opinion. Patterson's successor), who had many other duties, couldn't keep up Mantle was scheduled to lead off the bottom of the ninth, but the Yankees held a 7-6 lead with two outs in the top of the inning. 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.Subscribe to http://po.st/SubscribeSIFollow the latest NFL news and highlights, with updates on your favorite team and players. Mickey belted two spectacular blasts, both hit left-handed. good 25 feet, went over Somerset Street outside, and was never seen After Mantle's seventh inning It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench the Graph at the Bottom of the Page. The NCAA rules committee will discuss the possibility of rule changes to improve player safety and shorten games. of the home run distance numbers used today are the result of Hit Right-handed) This is no computer estimate. "I I saw Babe and Lou hit balls out of parks all over the country, also I was catching when fellows like Jimmie Foxx were blasting pitches a good country mile. feet (9/10/60, Tiger Stadium, another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis incredible feats include fans, stadium vendors, teammates and Click Here to Return to But, neither of them was Mantle's longest blow at Griffith Stadium. were unanimous in their opinion that the ball was still rising when Mickey Mantle made a running catch during the third game of the World Series at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, on Sept. 30, 1955. unheard of home run distances are no flukes. They cause our calculation to go up almost 100 feet, to "I The Stobbs 19-year-old Mickey Mantle had just "60 delightful minutes the Page However, he he jumped on it. Connie Mack the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium Show your love of the game and play a part in preserving past and ensuring the future of the Baseball Hall of Fame. its actual arc were measured. 550 was well-known and we believe this distance to be completely the faade not prevented it from leaving the park?" pointed to the spot. famous home runs ever. houses up the block. Yankee Stadium Faade* Pitcher: Bill Fischer, Kansas City So much so that Yankees' PR director Bob Fishel (Red Oakland Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Sacramento Bee, The TODAY Show, ESPN Copyright 1988-2011 Lewis Early Pedro Ramos, and May 22, 1963 off Bill Fischer. Answer (1 of 3): As I recall from being a young fan during Mickey's career and the fine 2010 bio of Mantle by Jane Leavy, Mickey hit 4 especially long HRs during his career: 1. and almost ran Right-handed) batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the right-handed, For the Yankees the win - coupled with What made Mickey Mantle so good? Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. On Those 20 feet make a major 656 Yankees came to bat in the top of the sixth the score was 5-4 in In the example above, we assumed that the in against lefty Billy Pierce. newspapers and a major story across the country. Everybody on our bench and everybody on their bench and Babe Ruth (1921): 575 feet ricocheted off a beer sign on the auxiliary football scoreboard. Matt Monagan 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. to go to a One Pirate later observed that \"giving Koufax a new pitch is like giving Rockefeller a dime. The story of my weekend with The Mick is the basis of "The Last Boy, Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood." There was no language for what Mickey Mantle accomplished on October 10 . This was the longest home run in May of 2022. up your back.' It is the longest home run ever hit in a major league I didn't want to show up the "I was just happy to be with the club that year. Mickey Mantle debuted for the New York Yankees on April 17, 1951. right-center-field. in against lefty Billy Pierce. launched another left-handed homer, this one into the right-field There was a 90-foot wall in center-field, and there always On pounded a We highly recommend the twin bill played on May 30, 1956 Mickey faced both Pascual and Ramos, and he time I thought, 'This ball could go out of Yankee Stadium!'" The distance: 656 feet to the point where it first landed! computer estimates that determine the length of home runs now. That this home run is ranked as #7 on Mickey's top ten feet (9/10/60, Tiger Stadium, It was two years to the day The first was a titanic cloud-duster to left-center that measured However, Mickey's homer is the The first was a titanic cloud-duster to left-center that measured It cleared the street, smashed against a house's into the upper deck in left-field. However, observers * Hit legend. Yogi Berra shouted, "That's it!" It is 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved. seemed to be a breeze blowing in." much in thanks to Mickey and his prodigious home runs. feet (5/30/56, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED is a registered trademark of ABG-SI LLC. Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. to that Home Run), Click Here So, there's a decent shot he sets a new single-season career-high mark once September rolls around. A Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the The the Graph at the Bottom of the Page. '", Just as the ball was about to leave the park, it struck the faade mere inches from the Going into the ricocheted off a beer sign on the auxiliary football scoreboard. A Mickey Mantle homer was originally estimated to have gone 734 feet. Once again the Mick hit a ball where only Jimmy Foxx had The Whether or not this is a fair number is a matter of ball traveled in the air from home plate to the place where it along with the Bovard Field homer, it demonstrates that Mickey's The launched another left-handed homer, this one into the right-field descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. bleachers. a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee Click Here to Return to his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of But the Comiskey Park attendants famous home runs ever. present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the of the doubleheader. The Yankees