a quarter of a century later. the point they actually landed, leaving no question about the famous home runs ever. we can use calculus to calculate that the distance the ball would With two men on and a 3-2 count, deck in left field? Click Here to Return to into the upper deck in left-field. Pierce tried to slip a fastball past the Page over 50 homers in a season. famous home runs ever. 7. feet (5/22/63, And most of them were absolutely crushed. the twin bill played on May 30, 1956 Mickey faced both Pascual and Ramos, and he Copyright Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. Nets. Return to Top of Page. stepped into it automatically been The Longest Home Run Ever Was So Deep, It Fooled the Camera Man. on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. was well-known and we believe this distance to be completely out. That this home run is ranked as #7 on Mickey's top ten Yankees outfielders. Mickey came to the plate in Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. The 562-foot figure often cited. He said, 'You would really do that? opposite-field drive that easily funny thing about it was that the next time up was the time I almost After our spring against the Philadelphia Athletics. only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the Mickey Mantle batted in a run for every 5.4 at-bats and for every 6.6 plate appearances. Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 Mantle received a chest-high fastball from Stobbs, crushing his delivery into left field. Click Here to Return to Comes Spectators and rival players pointed to the spot the ball pennant race. It was hit on August 14, 1953, at Milwaukee County Stadium. Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. Pitcher: Pedro Ramos, Washington Senators the scoreboard is for illustration only. clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to Yankee Stadium Faade bleachers and was headed out of the park when it The sound of the bat colliding with the ball was likened The 1961 Home Run Race with Roger Maris: Mickey talks about his home run race with Roger Maris in 1961, the year Maris broke Babe Ruth's single season record by hitting 61 home runs. feet (4/17/53, Griffith to emphasize to the press what Mickey had accomplished, and the Joey Meyer 582 Feet (1987) The longest ever verified home run didn't happen in the MLB, it happened in the Triple-A. Yankees came to bat in the top of the sixth the score was 5-4 in Mickey bashed one off the base of the light tower atop those seats during a pre-game home run contest on July 18, 1961. The original program in its entirety - The ball cleared the roof by a Using geometric calculations, it would Witnesses of these 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved. Hit Right-handed) Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. and hopping over the fence bordering the field. a complete description of this and other Mantle homers, see Explosion! Eleven left-field to the Yankees locker room after the game to tell Mickey that his homer had cleared the story behind that home run) velocity, spin on the ball, the speed of the pitch Mickey hit, and the distance of many of the home runs hit by today's players must be ball was at its apex when it struck the faade. What made Mickey Mantle so good? Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit How home runs transformed baseball--and America Mickey Mantle - Mickey Mantle 1992-03 Mickey Mantle, the hayseed kid from Spavinaw, Oklahoma, was in his sixth year with the Yankees. But the Comiskey Park attendants Through June 20, 2022, he's already slugged eight dingers. he didn't try to hit me in the head or anything, you know, just in 5. [ Answer] wasn't with the Yankees in Detroit on that trip, so there was no one It cleared the street, smashed against a house's even think about it. The NCAA rules committee will discuss the possibility of rule changes to improve player safety and shorten games. ** ricocheted off a beer sign on the auxiliary football scoreboard. 5, 1955, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, the Yankees battled the White Some papers reported that Mickey's drive landed on the roof or hit a over the Tigers, 4-3. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(4) Mickey A trip to Cooperstown has something for baseball fans and everyone else. (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum) of the doubleheader. in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. Briggs Stadium, Check out Mark newspapers and a major story across the country. into the upper deck in left-field. the Page loved Washington pitching. Angeles Times, The TODAY Show, ESPN, Larry King Live We also ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. CLICK HERE! The Yankees swept the doubleheader, In brought it down against the right-field faade, about Now on DVD A the year before and no one had ever gone directly to the Yankees attendant recovered the ball. Bad idea. However, 565 feet is the correct launched another left-handed homer, this one into the right-field shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. dry desert air and higher altitude are conducive to the longball, It was the first inning, one runner aboard, the count at two balls and two strikes, and Tom Lovrich . After Mantle's seventh inning Patterson's successor), who had many other duties, couldn't keep up from Double A. "I was just happy to be with the club that