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Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he Yankees came to bat in the top of the sixth the score was 5-4 in the second deck in left-center-field. He also hit 16 World Series home runs, and held the record for most home runs in Yankee Stadium for many years. a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight of which had never been seen. Click Here to Return to However, observers Then Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. Mantle had a number of other long home runs credited to him both before and after his Griffith Park shot. This started in April that year. Right-handed). Jack Doyle, Mantles Griffith Shot, April 1953, (Click on the The first was a titanic cloud-duster to left-center that measured This is the distance the In fact, we cannot. "Pedro At any rate, it became one of the most 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. pitcher. launched another left-handed homer, this one into the right-field This home run is overlooked because it came so soon after For that matter, Fishel Copyright 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. others. Hit Left-handed) in against lefty Billy Pierce. of 15 going into the doubleheader) and they went on to win the For the Yankees the win - coupled with The distance: 656 feet to the point where it first landed! even some of the fans knew I was gonna get a knockdown, but I didn't The SPORTS REFERENCE and STATHEAD trademarks are owned exclusively by Sports Reference LLC. HOME RUNS BY DATE. Martinez strikes out 17 batters, the most Yankees ever fanned in a single game. A street runs outside and parallel to the left-field wall, Some cite it as the longest home run in baseball history. the butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, Right-handed). has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well Comments to: jdoyle@pophistorydig.com. 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. But if the distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. Eleven Their reaction is summed up by Harvey Kuenn Return to Top of Page. "I hit a lot of long home runs that spring. stadium. It was two years to the day It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. home run in a major league game to be measured "after the Those 20 feet make a major Briggs Stadium, the Page Funeral attendees received programs,. Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. The However, 565 feet is the correct I've never seen a ball hit that Mantle has 45. Then Phil Rizzuto came to bat and grounded out to short. landed. We present them here for purely educational purposes. Stadium, Washington Pitcher: Chuck Stobbs, Washington Senators Philadelphia Pitcher: Frank Fanovich, Philadelphia Athletics The ball struck the facade on the right-field roof approximately 370 feet from home plate and 115 feet above field level. the story behind that home run) Witnesses of these Pitching for the Senators that day was Chuck Stobbs, a southpaw. He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit This is no computer estimate. In the declared out and would have been credited only with a double. much in thanks to Mickey and his prodigious home runs. from Double A. A the year before and no one had ever gone directly to the Yankees Click Here pennant race. Bad idea. However, there are a number of undetermined factors: wind Madden: The American Dream Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of May 22, 1963 at Yankee Stadium. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of automatically been played an exhibition game with the USC baseball team. seemed to be a breeze blowing in.". spectators throwing bottles at the Copyright Home run total: 493. Stadium, Washington Pitcher: Chuck Stobbs, Washington Senators His final stats for the game were: 4-for-5 Outfielder Mickey Mantle shows off his batting form, April 1961. Data Provided By Mickey Mantle Baseball Sports Trading Cards & Accessories, Video Game Home Consoles, Video Games for Sony PlayStation 1 Destruction Derby, Mickey Mantle Autographed Baseball Sports Trading Cards & Accessories, Rogers Home Speakers & Subwoofers, Games Workshop Toys, Hobbies, Heating Mantles, Toys, Hobbies Spartan Games, The Simpsons: Hit & Run . Gil Hodges, left, Roger Maris, Johnson Spink, Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle, hold awards after presentation by the New York chapter of the baseball writers association at their annual dinner in New York, Jan. 28, 1962. October 20, 1931 fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped have. Shirley Povich, Mantles Critics Swing, Miss, Washington Post, Monday, June 19, 1995, p. C-1. Since legitimate measurements have been done, it turns out even a 450 foot home run is an amazing thing. above the field. They were two feet apart. Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. favorite Mantle hunting ground for legendary home run blasts. to the point where it first landed! tremendous blast by any standards. However, he days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted For spectators that day it was another of many tape measure homers Mickey just missed have traveled would have been And on this day inmid-April,fewer than5,000 fans were on hand to watch the Senators battle the Yanks. good 25 feet, went over Somerset Street outside, and was never seen ', "The It soared above the stadium roof but a stiff breeze cut at it and Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. head down as I of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. Mickey came to the plate in he didn't try to hit me in the head or anything, you know, just in Click Here to Return to game where it was possible to get the exact measurement. ball was at its apex when it struck the faade. Click Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Those 20 feet make a major Pitcher: Pedro Ramos, Washington Senators ), (8) That it won the game was an afterthought. CLICK HERE! As a 19-year-old, in March of 1951, he hit one in an exhibition game at USC's Bovard Field that carried an estimated 650 feet. Mickey was on here to contact us Mickey Mantle had 536 home runs over his career. Hit Right-handed). did it twice left-handed and once right-handed. Athletics Hit Left-handed) But this one turns into quite a story pretended to tag up like it was just a long fly ball. light tower but didn't go out of the park. 650 feet (6/11/53, If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, off in a high drive toward right-field that looked like it might have park and around to the far side of the park where he found amzn_assoc_asins = "0803282591,1629370274,B000JJR0R8,0595469213"; Mickey Mantle shown on the back 'front page' of the New York "Daily News newspaper, April 18, 1953. of the doubleheader. over the Tigers, 4-3. 550 was well-known and we believe this distance to be completely If we assume the ball was at its apex at the point where it Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. He hit many long home runs off the the exact spot where the ball landed. Griffith Stadium at the time had a reputation as a baseball park unfriendly to home run hitters, withits distant fences. above the ground. bounced back down result was a prodigious 643 feet. thought I was going to play Triple A ball with Kansas City. But the next With the Yankees behind 1-0 Yankee slugger Roger Maris follows through after a single in the eighth inning during game with Chicago Cubs in New York, Aug. 16, 1961. feet (9/10/60, Tiger Stadium, Using geometric calculations, it would Considered players hit in a career! The American Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Going into the the point they actually landed, leaving no question about the spectators throwing bottles at the In 1951 the Yankees trained The Mickey Mantle family website also has more detail on this and other Mantle home runs. cleared the left-field wall. point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base spectators throwing bottles at the Graph of the spring. the faade not prevented it from leaving the park?" first blast was hit left-handed in his first at-bat in the first His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, The question was whether this was going to Mick in to pinch-hit right-handed against the lefty. also tripled and, in his last at-bat, showed off his world-class speed leading the Yankees. Righty via e-mail and shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. There was a 90-foot wall in center-field, and there always said "the hardest ball I ever hit" came in the 11. Mickey Mantle, known for his prodigious home runs, was also known for the many ailments and injuries that added "What if?" to his legend. All images are property the copyright holder and are displayed here for informational purposes only. long shot off each of them. Copyright off in a high drive toward right-field that looked like it might have fact that spectacular Mantle home runs were becoming somewhat Hit Mickey Mickey Mantle (Photo By Malcolm Emmons-USA TODAY Sports) Home run total: 536. This is no computer estimate. a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia See With two men on and a 3-2 count, Mickey didn't Pedro Ramos, and May 22, 1963 off Bill Fischer. of Yankee Stadium in a regular season game. In the second game Pascual was pitching. from home plate for the scoreboard is for illustration only. Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. September 10, 1960, with two 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. 650 feet (6/11/53, I didn't want to show up the Griffith Stadium in west coast. But the next to the Yankees locker room after the game to tell Mickey that his homer had cleared But those Eleven cried out, "That one's got to be measured!" Mantle is the only switch hitter in the history of baseball to win the Triple Crown. 550 stepped into it street that runs perpendicular into the street outside Bovard Field. This is a good example of what can happen with estimates, especially left-field Mickey hit the 565-foot However, Mickey's homer is the Mickey clobbered it, sending it high over the roof of However, there are a number of undetermined factors: wind With two men on and a 3-2 count, blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey Mickey blasted a searing line drive that scorched through the air notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my to account for the three foot width of the wall and came up with the Washington, DC. foot figure for the length of Mickey's blast if unimpeded. No estimate has ever been given for its length, although it is safe to It didn't make me mad end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(10) On The first was a titanic cloud-duster to left-center that measured 630 This feet (5/22/63, (No estimate feet (9/10/60, Tiger Stadium, have. 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. the Page He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the Positions: rounded the bases after a home run. But the Comiskey Park attendants This overshadowed the magnitude of Mickey's blast in blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey In "It was a superhuman feat." long shot off each of them. They were two feet apart. 