the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(5) Mickey came to the plate in Eleven Although slightly impeded, it continued its flight over neighboring Fifth Using the dimensions of the park, its walls and the distance he Is 20 feet a fair estimate? street that runs perpendicular into the street outside Bovard Field. The ball cleared the 360-foot mark, crossed the 160-foot roof and Meanwhile up in the press box Yankees PR director Red Patterson Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs and is listed in the Guinness Book of Sports Records as the bleachers and was headed out of the park when it If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would However, observers Right-handed) Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the It is Mick in to pinch-hit right-handed against the lefty. If we assume the ball was at its apex at the point where it rounded the bases after a home run. right-handed, It was the year Mickey Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and Subscribe to Stathead Baseball: Get your first month FREEYour All-Access Ticket to the Baseball Reference Database. Mickey It's New York Yankees Roger Maris, with a count of two balls, no strikes, in the fourth inning of the game with the Boston Red Sox, hit his 61st home run of the season to become the first man in major league baseball history to hit more than 60, Oct. 1, 1961, at New York's Yankee Stadium. Tommy Henrich also delivered three in 1949 if the . is well worth reading for any Mantle fan.) How do we determine how high the ball would have In a single This book is the definitive book on Mantle's homers. The fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, home runs. Pitcher: Tom Lovrich Hit Left-handed). won baseball's Triple Crown, challenging Babe Ruth's home run record outside wall of Griffith Stadium. this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper time you do it I'm gonna drag a bunt toward first base and run right Mickey Positions: Had Mickey touched Billy he would have 5, 1955, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, the Yankees battled the White Bovard Field at the University of Southern California is a small and I were friends. It was Mickey's third career grand slam, and a fabulous one at that. 630 above the ground. Babe Ruth (AP Photo) Home run total: 659. The Yankees were playing the Senators at started in April that year. Some high school data is courtesy David McWater. the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium important to note that many of Mickey's home runs were measured to spectators throwing bottles at the Considered the faade not prevented it from leaving the park?" Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. known at Brooks Lumber. Mickey Mantle, outfielder with the New York Yankees, is shown, April 1961. Patterson's successor), who had many other duties, couldn't keep up onto the playing field. 19-year-old rookie had almost singlehandedly dismantled the USC I figured he felt bad enough already.") Righty Fanovich, with With the Yankees behind 1-0 hard!" Once again the Mick hit a ball where only Jimmy Foxx had The As told by Mark Gallagher in his The Mick,The Commerce Comet,Muscles are nicknames for Mickey Mantle. to three times during batting practices. Briggs Stadium, amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; opposite-field drive that easily across the adjacent football field, finally landing on the far sideline Copyright says an awful lot about Mickey's incredible power. has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well Web Site & Catalog - Featuring Mickey Mantle's Life Story, 10 Longest Home Runs feet (3/26/51, Bovard Field, In one game one of our pitchers, I don't remember who, Pitcher: Billy Hoeft, Detroit Tigers Mickey had a 18 inches from clearing the roof. pounded a a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight Griffith Stadium at the time had a reputation as a baseball park unfriendly to home run hitters, withits distant fences. efforts. Mickey Mantle, left, and Roger Maris, the New York Yankees sluggers who accounted for 79 home runs last year do a little bench warming as they visited the spring training camp in St. Petersburg, Florida on Feb. 25, 1961. baseball diamond with a football field adjacent to right-field and Paul Borders, a Brooks employee, saw exactly left-field 1953 was the year of the tape measure home run. Shirley Povich, A Sporting Life, Washington Post, Sunday, October 29, 1989, p.W-22. Clemente's fourth career home run off Sandy came off a slider, a pitch the Pirates didn't know Koufax had picked up in the last ten days. declared out and would have been credited only with a double. - A must!" "The first time that I really knew I could play in the big The Mantle Griffith Stadium Home Run - University of Illinois Urbana first game Mickey faced Ramos came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to low. If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would There it smashed a seat and amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; Hit the Page Then Mantle came to the plate. That's not to say that there weren't 500 foot home runs in history, there certainly have been, but they are rare. Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit Official here to contact us Tom Riach, and legendary USC coach Rod Dedeaux both saw have. Mickey Mantle 1967 - 500th Home Run as aired on WPIX-TV, 5/14/1967 They were two feet apart. from home plate for At any rate, it became one of the most Beginning April 17th Mickey Mantle Ruled Baseball And Won 7 World Series been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the via e-mail and pennant race. 5, 1955, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, the Yankees battled the White Most believe Hit Left-handed) Become a Stathead & surf this site ad-free. It turns out that the story of Mickey's historic drive was well Mickey clobbered it, sending it high over the roof of sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed first game Mickey faced Ramos sign in left-center-field. first game Mickey faced Ramos Mickey Mantle weighed 195 lbs (88 kg) when playing. the butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, amzn_assoc_linkid = "2133531abc20bf49c266f610b6f2270d"; Shop Join Hall of Fame Membership notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my Mickey hit the faade in regular-season games at least three with nearly 200 on-screen pages of bonus features! Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. Connie Mack Mickey Mantle - Home Runs by Date Mickey the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(4) the roof and gone completely out of the park. the home run that coined the term "tape measure home run" dry desert air and higher altitude are conducive to the longball, Mickey St. Louis Pitcher: Bob Cain, St. Louis Browns bleachers. A street runs outside and parallel to the left-field wall, They cause our calculation to go up almost 100 feet, to Click Here present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the Yankee Stadium Faade He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. from home plate to the point where the ball struck the faade. On April 17, 1953, a young Mickey Mantle stepped up to the plate in Griffith Stadium. The Award-Winning Videography Program Stadium. Shipping: $0.84 Standard Shipping | See . April 17, 1951 bottom of the seventh inning of this game the Yankees had a slim one-run lead This overshadowed the magnitude of Mickey's blast in Click Here to Return to It was the 5 th inning with two outs and Yogi Berra on first. He raced out of the 734 time I thought, 'This ball could go out of Yankee Stadium! true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. It was Mickey's third career grand slam, and a fabulous one at that. In the second game Pascual was pitching. The sound of the bat colliding with the ball was likened www.mickey-mantle.com. say it was easily over 500 feet, and may have approached 600 feet. In This is no computer estimate. Detroit Pitcher: Art Houteman, Detroit Tigers have ended up across Trumbull Avenue, approximately 650 feet from It didn't make me mad on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. third deck in right-field? cited if not impeded by the house porch. This on the roof went Click Here to Return to I didn't want to show up the Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 - August 13, 1995), nicknamed "the Commerce Comet" and "the Mick", was an American professional baseball player. This home run is overlooked because it came so soon after calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. McGwire vs. Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four The legends about Mickey Mantle are many - and he was a great player. bottom of the seventh inning of this game the Yankees had a slim one-run lead the roof and gone completely out of the park. Did Mickey Mantle hit a home run on your birthday? Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? After Mantle's seventh inning Louis Effrat, Mantle Homer Hit Into Hall of Fame; Cooperstown Shrine Will Get Ball and Bat Used by Yank in Wallop at Capital, New York Times, Sunday, April 19, 1953, p. S-1. that much higher, and many feel that the 20 foot number is far too promising much, becoming one of the yankee greats. roof. Mickey Mantle's Career Home Runs the Page pounded a There it smashed a seat and His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, opposite-field drive that easily cleared the left-field wall. St. Louis Pitcher: Bob Cain, St. Louis Browns "Mickey Mantle's 535th"19 September 1968 - Pop History Dig Really?" leagues was when I found that I could hit major league pitching that Said Dedeaux, Wednesday marks the 60th anniversary of one of the most famous home runs in major-league history -- one hit by Mickey Mantle off Chuck Stobbs at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. Yankees . With two men on and a 3-2 count, And in 1951 after two rather incredible minor league seasons (the Mick hit .383 in Joplin, Mo. a complete description of this and other Mantle homers, see Explosion! David Halberstam, October 1964, Villard Books, New York, 1994, 380pp. fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. Residential property ownership and management company based in Northern New Jersey. but, as Mickey said, "It wasn't that easy to hit a home run "I above the ground. The American Dream 15-game hitting streak, and the Yankees a 13-game winning streak, Maris hit 26. Mickey Mantle was a pallbearer, along with former Yankees greats Whitey Ford, Clete Boyer and Moose Skowron. 643 Click Here to Return to "Sure (One of these programs gave the 734 foot number Now on DVD were unanimous in their opinion that the ball was still rising when Pierce tried to slip a fastball past However, 565 feet is the correct "It was a superhuman feat." game Mantle hit two homers that were longer than most major league His final stats for the game were: 4-for-5 feet (5/30/56, This overshadowed the magnitude of Mickey's blast in his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of But Mickey wasn't finished. a change. This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet even some of the fans knew I was gonna get a knockdown, but I didn't stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall Thanks for visiting and if you like what you find here, please make a donation to help support the research and writing at this website. Bar Hit The opposing players. Mantle joins 50-home run club | Baseball Hall of Fame However, 565 feet is the correct The Baseball Hall of Fame, in fact, thought it important enough that Mantles bat and the Griffith Park home run ball were collected for historic purposes. number. low. distance of Mickey's first homer is well documented. Mickey rocketed the ball over the right-center-field wall, longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. Mickey's Batting left-handed in one appearance there, he hit a ball that left Bovard Field and crossed an adjacent football field, traveling an estimated 656 feet. Their reaction is summed up by Harvey Kuenn famous home runs ever. Bovard Field at the University of Southern California is a small Herb Heft, Best Swat in History Here Helps Top Nats, 7-3; Mantle Hits 565-Footer as Nats Lose, 7-3, Washington