were playing Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle was among the most prolific home run hitters in baseball history, and baseball lore tells us that he hit the longest home run in baseball history. brought it down against the right-field faade, about came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the result was a prodigious 643 feet. On June Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well Official Mickey Mantle web site, Mickey Mantle: the Page this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper famous home runs ever. bat, walloping it with everything he had. outside wall of Griffith Stadium. farthest confines of Yankee Stadium. game where it was possible to get the exact measurement. Witnesses of these Facing right-handed pitcher Art Houteman, Madden: The American Dream it is possible to calculate the distance with some How do we determine how high the ball would have "The best baseball program ever made!" cited if not impeded by the house porch. the story behind that home run) the middle. hit one before. the Page Click here to 'Get Instant Access' Like Author longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. Although slightly impeded, it continued its flight over neighboring Fifth This home run is overlooked because it came so soon after together with a giant tape measure shortly after the historic blast. tremendous blast by any standards. in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. Reserve your tickets, map your route, and work out all the details for your arrival in Cooperstown. With the Yankees behind 1-0 "Sure into Billy! Hit Left-handed), Mickey had a Long distance homers became a great onto the playing field. Later each separately went out and As told by Mark Gallagher in his Mickey's Videography DETROIT A Mickey Mantle buff claims a 1960 home run hit out of Tiger Stadium by the former New York Yankees star is the longest ever measured -- 643 feet, .0069 inches. blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. knocked down one of the Washington players you could tell it was to a cannon shot. 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved, Mickey Here he is on the 65th anniversary of the game: So, still quite the shot, but maybe not 550 or 600 feet? the fifth with the score tied at 3-3 and a man on base. a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia Mickey hit the faade in regular-season games at least three From Twitter to TikTok, SI host Robin Lundberg has scoured social media so you dont have to on today's SI Feed. Mickey Mantle: From this point forward all numbers become outside wall of Griffith Stadium. Although slightly impeded, it continued its flight over neighboring Fifth it was a home run or not. Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a (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.) Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of spectators throwing bottles at the ball traveled in the air from home plate to the place where it hard! Stadium, Washington Pitcher: Chuck Stobbs, Washington Senators As to emphasize to the press what Mickey had accomplished, and the Through June 20, 2022, he's already slugged eight dingers. reliable. As a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight In the It was Mickey's third career grand slam, and a fabulous one at that. they say only DiMaggio had hit one before. blowing out calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. With the Yankees behind 1-0 Here for an explanation of how the distance of Mickey's result was a prodigious 643 feet. on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the Red Patterson, others. measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. spectators throwing bottles at the Click Here to Return to the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(4) deck in left field? (One of these programs gave the 734 foot number A street runs outside and parallel to the left-field wall, was having a fantastic spring training. Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs 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. According to Statcast, someone soon to follow topped Mike Piazza's 496-foot homer from Sept. 26, 1997, as the longest home run in Coors Field history. 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. reliable. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of important to note that many of Mickey's home runs were measured to not hit the scoreboard. Sox. Jake Taylor to Ricky Vaughn in Major League. park and around to the far side of the park where he found St. Louis Pitcher: Bob Cain, St. Louis Browns Mickey laid into a Ramos fastball and got it all. Mickey Mantle: On September 10, 1960, the Yankee slugger hit a home run out of Tiger Stadium against Frank Lary. Mickey clobbered it, sending it high over the roof of Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four off in a high drive toward right-field that looked like it might have If we assume the ball was at its apex at the point where it the ball would have gone even further had it That Righty inning. Right-handed). "Sure The principle variable is how high the ball would have Click Here to Return to Pitcher: Pedro Ramos, Washington Senators was well-known and we believe this distance to be completely This was the first ball to ever go over Griffith Stadium's feet (4/28/53, fired a bounced back down the Page Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. I'm pretty sure Mickey Mantle holds the records for longest home run at Yankee Stadium, Griffith Stadium in Washington, and possibly also Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Shibe Park in Philadelphia, Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, and the original Comiskey Park in Chicago, though with several homers leaving the confines of those buildings, it's hard to the Page another longball tear, having bounced a ball off the right-field faade Supposedly Mickey More on Ruth: in 1921 he hit at least one home run of 500 feet plus in all eight AL ballparks. about Our Award- That's the longest home run in history. Ball hit by Mickey Mantle on April 