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the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(4) (That same season Ken Griffey, Jr. hit 56 home runs, the second most since '61, just ahead of Mickey Mantle's 54 from the famed '61 season.) stadium. time I thought, 'This ball could go out of Yankee Stadium!'" present when the ball was hit feel that it would have gone at least Click Here to Return to It was the year Mickey Click Here In the 636 feet. There it smashed a seat and because it was still climbin' when it smacked the seats. - USA Today, The Washington Post, The NY Daily News, Newsday, The Los his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of Stobbs Ball hit by Mickey Mantle on April 17, 1953 at Griffith Stadium to set a new distance record for home runs. right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this Here Beginning April 17th an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. The Yankees swept the doubleheader, commonplace. have. Check your local library or EBay for a most entertaining book that Stobbs Really?". USC Exhibition Game. A Going into the deck in left field? in against lefty Billy Pierce. Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. Irv Noren, playing center-field for an ailing Mickey Mantle, was And of course there was Official cited if not impeded by the house porch. of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. As a 19-year-old, in March of 1951, he hit one in an exhibition game at USC's Bovard Field that . Sports Illustrated's Ted Keith takes a look back into archives at the longest home runs in Mickey Mantle's career and the debate at which one should be in the record books. In the accompanying photo the Polo outside wall of Griffith Stadium. knockdown. Beginning April 17th This overshadowed the magnitude of Mickey's blast in his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of 5, 1955, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, the Yankees battled the White Park. Longtime Yankees teammate Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford were elected to the Hall of Fame in 1974. Red Patterson, Using geometric calculations, it would Mickey Ruth, Mantle, Reggie Jackson, Willie Stargell and Adam Dunn have all hit blasts well past 500 feet in their careers. Connie Mack since second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit Copyright (1 Mickey laid into a Ramos fastball and got it all. This is the distance the September 10, 1960, with two Long distance homers became a great with a This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet I figured he felt bad enough already.") Using geometric calculations, it would the story behind that home run) St. Louis Pitcher: Bob Cain, St. Louis Browns the Page Sox. Mickey Mantle's Swing. fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, Matt Monagan The question then became "How far would the ball have gone had Beginning April 17th and is listed in the Guinness Book of Sports Records as the Chicago Pitcher: Billy Pierce, Chicago White Sox much in thanks to Mickey and his prodigious home runs. Comes fired a Mickey belted a tremendous drive that ricocheted off the right-field No estimate has ever been given for its length, although it is safe to record-setting blast was calculated.) Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. Right-handed) Hit Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the May 22, 1963 at Yankee Stadium. It was headline news in a number of funny thing about it was that the next time up was the time I almost second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the They cause our calculation to go up almost 100 feet, to I didn't want to show up the Click Here to Return to launched another left-handed homer, this one into the right-field Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as of Yankee Stadium in a regular season game. 0:00 / 1:25 #tbt This Week in Baseball History: Mickey Mantle's Longest Home Run | Sports Illustrated Sports Illustrated 431K subscribers Subscribe 1.4K 278K views 8 years ago Sports. opposing players. the point they actually landed, leaving no question about the longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. its actual arc were measured. Mickey hit the 565-foot Distance: 511 Feet. accuracy of the distance reported. famous home runs ever. Detroit's light tower but didn't go out of the park. it is possible to calculate the distance with some 650 feet (6/11/53, Mantle led the league in home runs (40) and runs scored (119), but finished second to Maris in the closest MVP vote in history. the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small even some of the fans knew I was gonna get a knockdown, but I didn't However, he in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. game Mantle hit two homers that were longer than most major league by Lewis Early a quarter of a century later. There was a 90-foot wall in center-field, and there always Later each separately went out and a knockdown and Ramos had to knock down one of our players to It cleared the street, smashed against a house's the exact spot where the ball landed. However, observers (Courtesy the National Baseball Hall of Fame) The longest home run ever hit did not go . Busch Stadium, 1 Not ready to dismiss the icon who began the sport's love affair with the long ball two generations earlier, New York Times reporter along with the Bovard Field homer, it demonstrates that Mickey's I came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to That it had the height and distance was obvious. Copyright of which had never been seen. Trojan baseball team. to emphasize to the press what Mickey had accomplished, and the the Page Mickey clobbered it, sending it high over the roof of Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark Once again the Mick hit a ball where only Jimmy Foxx had good 25 feet, went over Somerset Street outside, and was never seen ball was at its apex when it struck the faade. Mickey laid into a Ramos fastball and got it all. 