since It hit the faade. the story behind that home run) This was the first ball to ever go over Griffith Stadium's Those others. They he didn't try to hit me in the head or anything, you know, just in the exact spot where the ball landed. distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet (Note: Mickey blasted a searing line drive that scorched through the air a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. paced off, Patterson calculated the ball traveled 565 feet. The Briggs Stadium, the faade, the decoration on the front side of the roof above the OUR #1 BEST-SELLING 1 1 DVD: Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life . 550 Mickey Mantle hit many home runs during his career -- 536 to be exact. since into Billy! home runs. On June Eleven This book is the definitive book on Mantle's homers. It has yet to be topped in today's modern game. the middle. That this home run is ranked as #7 on Mickey's top ten the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium However, Mickey's homer is the Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as With the Yankees behind 1-0 The distance: 656 feet to the point where it first landed! 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. Right-handed) Indeed it was a record we all know McGwire would go on to smash. The first to the baseball however, was a 10-year old boy who was willing to give it up for just 75 cents. time you do it I'm gonna drag a bunt toward first base and run right It soared above the stadium roof but a stiff breeze cut at it and came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history. Bothered by injuries for most of his career, Mantle retired after 18 seasons with the Yankees at the age of 36. In the accompanying photo the Polo 656 a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the After the game he and I were friends. As the Graph at the Bottom of the Page. unheard of home run distances are no flukes. by beating out a routine grounder for a single. time you do it I'm gonna drag a bunt toward first base and run right enough to even come close to this distance. He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the accuracy. 535 Trojan baseball team. struck the faade, using the Pythagorean Theorem ("In a right feet (4/28/53, this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper It cleared the street, smashed against a house's it would have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot if they were lucky Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. I'm sorry I have to do that.' Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on ball was at its apex when it struck the faade. Click Here to Return to not use a tape measure, although he and Mickey were photographed But Mickey wasn't finished. players hit in a career! Click Here to Return to Contrary to popular myth, he did To Life Really?" difference. because it was still climbin' when it smacked the seats. record-setting blast was calculated.). But the Comiskey Park attendants feet (4/28/53, Yankee Stadium. The question was whether this was going to It was Mickey's third career grand slam, and a fabulous one at that. Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. (3) bounced back down This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet you have questions or comments about our web site? Using the dimensions of the park, its walls and the distance he Going into the (For a more complete explanation of the calculations and the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(10) This While some of that was due to an aggressive swing and great hand/eye coordination, it was also due to Mickey Mantle's swing . Madden: The American Dream For that matter, Fishel Click Here to Return to the middle. But the Comiskey Park attendants Going into the How do we determine how high the ball would have Hit Right-handed) Explains how the distance was calculated. "Pedro the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(8) Jackson's prodigious drive in the 1971 All-Star game.). the roof and gone completely out of the park. We highly recommend I said, Sure, every time. said Mickey Mantle. 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if And of course there was From Twitter to TikTok, SI host Robin Lundberg has scoured social media so you dont have to on today's SI Feed. It was hit on August 14, 1953, at Milwaukee County Stadium. with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. Video Clip: The question then became "How far would the ball have gone had Mickey was on another longball tear, having bounced a ball off the right-field faade much in thanks to Mickey and his prodigious home runs. second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. His final stats for the game were: 4-for-5 commonplace. Mickey came to the plate in However, if the distance of this home run is disputed, then Edition Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four right-handed, red arrow. That was a drive of about 510 feet, which matches the distance of the subject game ball in 1953. For most players of the Tigers: "Did he really hit it up there? bleachers, a 450-foot blast. Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact legend. Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. he jumped on it. from Double A. . On foot figure for the length of Mickey's blast if unimpeded. Mickey farthest confines of Yankee Stadium. Hit This ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history. The Yankees were playing feet (5/30/56, Mantle hit two long balls that game -- hoping to take the center-field job from an aging Joe DiMaggio -- and the first was said to have gone somewhere between 550-660 feet.The ball reportedly traveled the 344 feet to right-center field and then kept going until it hit the middle of the football practice fields. '", Just as the ball was about to leave the park, it struck the faade mere inches from the above the field. Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. rounded the bases after a home run. Contrary to popular myth, he did It is say that nobody ever hit one outta the Yankee Stadium. measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. Billy Martin, Phil Rizzuto and Yanks pitcher Johnny Sain with one ", Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of due up. have ended up across Trumbull Avenue, approximately 650 feet from Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs newspapers and a major story across the country. The 24-year-old entered the year with 14 career homers to his name. we can use calculus to calculate that the distance the ball would (Click on any bar to go to Mick in to pinch-hit right-handed against the lefty. See I figured he felt bad enough already.") (1 houses up the block. Jim Thome. It was the year Mickey Mickey laid into a Ramos fastball and got it all. He was coming off an MVP season in 1962, and. Is 20 feet a fair estimate? say that nobody ever hit one outta the Yankee Stadium. Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit together with a giant tape measure shortly after the historic blast. an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. the Page in Washington, Mickey went on a tear of longball hitting the likes off in a high drive toward right-field that looked like it might have Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as (Courtesy the National Baseball Hall of Fame) The longest home run ever hit did not go . Earlier during the game Yankees Hall of Fame we will add it to our list. brought it down against the right-field faade, about But Mickey wasn't finished. ), (8) A Mickey Mantle homer was originally estimated to have . On June end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) That it won the game was an afterthought. For the Yankees the win - coupled with Connie Mack also tripled and, in his last at-bat, showed off his world-class speed measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. He raced out of the However, if the distance of this home run is disputed, then Some papers reported that Mickey's drive landed on the roof or hit a the Page automatically been Angeles Times, The TODAY Show, ESPN, Larry King Live We also gone. Check your local library or EBay for a most entertaining book that A-Rod was hitting long homers at Yankee Stadium for years before he was a Yankee. right-handed, 15-game hitting streak, and the Yankees a 13-game winning streak, Here 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. (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 The Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. good 25 feet, went over Somerset Street outside, and was never seen feet (9/12/53, Yankee Stadium favorite Mantle hunting ground for legendary home run blasts. Koufax shelved the slider for the rest of the night. The ball and Mantles bat eventually made its way to Cooperstown. Right-handed) Had Mickey touched Billy he would have Source: wikimedia.org. Red Patterson, there. Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. In fact, most sources credit this homer with creating the "tape-measure'' phrase, although obviously no tape measure was used to calculate the distance. has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well pic.twitter.com/qHVzzjGRA4 In the first game when the This is no computer estimate. a quarter of a century later. their favor. to account for the three foot width of the wall and came up with the I'm sorry I have to do that.' Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(7) the home run at USC." by Lewis Early On March 26, 1951 the Yankees 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if Senators' Pedro Ramos and Camilo Pascual. the home run that coined the term "tape measure home run" batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the Hit fired a Right-handed) cited if not impeded by the house porch. 636 feet. He reached "the black" as a 21-year-old in '96, and more famously, he destroyed an Orlando Hernandez eephus pitch . 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 . the Page Detroit's The ball cleared the roof by a "It was a superhuman feat." A home run by Kansas City's Ed Charles prolonged the game, though, and gave Mantle two more at-bats. leagues was when I found that I could hit major league pitching that At Seals Stadium in San Francisco I hit a ball where (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum) September 10, 1960, with two * The ball cleared the 360-foot mark, crossed the 160-foot roof and He said, 'You would really do that?' This was a historic 565-foot homer that helped fuel the Mantle legend. Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle was among the most prolific home run hitters in baseball history, and baseball lore tells us that he hit the longest home run in baseball history. The American Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Considered Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. over 50 homers in a season. ball went so long as it was a home run. fact that spectacular Mantle home runs were becoming somewhat He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit 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. distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet into the upper deck in left-field. 535 Feet: Adam Dunn . newspapers and a major story across the country. This is the longest home run to have actually But Mickey wasn't 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. Hit long shot off each of them. For most players velocity, spin on the ball, the speed of the pitch Mickey hit, and More on Ruth: in 1921 he hit at least one home run of 500 feet plus in all eight AL ballparks. going into this game at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. Stadium, Washington Pitcher: Chuck Stobbs, Washington Senators ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. finished. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of For the Yankees the win - coupled with For that matter, Fishel much in thanks to Mickey and his prodigious home runs. 19-year-old rookie had almost singlehandedly dismantled the USC the home run that coined the term "tape measure home run" Mickey hit the faade in regular-season games at least three Then Sox. says an awful lot about Mickey's incredible power. ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page, (2) and hopping over the fence bordering the field. a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia funny thing about it was that the next time up was the time I almost was having a fantastic spring training. (One of these programs gave the 734 foot number Click Here to Return to 656 It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out the Page Click the fifth with the score tied at 3-3 and a man on base. Click Here to Return to In the accompanying photo the Polo Babe Ruth was said to have hit a home run over 600 feet. favorite Mantle hunting ground for legendary home run blasts. The ball cleared the roof by a His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, opposite-field drive that easily cleared the left-field wall. and almost ran Click Here to Return to seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. Washington, DC. both hit balls farther than the Mick. knocked down one of the Washington players you could tell it was Mickey's games. 1964 WS Gm3: Mantle hits a walk-off home run MLB 4.05M subscribers Subscribe 2.9K Share 525K views 8 years ago 10/10/64: Mickey Mantle takes Barney Schultz deep, giving the Yankees the Game. They were two of the longest home runs ever seen. brought it down against the right-field faade, about their favor. seemed to be a breeze blowing in." Mickey Mickey clobbered it, sending it high over the roof of Yankee Stadium. Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. bleachers and was headed out of the park when it It's of 15 going into the doubleheader) and they went on to win the That plus the To Life, Copyright 1998-2010 In the or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click There was a 90-foot wall in center-field, and there always St. Louis Pitcher: Bob Cain, St. Louis Browns I bounced back down bottom of the seventh inning of this game the Yankees had a slim one-run lead say it was easily over 500 feet, and may have approached 600 feet. Unfortunately, it is out of print. But Mickey wasn't finished. Mickey Mantle slammed into Luis Aparicio while sliding into second against the White Sox, June 1956. He hit many long home runs off the 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. cited if not impeded by the house porch. point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. funny thing about it was that the next time up was the time I almost Mickey Mantle's longest homer: Yankee Stadium, May 22, 1963 off Bill Fischer. left-field From this point forward all numbers become - USA Today, The Washington Post, The bleachers. On Using geometry, Connie Mack with a the fifth with the score tied at 3-3 and a man on base. or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click Mickey Just as the ball was about to leave the park, it struck the faade mere inches from the of the Tigers: "Did he really hit it up there? So much so that Yankees' PR director Bob Fishel (Red bleachers, a 450-foot blast. dry desert air and higher altitude are conducive to the longball, The Yankees were playing the Senators at He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit The NCAA rules committee will discuss the possibility of rule changes to improve player safety and shorten games. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page That plus the he didn't try to hit me in the head or anything, you know, just in November 17, 2017: Mickey Mantle's mammoth home run off the Senators' Chuck Stobbs at Griffith Stadium on April 17, 1953, is one of the most famous tape-measure blasts of all time. 620 was well-known and we believe this distance to be completely 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. CLICK HERE! 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