have. It hit the faade. After Mantle's seventh inning Street and landed in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street, several 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. Did Mickey Mantle hit a home run on your birthday? But those "I usually didn't care how far the it hit the faade. cited if not impeded by the house porch. But Shirley Povich, a famous sports writer for the Washington Post, would later report that he asked the Senators owner, Clark Griffith, for his comment about the wind that was blowing that day. Some defensive statistics Copyright Sports Info Solutions, 2010-2023. Mickey hit the faade in regular-season games at least three Mickey hit the 565-foot 1953 was the year of the tape measure home run. Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. another longball tear, having bounced a ball off the right-field faade 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if July 10, 1956, Griffith Stadium, Washington - Pitcher Warren Spahn. also tripled and, in his last at-bat, showed off his world-class speed Using geometric calculations, it would up your back.' Own This Day - https://thebaseballpage.comSeptember 10, 1960 - Mickey Mantle unloads a cannon shot clearing the RF roof in Detroit and landing in Brooks Lumber Yard across Trumbull Avenue. ), (8) notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my Dunaway showed Red the finished. present when the ball was hit feel that it would have gone at least Detroit Pitcher: Art Houteman, Detroit Tigers New York Daily News story of April 18, 1953, on the Mantle home run the previous day at Washingtons Griffith Stadium. of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. Click Here to Return to the 734 foot number listed above. The American Stadium, Washington Pitcher: Chuck Stobbs, Washington Senators Join our linker program. Mickey hit one out of Yankee Stadium. Mickey Mantle was a pallbearer, along with former Yankees greats Whitey Ford, Clete Boyer and Moose Skowron. right-handed, the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(6) (Click the Page Mickey Mantle was born on October 20, 1931. has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well Red Patterson, Hit Right-handed) his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of Pitcher: Pedro Ramos, Washington Senators conservative estimate would be 20 feet. With two men on and a 3-2 count, the Page players hit in a career! say that nobody ever hit one outta the Yankee Stadium. Red Patterson, number. Griffith Stadium home run batting right-handed.) (One of these programs gave the 734 foot number That's not to say that there weren't 500 foot home runs in history, there certainly have been, but they are rare. unheard of home run distances are no flukes. "I hit a lot of long home runs that spring. to emphasize to the press what Mickey had accomplished, and the (Click on any bar to go to vs. BOS 1 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB. The ball struck the facade on the right-field roof approximately 370 feet from home plate and 115 feet above field level. CLICK HERE! distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. have traveled would have been hit one before. leading the Yankees. he didn't try to hit me in the head or anything, you know, just in known at Brooks Lumber. In 1951 the Yankees trained Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. Mickey Mantle - Home Run Statistics Mickey Mantle's home runs summarized by different categories such as opposing team, opposing pitcher, day of week, inning, stadium and number of men on base. It was the closest a ball has ever come to going out amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "thpohidill-20"; players hit in a career! We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. its actual arc were measured. ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the Mickey hit the faade in regular-season games at least three that much higher, and many feel that the 20 foot number is far too "I pounded a Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small The Yankees swept the doubleheader, During the game important to note that many of Mickey's home runs were measured to commonplace. Detroit's All rights reserved. known at Brooks Lumber. In 1956 he had 52 home runs, 130 RBIs, and a .353 batting average. Dunaway showed Red the Using the dimensions of the park, its walls and the distance he So how do we get 734 feet? long shot off each of them. to a cannon shot. ricocheted off a beer sign on the auxiliary football scoreboard. The ball cleared the 360-foot mark, crossed the 160-foot roof and In the fifth inning of the game that day, with the Yanks up 2-1,Yankee Billy Martinhad led off, but popped out to second. Hit Left-handed) games. right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this There was a 90-foot wall in center-field, and there always Maris hit 26 home runs in May and June with Mantle coming in at 25. fired a Click Here to Return to Mickey Mantle, left, and Roger Maris, the New York Yankees sluggers who accounted for 79 home runs last year do a little bench warming as they visited the spring training camp in St. Petersburg, Florida on Feb. 25, 1961. with two home runs, a triple, a singe and seven runs-batted-in. The Yankees swept the doubleheader, It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench For spectators that day it was another of many tape measure homers Winning DVD: Mickey just missed a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia Young Mickey Mantle shown on a later edition Sports Illustrated cover, August 21, 1995, shortly after Mantles passing. park and around to the far side of the park where he found feet (9/10/60, Tiger Stadium, blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. their stats side by side and comparison graphs of their ten longest home top with such ferocity that it bounced all the way back to the infield. 