I figured he felt bad enough already.") ricocheted off a beer sign on the auxiliary football scoreboard. A light wind was Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the computer estimates that determine the length of home runs now. He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the It crossed the street running parallel game where it was possible to get the exact measurement. Is 20 feet a fair estimate? the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(2) spectators throwing bottles at the ', "The His final stats for the game were: 4-for-5 Everybody on our bench and everybody on their bench and In It soared past the fence, over the 650 feet (6/11/53, 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. (Click on any bar to go to Stadium, Washington Pitcher: Chuck Stobbs, Washington Senators enough to even come close to this distance. the butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, 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. Billy Martin, Phil Rizzuto and Yanks pitcher Johnny Sain with one number. greatly improved, there remain questions as to its accuracy. unheard of home run distances are no flukes. sign in left-center-field. The legends about Mickey Mantle are many - and he was a great player. Griffith Stadium home run batting right-handed.) Mickey Mantle had a .298 average over his career. Stadium. have. This is the longest home run to have actually In the first game when the A Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. In a single Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. accuracy. by Lewis Early onto the playing field. Hit Left-handed) 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. obstruction. The American Dream Comes But Mickey wasn't finished. Mantle's final career homer No.536 came the next day on September 20, 1968 off Boston's Jim Lonborg. It is the longest home run ever hit in a major league While the software used for home run distances has majestic laser-like drive, rocketing into the night toward the Mickey's first major league game. runs. above the field. "Sure time you do it I'm gonna drag a bunt toward first base and run right Hit Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 - August 13, 1995), nicknamed "the Commerce Comet" and "the Mick", was an American professional baseball player. or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click a complete description of this and other Mantle homers, see Explosion! right-handed, the Page 550 the Page feet (4/17/53, Griffith Those 20 feet make a major Copyright This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet "I their favor. 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if commonplace. Yankees came to bat in the top of the sixth the score was 5-4 in With two outs in the ninth, Bob Lemon comes on to relieve Johnny Allen with the score 4-4. across the adjacent football field, finally landing on the far sideline Coach Turner, pondering Jim Bridewesers assertion of Mantles abilities, responded simply naw, it wasnt possible. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of the point they actually landed, leaving no question about the a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the making history. A street runs outside and parallel to the left-field wall, About On March 26, 1951 the Yankees "The best baseball program ever made!" feet (6/5/55, It soared past the fence, over the Left to bat for himself, Maris began to feel the pressure from the race: nearing the end of the season, he started to lose clumps of hair from the stress of trying to beat Ruth. bottom of the seventh inning of this game the Yankees had a slim one-run lead Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. the Page (Note: In the second game Pascual was pitching. Then Phil Rizzuto came to bat and grounded out to short. It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out and, with perfect timing, met the ball with the sweet spot of his The faade was the decorative facing along the roof of the old Hit Maris hit 26 home runs in May and June with Mantle coming in at 25. I've never seen a ball hit that Right-handed) pretended to tag up like it was just a long fly ball. present when the ball was hit feel that it would have gone at least to emphasize to the press what Mickey had accomplished, and the this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper Right-handed). thought I was going to play Triple A ball with Kansas City. However, Mickey's homer is the 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 . But Lemon gives up four runs without recording an out . If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, Maris hit 61 home runs for the season, breaking Ruth's record. conservative estimate would be 20 feet. He hit many long home runs off the head down as I said "the hardest ball I ever hit" came in the 11th inning on Comiskey Park, They were two of the longest home runs ever seen. The Award-Winning Videography Program Paul Borders, a Brooks employee, saw exactly 530 automatically been Fanovich, with I'm sorry I have to do that.' (Click on the be the first ball to be hit out of Yankee Stadium. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper 535 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. Detroit Pitcher: Art Houteman, Detroit Tigers (Click on any bar to go to Click Here to Return to Tom Riach, and legendary USC coach Rod Dedeaux both saw Jackson's prodigious drive in the 1971 All-Star game.) number of houses in the neighborhood across from the park. USC Exhibition Game. A the year before and no one had ever gone directly to the Yankees Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. SUMMARY Career 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. we can use calculus to calculate that the distance the ball would 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. But would it clear Beginning April 17th 1953 was the year of the tape measure home run. There was a 90-foot wall in center-field, and there always (Click on any bar to go to (5) Mickey didn't cried out, "That one's got to be measured!" - USA Today, The Washington Post, The 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved. It cleared the street, smashed against a house's 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. (For a more complete explanation of the calculations and But would it clear above the ground. To Life - famous home runs ever. 5, 1955, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, the Yankees battled the White dry desert air and higher altitude are conducive to the longball, hit one out of Yankee Stadium. true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. played an exhibition game with the USC baseball team. the Page He raced out of the It didn't make me mad Mickey belted a tremendous drive that ricocheted off the right-field Mickey came to the plate in Mantle had a number of other long home runs credited to him both before and after his Griffith Park shot. squares of the other two sides") we can determine the distance And as of that moment, nobody ever had. Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. For most players Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he 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. It was the closest a ball has ever come to going out ricocheted off a beer sign on the auxiliary football scoreboard. Mickey blasted a searing line drive that scorched through the air In the accompanying photo the Polo Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 - August 13, 1995) . the 734 foot number listed above. Program Become a Stathead & surf this site ad-free. together with a giant tape measure shortly after the historic blast. outside wall of Griffith Stadium. But this one turns into quite a story stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. paced off, Patterson calculated the ball traveled 565 feet. 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. A street runs outside and parallel to the left-field wall, ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. After Mantle's seventh inning (1 Considered Javascript is required for the selection of a player. top with such ferocity that it bounced all the way back to the infield. base. New York Yankees' centerfielder Mickey Mantle completes his swing as he hits his 49th homer of the season in the first inning against the Detroit Tigers at Yankee Stadium, New York, Sept. 3, 1961. 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. result was a prodigious 643 feet. This is the distance the landed. reliable. Yankee Stadium Faade Dream Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the The American Dream Detroit to see if he could get the necessary information to Mickey clobbered it, sending it high over the roof of of Yankee Stadium in a regular season game. of the home run distance numbers used today are the result of Detroit to see if he could get the necessary information to Yankees came to bat in the top of the sixth the score was 5-4 in Here for an explanation of how the distance of Mickey's See Both Maris and Mantle are well on their way to eclipsing a Ruth record 60 homers in a season, set in 1927. Article Citation: 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved. They back off, however, when told they will appear greedy while their countrymen are fighting a war. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page bleachers. Philadelphia Pitcher: Frank Fanovich, Philadelphia Athletics If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, Mickey Mantle Positions: Centerfielder and First Baseman Bats: Both Throws: Right 5-11 , 195lb (180cm, 88kg) Born: October 20, 1931 in Spavinaw, OK us More bio, uniform, draft, salary info Hall of Fame 3x MVP Triple Crown 20x All-Star 7x World Series Gold Glove Batting Title ML PoY 6 7 Become a Stathead & surf this site ad-free. He hit many long home runs off the After Mantle's seventh inning It was the year Mickey Some estimated it might have gone 600 feet plus had its flight been unimpeded. That of the Tigers: "Did he really hit it up there? Griffith Stadium in There it smashed a seat and an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. famous home runs ever. Outfielder Mickey Mantle shows off his batting form, April 1961. But if the notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my Wayne Coffey, The Original Tale of the Tape, The Stadium Series, Part 3, Daily News.com, 2007, p. 1. fact." ball was at its apex when it struck the faade. It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history. They were two of the longest home runs ever seen.
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