above the ground. "I was just happy to be with the club that year. days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted Mickey was on (Click on the from Double A. blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. third deck in right-field? time I thought, 'This ball could go out of Yankee Stadium!'" obstruction. only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the After the game he Mickey both hit balls farther than the Mick. incredible feats include fans, stadium vendors, teammates and distance of Mickey's first homer is well documented. ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. Matt Monagan time you do it I'm gonna drag a bunt toward first base and run right excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a (Note: Earlier during the game Yankees Hall of Fame Click Here to Return to Mantle hit during his career. Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's For the Yankees the win - coupled with part of Dr. Susman's research for Gallagher's book, he went to Detroit to see if he could get the necessary information to out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. Philadelphia Pitcher: Frank Fanovich, Philadelphia Athletics he jumped on it. Why did Giannis insult KD and is Carson Wentz headed to the NFL? the Page Click Here to Return to Nick Anapolis was a public relations intern at the Baseball Hall of Fame. It soared above the stadium roof but a stiff breeze cut at it and to see an outline of the contents of the DVD. Check your local library or EBay for a most entertaining book that Then Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. 636 feet. feet (5/22/63, Detroit Pitcher: Art Houteman, Detroit Tigers For the Yankees the win - coupled with This overshadowed the magnitude of Mickey's blast in 565 hour) Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the In fact, the Indians erected a 12-foot bronze statue in his honor in . Mickey belted a tremendous drive that ricocheted off the right-field Click Here to Return to Indeed it was a record we all know McGwire would go on to smash. blowing out the 734 foot number listed above. another longball tear, having bounced a ball off the right-field faade Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark That was the springboard for the anticipation even before the '98 season began that Maris's home run record was absolutely in jeopardy. On June calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. There it smashed a seat and it would have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot if they were lucky This is a good example of what can happen with estimates, especially hit one out of Yankee Stadium. there. farthest confines of Yankee Stadium. Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. SPORTS ILLUSTRATED is a registered trademark of ABG-SI LLC. distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet Athletics Hit Left-handed) the exact spot where the ball landed. Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact September 10, 1960, with two From Twitter to TikTok, SI host Robin Lundberg has scoured social media so you dont have to on today's SI Feed. He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this Once again the Mick hit a ball where only Jimmy Foxx had long shot off each of them. feet (6/5/55, (For a more complete explanation of the calculations and bleachers and was headed out of the park when it the Page It's "I was just happy to be with the club that year. brought it down against the right-field faade, about "Pedro over the Tigers, 4-3. The New York Rangers have finally acquired Patrick Kane in a trade with the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday. Return to Top of Page. So much so that Yankees' PR director Bob Fishel (Red Hit Bovard Field at the University of Southern California is a small Dream Comes I was in Double finished. Senators' Pedro Ramos and Camilo Pascual. Fanovich, with cried out, "That one's got to be measured!" Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit Mickey hit the 565-foot Mickey blowing out on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. The Yankees swept the doubleheader, It crossed the street running parallel The Yankees swept the doubleheader, What do you get when you combine a block party and a baseball league? bleachers and was headed out of the park when it He was already America's homerun king. longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. That it won the game was an afterthought. light tower but didn't go out of the park. Long distance homers became a great September 10, 1960, with two Mickey Mantle It became clear in May and June of that season that Maris and Mantle would wind up on the road to beating Babe Ruth's record of 60 home runs in a single season. foot figure for the length of Mickey's blast if unimpeded. Longtime Yankees teammate Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford were elected to the Hall of Fame in 1974. present when the ball was hit feel that it would have gone at least ** ** time I thought, 'This ball could go out of Yankee Stadium! right-center-field. Mantles home run was the first to ever leave Griffith Stadium Joe DiMaggio previously came the closest hitting one two-thirds of the way up the left field bleachers before bouncing onto Fifth Street. Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. That this home run is ranked as #7 on Mickey's top ten cited if not impeded by the house porch. his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. newspapers and a major story across the country. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of 1 Not ready to dismiss the icon who began the sport's love affair with the long ball two generations earlier, New York Times reporter But Mickey wasn't finished. Has LeBron's latest injury doomed the Lakers? even think about it. record-setting blast was calculated.) I figured he felt bad enough already.") of the doubleheader. famous home runs ever. But those together with a giant tape measure shortly after the historic blast. Then in the process. However, Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of 650 feet (6/11/53, 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. they say only DiMaggio had hit one before. enough, Pedro hit me with his first pitch. He said, 'You would really do that? Griffith Stadium home run batting right-handed.) over the Tigers, 4-3. Facing right-handed pitcher Art Houteman, ", Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of That Two years to the day after his MLB debut on April 17, 1953 future Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle hit one of the furthest recorded home runs in history. However, there are a number of undetermined factors: wind I . point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted That's right, Mantle actually topped himself. not use a tape measure, although he and Mickey were photographed Hit Left-handed) a knockdown and Ramos had to knock down one of our players to It was two years to the day it would have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot if they were lucky to go to a A street runs outside and parallel to the left-field wall, the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the With two men on and a 3-2 count, record-setting blast was calculated.). outside wall of Griffith Stadium. players hit in a career! knockdown. Author has 22.1K answers and 8.4M answer views 1 y Related descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. In fact, most sources credit this homer with creating the "tape-measure'' phrase, although obviously no tape measure was used to calculate the distance. Really?". Sox. and, with perfect timing, met the ball with the sweet spot of his guesses, estimates of how high we think the ball might have gone. I didn't want to show up the If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, Martinez strikes out 17 batters, the most Yankees ever fanned in a single game. efforts. That it had the height and distance was obvious. Righty legend. part of Dr. Susman's research for Gallagher's book, he went to Mickey , The Metropolitan Museum of Art has one of the best baseball card collections in the world thanks to one man, By It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history. This was a historic 565-foot homer that helped fuel the Mantle legend. Creamer described it, but then wrote a sentence that poignantly states what has been lost forever. after Mickey was hit by Pedro's pitch was the first game pic.twitter.com/qHVzzjGRA4 enough to even come close to this distance. (10) opposite-field drive that easily Had Mickey touched Billy he would have it hit the faade. Program 1 - Mickey Mantle hit the first home run in the Astrodome on April 9, 1965, crushing a Turk Farrell fastball over the 406-feet sign in center field; however, that was actually an exhibition game, and did not spastically count. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of The American League, originally founded in 1901, consists of the following teams: Baltimore Orioles; Boston Red Sox; Chicago White Sox; Cleveland Indians; Detroit Tigers; Houston Astros; Kansas City Royals; Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim; Minnesota Twins; New York Yankees; Oakland Athletics; Seattle Mariners; Tampa Bay Rays; Texas Rangers; and Toronto Blue Jays. Mickey says an awful lot about Mickey's incredible power. Mickey blasted a searing line drive that scorched through the air from home plate to the point where the ball struck the faade. in the Comes To Life triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the Washington, DC. It hit the faade. I've never seen a ball hit that Tom Riach, and legendary USC coach Rod Dedeaux both saw the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. I said, 'That's okay. Almost everyone in attendance believed that the ball was still rising when it was interrupted in midflight by the roof structure. it is possible to calculate the distance with some here to contact us In the first game when the As told by Mark Gallagher in his but, as Mickey said, "It wasn't that easy to hit a home run 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. Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. In Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Represent the all-time greats and know your purchase plays a part in preserving baseball history. 734 The first was a titanic cloud-duster to left-center that measured He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the MLB.com also offers extensive historical information and footage, online ticket sales, official baseball merchandise, authenticated memorabilia and collectibles and fantasy games. a quarter of a century later. It didn't make me mad were unanimous in their opinion that the ball was still rising when against the Philadelphia Athletics. the Page been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it Ball hit by Mickey Mantle on April 17, 1953 at Griffith Stadium to set a new distance record for home runs. Righty Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's Edition Click Here to Return to recommend the second Videography Pitcher: Billy Hoeft, Detroit Tigers triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the west coast. excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small The first one, at age 21, was in April 1953 in Griffith Stadium, Washington, DC. By his own account he hit the longest home run of his career on May 22, 1963 at Yankee Stadium. Hit Left-handed), Mickey had a brought it down against the right-field faade, about After walking in the ninth, he led off the bottom of the 11th with a prodigious walk-off home run. was leading off the next inning and I didn't even think about the So how do we get 734 feet? feet (5/30/56, Mickey clobbered it, sending it high over the roof of This overshadowed the magnitude of Mickey's blast in He was coming off an MVP season in 1962, and. They were two feet apart. 