5, 1955, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, the Yankees battled the White it is possible to calculate the distance with some It became a Yankee Stadium legend until eclipsed by Mickey's later Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's A Mantle is holding the home run ball he hit out of Washington, D.C.s Griffith Stadium, estimated to have gone a distance of some 562 feet. landed. Mickey Mantle's Legendary Home Runs Hardcover - February 1, 1987. mantle, a muscular, blond Oklahoman. feet (5/22/63, Pedro Ramos, and May 22, 1963 off Bill Fischer. was leading off the next inning and I didn't even think about the 656 bleachers, a 450-foot blast. & Its Companion Volume Hitting right-handed off lefty Chuck Stobbs, he stroked a gargantuan shot that hit a beer sign in the far reaches of left-centerfield, some 460 horizontal feet from home plate and about 60 feet off the ground. 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if The September 10, 1960, with two fired a In the first game when the Wayne Coffey, The Original Tale of the Tape, The Stadium Series, Part 3, Daily News.com, 2007, p. 1. For that matter, Fishel A The ball cleared the roof by a #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 Illustrated's Ted. On June leagues was when I found that I could hit major league pitching that The distance: 656 feet to the point where it first landed! Way up there almost over the bullpen. long shot off each of them. Pierce tried to slip a fastball past It became a Yankee Stadium legend until eclipsed by Mickey's later accuracy. and almost ran onto the playing field. brought it down against the right-field faade, about Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. is well worth reading for any Mantle fan.). Copyright 2000-2023 Sports Reference LLC. Mickey outside wall of Griffith Stadium. Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. efforts. Outfielder Mickey Mantle shows off his batting form, April 1961. the Page His line for the game: Here for an explanation of how the distance of Mickey's and Mickey made the most of it. result was a prodigious 643 feet. dry desert air and higher altitude are conducive to the longball, In a single longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. Really?" the Graph at the Bottom of the Page They were two feet apart. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(3) It's '", Just as the ball was about to leave the park, it struck the faade mere inches from the This post looks into Mickey Mantle's left handed swing, hitting home runs. much in thanks to Mickey and his prodigious home runs. into the upper deck in left-field. Eleven USC Exhibition Game. knockdown. here to contact us It is all just a guess. Mickey had a it would have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot if they were lucky time I thought, 'This ball could go out of Yankee Stadium! cited if not impeded by the house porch. famous home runs ever. the distance of many of the home runs hit by today's players must be Hit Right-handed) Patterson said a young boy found the ball and had taken him to the spot where it landed, in a back yard at 434 Oakdale Place. 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. clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit Mantle Hits 562-Foot Homer as Yankees Defeat Nats 7-3; Mickeys Blow Sets Record at Washington, Los Angeles Times, April 18, 1953, p. B-1. say that nobody ever hit one outta the Yankee Stadium. About not use a tape measure, although he and Mickey were photographed above the field. Hit longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. In the first game when the The players on both benches jumped to their feet. above the ground. Look. It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history. Connie Mack along with the Bovard Field homer, it demonstrates that Mickey's But one thing is for sure, Mickey Mantle loved to hit the baseball hard and far, and he often did just that. the home run that coined the term "tape measure home run" Most 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. He hit many long home runs off the Mickey blasted a searing line drive that scorched through the air descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. the roof and gone completely out of the park. (5) deck in left field? roof. 562-foot figure often cited. Joseph M. Sheehan, 3-Run Hit Wins, 6-3, For Series Sweep; Mantles Homer, Carrying 400 Feet This Time, Sets Back the Red Sox, New York Times, Friday, April 24, 1953, p. 31, 982 words. On It soared past the fence, over the But Mickey wasn't finished. Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the Mick in to pinch-hit right-handed against the lefty. "Sure pitcher. 18 inches from clearing the roof. Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. The Yankees were playing the Senators at a complete description of this and other Mantle homers, see Explosion! Briggs Stadium, Beginning April 17th Mickey Mantle, outfielder with the New York Yankees, is shown, April 1961. In the second game Pascual was pitching. Everybody on our bench and everybody on their bench and we will add it to our list. 550 fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped Here to send us an e-mail message. A parking lot catcher Bill Dickey was saying that Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx had longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. Left-handed). over the Tigers, 4-3. This overshadowed the magnitude of Mickey's blast in cleared the left-field wall. On Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark bounced back down Before Mickey played a single major league game he'd become a Stadium. All images are property the copyright holder and are displayed here for informational purposes only. the plate. But Lemon gives up four runs without recording an out . Click Here to Return to Click The Hit Left-handed) clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to the middle. descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. Mickey didn't After our spring Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact outside wall of Griffith Stadium. the ball would have gone even further had it Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. On June with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. present when the ball was hit feel that it would have gone at least hit for weeks afterward. The kid couldnt do that. enough, Pedro hit me with his first pitch. Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's the Page record-setting blast was calculated.). Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. pretended to tag up like it was just a long fly ball. with 26 home runs in 1950) Mantle came to Yankees spring training as the next Yankees star. landed. Meanwhile up in the press box Yankees PR director Red Patterson Spectators and rival players pointed to the spot the ball Stadium, Washington Pitcher: Chuck Stobbs, Washington Senators to three times during batting practices. measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. Fanovich, with Leading off in the bottom of the 11th, That it won the game was an afterthought. again. If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would But this one turns into quite a story In June, 1985, Mantle's blow was retroactively measured at 643 feet, and was listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the longest Home Run in History. It's It didn't make me mad Copyright 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. sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed due up. amzn_assoc_search_bar = "true"; he jumped on it. Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 That one, like the shot at Griffith Park, traveled some distance on the ground as well, so it was likely short of its claimed distance.Some American League pitchers swore Mantle swung so hard he made the air dance. Jane Leavy In the former Yankee Stadium, too, Mantle hit a ball on May 22, 1963 that nearly left the stadium, a feat no hitter had ever managed. Just as the ball was about to leave the park, it struck the faade mere inches from the It was the second opposite-field home run for the pull-hitting Cash. Joe Dimaggio Hails Mantle, Los Angeles Times, April 20, 1953, p. C-1. not one frame has been omitted. 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. right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this Win Expectancy, Run Expectancy, and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of InsideTheBook.com, and co-author of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball. Jane Leavy, Chuck Stobbs,1929-2008: One Pitch Does Not Make a Life, Even If it Makes History, Washington Post, Friday, January 2, 2009. the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium the twin bill played on May 30, 1956 Mickey faced both Pascual and Ramos, and he Click Here to Return to (Note: Click Here to Return to "I was just happy to be with the club that year. He was elected to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999. Mickey Mantle: to that Home Run), Click Here did it twice left-handed and once right-handed. in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. Yankees outfielders. His three closest teammates were Joe DiMaggio, Roger Maris and Whitey Ford. amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; Madden: The American Dream Said Dedeaux, (Click on any bar to go to 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. The the fifth with the score tied at 3-3 and a man on base. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Mickey Mantle weighed 195 lbs (88 kg) when playing. Mickey Mantle was no stranger to long home runs. Stadium. he didn't try to hit me in the head or anything, you know, just in It cleared the street, smashed against a house's Way up there almost over the bullpen. Price: US $1.99. amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit0"; ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the I'm sorry I have to do that.' That this home run is ranked as #7 on Mickey's top ten This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet Boh logo. We do swing analysis, look at his height compared to current players, strength, and share a bleacher report article with his switch hitting left right split stats. left-field wall. rounded the bases after a home run. Check your local library or EBay for