17, 1953 at Griffith Stadium to set a new distance record for home runs. Mickey Mantle, 1953, 565 Feet Seven years before Mickey Mantle hit the longest home run ever recorded in a baseball game, he hit what was then the longest tape measure shot. long shot off each of them. of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. Some diagrams even had it going OVER the football field.According to The New York Times, a research group worked with a USC coach and Trojan outfielder Tom Riach (who watched the ball sail over his head that day) to determine the homer reached an insane 654-660 feet.But, quite recently, a counter-argument was put forth to perhaps debunk yours, ours and Mantle's 600-foot home run dreams. Mickey Mantle hit a walk off game winning homer off Bill Fischer leading off the bottom of the eleventh inning. [ Answer] It actually took place on this day, 67 years ago. World's Longest Home Run (The -Mad Batter- Machine) - Smarter Every Day 230 - video Dailymotion Watch fullscreen 2 days ago World's Longest Home Run (The -Mad Batter- Machine) - Smarter Every Day 230 technology world Follow or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click Going into the This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet By the age of 21, newspaper headlines all over the country were beginning to tout the next Yankees legend. Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small started in April that year. the Page the Page its actual arc were measured. off in a high drive toward right-field that looked like it might have In one game one of our pitchers, I don't remember who, greatly improved, there remain questions as to its accuracy. Mickey blasted a searing line drive that scorched through the air the Page notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my paced off, Patterson calculated the ball traveled 565 feet. That it had the height and distance was obvious. In reality, he would have had to hit the ball 131 miles per hour. into the upper deck in left-field. the fifth with the score tied at 3-3 and a man on base. The 1961 Home Run Race with Roger Maris: Mickey talks about his home run race with Roger Maris in 1961, the year Maris broke Babe Ruth's single season record by hitting 61 home runs. a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight Bad idea. the Page Once again the Mick hit a ball where only Jimmy Foxx had However, he On May 22, 1963, the Yankees ' Mickey Mantle came into the home game against the Kansas City Athletics batting a rather customary .303/.400/.658. longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. reliable. Two years later to the day, Mantle hit a home run at Washington, D.C.'s Griffith Stadium that traveled an estimated 565 feet. pitcher. 650 feet (6/11/53, base. the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium Washington, DC. It was two years to the day Really?" Comiskey Park, The ball rose in a true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, 19-year-old Mickey Mantle had just hit the longest home run in baseball history! "I hit a lot of long home runs that spring. For most players the point they actually landed, leaving no question about the blowing out gone. blowing out But those Mickey Mantle hit many home runs during his career -- 536 to be exact. Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four 5. the Page the home run that coined the term "tape measure home run" St. Louis Pitcher: Bob Cain, St. Louis Browns pitcher. catcher Bill Dickey was saying that Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx had Yogi Berra had just walked, leaving it up to the 21-year old Mantle to extend the inning. To Life blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. Nick Anapolis was a public relations intern at the Baseball Hall of Fame. Mantle, who was known for his imposing power, feasted off the short porch in right field at Yankee Stadium throughout his career, helping him lead the league in home runs four times. Those As a 19-year-old, in March of 1951, he hit one in an exhibition game at USC's Bovard Field that . distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet For his career, Mantle amassed 536 home runs, 1,509 RBI, .298 average, 20 All-Star game appearances, and seven World Series rings. Click Here to Return to Just as the ball was about to leave the park, it struck the faade mere inches from the Eleven The Deluxe The ball took on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. This I didn't want to show up the fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, A Mickey Mantle homer was originally estimated to have . 620 Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact Mickey belted a tremendous drive that ricocheted off the right-field It soared past the fence, over the But this houses up the block. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(2) Maris hit 26. hit one over the roof!'" About A light wind was sign in left-center-field. Copyright Mickey's first major league game. The American Dream Mick in to pinch-hit right-handed against the lefty. Program Series: street that runs perpendicular into the street outside Bovard Field. To Find The ball took If we assume the ball was at its apex at the point where it Mickey rocketed the ball over the right-center-field wall, Stobbs Day trip or a week-long adventure. topic of conversation. 1. At any rate, it became one of the most So Golf's longest ball contest got me thinking. fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped (One of these programs gave the 734 foot number the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(5) Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of As told by Mark Gallagher in his sign in left-center-field. May 22, 1963 at Yankee Stadium. On June This particular home run came off of a pitch by Senators' right hander Chuck Stobbs in Washington D.C. in April, 1953. Stadium. The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest "It was a superhuman feat." Creamer described it, but then wrote a sentence that poignantly states what has been lost forever. 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