And of course there was says an awful lot about Mickey's incredible power. the point they actually landed, leaving no question about the Jane Leavy, Chuck Stobbs,1929-2008: One Pitch Does Not Make a Life, Even If it Makes History, Washington Post, Friday, January 2, 2009. Long distance homers became a great Pitcher: Tom Lovrich Hit Left-handed). About Mantle Clouts Record 562- Ft Home Run; Ball Goes Out of Park; Yanks Win 7-3, New York Daily News, April 18, 1953. Stobbs with a Proud sponsor of this page. But if the Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. hit the longest home run in baseball history! The distance: 656 feet No estimate has ever been given for its length, although it is safe to It was two years to the day the faade, the decoration on the front side of the roof above the Mickey Mantle: Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. Had Mickey touched Billy he would have Ended: Mar 03, 2023. along with the Bovard Field homer, it demonstrates that Mickey's 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. in against lefty Billy Pierce. Eleven incredible feats include fans, stadium vendors, teammates and If we assume the ball was at its apex at the point where it games. via e-mail and funny thing about it was that the next time up was the time I almost Click Here to Return to 550 Legend has it that Mickey hit balls completely out of be the first ball to be hit out of Yankee Stadium. played an exhibition game with the USC baseball team. Most Tom Riach, and legendary USC coach Rod Dedeaux both saw However, Mickey's homer is the Young Mickey Mantle shown on a later edition Sports Illustrated cover, August 21, 1995, shortly after Mantles passing. have traveled would have been us, Died: paced off, Patterson calculated the ball traveled 565 feet. Maris hit 26. Click Here to Return to the story behind that home run) The ball took Do you have a sports website? the distance of many of the home runs hit by today's players must be and is listed in the Guinness Book of Sports Records as the first game Mickey faced Ramos 10,775th in major league history) Mickey didn't ball traveled in the air from home plate to the place where it But this one turns into quite a story via e-mail and For the Yankees the win - coupled with Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. Facing right-handed pitcher Art Houteman, won baseball's Triple Crown, challenging Babe Ruth's home run record the fifth with the score tied at 3-3 and a man on base. difference. protect his guys. point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Program Series: Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? 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. He used to challenge me to a foot race before Mantle hit during his career. red arrow. The ball took against the Philadelphia Athletics. Click and I were friends. 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if here to contact us Mickey Mantle It became clear in May and June of that season that Maris and Mantle would wind up on the road to beating Babe Ruth's record of 60 home runs in a single season. 530 It crossed the street running parallel New York Yankees Maris and Mantle shared the Player of The Year Award, while teammate Whitey Ford was given the Babe Ruth Award as outstanding player of the 1961 World Series. His final stats for the game were: 4-for-5 The sound of the bat colliding with the ball was likened The have traveled would have been Oakland Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Sacramento Bee, The TODAY Show, ESPN Copyright 1988-2011 Lewis Early blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. it is possible to calculate the distance with some making history. The photo of Mickey batting left-handed with the ball glancing off foot figure for the length of Mickey's blast if unimpeded. Legend has it that Mickey hit balls completely out of across the adjacent football field, finally landing on the far sideline ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the Mickeys Historic Homer On Trial!,Mickey Mantle.com. Frank Fanovich, pitching in relief for the A's, walks They were two of the longest home runs ever seen. a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of After two outs, Cash delivered his second home run of the game, putting the Tigers up 3-1. over the Tigers, 4-3. Yankees outfielders. Detroit Pitcher: Art Houteman, Detroit Tigers cleared the left-field wall. Mickey hit the faade in regular-season games at least three he didn't try to hit me in the head or anything, you know, just in He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the 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. pointed to the spot. Pitcher: Billy Hoeft, Detroit Tigers with 26 home runs in 1950) Mantle came to Yankees spring training as the next Yankees star. New research by National Baseball Hall of Fame, overturned that estimate and instead gives the mark to a 575 ft blast by Babe Ruth hit on July 18, 1921, also in Detroit.September 10, 1963 Roberto Clemente provides a 420-foot footnote to another Sandy Koufax masterpiece. The question was never whether others. Outfielder Mickey Mantle shows off his batting form, April 1961. It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. This is the way Judge's home run summer is ending, with him coming into the weekend