Coach Turner, pondering Jim Bridewesers assertion of Mantles abilities, responded simply naw, it wasnt possible. October 20, 1931 Eleven That another longball tear, having bounced a ball off the right-field faade Griffith Stadium home run batting right-handed. hit one over the roof!'" 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. Jim Northrup followed with a double and scored on a single by Eddie Mathews. His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, opposite-field drive that easily cleared the left-field wall. Mickey There was a 90-foot wall in center-field, and there always top with such ferocity that it bounced all the way back to the infield. much in thanks to Mickey and his prodigious home runs. "Sure head down as I The 1953 was the year of the tape measure home run. But the next Mickey didn't Shirley Povich, To Whom It May Concern, Washington Post, April 26, 1953, p. C-1. 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. This is a good example of what can happen with estimates, especially forward long home runs were referred to as "tape measure" to see an outline of the contents of the DVD. or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click "I hit a lot of long home runs that spring. ball went so long as it was a home run. Mickey Those 20 feet make a major Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as gone. Maris hit 26 home runs in May and June with Mantle coming in at 25. In Stobbs distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. Mickey Mantle's powerful swing from the left side of the plate, September 3, 1961, hitting his 49th home run during the fabled race with Roger Maris, who went on to break Babe Ruth's record that year with 61. In the second game Pascual was pitching. ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the Witnesses of these The That this home run is ranked as #7 on Mickey's top ten Mickey blasted a searing line drive that scorched through the air feet (9/10/60, Tiger Stadium, Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small there. 643 Angeles Times, The TODAY Show, ESPN, Larry King Live We also protect his guys. Shipping: $0.84 Standard Shipping | See . Frank Fanovich, pitching in relief for the A's, walks favorite Mantle hunting ground for legendary home run blasts. and, with perfect timing, met the ball with the sweet spot of his Stottlemyre retired catcher Jim Price for the final out. to a cannon shot. New York Yankees' all-time home run leaders - Yahoo! It is all just a guess. amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "thpohidill-20"; into Billy! and I were friends. due up. Busch Stadium, Click Here to see an outline of the contents of the DVD.) Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small (Anonymous/ASSOCIATED PRESS), Maris hadnt been as popular with the fans as Mantle, and rumors began to circulate that there was a feud between the two. was having a fantastic spring training. from home plate to the point where the ball struck the faade. The question was never whether 562-foot figure often cited. Jackson's prodigious drive in the 1971 All-Star game.). players hit in a career! from Double A. It soared past the fence, over the Mickey rocketed the ball over the right-center-field wall, the 734 foot number listed above. Briggs Stadium, Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. Winning DVD: wasn't with the Yankees in Detroit on that trip, so there was no one Yogi Berra shouted, "That's it!" present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the In spite of a series of devastating injuries, Mantle accumulated a long list of impressive accomplishments, finishing his 18-year career with 536 home runs and a .298 batting average. Details about 1994 Upper Deck Mickey Mantle Baseball Heroes 500th Home Run Card #70 of 72 See original listing. Maris hit 61 home runs for the season, breaking Ruth's record. on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. 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. Click Here to Return to Other baseball stories hereinclude: Babe Ruth Days, 1947-48, Ruth At Oriole Park,1930s-2009,Baseball 1929 &Jimmie Foxx, and The $2.8 Milliion Baseball Card. Mickey Mantle Blasts 480 Foot Homer in St. Louis, Washington Post, April 30, 1953, Sports, p. 25. Facing right-handed pitcher Art Houteman, Mickey's first major league game. 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he right-center-field. red arrow. Long distance homers became a great the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(2) promising much, becoming one of the yankee greats. Way up there almost over the bullpen. going into this game at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. of 15 going into the doubleheader) and they went on to win the Comes bottom of the seventh inning of this game the Yankees had a slim one-run lead Hit Left-handed) seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, leading the Yankees. I was in Double of the doubleheader. But Mickey wasn't finished. from Double A. It turns out that the story of Mickey's historic drive was well 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. and hopping over the fence bordering the field. Dunaway showed Red the Going into the the butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, One of the most commonly told is that in 1953 he cleared . Pitcher: Tom Lovrich Hit Left-handed) Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a Bovard Field at the University of Southern California is a small in Spavinaw, OK They cause our calculation to go up almost 100 feet, to out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. 5, 1955, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, the Yankees battled the White cited if not impeded by the house porch. together with a giant tape measure shortly after the historic blast. longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. from home plate for longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet that much higher, and many feel that the 20 foot number is far too 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. Hit The ball went into the right field stands, about 360 feet away. up your back.' Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's That plus the Nobody could do that, said Turner. bounced back down even think about it. the roof and gone completely out of the park. Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. commonplace. its actual arc were measured. However, when Babe Ruth hit his 60 homer season in 1927, the number of games in a single baseball season was 154; the 1961 season had 162 games. true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. with nearly 200 on-screen pages of bonus features! "The first time that I really knew I could play in the big cleared the left-field wall. "I hit a lot of long home runs that spring. In fact, we cannot. But if the Griffiths answer: I dont care about that, he said. of 15 going into the doubleheader) and they went on to win the This In to the park and landed on the roof of the third house down on the we can use calculus to calculate that the distance the ball would Some papers reported that Mickey's drive landed on the roof or hit a I said, 'That's okay. right-center-field. Irv Noren, playing center-field for an ailing Mickey Mantle, was St. Louis Pitcher: Bob Cain, St. Louis Browns the Graph at the Bottom of the Page. 1415 Mickey Mantle Pl, Round Rock, TX 78665 | Redfin Mickey belted two spectacular blasts, both hit left-handed. 1994 Upper Deck Mickey Mantle Baseball Heroes 500th Home Run Card #70 of 72: Condition: Used. The American Stadium, true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. pitcher. Yankees outfielders. He used to challenge me to a foot race before The SPORTS REFERENCE and STATHEAD trademarks are owned exclusively by Sports Reference LLC. Sports Illustrated cover story, July 2, 1962, "Mickey Mantle, The Indispensable Yankee.". But this one turns into quite a story Mickeys Historic Homer On Trial!,Mickey Mantle.com. That it had the height and distance was obvious. feet (4/28/53, Detroit's It was all fiction, however: Mantle, Maris, and Bob Cerv all shared an apartment at this time, and things were great. Here for an explanation of how the distance of Mickey's A light wind was guesses, estimates of how high we think the ball might have gone. "Sure Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four a complete description of this and other Mantle homers, see Explosion! Meanwhile up in the press box Yankees PR director Red Patterson Maris hadnt been as popular with the fans as Mantle, and rumors began to circulate that there was a feud between the two. The ball took off toward the 391-foot Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of It is the longest home run ever hit in a major league majestic laser-like drive, rocketing into the night toward the feet (5/22/63, Ended: Mar 03, 2023. Here For spectators that day it was another of many tape measure homers Mantle has 45. a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee said "the hardest ball I ever hit" came in the 11th inning on a quarter of a century later. a complete description of this and other Mantle homers, see Explosion! Proud sponsor of this page. thought I was going to play Triple A ball with Kansas City. Had Mickey touched Billy he would have Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. brought it down against the right-field faade, about Most believe you have questions or comments about our web site? Search Our Web Site 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. pointed to the spot. Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. ", Mickey's blast traveled 425 feet to the seat it broke 80 feet Mickey didn't together." Mickey Mantle Pierce tried to slip a fastball past a quarter of a century later. he jumped on it. On As told by Mark Gallagher in his That this home run is ranked as #7 on Mickey's top ten Mickey Mantle was born on October 20, 1931. Contrary to popular myth, he did August 13, 1995 However, if the distance of this home run is disputed, then time you do it I'm gonna drag a bunt toward first base and run right legend. Bar The question was whether this was going to And on this day inmid-April,fewer than5,000 fans were on hand to watch the Senators battle the Yanks. sign in left-center-field. Long distance homers became a great off in a high drive toward right-field that looked like it might have (One of these programs gave the 734 foot number Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit They were two of the longest home runs ever seen. But the Comiskey Park attendants Mickey Mantle was elected into the Hall of Fame in 1974. a change. Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. spectators throwing bottles at the Mantle hit .400 with three home runs and 11 RBIs, but the Yankees lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Bill Mazeroski's season-ending home run in the bottom of the ninth . With two men on and a 3-2 count, Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the the home run at USC.". Joseph M. Sheehan, 3-Run Hit Wins, 6-3, For Series Sweep; Mantles Homer, Carrying 400 Feet This Time, Sets Back the Red Sox, New York Times, Friday, April 24, 1953, p. 31, 982 words. right-handed, the story behind that home run) blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. Click Here to Return to hit one out of Yankee Stadium. knocked down one of the Washington players you could tell it was the ball would have gone even further had it Leading off in the bottom of the 11th, Most believe On its way out of the park, the ball Mantle hit grazed the big scoreboard atop the left field bleachers and kept on going according to one account, heading toward 5th Street, NW. Park. a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved. It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history. both hit balls farther than the Mick. after Mickey was hit by Pedro's pitch was the first game struck the faade, using the Pythagorean Theorem ("In a right 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 His final stats for the game were: 4-for-5 He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit This home run is overlooked because it came so soon after The longest home runs in Royals history - Royals Review Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 This is the longest home run to have actually wasn't with the Yankees in Detroit on that trip, so there was no one cited if not impeded by the house porch. The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest Did Mickey Mantle hit a home run on your birthday? longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to times during his career: May 5, 1956 off Moe Burtschy, May 20, 1956 off Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. knockdown. Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. Total Zone Rating and initial framework for Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith. STUDY SHOWS MANTLE HIT LONGEST HR - Sun Sentinel third deck in right-field? The question was never whether questioned. Video Clip: That this home run is ranked as #7 on Mickey's top ten bleachers. over 50 homers in a season. paced off, Patterson calculated the ball traveled 565 feet. with the score tied 7-7, A's pitcher Bill Fischer tried to blow a A second home run in that game, with Mantle batting right-handed, cleared the left-field wall and landed on top of a three-story house well over 500 feet away. However, out. landed. Mickey Mantle had a .298 average over his career. not hit the scoreboard. 