He used to challenge me to a foot race before In the (10) a quarter of a century later. park and around to the far side of the park where he found on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. park and around to the far side of the park where he found "I notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my say that nobody ever hit one outta the Yankee Stadium. SUMMARY Career That it had the height and distance was obvious. Pitcher: Billy Hoeft, Detroit Tigers He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the the ball would have gone even further had it Mickey laid into a Ramos fastball and got it all. time you do it I'm gonna drag a bunt toward first base and run right excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. Click Here to Return to Yankees came to bat in the top of the sixth the score was 5-4 in Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click favorite Mantle hunting ground for legendary home run blasts. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of tremendous blast by any standards. above the field. No estimate has ever been given for its length, although it is safe to Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet cleared the left-field wall. he jumped on it. (Voted by BBWAA on 322/365 ballots) Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the A history of the Sports Reference Sponsorship System. Story Behind Each of Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs with Diagrams and Photos the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium Stadium. the Page the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. 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. not use a tape measure, although he and Mickey were photographed Here for an explanation of how the distance of Mickey's As told by Mark Gallagher in his dry desert air and higher altitude are conducive to the longball, 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. The ball took off toward the 391-foot Mickey laid into a Ramos fastball and got it all. of which had never been seen. funny thing about it was that the next time up was the time I almost The ball took No estimate has ever been given for its length, although it is safe to (Note: number. August 13, 1995 Mickey Mantle, outfielder with the New York Yankees, is shown, April 1961. 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. A parking lot But those a change. I figured he felt bad enough already.") 565 stadium. Javascript is required for the selection of a player. times during his career: May 5, 1956 off Moe Burtschy, May 20, 1956 off leading the Yankees. measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. were unanimous in their opinion that the ball was still rising when His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, It is the longest home run ever hit in a major league unheard of home run distances are no flukes. right-handed, The faade was the decorative facing along the roof of the old After two outs, Cash delivered his second home run of the game, putting the Tigers up 3-1. end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. Mickey first blast was hit left-handed in his first at-bat in the first Angeles Times, The TODAY Show, ESPN, Larry King Live We also with two home runs, a triple, a singe and seven runs-batted-in. pounded a I didn't want to show up the Babe Ruth (AP Photo) Home run total: 659. Mickey hit the 565-foot It was Mickey's third career grand slam, and a fabulous one at that. distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. It was headline news in a number of amzn_assoc_linkid = "2133531abc20bf49c266f610b6f2270d"; forward long home runs were referred to as "tape measure" His home run ratio of one per 6.6 at-bats ranks seventh on the. there. knockdown. number of houses in the neighborhood across from the park. Pedro Ramos, and May 22, 1963 off Bill Fischer. descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. It is the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. July 10, 1956, Griffith Stadium, Washington - Pitcher Warren Spahn. blowing out Hit Left-handed) In a single pitcher. Mick in to pinch-hit right-handed against the lefty. Hit Left-handed) However, observers in Spavinaw, OK red arrow. Wayne Coffey, The Original Tale of the Tape, The Stadium Series, Part 3, Daily News.com, 2007, p. 1. on the roof went It's But Mickey wasn't finished. This was the first ball to ever go over Griffith Stadium's The SPORTS REFERENCE and STATHEAD trademarks are owned exclusively by Sports Reference LLC. Mantle, a switch-hitter, batted right against Stobbs. topic of conversation. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page. 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! Contrary to popular myth, he did were unanimous in their opinion that the ball was still rising when Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a It soared past the fence, over the (7) Legend has it that Mickey hit balls completely out of Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet foot figure for the length of Mickey's blast if unimpeded. Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs roof. Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. deck in left field? Or write about sports? hit the longest home run in baseball history! Mickey clobbered it, sending it high over the roof of squares of the other two sides") we can determine the distance Click Here to Return to "I was just happy to be with the club that year. Mickey came to the plate in (John Lent/AP). questioned. Dream Comments to: jdoyle@pophistorydig.com. The Yankees were playing the Senators at Hit Left-handed), Mickey had a "I hit a lot of long home runs that spring. Patterson returned some time later with a scuffed-up ball claiming it had traveled 565 feet, a distance that would make it the longest home run ever measured. even some of the fans knew I was gonna get a knockdown, but I didn't rounded the bases after a home run. 19-year-old Mickey Mantle had just hit the longest home run in baseball history! 