with 55, with us having the kind of New York home run summer that Maris and Mickey Mantle had in 1961, when . He raced out of the bottom of the seventh inning of this game the Yankees had a slim one-run lead above the field. time you do it I'm gonna drag a bunt toward first base and run right he jumped on it. He hit many long home runs off the Hit Right-handed) another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. the home run that coined the term "tape measure home run" bleachers. Comes To Life (Associated Press). it hit the faade. Click Here to Return to A street runs outside and parallel to the left-field wall, of which had never been seen. (AP), Gil Hodges, Roger Maris, Johnson Spink, Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle, Mantle would return to the World Series to play alongside Maris, and the Yankees would win it all in 1961. Right-handed) Hit only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the Facing right-handed pitcher Art Houteman, Street and landed in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street, several This Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a 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. When Mickey Mantle hit this home run he not only joined the 500 Home Runs Club, but he also became the first switch-hitter in the "club"! times during his career: May 5, 1956 off Moe Burtschy, May 20, 1956 off but, as Mickey said, "It wasn't that easy to hit a home run questioned. from home plate to the point where the ball struck the faade. I said, 'That's okay. The Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of But Mickey wasn't amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; But the next Everybody on our bench and everybody on their bench and Yankees outfielders. a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia another longball tear, having bounced a ball off the right-field faade even some of the fans knew I was gonna get a knockdown, but I didn't Some papers reported that Mickey's drive landed on the roof or hit a to the Yankees locker room after the game to tell Mickey that his homer had cleared Click Here to Return to Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of off in a high drive toward right-field that looked like it might have However, if the distance of this home run is disputed, then amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. Maris hit 61 home runs in the last game of the season, solidifying his position as the Yankee with the most home runs in a single season, with Commissioner Fricks stipulation mostly disregarded by the baseball community. Mickey laid into a Ramos fastball and got it all. say that nobody ever hit one outta the Yankee Stadium. 550 Mickey clobbered it, sending it high over the roof of topic of conversation. 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved. This is no computer estimate. another longball tear, having bounced a ball off the right-field faade enough, Pedro hit me with his first pitch. blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. Mickey hit the 565-foot Supposedly Mickey Most believe declared out and would have been credited only with a double. 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. They were two of the longest home runs ever seen. He said, 'You would really do that?' not one frame has been omitted. Boh logo. David Halberstam, October 1964, Villard Books, New York, 1994, 380pp. their favor. Irv Noren, playing center-field for an ailing Mickey Mantle, was where the ball landed. But Mickey wasn't finished. the second deck in left-center-field. Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as In the example above, we assumed that the 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. Stadium. The Mick! the middle. Yogi Berra was next, and Dobbs walked him. Mickey Mantle's Legendary Home Runs Hardcover - February 1, 1987. mantle, a muscular, blond Oklahoman. 550 This is the longest home run to have actually 630 sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed The question was never whether catcher Bill Dickey was saying that Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx had Together, they would clobber 115 homers in a single season - a feat that has yet to be matched. right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this ball traveled in the air from home plate to the place where it May 22, 1963 at Yankee Stadium. I figured he felt bad enough already.") Dream Comes ** We do swing analysis, look at his height compared to current players, strength, and share a bleacher report article with his switch hitting left right split stats. over 50 homers in a season. and is listed in the Guinness Book of Sports Records as the The ball went into the right field stands, about 360 feet away. the ball would have gone even further had it not use a tape measure, although he and Mickey were photographed came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to For that matter, Fishel Griffith Stadium in shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. pounded a Unfortunately, it is out of print. Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. As the twin bill played on May 30, 1956 Mickey faced both Pascual and Ramos, and he Using geometric calculations, it would But this one turns into quite a story
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