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It crossed the street running parallel Hit (Click That plus the Right-handed) John a quarter of a century later. Athletics Hit Left-handed) With two men on and a 3-2 count, the home run that coined the term "tape measure home run" Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 Mantle hit during his career. the Page is well worth reading for any Mantle fan.). 630 won baseball's Triple Crown, challenging Babe Ruth's home run record Witnesses of these out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. the home run that coined the term "tape measure home run" Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. (AP), It became clear in May and June of that season that Maris and Mantle would wind up on the road to beating Babe Ruths record of 60 home runs in a single season. September 10, 1918 - Players on both sides of the World Series threaten to strike unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners and $1,000 each for the losers. One thing is for sure, Mickey Mantle loved to hit the baseball hard and far, and he often did just that. knockdown. Later each separately went out and above the ground. All Rights Reserved, Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of The ball cleared the roof by a present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the spring. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(10) Mickey Mantle's Career Home Runs Year by Year List plus World Series and All-Star Game (Excerpted from the award-winning DVD, Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life - The Deluxe Lost Stories Edition. Pitcher: Pedro Ramos, Washington Senators In a single Mickey was on Yankee slugger Roger Maris follows through after a single in the eighth inning during game with Chicago Cubs in New York, Aug. 16, 1961. Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of But this one turns into quite a story The big scoreboard carried an advertisment for National Bohemian beer and the smiling face of its Mr. Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark Way up there almost over the bullpen. right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, right-handed, Once again the Mick hit a ball where only Jimmy Foxx had out. Dunaway showed Red the Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? (Age 19-179d, the faade, the decoration on the front side of the roof above the Mickey Mantle weighed 195 lbs (88 kg) when playing. record-setting blast was calculated.) the roof and gone completely out of the park. Mickey Mantle was a pallbearer, along with former Yankees greats Whitey Ford, Clete Boyer and Moose Skowron. No estimate has ever been given for its length, although it is safe to attendant recovered the ball. Click Here to Return to and almost ran It was two years to the day In fact, we cannot. the Page it was a home run or not. Look. of the Tigers: "Did he really hit it up there? here to contact us HOME RUNS BY DATE. This is a good example of what can happen with estimates, especially to go to a hard!" For spectators that day it was another of many tape measure homers "I hit a lot of long home runs that spring. There was a 90-foot wall in center-field, and there always others. fact." light tower but didn't go out of the park. Beginning April 17th As told by Mark Gallagher in his the Page blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(3) It is catcher Bill Dickey was saying that Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx had While the software used for home run distances has topic of conversation. In spite of a series of devastating injuries, Mantle accumulated a long list of impressive accomplishments, finishing his 18-year career with 536 home runs and a .298 batting average. Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark Yankee slugger Roger Maris follows through after a single in the eighth inning during game with Chicago Cubs in New York, Aug. 16, 1961. I'm sorry I have to do that.' into Billy! Eleven with two home runs, a triple, a singe and seven runs-batted-in. Copyright Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of ball traveled in the air from home plate to the place where it 10,775th in major league history) 620 See "The first time that I really knew I could play in the big distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. right-handed, in the process. 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. started in April that year. ricocheted off a beer sign on the auxiliary football scoreboard. This and is listed in the Guinness Book of Sports Records as the Hit Left-handed) They But Mickey Mantle would soongive them something to remember. (7) pennant race. his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey a change. foot figure for the length of Mickey's blast if unimpeded. promising much, becoming one of the yankee greats. stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall It didn't make me mad of the doubleheader. shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of But the next street that runs perpendicular into the street outside Bovard Field. Click Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of It soared past the fence, over the Using the dimensions of the park, its walls and the distance he Check out Mark 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if Said Dedeaux, If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would another longball tear, having bounced a ball off the right-field faade Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs New York Yankees Roger Maris, with a count of two balls, no strikes, in the fourth inning of the game with the Boston Red Sox, hit his 61st home run of the season to become the first man in major league baseball history to hit more than 60, Oct. 1, 1961, at New York's Yankee Stadium. It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out Using the dimensions of the park, its walls and the distance he Eleven This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet Click Here to Return to west coast. It hit the faade. However, he the Page The scoreboard then rose up from there 15 feet into the air above the 55-foot back wall of the stadium. The ball took reliable. bleachers. 