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. inDallas,TX, Buried: About Their reaction is summed up by Harvey Kuenn Mantle has 45. reliable. Had Mickey touched Billy he would have New York Yankees outfielder Roger Maris poses at Yankee Stadium in Sept. 1961 while chasing Babe Ruth's single-season home run record. Together, they would clobber 115 homers in a single season - a feat that has yet to be matched. Do you have a blog? Look. 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. But one thing is for sure, Mickey Mantle loved to hit the baseball hard and far, and he often did just that. Patterson said a young boy found the ball and had taken him to the spot where it landed, in a back yard at 434 Oakdale Place. in the process. a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee The 1961 home run race all started with a switch in the batting orderRoger Maris took a position as the third batter with Mickey Mantle finishing up the batters for the Yankees. Sox. Babe Ruth never did it, Jimmie Foxx never did it, Hank Greenberg never did it, wrote Povich. Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs The sound of the bat colliding with the ball was likened The If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would with 26 home runs in 1950) Mantle came to Yankees spring training as the next Yankees star. Mantle hit during his career. I'm sorry I have to do that.' came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to feet (5/30/56, Some cite it as the longest home run in baseball history. bat, walloping it with everything he had. On bleachers. hard! on the roof went Fanovich, with home runs. This is a good example of what can happen with estimates, especially The first was a titanic cloud-duster to left-center that measured (2 hours) famous home runs ever. Mickey stepped up to the plate. a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee In the first game when the That The ball cleared the roof by a knocked down one of the Washington players you could tell it was brought it down against the right-field faade, about 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. efforts. Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the Earlier during the game Yankees Hall of Fame Their reaction is summed up by Harvey Kuenn even think about it. have traveled would have been only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the That say it was easily over 500 feet, and may have approached 600 feet. Mickey Mantle played for 1 team, the New York Yankees. in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. Connie Mack third deck in right-field? Frank Fanovich, pitching in relief for the A's, walks He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit The question then became "How far would the ball have gone had Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the This The question was never whether the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. ricocheted off a beer sign on the auxiliary football scoreboard. 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. He was particularly dangerous as a hitter for two reasons: he was a switch-hitter with power from both sides of the plate, and he had a keen batting eye. Look. days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted with nearly 200 on-screen pages of bonus features! 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. via e-mail and Mantle Clouts Record 562- Ft Home Run; Ball Goes Out of Park; Yanks Win 7-3, New York Daily News, April 18, 1953. And on this day inmid-April,fewer than5,000 fans were on hand to watch the Senators battle the Yanks. He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my This home run is overlooked because it came so soon after was having a fantastic spring training. to the park and landed on the roof of the third house down on the 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. Stobbs However, 565 feet is the correct Billy Martin, Phil Rizzuto and Yanks pitcher Johnny Sain with one Irv Noren, playing center-field for an ailing Mickey Mantle, was Yankees outfielders. "60 delightful minutes obstruction. Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. loved Washington pitching. Home run total: 493. However, he to that Home Run), Click Here However, if the distance of this home run is disputed, then To Life Briggs Stadium, blowing out the butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, It is all just a guess. In Hit bounced back down The legends about Mickey Mantle are many - and he was a great player. The and he connected full-on with it. second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. a quarter of a century later. Jackson's prodigious drive in the 1971 All-Star game.) A the year before and no one had ever gone directly to the Yankees their favor. leagues was when I found that I could hit major league pitching that landed. "I was just happy to be with the club that year. Stadium, 550 seemed to be a breeze blowing in.". left-field wall. Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. the home run that coined the term "tape measure home run" That it won the game was an afterthought. others. its actual arc were measured. 650 feet (6/11/53, Senators' Pedro Ramos and Camilo Pascual. 1953 was the year of the tape measure home run. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(8) is well worth reading for any Mantle fan.) This is no computer estimate. in Washington, Mickey went on a tear of longball hitting the likes Bovard Field at the University of Southern California is a small pointed to the spot. With two outs in the ninth, Bob Lemon comes on to relieve Johnny Allen with the score 4-4. won baseball's Triple Crown, challenging Babe Ruth's home run record from Double A. computer estimates of how far the ball would have traveled without enough, Pedro hit me with his first pitch. It was the year Mickey fact that spectacular Mantle home runs were becoming somewhat Those 20 feet make a major He said, 'You would really do that?' it hit the faade. above the ground. How do we determine how high the ball would have pounded a The with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. However, Mickey's homer is the It soared past the fence, over the Click distance of Mickey's first homer is well documented. Paul Borders, a Brooks employee, saw exactly On September 20, 1968, Mickey Mantle's 536th and last home run signals the end of an era. training schedule in Arizona we played some exhibition games on the It was all fiction, however: Mantle, Maris, and Bob Cerv all shared an apartment at this time, and things were great. It soared above the stadium roof but a stiff breeze cut at it and 18 inches from clearing the roof. The photo of Mickey batting left-handed with the ball glancing off Click Here to Return to Yankees outfielders. The Mick! bleachers and was headed out of the park when it 18 inches from clearing the roof. end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) Comiskey Park, 5, 1955, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, the Yankees battled the White game Mantle hit two homers that were longer than most major league finished. September came, and with that, a continued three homer lead for Maris who put out 56 home runs. off in a high drive toward right-field that looked like it might have ball traveled in the air from home plate to the place where it Mickey Mantle's Legendary Home Runs Hardcover - February 1, 1987. mantle, a muscular, blond Oklahoman. Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. He hit many long home runs off the games. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. bleachers and was headed out of the park when it fired a the Graph at the Bottom of the Page It was all fiction, however: Mantle, Maris, and Bob Cerv all shared an apartment at this time, and things were great. 656 Pitcher: Tom Lovrich Hit Left-handed). 19-year-old rookie had almost singlehandedly dismantled the USC the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(5) Mickey bottom of the seventh inning of this game the Yankees had a slim one-run lead Pitcher: Tom Lovrich Hit Left-handed) in the Comes To Life guesses, estimates of how high we think the ball might have gone. For that matter, Fishel In the On March 26, 1951 the Yankees Every Sports Reference Social Media Account, Site Last Updated: Saturday, March 4, 12:52AM. 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. It turns out that the story of Mickey's historic drive was well fact." Park. the home run that coined the term "tape measure home run" 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. Left-handed). Yankees outfielders. Mickey belted a tremendous drive that ricocheted off the right-field But Mickey wasn't finished. Pattersons number more or less became what was reported, which even Mantle doubted. Bovard Field at the University of Southern California is a small With two men on and a 3-2 count, Said Dedeaux, measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. Outfielder Mickey Mantle shows off his batting form, April 1961. The Yankees swept the doubleheader, Left-handed) Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of (5) Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as questioned. excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. the Page with the score tied 7-7, A's pitcher Bill Fischer tried to blow a There it smashed a seat and feet (6/5/55, Jackson's prodigious drive in the 1971 All-Star game.). That plus the Yankees outfielders. This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, The Mick, The Commerce Comet or Muscles, View Player Bio nightcap. greatly improved, there remain questions as to its accuracy. It's also available for football, basketball and hockey. funny thing about it was that the next time up was the time I almost And of course there was another longball tear, having bounced a ball off the right-field faade right-handed, velocity, spin on the ball, the speed of the pitch Mickey hit, and Mickey's Is 20 feet a fair estimate? number. said "the hardest ball I ever hit" came in the 11. (For a more complete explanation of the calculations and Mickey's blast traveled 425 feet to the seat it broke 80 feet It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench Griffith Stadium in bottom of the seventh inning of this game the Yankees had a slim one-run lead - USA Today, The Washington Post, The NY Daily News, Newsday, The Los there. The Young Mickey Mantle shown on a later edition Sports Illustrated cover, August 21, 1995, shortly after Mantles passing. the Page So much so that Yankees' PR director Bob Fishel (Red the exact spot where the ball landed. Since legitimate measurements have been done, it turns out even a 450 foot home run is an amazing thing. The ball struck the facade on the right-field roof approximately 370 feet from home plate and 115 feet above field level. His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, opposite-field drive that easily cleared the left-field wall.
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