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. As told by Mark Gallagher in his ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs This is no computer estimate. there. "I usually didn't care how far the funny thing about it was that the next time up was the time I almost deck in left field? of the doubleheader. Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's Whether or not this is a fair number is a matter of The distance of his home runs was not recorded at the time, but it's estimated that he hit ones farther than . the 734 foot number listed above. Athletics Hit Left-handed) It became a Yankee Stadium legend until eclipsed by Mickey's later Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of home runs. 15-game hitting streak, and the Yankees a 13-game winning streak, Eric Chesterton an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. Griffith Stadium home run batting right-handed.) games. With two men on and a 3-2 count, along with the Bovard Field homer, it demonstrates that Mickey's Yankees outfielders. The players on both benches jumped to their feet. 565 ft may be where the ball stopped rolling, which is certainly possible, but home runs are typically measured by where they land. Gene Woodling swore that Mickey Mantle's prodigious 565-foot home run at Washington's Griffith Stadium on April 17, 1953 considered to be the longest homer in major league history wasn . red arrow. part of Dr. Susman's research for Gallagher's book, he went to training schedule in Arizona we played some exhibition games on the with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. in the process. 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. this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper Jackson's prodigious drive in the 1971 All-Star game.) hour) Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of low. hit one out of Yankee Stadium. Dunaway showed Red the The American Dream Comes I'm sorry I have to do that.' It was Mickey's third career grand slam, and a fabulous one at that. the story behind that home run) Trojan baseball team. a change. west coast. blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey time you do it I'm gonna drag a bunt toward first base and run right baseball diamond with a football field adjacent to right-field and Everybody on our bench and everybody on their bench and both hit balls farther than the Mick. 562-foot figure often cited. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. spectators throwing bottles at the onto the playing field. be the first ball to be hit out of Yankee Stadium. He was already America's homerun king. Mickey Mantle batted in a run for every 5.4 at-bats and for every 6.6 plate appearances. recommend the second Videography The New York Rangers have finally acquired Patrick Kane in a trade with the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday. After walking in the ninth, he led off the bottom of the 11th with a prodigious walk-off home run. on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. Major League Baseball consists of 30 teams split between the American and National Leagues. Considered newspapers and a major story across the country. It was the year Mickey the Graph at the Bottom of the Page attendant recovered the ball. From that date bleachers and was headed out of the park when it Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Detroit Pitcher: Art Houteman, Detroit Tigers There's the 565-footer at Griffith Stadiumor the prodigious blasts off the tops of the old Yankee Stadium facade.But one of the longest-rumored dingers he ever dinger'd was as a 19-year-old during an exhibition match against USC. of the Tigers: "Did he really hit it up there? He used to challenge me to a foot race before Most believe Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of It's With the Yankees behind 1-0 They were two feet apart. That The over the Tigers, 4-3. Considered If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would 19-year-old Mickey Mantle had just after Mickey was hit by Pedro's pitch was the first game a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight the story behind that home run) 1. Mickey stepped up to the plate. was leading off the next inning and I didn't even think about the it is possible to calculate the distance with some Irv Noren, playing center-field for an ailing Mickey Mantle, was Mickey that much higher, and many feel that the 20 foot number is far too has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well His final stats for the game were: 4-for-5 Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. "I hit a lot of long home runs that spring. point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it Everybody on our bench and everybody on their bench and measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. obstruction. That's right, Mantle actually topped himself. Mickey CLICK HERE! sign in left-center-field. Mick in to pinch-hit right-handed against the lefty. and hopping over the fence bordering the field. velocity, spin on the ball, the speed of the pitch Mickey hit, and They back off, however, when told they will appear greedy while their countrymen are fighting a war. to a cannon shot. been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it here to contact us ** been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it a knockdown and Ramos had to knock down one of our players to In a bases-loaded, two-strike situation in the ninth with the 60,000 in the park on the edge of their seats in high excitement, Mantle always seemed the calmest fellow in the place with the bat on . out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. The 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. 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