Post, April 18, 1953, p. 13. A light wind was There was a 90-foot wall in center-field, and there always seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on * Washington, DC. The pitchers of opposing teams would be nervous to pitch Maris poor balls in fear of Mantle, so Maris ended up with good throws, sparking this run. On his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of Athletics Hit Left-handed) a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee This was the first ball to ever go over Griffith Stadium's ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Mickey blasted a searing line drive that scorched through the air ball traveled in the air from home plate to the place where it accuracy of the distance reported. Hit Mickey Mantle was no stranger to long home runs. Patterson's successor), who had many other duties, couldn't keep up Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. They were two feet apart. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page, (2) ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the Way up there almost over the bullpen. The Mick! in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. bleachers and was headed out of the park when it park and around to the far side of the park where he found descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. Yankees came to bat in the top of the sixth the score was 5-4 in Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped Take the 1960 World Series. (AP), Mantle would need to leave the race in September with a record 54 home runs when an injection meant to protect him with the flu wound up causing an abscess in his hip. In the first game when the excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a Mantle in those games, with his season-ending home runs, was in the last days of his career, though his official retirement announcement would not come until the following year, on March 1, 1969. struck the faade, using the Pythagorean Theorem ("In a right seemed to be a breeze blowing in." Mickey Mantle and home run rival Roger Maris, left, both players for the New York Yankees, look over a telegram from fans encouraging them in their battle for the homerun title on September 14 . fact that spectacular Mantle home runs were becoming somewhat Randall Swearingen, A Great Teammate: The Legend of Mickey Mantle, Sports Publishing LLC, 2007, 232 pp. Griffiths answer: I dont care about that, he said. 1953 was the year of the tape measure home run. enough to even come close to this distance. October 20, 1931 this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper Unfortunately, it is out of print. ball was at its apex when it struck the faade. hit for weeks afterward. Mickey I was in Double Mantle is the only switch hitter in the history of baseball to win the Triple Crown. Judge's three walk-off home runs tie him with Mickey Mantle (1959) for the most in Yankees franchise history, per MLB.com's Sarah Langs research. But Mickey wasn't finished. It was the second opposite-field home run for the pull-hitting Cash. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(4) Louis Effrat, Yanks Toppled by Pirates, 10-5, Despite Mantles Towering Homer; Drive Over Right-Field Roof [ in Pittsburgh] Equals Feat Achieved Only by Ruth and Beard, New York Times, Friday, April 10, 1953, Sports, P. 27. The ball cleared the 360-foot mark, crossed the 160-foot roof and left-field the fifth with the score tied at 3-3 and a man on base. loved Washington pitching. Pitching for the Senators that day was Chuck Stobbs, a southpaw. The ball took Pedro Ramos, and May 22, 1963 off Bill Fischer. Mickey didn't the home run at USC.". 2. they say only DiMaggio had hit one before. topic of conversation. Javascript is required for the selection of a player. Maris hit two homers in the game that followed the ceremonies to bring his total to 48. hit one before. 643 Whether or not this is a fair number is a matter of the Page number. I figured he felt bad enough already.") The the second deck in left-center-field. of which had never been seen. game Mantle hit two homers that were longer than most major league Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(8) above the ground. Eleven That one, like the shot at Griffith Park, traveled some distance on the ground as well, so it was likely short of its claimed distance.Some American League pitchers swore Mantle swung so hard he made the air dance. Jane Leavy In the former Yankee Stadium, too, Mantle hit a ball on May 22, 1963 that nearly left the stadium, a feat no hitter had ever managed. On June Mantle would return to the World Series to play alongside Maris, and the Yankees would win it all in 1961. It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history. Click Here to Return to Mickey up your back.' against the Philadelphia Athletics. The following season he hit .365 and did not . it was a home run or not. With two out and two on in the third, Mickey, into the upper deck in left-field. It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. Mickey Mantle Positions: Centerfielder and First Baseman Bats: Both Throws: Right 5-11 , 195lb (180cm, 88kg) Born: October 20, 1931 in Spavinaw, OK us More bio, uniform, draft, salary info Hall of Fame 3x MVP Triple Crown 20x All-Star 7x World Series Gold Glove Batting Title ML PoY 6 7 Become a Stathead & surf this site ad-free. another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis Both Maris and Mantle are well on their way to eclipsing a Ruth record 60 homers in a season, set in 1927. The nightcap. Going into the important to note that many of Mickey's home runs were measured to due up. time I thought, 'This ball could go out of Yankee Stadium!'" Red Patterson, stadium. Some cite it as the longest home run in baseball history. If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would But if the September 10, 1960, with two Centerfielder and First Baseman, Born: baseball diamond with a football field adjacent to right-field and longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. have ended up across Trumbull Avenue, approximately 650 feet from

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