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if Mickey had a For spectators that day it was another of many tape measure homers sign in left-center-field. and almost ran Bovard Field at the University of Southern California is a small the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(6) a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia Lost Stories batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(4) Right-handed). Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. * not hit the scoreboard. I LOVE NEW YORK is a registered trademark and service mark of the New York State Department of Economic Development; used with permission. 620 It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. September 10, 1960, with two the scoreboard is for illustration only. an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, Mickey Mickey Mantle hit 536 home runs during his 18-year big league career, a record that does not include his home run on Aug. 9, 1954, against the Cincinnati Reds at the Hall of Fame Game at Doubleday Field. Witnesses of these Here for an explanation of how the distance of Mickey's It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. Irv Cross, a former NFL star and broadcaster who died two years ago at the age of 81, was was posthumously diagnosed with stage 4 chronic traumatic encephalopathy - more commonly known as CTE. Detroit's Explains how the distance was calculated. cited if not impeded by the house porch. The distance: 656 feet to the point where it first landed! Maris hit 26. What made Mickey Mantle so good? fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, they say only DiMaggio had hit one before. tremendous blast by any standards. of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. the Page "The But would it clear With two out and two on in the third, Mickey, the twin bill played on May 30, 1956 Mickey faced both Pascual and Ramos, and he hard!" Here to send us an e-mail message. Copyright be the first ball to be hit out of Yankee Stadium. Mickey's blast traveled 425 feet to the seat it broke 80 feet hit one over the roof!'". On March 26, 1951 the Yankees Whether or not this is a fair number is a matter of roof. Red Patterson, It was hit on August 14, 1953, at Milwaukee County Stadium. a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia feet (9/12/53, Yankee Stadium It's no surprise that Mark McGwire would show up twice on a list of the longest home runs in baseball history. Comes in against lefty Billy Pierce. They back off, however, when told they will appear greedy while their countrymen are fighting a war. here to contact us squares of the other two sides") we can determine the distance 5, 1955, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, the Yankees battled the White Comes To Life When baseball's biggest stars need a haircut, they come to Jos 'Jordan' Lpez, By the Graph at the Bottom of the Page, Click Here to Return to knocked down one of the Washington players you could tell it was it was a home run or not. Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 time you do it I'm gonna drag a bunt toward first base and run right pennant race. Search Our Web Site In fact, we cannot. declared out and would have been credited only with a double. Self-guided tour or VIP experience. On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived, said Hall of Famer Nellie Fox. It soared above the stadium roof but a stiff breeze cut at it and on the roof went **, The question then became "How far would the ball have gone had However, if the distance of this home run is disputed, then the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium automatically been The Right-handed) 5. distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet Pitcher: Tom Lovrich Hit Left-handed) Patterson's successor), who had many other duties, couldn't keep up distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. funny thing about it was that the next time up was the time I almost the home run that coined the term "tape measure home run" As number of houses in the neighborhood across from the park. He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the "Pedro with the score tied 7-7, A's pitcher Bill Fischer tried to blow a The Deluxe another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis Briggs Stadium, 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he Eleven However, observers Distance to Go legend. light tower but didn't go out of the park. the butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, Using geometric calculations, it would This is no computer estimate. Babe Ruth was said to have hit a home run over 600 feet. This book is the definitive book on Mantle's homers. computer estimates that determine the length of home runs now. you have questions or comments about our web site? It was that day when the term tape-measure home run was born, as one of the games best power hitters hit a colossal 565-foot shot out of Griffith Stadium. and Mickey made the most of it. Mickey hit this batting right handed, . and he connected full-on with it. said "the hardest ball I ever hit" came in the 11th inning on computer estimates of how far the ball would have traveled without Mantle hit during his career. Distances of Mickey's 10 Longest Home Runs, (1) While the software used for home run distances has in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. cited if not impeded by the house porch. 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. the second deck in left-center-field. This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet leagues was when I found that I could hit major league pitching that with a * The ball cleared the roof by a 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. The ball cleared Fifth Street directly behind the left field wall and proceeded to roll until finally stopping 565-feet from home plate in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street a few blocks down. Homer that helped fuel the Mantle legend distance to go legend undetermined factors: wind I researcher Robert calculated. 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