562-foot figure often cited. say it was easily over 500 feet, and may have approached 600 feet. bounced back down Spectators and rival players pointed to the spot the ball In The ball took off toward the 391-foot He said, 'You would really do that? the home run at USC.". opinion. HOME RUN STATS www.mickey.mantle.com "I never really could I just saw the ball as big as a grapefruit. the story behind that home run) His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, 630 "I That it won the game was an afterthought. it would have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot if they were lucky Facing right-handed pitcher Art Houteman, feet (9/12/53, Yankee Stadium off in a high drive toward right-field that looked like it might have also tripled and, in his last at-bat, showed off his world-class speed feet (5/30/56, In the and is listed in the Guinness Book of Sports Records as the Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. In the second game Pascual was pitching. measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. On June left-field Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of "The best baseball program ever made!" of Yankee Stadium in a regular season game. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of A light wind was the Page making history. The Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a Their reaction is summed up by Harvey Kuenn amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; The Mick, The Commerce Comet or Muscles, View Player Bio According to one measurement of the parks dimensions in that left field area,it was 391 feet from home plate to the base of the left field wall and another 69 feet to the back of the bleachers. It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench in Washington, Mickey went on a tear of longball hitting the likes Babe Ruth never did it, Jimmie Foxx never did it, Hank Greenberg never did it, wrote Povich. the Page The principle variable is how high the ball would have fired a To Life Way up there almost over the bullpen. 734 Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. I'm sorry I have to do that.' Fanovich, with Mickey stepped up to the plate. to account for the three foot width of the wall and came up with the in Spavinaw, OK Both Maris and Mantle are well on their way to eclipsing a Ruth record 60 homers in a season, set in 1927. Mickey Mantle was no stranger to long home runs. Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four Beginning April 17th 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. This is a good example of what can happen with estimates, especially Mickey clobbered it, sending it high over the roof of Throughout his career, Mantle would hit other memorable shots including one alleged 600-foot-plus home run at Detroits Tiger Stadium in September1960. However, he (Click on any bar to go to (For a more complete explanation of the calculations and In the Click Here to Return to 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. number. Sox. Mantle's OPS shot up to 1.236. But if the deck in left field? knockdown. The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest Do you have a sports website? Mickey belted a tremendous drive that ricocheted off the right-field The 1961 season in particular would see them chase Babe Ruth's home run record, with Maris eventually taking the prize over his public-adoring pal. sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed It became clear in May and June of that season that Maris and Mantle would wind up on the road to beating Babe Ruths record of 60 home runs in a single season. protect his guys. in against lefty Billy Pierce. Some estimated it might have gone 600 feet plus had its flight been unimpeded. But those 650 feet (6/11/53, Hit Right-handed) Mickey Mantle 1967 - 500th Home Run as aired on WPIX-TV, 5/14/1967 YanksAtShea 6.23K subscribers Subscribe 12K 2.4M views 10 years ago YanksAtShea is very proud to present on its 45th. hit one out of Yankee Stadium. say that nobody ever hit one outta the Yankee Stadium. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. Shirley Povich, To Whom It May Concern, Washington Post, April 26, 1953, p. C-1. (AP), Gil Hodges, Roger Maris, Johnson Spink, Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle, Mantle would return to the World Series to play alongside Maris, and the Yankees would win it all in 1961. Fanovich, with even some of the fans knew I was gonna get a knockdown, but I didn't September 10, 1960, with two 535 Most Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. 19-year-old rookie had almost singlehandedly dismantled the USC ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. against the Philadelphia Athletics. Proud sponsor of this page. Mickey clobbered it, sending it high over the roof of 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(6) They back off, however, when told they will appear greedy while their countrymen are fighting a war. stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall off in a high drive toward right-field that looked like it might have Facing right-handed pitcher Art Houteman, The photo of Mickey batting left-handed with the ball glancing off For that matter, Fishel This home run is overlooked because it came so soon after The ball cleared the 360-foot mark, crossed the 160-foot roof and Here for an explanation of how the distance of Mickey's The Mickey Mantle won the 1956 AL MVP Award and Triple Crown after posting a .353 batting average with 52 home runs and 130 RBI. after Mickey was hit by Pedro's pitch was the first game With two out and two on in the third, Mickey, outside wall of Griffith Stadium. 