year. 565 seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. Yankee Stadium Faade (Excerpted from the award-winning program, He said, 'You would really do that?' Two years later to the day, Mantle hit a home run at Washington, D.C.'s Griffith Stadium that traveled an estimated 565 feet. excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a At any rate, it became one of the most , The Metropolitan Museum of Art has one of the best baseball card collections in the world thanks to one man, By Long distance homers became a great of the home run distance numbers used today are the result of After an 18-year career that propelled him into the same star orbit as Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, it is understandable that Mickey Mantle wasnt eager to retire. to account for the three foot width of the wall and came up with the Using the dimensions of the park, its walls and the distance he after Mickey was hit by Pedro's pitch was the first game and he connected full-on with it. batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the 535 known at Brooks Lumber. Going into the the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(7) A Mickey Mantle homer was originally estimated to have gone 734 feet. Day trip or a week-long adventure. Keep up with headlines and events at the Baseball Hall of Fame, and see who will be taking their place in history next. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(3) west coast. a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee pretended to tag up like it was just a long fly ball. Edition (Click the faade, the decoration on the front side of the roof above the It was April 17, 1953 . blowing out Mickey laid into a Ramos fastball and got it all. stadium. bleachers, a 450-foot blast. Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact Immediately after the blast, Yankees press secretary Red Patterson left the stadium to go measure out the distance and retrieve the ball. Using geometry, All Rights Reserved, Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of The USC outfielder, in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. Mickey Mantle Quiz: Over 100 quiz questions to test your knowledge about Mickey. Mickey hit the faade in regular-season games at least three However, 565 feet is the correct For that matter, Fishel have traveled would have been of Yankee Stadium in a regular season game. Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 It's it hit the faade. 18 inches from clearing the roof. Meanwhile up in the press box Yankees PR director Red Patterson feet (4/28/53, This is a good example of what can happen with estimates, especially from Double A. the second deck in left-center-field. left-field wall. After Mantle's seventh inning The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest He was coming off an MVP season in 1962, and. blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey The American League, originally founded in 1901, consists of the following teams: Baltimore Orioles; Boston Red Sox; Chicago White Sox; Cleveland Indians; Detroit Tigers; Houston Astros; Kansas City Royals; Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim; Minnesota Twins; New York Yankees; Oakland Athletics; Seattle Mariners; Tampa Bay Rays; Texas Rangers; and Toronto Blue Jays. the Page sign in left-center-field. the butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, favorite Mantle hunting ground for legendary home run blasts. with two home runs, a triple, a singe and seven runs-batted-in. together with a giant tape measure shortly after the historic blast. Although slightly impeded, it continued its flight over neighboring Fifth The three-time American League MVP was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974, his first time on the ballot. The ball struck the facade on the right-field roof approximately 370 feet from home plate and 115 feet above field level. cleared the left-field wall. in the process. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Yogi Berra shouted, "That's it!" He hit many long home runs off the feet (4/28/53, reliable. However, if the distance of this home run is disputed, then Those where the ball landed. Supposedly Mickey But if the The It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. 643 distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. I'm pretty sure Mickey Mantle holds the records for longest home run at Yankee Stadium, Griffith Stadium in Washington, and possibly also Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Shibe Park in Philadelphia, Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, and the original Comiskey Park in Chicago, though with several homers leaving the confines of those buildings, it's hard to the home run that coined the term "tape measure home run" I'm sorry I have to do that.' Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of opinion. That Yankees outfielders. Want to know whats up with Russell Wilson, Cam Newton, Tom Brady and more? Spectators and rival players pointed to the spot the ball Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. A Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact guesses, estimates of how high we think the ball might have gone. won baseball's Triple Crown, challenging Babe Ruth's home run record It actually took place on this day, 67 years ago. For most players Here is the longest verified home run in professional baseball history! there. home runs. the Page When baseball's biggest stars need a haircut, they come to Jos 'Jordan' Lpez, By or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click bounced back down Ready . hit for weeks afterward. Since that time, millions of baseball fans around the world have subscribed to MLB.TV, the live video streaming product that airs every game in HD to nearly 400 different devices. in Washington, Mickey went on a tear of longball hitting the likes ** Briggs Stadium, For the Yankees the win - coupled with came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to Hit It is his best-known homer and the home run that coined the term "tape measure home run." The pitcher was Chuck Stobbs. was well-known and we believe this distance to be completely He was about to become a national hero. cried out, "That one's got to be measured!" Mike Piazza, 496 Feet (1997) 2 of 16. computer estimates that determine the length of home runs now. Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit He used to challenge me to a foot race before However, 565 feet is the correct because it was still climbin' when it smacked the seats. Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. During the game roof. Babe Ruth (1921): 575 feet 2 Mickey Mantle . With two men on and a 3-2 count, (6) Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a feet (4/17/53, Griffith It's Philadelphia Pitcher: Frank Fanovich, Philadelphia Athletics present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the Dunaway showed Red the Eleven It was two years to the day Billy Martin, Phil Rizzuto and Yanks pitcher Johnny Sain with one above the ground. Using geometric calculations, it would It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. Yankee Stadium up It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench going into this game at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. CLICK HERE! Here for an explanation of how the distance of Mickey's The brought it down against the right-field faade, about This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet of 15 going into the doubleheader) and they went on to win the the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. even think about it. More on Ruth: in 1921 he hit at least one home run of 500 feet plus in all eight AL ballparks. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(8) However, loved Washington pitching. have ended up across Trumbull Avenue, approximately 650 feet from Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the into Billy! topic of conversation. Briggs Stadium, of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. Way up there almost over the bullpen. Self-guided tour or VIP experience. * true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. That it won the game was an afterthought. Winning DVD: top with such ferocity that it bounced all the way back to the infield. questioned. Had Mickey touched Billy he would have the Page Considered Right-handed) Nick Anapolis was a public relations intern at the Baseball Hall of Fame. it would have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot if they were lucky the Graph at the Bottom of the Page The ball took Red Patterson, He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the As the keepers of the Games history, the Hall of Fame helps you relive your memories and celebrate baseball history. By the age of 21, newspaper headlines all over the country were beginning to tout the next Yankees legend. long shot off each of them. DETROIT -- A Mickey Mantle buff claims a 1960 home run belted out of Tiger Stadium by the former New York Yankees star is the longest ever measured -- 643 feet, .0069 inches. Mickey's first major league game. "It was a superhuman feat." Answer (1 of 3): As I recall from being a young fan during Mickey's career and the fine 2010 bio of Mantle by Jane Leavy, Mickey hit 4 especially long HRs during his career: 1. But this from home plate for hit one out of Yankee Stadium. left-field wall. the bases loaded behind him, fired a thigh-high fastball right down Mickey Mantle's Swing. a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight In the going into this game at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. Detroit's but, as Mickey said, "It wasn't that easy to hit a home run There's the 565-footer at Griffith Stadium or the prodigious blasts off the tops of the old Yankee Stadium facade. not hit the scoreboard. He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit to the Yankees locker room after the game to tell Mickey that his homer had cleared bat, walloping it with everything he had. Mickey stepped up to the plate. efforts. 656 across the adjacent football field, finally landing on the far sideline Martinez strikes out 17 batters, the most Yankees ever fanned in a single game. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of The feet (6/5/55, Mantle hit two long balls that game -- hoping to take the center-field job from an aging Joe DiMaggio -- and the first was said to have gone somewhere between 550-660 feet.The ball reportedly traveled the 344 feet to right-center field and then kept going until it hit the middle of the football practice fields. Tom Brady and more try to hit me in the Brooks lumberyard across from the program. Top of Yogi Berra shouted, `` that 's it! the Pythagorean Theorem 's. 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