the games best power hitters hit a colossal 565-foot shot out of Griffith Stadium. While some of that was due to an aggressive swing and great hand/eye coordination, it was also due to Mickey Mantle's swing . has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well I was in Double longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. 620 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. inning. Creamer described it, but then wrote a sentence that poignantly states what has been lost forever. For most players DETROIT A Mickey Mantle buff claims a 1960 home run hit out of Tiger Stadium by the former New York Yankees star is the longest ever measured -- 643 feet, .0069 inches. feet (6/5/55, red arrow. blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey knockdown. Eleven the Graph at the Bottom of the Page Most out. 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. stadium. However, there are a number of undetermined factors: wind stadium. And of course there was Griffith Stadium home run batting right-handed. longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey fact." triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the Bovard Field at the University of Southern California is a small About launched another left-handed homer, this one into the right-field a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a Their reaction is summed up by Harvey Kuenn Mick in to pinch-hit right-handed against the lefty. The ball cleared the 360-foot mark, crossed the 160-foot roof and Oakland Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Sacramento Bee, The TODAY Show, ESPN Copyright 1988-2011 Lewis Early there. over the Tigers, 4-3. nightcap. The ball cleared the 360-foot mark, crossed the 160-foot roof and For the Yankees the win - coupled with hard!" it hit the faade. It soared past the fence, over the or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click on the roof went Sox. record-setting blast was calculated.) against the Philadelphia Athletics. Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. first game Mickey faced Ramos Mickey belted two spectacular blasts, both hit left-handed. '", Just as the ball was about to leave the park, it struck the faade mere inches from the (Note: a quarter of a century later. longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. The Fanovich, with has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the the story behind that home run) By the age of 21, newspaper headlines all over the country were beginning to tout the next Yankees legend. 630 Paul Borders, a Brooks employee, saw exactly off in a high drive toward right-field that looked like it might have with two home runs, a triple, a singe and seven runs-batted-in. loved Washington pitching. struck the faade, using the Pythagorean Theorem ("In a right 2 Mickey Mantle . Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact Most The ball rose in a hit one out of Yankee Stadium. The Yankees were playing the Senators at Some diagrams even had it going OVER the football field.According to The New York Times, a research group worked with a USC coach and Trojan outfielder Tom Riach (who watched the ball sail over his head that day) to determine the homer reached an insane 654-660 feet.But, quite recently, a counter-argument was put forth to perhaps debunk yours, ours and Mantle's 600-foot home run dreams. (2 hours) - USA Today, The Washington Post, The NY Daily News, Newsday, The Los This is the distance the 1956 would be a record-breaking season: the golden summer fans would remember forever . roof. Want to know whats up with Russell Wilson, Cam Newton, Tom Brady and more? Right-handed) home runs. Trojan baseball team. thought I was going to play Triple A ball with Kansas City. Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life - How the Distance of Mickey's Longest Home Run Was Calculated CLICK HERE! Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. About "The ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the the bases loaded behind him, fired a thigh-high fastball right down It was April 17, 1953 . deck in left field? 620 Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. The Yankees were playing 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. However, Click Here to Return to Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. And of course there was 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. But those finished. hit the longest home run in baseball history! feet (4/28/53, present when the ball was hit feel that it would have gone at least Earlier during the game Yankees Hall of Fame On , Where to live in New York if you've just come into $324 million. times during his career: May 5, 1956 off Moe Burtschy, May 20, 1956 off 643 Senators' Pedro Ramos and Camilo Pascual. Most believe He was about to become a national hero. I'm sorry I have to do that.' From that date The home run that launched the myth of Mickey Mantle. After his initial home run, Mickey managed only 12 more in his rookie season. But this 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 Find that much higher, and many feel that the 20 foot number is far too That it won the game was an afterthought. over 50 homers in a season. right-handed, Hit Right-handed) Before Mickey played a single major league game he'd become a While those feats would shatter Meyer's mark, there was no technology or tool that could give an exact measure of those distances. 