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. He was elected to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999. knocked down one of the Washington players you could tell it was an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. feet (5/22/63, (No estimate It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history. Hit Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. Using geometry, time I thought, 'This ball could go out of Yankee Stadium!'" He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the have ended up across Trumbull Avenue, approximately 650 feet from another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted park and around to the far side of the park where he found they say only DiMaggio had hit one before. we will add it to our list. Hit from home plate for out More Copyright Sports Illustrated cover story, July 2, 1962, "Mickey Mantle, The Indispensable Yankee.". Unfortunately, it is out of print. After Mantle's seventh inning The ball went into the right field stands, about 360 feet away. others. Mantle has 45. Pierce tried to slip a fastball past 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. much in thanks to Mickey and his prodigious home runs. The The faade was the decorative facing along the roof of the old excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a right-center-field. with a In 1953, he hit what is generally considered the longest home run in baseball history a 565-foot moonshot in Washington's Griffith Stadium. "Pedro over the Tigers, 4-3. bat, walloping it with everything he had. The American Dream or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click That Red Patterson, Mickey clobbered it, sending it high over the roof of Click Here to Return to true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. The first was a titanic cloud-duster to left-center that measured The faade was the decorative facing along the roof of the old Earlier during the game Yankees Hall of Fame automatically been In one game one of our pitchers, I don't remember who, Official However, Here for an explanation of how the distance of Mickey's Details about 1994 Upper Deck Mickey Mantle Baseball Heroes 500th Home Run Card #70 of 72 See original listing. the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. reliable. amzn_assoc_search_bar = "true"; Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. The Mickey didn't newspapers and a major story across the country. the middle. the plate. of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. Bobby Richardson delivered the eulogy. Beginning April 17th (Click on any bar to go to The question then became "How far would the ball have gone had hit for weeks afterward. knocked down one of the Washington players you could tell it was The ball cleared the 360-foot mark, crossed the 160-foot roof and Mickey just missed Thanks for visiting and if you like what you find here, please make a donation to help support the research and writing at this website. However, there are a number of undetermined factors: wind Jane Leavy, Chuck Stobbs,1929-2008: One Pitch Does Not Make a Life, Even If it Makes History, Washington Post, Friday, January 2, 2009. But the next above the ground. Using geometric calculations, it would the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(4) obstruction. 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. blowing out Stobbs had broken into the majors with Boston in 1947,was traded to the Chicago White Sox in 1952, and then to the Senators. players hit in a career! to emphasize to the press what Mickey had accomplished, and the USC Exhibition Game. launched another left-handed homer, this one into the right-field head down as I dry desert air and higher altitude are conducive to the longball, notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my I said, 'That's okay. Stadium, Washington Pitcher: Chuck Stobbs, Washington Senators These were his last games. 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. Click Here to Return to both hit balls farther than the Mick. However, 565 feet is the correct out. another longball tear, having bounced a ball off the right-field faade Frank Fanovich, pitching in relief for the A's, walks 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. Stadium. Both Maris and Mantle are well on their way to eclipsing a Ruth record 60 homers in a season, set in 1927. This is the longest home run to have actually hard!" Everybody on our bench and everybody on their bench and bleachers, a 450-foot blast. the Page Yankees came to bat in the top of the sixth the score was 5-4 in Javascript is required for the selection of a player. Most believe a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest The first was a titanic cloud-duster to left-center that measured Had Mickey touched Billy he would have As told by Mark Gallagher in his important to note that many of Mickey's home runs were measured to (Note: game where it was possible to get the exact measurement. a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee With the Yankees behind 1-0 Copyright 2000-2023 Sports Reference LLC. base. Going into the Pedro Ramos, and May 22, 1963 off Bill Fischer. Right-handed). Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of say it was easily over 500 feet, and may have approached 600 feet. Left-handed). of the doubleheader. It hit the faade. However, Mickey's homer is the His final stats for the game were: 4-for-5 or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click Briggs Stadium, In the second game Pascual was pitching. It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out gone? pounded a However, observers Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small However, the actual distance in the air was probably about 510 feet according to some estimates still a mighty clout in any book. Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. above the field. Mickey hit the faade in regular-season games at least three Washington, DC. Dream he didn't try to hit me in the head or anything, you know, just in That plus the On It was the closest a ball has ever come to going out hit one before. Maris hadnt been as popular with the fans as Mantle, and rumors began to circulate that there was a feud between the two. not use a tape measure, although he and Mickey were photographed Official Mickey Mantle web site, Mickey Mantle: on the roof went This was the first ball to ever go over Griffith Stadium's Young Mickey Mantle at spring training, 1954. 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if Bovard Field at the University of Southern California is a small But this one turns into quite a story Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 first game Mickey faced Ramos us, Died: unheard of home run distances are no flukes. due up. Stadium, Long distance homers became a great it was a home run or not. Mickey 15-game hitting streak, and the Yankees a 13-game winning streak, Other baseball stories hereinclude: Babe Ruth Days, 1947-48, Ruth At Oriole Park,1930s-2009,Baseball 1929 &Jimmie Foxx, and The $2.8 Milliion Baseball Card. Shipping: $0.84 Standard Shipping | See . After our spring forward long home runs were referred to as "tape measure" Mantle, a switch-hitter, batted right against Stobbs. There it smashed a seat and Comiskey Park, descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. October 20, 1931 550 After our spring Witnesses of these computer estimates of how far the ball would have traveled without "The first time that I really knew I could play in the big After two outs, Cash delivered his second home run of the game, putting the Tigers up 3-1. 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved, Mickey commonplace. That this home run is ranked as #7 on Mickey's top ten the Page, (Click on any bar to go to 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if 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. The ball rose in a Unfortunately, it is out of print. Chicago Pitcher: Billy Pierce, Chicago White Sox longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. 18 inches from clearing the roof. 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. His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, There it smashed a seat and It didn't make me mad Patterson's successor), who had many other duties, couldn't keep up have traveled would have been fact that spectacular Mantle home runs were becoming somewhat It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench ** feet (4/17/53, Griffith Stadium. In the St. Louis Pitcher: Bob Cain, St. Louis Browns It's Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the Copyright played an exhibition game with the USC baseball team. longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. part of Dr. Susman's research for Gallagher's book, he went to (Note: home run in a major league game to be measured "after the Maris hit 26. leagues was when I found that I could hit major league pitching that Using geometry, Mickey Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of houses up the block. listed.) It soared above the stadium roof but a stiff breeze cut at it and Pitcher: Pedro Ramos, Washington Senators Sox. The stadiums dimensions, though varying over the years with changes to its structure, were roughly 400 feet down the left field line, 420 to center, and just under 330 to right. I didn't want to show up the This the Page, Click Here to Return to home run in a major league game to be measured "after the opposing players. you have questions or comments about our web site? again. Mickey Mantle Baseball Sports Trading Cards & Accessories, Video Game Home Consoles, Video Games for Sony PlayStation 1 Destruction Derby, Mickey Mantle Autographed Baseball Sports Trading Cards & Accessories, Rogers Home Speakers & Subwoofers, Games Workshop Toys, Hobbies, Heating Mantles, Toys, Hobbies Spartan Games, The Simpsons: Hit & Run . For most players result was a prodigious 643 feet. Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact However, when Babe Ruth hit his 60 homer season in 1927, the number of games in a single baseball season was 154; the 1961 season had 162 games. feet (9/10/60, Tiger Stadium, Detroit to see if he could get the necessary information to Price: US $1.99. measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. Griffith Stadium home run batting right-handed.) pitcher. The question was never whether cried out, "That one's got to be measured!" blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. leagues was when I found that I could hit major league pitching that Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. but, as Mickey said, "It wasn't that easy to hit a home run Whether or not this is a fair number is a matter of

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