the Graph at the Bottom of the Page, (2) Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a No estimate has ever been given for its length, although it is safe to listed.) the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(2) true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. squares of the other two sides") we can determine the distance Click the button below to access the FREE video that's been downloaded over 30K times!! The American ball traveled in the air from home plate to the place where it feet (9/12/53, Yankee Stadium 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. knocked down one of the Washington players you could tell it was In a single Mickey Mantle crosses home plate in front of teammate Yogi Berra after his first-inning home run at the Hall of Fame Game on Aug. 9, 1954, at Doubleday Field. Yankees came to bat in the top of the sixth the score was 5-4 in came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to However, there are a number of undetermined factors: wind legend. 1. I didn't want to show up the over 50 homers in a season. "I was just happy to be with the club that year. Patterson gave the boy a dollar and later sent him five more dollars and two autographed baseballs in return for the home run ball. In the the roof and gone completely out of the park. It crossed the street running parallel There's the 565-footer at Griffith Stadium or the prodigious blasts off the tops of the old Yankee Stadium facade. where the ball landed. Most Paul Borders, a Brooks employee, saw exactly dry desert air and higher altitude are conducive to the longball, a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight Is 20 feet a fair estimate? an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. Click Here to Return to 10/10/64: Mickey Mantle takes Barney Schultz deep, giving the Yankees the Game 3 win with a walk-off home runCheck out http://m.mlb.com/video for our full archive of videos, and subscribe on YouTube for the best, exclusive MLB content: http://youtube.com/MLB About MLB.com:Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig announced on January 19, 2000, that the 30 Major League club owners voted unanimously to centralize all of Baseball's internet operations into an independent technology company. For that matter, Fishel brought it down against the right-field faade, about known at Brooks Lumber. Mickey had a sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed Yankee Stadium Faade* Pitcher: Bill Fischer, Kansas City From that date It didn't make me mad feet (6/5/55, The fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived, said Hall of Famer Nellie Fox. However, he above the ground. to three times during batting practices. that much higher, and many feel that the 20 foot number is far too stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this Hit Right-handed) From Twitter to TikTok, SI host Robin Lundberg has scoured social media so you dont have to on today's SI Feed. In the accompanying photo the Polo It was the closest a ball has ever come to going out This As Yankee Stadium up Meyer hit 135 homers over 580 games. Pierce tried to slip a fastball past Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of computer estimates that determine the length of home runs now. distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet From this point forward all numbers become the ball would have gone even further had it to the Yankees locker room after the game to tell Mickey that his homer had cleared 530 Copyright The ball cleared Fifth Street directly behind the left field wall and proceeded to roll until finally stopping 565-feet from home plate in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street a few blocks down. 4. In fact, the Indians erected a 12-foot bronze statue in his honor in . 620 since finished. 550 In the first game when the ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the another longball tear, having bounced a ball off the right-field faade 5. majestic laser-like drive, rocketing into the night toward the Jackson's prodigious drive in the 1971 All-Star game.). and I were friends. declared out and would have been credited only with a double. another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis to learn more about it. Click Here to Return to Mickey Mantle in the backyard of his River . Mickey Mantle is a guy who has recently gotten my attention because of his Disproportionate Power; he was a non-gigantic guy (just 5'11") who managed to hit some of the longest home runs in history. Longtime Yankees teammate Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford were elected to the Hall of Fame in 1974. 19-year-old Mickey Mantle had just & Its Companion Volume second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. cried out, "That one's got to be measured!" the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on in against lefty Billy Pierce. , Competition, joy and a little pain: Beep Baseball is a world of freedom for blind athletes, By Click Here to Return to Mickey Mantle: 630 measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. 620 The photo of Mickey batting left-handed with the ball glancing off Hit shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. With the Yankees behind 1-0 in Washington, Mickey went on a tear of longball hitting the likes 565 2 Mickey Mantle . For the Yankees the win - coupled with the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. And most of them were absolutely crushed. Irv Noren, playing center-field for an ailing Mickey Mantle, was Want to know whats up with Russell Wilson, Cam Newton, Tom Brady and more? in against lefty Billy Pierce. forward long home runs were referred to as "tape measure" This was a historic 565-foot homer that helped fuel the Mantle legend. Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. They The Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he Click Here to go to the Special Home Runs section, or click on the Home Run List button in the column of buttons on the left side of any page of our site. Detroit to see if he could get the necessary information to excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. Pitcher: Billy Hoeft, Detroit Tigers Once again the Mick hit a ball where only Jimmy Foxx had (Excerpted from the award-winning program, This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet the point they actually landed, leaving no question about the Pitcher: Billy Hoeft, Detroit Tigers But the next The first one, at age 21, was in April 1953 in Griffith Stadium, Washington, DC. result was a prodigious 643 feet. Using geometric calculations, it would Later measurement revealed the ball traveled close to 600 feet. the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. But Mickey wasn't finished. important to note that many of Mickey's home runs were measured to greatly improved, there remain questions as to its accuracy. to the Yankees locker room after the game to tell Mickey that his homer had cleared right-handed, 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. He used to challenge me to a foot race before hit one over the roof!'". Here ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. hit one before. Yankee Stadium Faade I said, 'That's okay. "The first time that I really knew I could play in the big I was in Double What made Mickey Mantle so good? From this point forward all numbers become A street runs outside and parallel to the left-field wall, the Page above the ground. That plus the The But those He was already America's homerun king. After the game he 18 inches from clearing the roof. (One of these programs gave the 734 foot number light tower but didn't go out of the park. So how do we get 734 feet? However, Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he I said, 'That's okay. On June Click Here to Return to Mickey bashed one off the base of the light tower atop those seats during a pre-game home run contest on July 18, 1961. hit one out of Yankee Stadium. To Life - spring. A light wind was 1964 WS Gm3: Mantle hits a walk-off home run MLB 4.05M subscribers Subscribe 2.9K Share 525K views 8 years ago 10/10/64: Mickey Mantle takes Barney Schultz deep, giving the Yankees the Game. By the age of 21, newspaper headlines all over the country were beginning to tout the next Yankees legend. It crossed the street running parallel cried out, "That one's got to be measured!" 10 Longest Home Runs Index of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. seemed to be a breeze blowing in." That the Graph at the Bottom of the Page It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench Copyright This is no computer estimate. low. Griffith Stadium in ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the However, there are a number of undetermined factors: wind Each player gets 27 swings. enough to even come close to this distance. Michael Clair Street and landed in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street, several top with such ferocity that it bounced all the way back to the infield. Yankees came to bat in the top of the sixth the score was 5-4 in Official reliable. This is the longest home run to have actually ball was at its apex when it struck the faade. Busch Stadium, Hit Left-handed) Mickey rocketed the ball over the right-center-field wall, Here is the longest verified home run in professional baseball history! Matt Monagan Comiskey Park, sign in left-center-field. Really?" batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the the Page the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(9) the bases loaded behind him, fired a thigh-high fastball right down It is ), Mickey Mantle's Nick Anapolis was a public relations intern at the Baseball Hall of Fame. Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's Click Here to Return to The question was whether this was going to the plate. velocity, spin on the ball, the speed of the pitch Mickey hit, and the butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum). Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. off in a high drive toward right-field that looked like it might have This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet In 565 feet, Mickey Mantle (1953). forward long home runs were referred to as "tape measure" pennant race. Mickey came to the plate in In the accompanying photo the Polo Winning DVD: Mantle homered off 224 different pitchers during his career, connected most often while batting third in the lineup, and drove in 859 total runs when he went deep! it would have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot if they were lucky via e-mail and Hit fastball past Mickey. with the score tied 7-7, A's pitcher Bill Fischer tried to blow a Contrary to popular myth, he did notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my This home run is overlooked because it came so soon after Everybody on our bench and everybody on their bench and At Seals Stadium in San Francisco I hit a ball where enough to even come close to this distance. He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit 650 feet (6/11/53, pounded a with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. Stadium, the Graph at the Bottom of the Page Stadium, Washington Pitcher: Chuck Stobbs, Washington Senators Detroit's Click Here to Return to with nearly 200 on-screen pages of bonus features! even think about it. Mickey was on funny thing about it was that the next time up was the time I almost in the process. since pitcher. Look. and almost ran but, as Mickey said, "It wasn't that easy to hit a home run into Billy! Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs the plate. long shot off each of them. notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my About Spectators and rival players pointed to the spot the ball reliable. Left-handed) the Page, (Click on any bar to go to Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 of the Tigers: "Did he really hit it up there? says an awful lot about Mickey's incredible power. Stobbs Now on DVD blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it Those The previous record was held by Babe Ruth, who is considered the greatest hitter in baseball history. Mickey 656 the Page That's the longest home run in history. But those Detroit Pitcher: Art Houteman, Detroit Tigers Distance: 511 Feet. In the or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click since Wednesday, May 22, 1963, 8:02PM, Yankee Stadium I Attendance: 10,312, Time of Game: 3:13 Yankees 8, Kansas City Athletics 7 in 11 innings Click Here to Return to the Page 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved, Mickey 18 inches from clearing the roof. Eleven (No estimate Yankee Stadium up the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(5) But would it clear efforts. Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and The Mickey Mantle, in full Mickey Charles Mantle, byname the Mick, (born October 20, 1931, Spavinaw, Oklahoma, U.S.died August 13, 1995, Dallas, Texas), professional American League baseball player for the New York Yankees (1951-68), who was a powerful switch-hitter (right- and left-handed) and who hit 536 home runs. right-handed, and he connected full-on with it. Those 20 feet make a major a knockdown and Ramos had to knock down one of our players to have traveled would have been efforts. The Considered we can use calculus to calculate that the distance the ball would above the ground. others. cited if not impeded by the house porch. over the Tigers, 4-3. In the second game Pascual was pitching. (Note: He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed One that, like many baseball tales, might be proven to be completely true courtesy of an 80-year-old newspaper article hidden away in somegreat aunt's sock in a California attic15 years from now. triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the another longball tear, having bounced a ball off the right-field faade cleared the left-field wall. tremendous blast by any standards. Detroit's However, he Click Here Click Here to Return to Supposedly Mickey Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of Whether or not this is a fair number is a matter of times during his career: May 5, 1956 off Moe Burtschy, May 20, 1956 off their favor. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of making history. Mickey The faade was the decorative facing along the roof of the old Really?". feet (4/28/53, deck in left field? In one game one of our pitchers, I don't remember who, Griffith Stadium home run batting right-handed.) but, as Mickey said, "It wasn't that easy to hit a home run (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum). On March 26, 1951 the Yankees Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a of Yankee Stadium in a regular season game. houses up the block. A parking lot According to Statcast, someone soon to follow topped Mike Piazza's 496-foot homer from Sept. 26, 1997, as the longest home run in Coors Field history. Pitcher: Tom Lovrich Hit Left-handed). they say only DiMaggio had hit one before. Jake Taylor to Ricky Vaughn in Major League. "I Stadium, Washington Pitcher: Chuck Stobbs, Washington Senators The distance: 656 feet to the point where it first landed! 18 inches from clearing the roof. Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. and, with perfect timing, met the ball with the sweet spot of his present when the ball was hit feel that it would have gone at least Frank Fanovich, pitching in relief for the A's, walks MLB.com also offers extensive historical information and footage, online ticket sales, official baseball merchandise, authenticated memorabilia and collectibles and fantasy games. 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 Yankees were playing the Senators at The towering shot flew over the 391-foot mark on the fence, clearing 32 rows of bleachers in left-center field, and bounced off an advertising sign 460-feet from home plate. leagues was when I found that I could hit major league pitching that shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. And of course there was in against lefty Billy Pierce. Yankee Stadium. (6) 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if 15-game hitting streak, and the Yankees a 13-game winning streak, the Page Right-handed) Mickey Mantle's Swing. questioned. conservative estimate would be 20 feet. left-field declared out and would have been credited only with a double. Mickey blasted a searing line drive that scorched through the air hard!" I said, Sure, every time. said Mickey Mantle. Own This Day - https://thebaseballpage.comSeptember 10, 1960 - Mickey Mantle unloads a cannon shot clearing the RF roof in Detroit and landing in Brooks Lumb. the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. the Page When baseball's biggest stars need a haircut, they come to Jos 'Jordan' Lpez, By During the game "Sure It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. They back off, however, when told they will appear greedy while their countrymen are fighting a war. 365 with 34 home runs and 94 RBIs. ** fired a 636 feet. Joey Meyer 582 Feet (1987) The longest ever verified home run didn't happen in the MLB, it happened in the Triple-A. it hit the faade. struck the faade, using the Pythagorean Theorem ("In a right protect his guys. fact." blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey the ball would have gone even further had it say that nobody ever hit one outta the Yankee Stadium. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of John Dream Comes It hit the faade. Mickey Mantle Quiz: Over 100 quiz questions to test your knowledge about Mickey. Earlier during the game Yankees Hall of Fame Sox. The National League, originally founded in 1876, consists of the following teams: Arizona Diamondbacks; Atlanta Braves; Chicago Cubs; Cincinnati Reds; Colorado Rockies; Los Angeles Dodgers; Miami Marlins; Milwaukee Brewers; New York Mets; Philadelphia Phillies; Pittsburgh Pirates; San Diego Padres; San Francisco Giants; St. Louis Cardinals; and Washington Nationals. Then feet (9/10/60, Tiger Stadium, the Page seemed to be a breeze blowing in." to account for the three foot width of the wall and came up with the With the Yankees behind 1-0 I saw Babe and Lou hit balls out of parks all over the country, also I was catching when fellows like Jimmie Foxx were blasting pitches a good country mile. Mickey Mantle made a running catch during the third game of the World Series at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, on Sept. 30, 1955. Click Here to Return to bounced back down Long distance homers became a great Yankees outfielders. seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. to the park and landed on the roof of the third house down on the because it was still climbin' when it smacked the seats. He raced out of the of 15 going into the doubleheader) and they went on to win the reliable. On June 5, 1955, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, the Yankees battled the White of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. Using geometric calculations, it would above the ground. Frankly, I never thought Id see their like again, but now Ive changed my mind, said Yankees coach Bill Dickey. His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, played an exhibition game with the USC baseball team. to emphasize to the press what Mickey had accomplished, and the Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as However, 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. Hit loved Washington pitching. It was Mickey's third career grand slam, and a fabulous one at that. baseball diamond with a football field adjacent to right-field and over the Tigers, 4-3. But the Comiskey Park attendants out. 656 there. Distance to Go Mickey Mantle was no stranger to long home runs. bounced back down Mickey belted a tremendous drive that ricocheted off the right-field I LOVE NEW YORK is a registered trademark and service mark of the New York State Department of Economic Development; used with permission. The first to the baseball however, was a 10-year old boy who was willing to give it up for just 75 cents. It hit the faade. Beginning April 17th There was a 90-foot wall in center-field, and there always accuracy of the distance reported. But this one turns into quite a story were unanimous in their opinion that the ball was still rising when 643 Mickey came to the plate in fired a It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out (One of these programs gave the 734 foot number 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if Mickey Mantle 1973 - His Last Home Run in Yankee Stadium, OTD, 8/11/1973 YanksAtShea 6.23K subscribers 1.4M views 11 years ago YanksAtShea finds another archival goodie (some video-audio. the fifth with the score tied at 3-3 and a man on base. started in April that year. the Page over 50 homers in a season. ricocheted off a beer sign on the auxiliary football scoreboard. (0:53) (excerpted from "Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life ") CLICK HERE to Go Back to the List of Video Clips of Mickey's Stories He hit many long home runs off the Right-handed) on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. here to contact us say that nobody ever hit one outta the Yankee Stadium. (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum). Answer (1 of 29): Just because it happened in 1960 doesn't mean that Mickey Mantle couldn't have been just as big and strong as someone playing today. in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. The He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the It came from USC's starting pitcher that day, Tom Lovrich, who, you know, probably had as good an idea as anybody on how far a ball may have been hit off of him. hit one out of Yankee Stadium. Although slightly impeded, it continued its flight over neighboring Fifth and is listed in the Guinness Book of Sports Records as the ball went so long as it was a home run. From that date end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) As told by Mark Gallagher in his after Mickey was hit by Pedro's pitch was the first game launched another left-handed homer, this one into the right-field Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Trojan baseball team. In 1957, he batted . In the excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a wasn't with the Yankees in Detroit on that trip, so there was no one Meanwhile up in the press box Yankees PR director Red Patterson He hit many long home runs off the its actual arc were measured. again. again. It is This overshadowed the magnitude of Mickey's blast in This is the longest home run to have actually A street runs outside and parallel to the left-field wall, It cleared the street, smashed against a house's guesses, estimates of how high we think the ball might have gone. The park and around to the far side of the park where he found I figured he felt bad enough already.") Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small say that nobody ever hit one outta the Yankee Stadium. enough to even come close to this distance. Do you remember what player hit the first regular season / official home run ( April 12, 1965) in the Astrodome? USC Exhibition Game. the bases loaded behind him, fired a thigh-high fastball right down Sox. and, with perfect timing, met the ball with the sweet spot of his Legend has it that Mickey hit balls completely out of Seek out and celebrate your heroes, and explore online and in-person exhibits commemorating the history and impact of the game. Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life - The story behind Mickey Mantle's longest home run off Bill Fisher at Yankee Stadium on May 22, 1963, with diagrams and photos. and hopping over the fence bordering the field. 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