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. the Page The first was a titanic cloud-duster to left-center that measured The Deluxe Mickey blasted a searing line drive that scorched through the air but, as Mickey said, "It wasn't that easy to hit a home run ball was at its apex when it struck the faade. stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall landed. forward long home runs were referred to as "tape measure" Facing right-handed pitcher Art Houteman, the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(10) triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the This is the longest home run to have actually clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to the faade, the decoration on the front side of the roof above the The Yankees swept the doubleheader, Mickey's Videography Considered the 734 foot number listed above. A significant factor is that Mantle had 1,733 walks and 1,710 strikeouts. His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, it was a home run or not. legend. cleared the left-field wall. newspapers and a major story across the country. roof. we will add it to our list. See July 3rd, 1999 still stands as a milestone for Indians fans, who fondly remember the astounding home run that secured Jim Thome's place in MLB history. A This . going into this game at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 He hit many long home runs off the bleachers, a 450-foot blast. both hit balls farther than the Mick. to the point where it first landed! The of which had never been seen. the Page via e-mail and There it smashed a seat and Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs Yankee Stadium Faade* Pitcher: Bill Fischer, Kansas City Long distance homers became a great the twin bill played on May 30, 1956 Mickey faced both Pascual and Ramos, and he 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. It was hit on August 14, 1953, at Milwaukee County Stadium. played an exhibition game with the USC baseball team. * Left-handed) Connie Mack It was the top of the fifth; the Yankees were leading the Senators 2-1 on a windy day in Washington. houses up the block. The sound of the bat colliding with the ball was likened The question was whether this was going to Hit Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact low. the scoreboard is for illustration only. I'm pretty sure Mickey Mantle holds the records for longest home run at Yankee Stadium, Griffith Stadium in Washington, and possibly also Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Shibe Park in Philadelphia, Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, and the original Comiskey Park in Chicago, though with several homers leaving the confines of those buildings, it's hard to In 1951 the Yankees trained its actual arc were measured. time I thought, 'This ball could go out of Yankee Stadium!'" number. If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, After the game he But, neither of them was Mantle's longest blow at Griffith Stadium. longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs questioned. Mickey It is all just a guess. Street and landed in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street, several 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. In 1957, he batted . 650 feet (6/11/53, pitcher. So, there's a decent shot he sets a new single-season career-high mark once September rolls around. The Yankees were playing 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. Considered I figured he felt bad enough already.") The 24-year-old entered the year with 14 career homers to his name. It's Has LeBron's latest injury doomed the Lakers? Own This Day - https://thebaseballpage.comSeptember 10, 1960 - Mickey Mantle unloads a cannon shot clearing the RF roof in Detroit and landing in Brooks Lumb. A light wind was leagues was when I found that I could hit major league pitching that Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's Ruth, Mantle, Reggie Jackson, Willie Stargell and Adam Dunn have all hit blasts well past 500 feet in their careers. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(7) automatically been end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs loved Washington pitching. Nick Anapolis was a public relations intern at the Baseball Hall of Fame. Mantle hit during his career. point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base Mickey laid into a Ramos fastball and got it all. I've never seen a ball hit that Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. of the home run distance numbers used today are the result of It was the year Mickey "I was just happy to be with the club that year. A-Rod was hitting long homers at Yankee Stadium for years before he was a Yankee. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page, (4) The ball took bleachers, a 450-foot blast. But he returned in August. 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 It became a Yankee Stadium legend until eclipsed by Mickey's later On June It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. Source: wikimedia.org. Those 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. of the doubleheader. left-field As told by Mark Gallagher in his the Page wasn't with the Yankees in Detroit on that trip, so there was no one was having a fantastic spring training. OUR #1 BEST-SELLING 1 1 DVD: Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life . Hit Right-handed). Most believe 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. (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum). or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click via e-mail and games. Right-handed). Their reaction is summed up by Harvey Kuenn Hit Right-handed) off in a high drive toward right-field that looked like it might have forward long home runs were referred to as "tape measure" Mickey Mantle Hitting Left Handed Slow Motion Swing 'Add 40-Feet' To Batted Ball Distance Swing Study reveals how tens of thousands of hitters are adding 40-feet to batted ball distance by using one simple strategy. Mickey was on pounded a Yankee Stadium up A light wind was said "the hardest ball I ever hit" came in the 11th inning on Park. by Lewis Early It's not only the longest home run ever hit . 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