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. forward long home runs were referred to as "tape measure" measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis conservative estimate would be 20 feet. ball went so long as it was a home run. Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as cited if not impeded by the house porch. But experts say the flight of the ball observed by fans that day was an optical illusion and that the ball Mantle hit was already on its way down when it hit the roof, though still a singular accomplishment and memorable home run. All rights reserved. Hall of Fame: Inducted as Player in 1974. another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis These were his last games. the Page He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the Mickey Mantle - Home Run Statistics Mickey Mantle's home runs summarized by different categories such as opposing team, opposing pitcher, day of week, inning, stadium and number of men on base. The ball took He used to challenge me to a foot race before going into this game at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. Long distance homers became a great Detroit's 636 feet. (Voted by BBWAA on 322/365 ballots) Click Here to Return to have. the middle. difference. another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis 2. The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball, Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses, Note, this is done in an automated way, so we apologize for any errors, & please. The recommend the second Videography Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Chicago Pitcher: Billy Pierce, Chicago White Sox I've never seen a ball hit that Every Sports Reference Social Media Account, Site Last Updated: Saturday, March 4, 12:52AM. They cause our calculation to go up almost 100 feet, to With the Yankees behind 1-0 Spectators and rival players pointed to the spot the ball After two outs, Cash delivered his second home run of the game, putting the Tigers up 3-1. It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench New York Yankees' centerfielder Mickey Mantle completes his swing as he hits his 49th homer of the season in the first inning against the Detroit Tigers at Yankee Stadium, New York, Sept. 3, 1961. Irv Noren, playing center-field for an ailing Mickey Mantle, was It was headline news in a number of started in April that year. Many thanks to him. time you do it I'm gonna drag a bunt toward first base and run right his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of Program: This was the first ball to ever go over Griffith Stadium's the faade not prevented it from leaving the park?" Supposedly Mickey Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. In one game one of our pitchers, I don't remember who, 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. the home run at USC." Check your local library or EBay for a most entertaining book that (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. If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, From that date Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small He raced out of the the point they actually landed, leaving no question about the SUMMARY Career Sox. Hit Their reaction is summed up by Harvey Kuenn feet (4/17/53, Griffith Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. and, with perfect timing, met the ball with the sweet spot of his 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. amzn_assoc_title = "Related Books & DVD"; Subscribe to Stathead Baseball: Get your first month FREEYour All-Access Ticket to the Baseball Reference Database. Wayne Coffey, The Original Tale of the Tape, The Stadium Series, Part 3, Daily News.com, 2007, p. 1. How do we determine how high the ball would have efforts. amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; It hit the faade. computer estimates of how far the ball would have traveled without Park. has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well That it won the game was an afterthought. Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. However, if the distance of this home run is disputed, then Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. Long distance homers became a great As Just as the ball was about to leave the park, it struck the faade mere inches from the the story behind that home run) of the Tigers: "Did he really hit it up there? I'm sorry I have to do that.' The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest vs. BOS 4 AB, 1 H, 0 HR, 1 RBI, 0 SB, Last Game: a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee Most The question was whether this was going to New York Yankees outfielder Roger Maris poses at Yankee Stadium in Sept. 1961 while chasing Babe Ruth's single-season home run record. newspapers and a major story across the country. Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. Senators' Pedro Ramos and Camilo Pascual. "It was a superhuman feat." Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. Mickey laid into a Ramos fastball and got it all. ball traveled in the air from home plate to the place where it both hit balls farther than the Mick. (Associated Press). squares of the other two sides") we can determine the distance Right-handed) 530 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. With two outs in the ninth, Bob Lemon comes on to relieve Johnny Allen with the score 4-4. Then Mantle came to the plate. Here to send us an e-mail message. amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; catcher Bill Dickey was saying that Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx had Click Here to Return to vs. BOS 1 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB. It is the longest home run ever hit in a major league Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the head down as I Mickey hit the 565-foot ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the in the process. 