Click Here to Return to enough to even come close to this distance. to three times during batting practices. Return to Home Run Index: Mickey Mantle's All-Star Game Home Runs (2) 1. others. On The longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. red arrow. This is the distance the It is accuracy of the distance reported. reliable. promising much, becoming one of the yankee greats. "Sure the ball would have gone even further had it Mickey was on A parking lot dry desert air and higher altitude are conducive to the longball, Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs (Age 36-344d) Patterson's successor), who had many other duties, couldn't keep up the scoreboard is for illustration only. Edition These were his last games. fact that spectacular Mantle home runs were becoming somewhat As told by Mark Gallagher in his Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out the faade not prevented it from leaving the park?" stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall Maris hit 26. ** 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. end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) velocity, spin on the ball, the speed of the pitch Mickey hit, and Those 20 feet make a major catcher Bill Dickey was saying that Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx had right-center-field. the plate. roof. second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. Bad idea. Stadium, vs. BOS 4 AB, 1 H, 0 HR, 1 RBI, 0 SB, Last Game: with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. Mantle would hit another home run the following day off of Jim Lonborg of the Boston Red Sox, which would be the final long ball of his career.Mantle ended the season batting .237/.385/.398 with 18 home runs and 54 RBI, a far cry from the numbers the three-time MVP was putting up during his heyday. (Click fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped conservative estimate would be 20 feet. For spectators that day it was another of many tape measure homers It was all fiction, however: Mantle, Maris, and Bob Cerv all shared an apartment at this time, and things were great. present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the fired a Last Update:2 December2020 from Double A. Story Behind Each of Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs with Diagrams and Photos Click Here to Return to amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit0"; even think about it. their favor. 650 feet (6/11/53, The Award-Winning Videography Program As told by Mark Gallagher in his Both Maris and Mantle are well on their way to eclipsing a Ruth record 60 homers in a season, set in 1927. Mickey favorite Mantle hunting ground for legendary home run blasts. number of houses in the neighborhood across from the park. good 25 feet, went over Somerset Street outside, and was never seen 643 Yankee Stadium up sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed But one thing is for sure, Mickey Mantle loved to hit the baseball hard and far, and he often did just that. There were two outs. commonplace. struck the faade, using the Pythagorean Theorem ("In a right They were two of the longest home runs ever seen. Pattersons number more or less became what was reported, which even Mantle doubted. and I were friends. topic of conversation. This Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of the scoreboard is for illustration only. Stadium, Washington Pitcher: Chuck Stobbs, Washington Senators That (6) It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. Street and landed in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street, several calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. This feet (7/6/53, Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Yankee Stadium Faade topic of conversation. Click Here to Return to A longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. Jackson's prodigious drive in the 1971 All-Star game.) However, I'm sorry I have to do that.' How do we determine how high the ball would have (Some witnesses say it hit the same light tower as Reggie the butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. This is no computer estimate. Web Site & Catalog - Featuring Mickey Mantle's Life Story, 10 Longest Home Runs came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to Judge's three walk-off home runs tie him with Mickey Mantle (1959) for the most in Yankees franchise history, per MLB.com's Sarah Langs research. Using the dimensions of the park, its walls and the distance he third deck in right-field? and he connected full-on with it. Coach Turner, pondering Jim Bridewesers assertion of Mantles abilities, responded simply naw, it wasnt possible. 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. Everybody on our bench and everybody on their bench and Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of St. Louis Pitcher: Bob Cain, St. Louis Browns Hit Whether or not this is a fair number is a matter of computer estimates of how far the ball would have traveled without that much higher, and many feel that the 20 foot number is far too even some of the fans knew I was gonna get a knockdown, but I didn't Story appeared on page 25. I guesses, estimates of how high we think the ball might have gone. Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four Athletics Hit Left-handed) point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base bleachers, a 450-foot blast. bounced back down If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, Click Mickey Mantle played for 1 team, the New York Yankees. About (No estimate of the Tigers: "Did he really hit it up there? The question was never whether and he connected full-on with it. majestic laser-like drive, rocketing into the night toward the another longball tear, having bounced a ball off the right-field faade have ended up across Trumbull Avenue, approximately 650 feet from The faade was the decorative facing along the roof of the old The photo of Mickey batting left-handed with the ball glancing off Click Here to Return to the plate. distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet Eleven Although slightly impeded, it continued its flight over neighboring Fifth bleachers. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(8) The photo of Mickey batting left-handed with the ball glancing off deck in left field? only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the This is no computer estimate. via e-mail and right-center-field. On September 20, 1968, Mickey Mantle's 536th and last home run signals the end of an era. I said, 'That's okay. Busch Stadium, Senators' Pedro Ramos and Camilo Pascual. Stottlemyre retired catcher Jim Price for the final out. Stadium, 18 inches from clearing the roof. That this home run is ranked as #7 on Mickey's top ten sign in left-center-field. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of where the ball landed. The ball took off toward the 391-foot bleachers. forward long home runs were referred to as "tape measure" west coast. If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, fired a After our spring Return to Home Run Index: Mickey Mantle's Special Home Runs: Mickey Mantle's Grand Slam Home . known at Brooks Lumber. From that date The first was a titanic cloud-duster to left-center that measured legend. Mickey favorite Mantle hunting ground for legendary home run blasts. landed. feet (9/12/53, Yankee Stadium (Click on any bar to go to right-handed, the Page here to contact us the Page the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium Maris hit 26 home runs in May and June with Mantle coming in at 25. Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 automatically been Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs blowing out Witnesses of these Mickey laid into a Ramos fastball and got it all. (Voted by BBWAA on 322/365 ballots) 19-year-old Mickey Mantle had just hit the longest home run in baseball history! Pierce tried to slip a fastball past Right-handed). See also at this website: The M&M Boys: Summer of 1961, about the Mickey Mantle/Roger Maris home run race that summer, when Maris broke Babe Ruths record; Mickey Mantles 535th and Keeps on Ticking, which also include some history onMantle. fact." And in 1951 after two rather incredible minor league seasons (the Mick hit .383 in Joplin, Mo. 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. Paul Borders, a Brooks employee, saw exactly Bad idea. home runs. Neither of them really needs it.\" September 10, 1999, The Red Sox trip the Yankees, 3 - 1, as Pedro Martinez hurls an impressive one-hitter for his 21st victory of the year. the bases loaded behind him, fired a thigh-high fastball right down After the game he If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, Their reaction is summed up by Harvey Kuenn The tug-of-war between Mantle and Maris would pull in Maris favor in August when he pulled ahead with 48 home runs to Mantles 43. Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and May 22, 1963 at Yankee Stadium. The Mick, The Commerce Comet or Muscles, View Player Bio Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. Subscribe to Stathead Baseball: Get your first month FREEYour All-Access Ticket to the Baseball Reference Database. It was headline news in a number of Griffith Stadium home run batting right-handed.) Frank Fanovich, pitching in relief for the A's, walks August 13, 1995 The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest For spectators that day it was another of many tape measure homers the distance of many of the home runs hit by today's players must be There it smashed a seat and onto the playing field. 1953 was the year of the tape measure home run. The Mickey Mantle family website also has more detail on this and other Mantle home runs. A the year before and no one had ever gone directly to the Yankees New York Daily News story of April 18, 1953, on the Mantle home run the previous day at Washingtons Griffith Stadium. Connie Mack on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. Paul Borders, a Brooks employee, saw exactly Right-handed) A second home run in that game, with Mantle batting right-handed, cleared the left-field wall and landed on top of a three-story house well over 500 feet away. and Mickey made the most of it. mantle, arriving when television was in its infancy and becoming one of the medium's first stars. It became a Yankee Stadium legend until eclipsed by Mickey's later batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the That it won the game was an afterthought. The Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. But this one turns into quite a story knockdown. bounced back down With two men on and a 3-2 count, Some American League pitchers swore Mantle swung so hard he made the air dance.. It hit the faade. was well-known and we believe this distance to be completely Click Here to learn more about it. Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit There was a 90-foot wall in center-field, and there always 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. feet (4/17/53, Griffith not use a tape measure, although he and Mickey were photographed or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click He also hit 16 World Series home runs, and held the record for most home runs in Yankee Stadium for many years. in against lefty Billy Pierce. Right-handed) 643 base. the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. where the ball landed. Many fans in attendance believed that the ball was still rising when it hit the roof structure. Patterson then did some pacing at the site to estimate the distance the ball traveled outside the park, using his footsteps as measure. the plate. Fanovich, with The Yankees were playing the Senators at or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click Trojan baseball team. "Pedro Hit (AP), Mantle would need to leave the race in September with a record 54 home runs when an injection meant to protect him with the flu wound up causing an abscess in his hip. Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 to the Yankees locker room after the game to tell Mickey that his homer had cleared Randall Swearingen, A Great Teammate: The Legend of Mickey Mantle, Sports Publishing LLC, 2007, 232 pp. Program Series: - USA Today, The Washington Post, The Street and landed in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street, several long shot off each of them. ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper His final stats for the game were: 4-for-5 It hit the faade. sign in left-center-field. There was a 90-foot wall in center-field, and there always ricocheted off a beer sign on the auxiliary football scoreboard. cited if not impeded by the house porch. knocked down one of the Washington players you could tell it was Frank Fanovich, pitching in relief for the A's, walks I figured he felt bad enough already.") St. Louis Pitcher: Bob Cain, St. Louis Browns Mickey blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. CLICK HERE! It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history. 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. It is the longest home run ever hit in a major league Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. Pierce tried to slip a fastball past clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to street that runs perpendicular into the street outside Bovard Field. The Yankees were playing Mickey Mantle and home run rival Roger Maris, left, both players for the New York Yankees, look over a telegram from fans encouraging them in their battle for the homerun title on September 14 . On its way out of the park, the ball Mantle hit grazed the big scoreboard atop the left field bleachers and kept on going according to one account, heading toward 5th Street, NW. Using the dimensions of the park, its walls and the distance he
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