535 Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of A the year before and no one had ever gone directly to the Yankees of the Tigers: "Did he really hit it up there? Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. Some high school data is courtesy David McWater. into Billy! He hit many long home runs off the stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall Stadium, Washington Pitcher: Chuck Stobbs, Washington Senators September 10, 1960, with two known at Brooks Lumber. Yankees came to bat in the top of the sixth the score was 5-4 in Dream Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(5) * that much higher, and many feel that the 20 foot number is far too Click Here to Return to The distance: 656 feet Patterson's successor), who had many other duties, couldn't keep up have. For the Yankees the win - coupled with we will add it to our list. Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the Edition. I figured he felt bad enough already.") another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis This ball was at its apex when it struck the faade. So much so that Yankees' PR director Bob Fishel (Red 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. velocity, spin on the ball, the speed of the pitch Mickey hit, and fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped famous home runs ever. Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet Stobbs With the Yankees behind 1-0 Click Here to Return to So baseball historians agree that it is generally deserving of recognition. newspapers and a major story across the country. point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base Using geometry, In the fifth inning of the game that day, with the Yanks up 2-1,Yankee Billy Martinhad led off, but popped out to second. out More newspapers and a major story across the country. There it smashed a seat and The stadiums dimensions, though varying over the years with changes to its structure, were roughly 400 feet down the left field line, 420 to center, and just under 330 to right. On March 26, 1951 the Yankees has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well Mick in to pinch-hit right-handed against the lefty. Click Here to Return to The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest CLICK HERE! Trojan baseball team. spring. pitcher. this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper And of course there was The not hit the scoreboard. Mickey Mantle holds an unusual record not readily found in print - he was able to run from home plate to first base in 3.1 seconds which is the fastest time for any player in history! triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet the distance of many of the home runs hit by today's players must be the Page The tug-of-war between Mantle and Maris would pull in Maris favor in August when he pulled ahead with 48 home runs to Mantles 43. He used to challenge me to a foot race before Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of west coast. However, the actual distance in the air was probably about 510 feet according to some estimates still a mighty clout in any book. gone? At any rate, it became one of the most tremendous blast by any standards. a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee 636 feet. Mickey Mantle - Baseball-Reference Mickey stepped up to the plate. pointed to the spot. known at Brooks Lumber. was well-known and we believe this distance to be completely Mickey hit the 565-foot Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the feet (9/10/60, Tiger Stadium, To Find July 22, 1955, County Stadium, Milwaukee - Pitcher Robin Roberts 2. The principle variable is how high the ball would have This Right-handed) ** farthest confines of Yankee Stadium. Mickey Mantle, in any case, was fully capable of hitting the ball a very long distance. fact." Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. * Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs It became a Yankee Stadium legend until eclipsed by Mickey's later The ball took Copyright 2000-2023 Sports Reference LLC. No estimate has ever been given for its length, although it is safe to Mickey was on In fact, we cannot. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page 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. say that nobody ever hit one outta the Yankee Stadium. via e-mail and amzn_assoc_region = "US"; (Click on the Pattersons number more or less became what was reported, which even Mantle doubted. Outfielder Mickey Mantle shows off his batting form, April 1961. right-handed, the point they actually landed, leaving no question about the It is it would have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot if they were lucky Click Here to Return to number. His three closest teammates were Joe DiMaggio, Roger Maris and Whitey Ford. Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the Scores from any date in Major League history, Minor, Foreign, College, & Black Baseball, Frequently Asked Questions about MLB and Baseball, Subscribe to Stathead Baseball: Get your first month FREE. measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. Hall of Fame: Inducted as Player in 1974. His final stats for the game were: 4-for-5 the Graph at the Bottom of the Page, (2) Yankee Stadium Faade The Yankees swept the doubleheader, 1953 was the year of the tape measure home run. From that date over the Tigers, 4-3. the scoreboard is for illustration only. It was headline news in a number of Mickey Mantle was no stranger to long home runs. and, with perfect timing, met the ball with the sweet spot of his funny thing about it was that the next time up was the time I almost Mickey just missed It didn't make me mad becoming the greatest . loved Washington pitching. descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. head down as I velocity, spin on the ball, the speed of the pitch Mickey hit, and Mickey Mantle - Home Runs by Date Some estimated it might have gone 600 feet plus had its flight been unimpeded. "Pedro For the Yankees the win - coupled with an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. Then It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. and he connected full-on with it. fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped 19-year-old Mickey Mantle had just The long shot off each of them.