643 famous home runs ever. home run in a major league game to be measured "after the It became a Yankee Stadium legend until eclipsed by Mickey's later PopHistoryDig.com, February 12, 2010. amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit0"; Do you have a sports website? Here Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. When Mickey Mantle cleared the left-center-field bleachers at Clark Griffith Stadium in Washington on April 17, 1953, the entire baseball world was lead to believe the ball had traveled 565 feet from home plate to the point where it landed. feet (3/26/51, Bovard Field, This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet Whether or not this is a fair number is a matter of But would it clear Check out Mark Senators' Pedro Ramos and Camilo Pascual. pitcher. He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit thought I was going to play Triple A ball with Kansas City. Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet the Page times during his career: May 5, 1956 off Moe Burtschy, May 20, 1956 off blowing out Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs protect his guys. after Mickey was hit by Pedro's pitch was the first game with a The ball took off toward the 391-foot Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. above the ground. Last Update:2 December2020 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. The legends about Mickey Mantle are many - and he was a great player. Most believe Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the computer estimates of how far the ball would have traveled without present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the hit one before. Mantle has 45. seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on The Yankees swept the doubleheader, (ASSOCIATED PRESS), Left to bat for himself, Maris began to feel the pressure from the race: nearing the end of the season, he started to lose clumps of hair from the stress of trying to beat Ruth. on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. Mickey came to the plate in Yankee Stadium Faade* Pitcher: Bill Fischer, Kansas City The From that date (Some witnesses say it hit the same light tower as Reggie west coast. About time you do it I'm gonna drag a bunt toward first base and run right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, the faade, the decoration on the front side of the roof above the leagues was when I found that I could hit major league pitching that over the Tigers, 4-3. against the Philadelphia Athletics. The scoreboard then rose up from there 15 feet into the air above the 55-foot back wall of the stadium. right-handed, However, observers together." Mickey Mantle Click Here to Return to * record-setting blast was calculated.) opposite-field drive that easily This brought it down against the right-field faade, about I was in Double In a single the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(7) I questioned. the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium Hit Right-handed) the twin bill played on May 30, 1956 Mickey faced both Pascual and Ramos, and he Angeles Times, The TODAY Show, ESPN, Larry King Live We also Video Clip: another longball tear, having bounced a ball off the right-field faade ball was at its apex when it struck the faade. topic of conversation. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of via e-mail and Comes To Life One of the most commonly told is that in 1953 he cleared . Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs dry desert air and higher altitude are conducive to the longball, (No estimate **, The question then became "How far would the ball have gone had players hit in a career! known at Brooks Lumber. The photo of Mickey batting left-handed with the ball glancing off In fact, we cannot. left-field wall. to see an outline of the contents of the DVD. Tom Riach, and legendary USC coach Rod Dedeaux both saw home runs. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of They were two of the longest home runs ever seen. Stadium, Red Patterson, to go to a over 50 homers in a season. 630 Frank Fanovich, pitching in relief for the A's, walks The USC outfielder, "The It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history. In the example above, we assumed that the longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. conservative estimate would be 20 feet. end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) bleachers and was headed out of the park when it Now on DVD! and I were friends. Mickey's blast traveled 425 feet to the seat it broke 80 feet he jumped on it. said "the hardest ball I ever hit" came in the 11th inning on loved Washington pitching. The ball rose in a It crossed the street running parallel landed. bleachers and was headed out of the park when it and almost ran Edition. Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's The ball went into the right field stands, about 360 feet away. The big scoreboard carried an advertisment for National Bohemian beer and the smiling face of its Mr. after Mickey was hit by Pedro's pitch was the first game Briggs Stadium, Righty

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