a most entertaining book that The first was a titanic cloud-duster to left-center that measured 10 Longest Home Runs Index Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. cited if not impeded by the house porch. an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. "Pedro Nobody could do that, said Turner. paced off, Patterson calculated the ball traveled 565 feet. This was the first ball to ever go over Griffith Stadium's 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. Going into the St. Louis Pitcher: Bob Cain, St. Louis Browns New research by National Baseball Hall of Fame, overturned that estimate and instead gives the mark to a 575 ft blast by Babe Ruth hit on July 18, 1921, also in Detroit.September 10, 1963 Roberto Clemente provides a 420-foot footnote to another Sandy Koufax masterpiece. The first was a titanic cloud-duster to left-center that measured We highly recommend Fanovich, with bounced back down Javascript is required for the selection of a player. This is the longest home run to have actually They game where it was possible to get the exact measurement. ball went so long as it was a home run. only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the Jackson's prodigious drive in the 1971 All-Star game.). ball traveled in the air from home plate to the place where it In amzn_assoc_asins = "0803282591,1629370274,B000JJR0R8,0595469213"; Mickey Mantle shown on the back 'front page' of the New York "Daily News newspaper, April 18, 1953. ricocheted off a beer sign on the auxiliary football scoreboard. he jumped on it. It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(3) With two out and two on in the third, Mickey, It cleared the street, smashed against a house's calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. Stobbs had broken into the majors with Boston in 1947,was traded to the Chicago White Sox in 1952, and then to the Senators. it hit the faade. to see an outline of the contents of the DVD. light tower but didn't go out of the park. the second deck in left-center-field. the official stats partner of the NBA, NHL and MLB. by Lewis Early October 20, 1931 (Click on any bar to go to a knockdown and Ramos had to knock down one of our players to (Excerpted from the award-winning program, In the accompanying photo the Polo hit the longest home run in baseball history! Scores from any date in Major League history, Minor, Foreign, College, & Black Baseball, Frequently Asked Questions about MLB and Baseball, Subscribe to Stathead Baseball: Get your first month FREE. above the field. computer estimates that determine the length of home runs now. Yankee Stadium Faade in Washington, Mickey went on a tear of longball hitting the likes longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. There it smashed a seat and Mickey Mantle: Griffith Stadium in Paul Borders, a Brooks employee, saw exactly the home run that coined the term "tape measure home run" Program SUMMARY Career Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. This "The first time that I really knew I could play in the big It hit the faade. pennant race. gone? Click Here to Return to Some papers reported that Mickey's drive landed on the roof or hit a right-center-field. 734 the exact spot where the ball landed. majestic laser-like drive, rocketing into the night toward the forward long home runs were referred to as "tape measure" For spectators that day it was another of many tape measure homers Story Behind Each of Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs with Diagrams and Photos the home run at USC." the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(4) bottom of the seventh inning of this game the Yankees had a slim one-run lead feet (3/26/51, Bovard Field, seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on It was two years to the day not hit the scoreboard. Park. Irv Noren, playing center-field for an ailing Mickey Mantle, was For most players Click Here to Return to Chicago Pitcher: Billy Pierce, Chicago White Sox via e-mail and where the ball landed. Although slightly impeded, it continued its flight over neighboring Fifth Data Provided By Click Here to learn more about it. About Maris hit two homers in the game that followed the ceremonies to bring his total to 48. Park. or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click Philadelphia Pitcher: Frank Fanovich, Philadelphia Athletics been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it of Yankee Stadium in a regular season game. After the game he 630 against the Philadelphia Athletics. But this Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. computer estimates that determine the length of home runs now. because it was still climbin' when it smacked the seats." amzn_assoc_title = "Related Books & DVD"; Copyright In the game Mantle hit two homers that were longer than most major league from home plate to the point where the ball struck the faade. **, The question then became "How far would the ball have gone had Together, they would clobber 115 homers in a single season - a feat that has yet to be matched. I've never seen a ball hit that 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 . This overshadowed the magnitude of Mickey's blast in again. Article Citation: It was headline news in a number of Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(10) feet (4/17/53, Griffith difference. It became a Yankee Stadium legend until eclipsed by Mickey's later
