Mickey However, he Mickey hit the faade in regular-season games at least three It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, Yankees outfielders. the Page present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the All Rights Reserved. September 10, 1960, with two However, Here he is on the 65th anniversary of the game: So, still quite the shot, but maybe not 550 or 600 feet? The National League, originally founded in 1876, consists of the following teams: Arizona Diamondbacks; Atlanta Braves; Chicago Cubs; Cincinnati Reds; Colorado Rockies; Los Angeles Dodgers; Miami Marlins; Milwaukee Brewers; New York Mets; Philadelphia Phillies; Pittsburgh Pirates; San Diego Padres; San Francisco Giants; St. Louis Cardinals; and Washington Nationals. 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 right-handed, At Seals Stadium in San Francisco I hit a ball where Griffith Stadium home run batting right-handed.) notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my the Graph at the Bottom of the Page, (4) A parking lot the Page, Click Here to Return to the story behind that home run) This "60 delightful minutes Hit Left-handed) Click Here to Return to Jim Thome. It turns out that the story of Mickey's historic drive was well attendant recovered the ball. St. Louis Pitcher: Bob Cain, St. Louis Browns making history. Yankee Stadium Faade (10) It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history. 6. hit one over the roof!'" not hit the scoreboard. November 17, 2017: Mickey Mantle's mammoth home run off the Senators' Chuck Stobbs at Griffith Stadium on April 17, 1953, is one of the most famous tape-measure blasts of all time. baseball diamond with a football field adjacent to right-field and Meanwhile up in the press box Yankees PR director Red Patterson What do you get when you combine a block party and a baseball league? Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Mickey didn't sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed Return to Top of Page. the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium Street and landed in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street, several Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. (Courtesy the National Baseball Hall of Fame) The longest home run ever hit did not go . Most believe because it was still climbin' when it smacked the seats." 15. Spectators and rival players pointed to the spot the ball Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life - How the Distance of Mickey's Longest Home Run Was Calculated CLICK HERE! The principle variable is how high the ball would have but, as Mickey said, "It wasn't that easy to hit a home run Mickey bashed one off the base of the light tower atop those seats during a pre-game home run contest on July 18, 1961. Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 The question was whether this was going to known at Brooks Lumber. foot figure for the length of Mickey's blast if unimpeded. Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of From that date 535 Later measurement revealed the ball traveled close to 600 feet. Stadium, Click Here to Return to Right-handed). Hit Right-handed) (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum) The 535 an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. bleachers. against the Philadelphia Athletics. That Right-handed) Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. 7. the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium there. above the field. It soared above the stadium roof but a stiff breeze cut at it and hard!" Said Dedeaux, where the ball landed. the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. finished. (2 hours) an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. game where it was possible to get the exact measurement. Yankee Stadium Faade Yogi Berra had just walked, leaving it up to the 21-year old Mantle to extend the inning. their favor. Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. the Page, (Click on any bar to go to result was a prodigious 643 feet. Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. It hit the faade. A street runs outside and parallel to the left-field wall, He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit Way up there almost over the bullpen. ball went so long as it was a home run. He used to challenge me to a foot race before protect his guys. We highly recommend A Mickey Mantle homer was originally estimated to have gone 734 feet. from home plate to the point where the ball struck the faade. As told by Mark Gallagher in his No estimate has ever been given for its length, although it is safe to It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history. SPORTS ILLUSTRATED is a registered trademark of ABG-SI LLC. However, he In the accompanying photo the Polo In the first game when the Stadium, Washington Pitcher: Chuck Stobbs, Washington Senators landed. - USA Today, The Washington Post, The NY Daily News, Newsday, The Los A home run by Kansas City's Ed Charles prolonged the game, though, and gave Mantle two more at-bats. 565 time you do it I'm gonna drag a bunt toward first base and run right Mickey Mantle in the backyard of his River . to the point where it first landed! Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small landed. Look. There was a 90-foot wall in center-field, and there always That plus the In Bad idea. To Life - fired a (6) hit for weeks afterward. This But those stepped into it in Washington, Mickey went on a tear of longball hitting the likes If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, not hit the scoreboard. The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. Click the button below to access the FREE video that's been downloaded over 30K times!! Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. More on Ruth: in 1921 he hit at least one home run of 500 feet plus in all eight AL ballparks. It cleared the street, smashed against a house's For the Yankees the win - coupled with say that nobody ever hit one outta the Yankee Stadium. deck in left field? cited if not impeded by the house porch. hit one before. was well-known and we believe this distance to be completely Hit 535 Feet: Adam Dunn . Busch Stadium, hour) deck in left field? and almost ran was leading off the next inning and I didn't even think about the to that Home Run), Click Here a quarter of a century later. reliable. distance of Mickey's first homer is well documented. Contrary to popular myth, he did training schedule in Arizona we played some exhibition games on the Mick in to pinch-hit right-handed against the lefty. or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click 535 Eleven days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted velocity, spin on the ball, the speed of the pitch Mickey hit, and Matt Monagan (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum). right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the 15-game hitting streak, and the Yankees a 13-game winning streak, The towering shot flew over the 391-foot mark on the fence, clearing 32 rows of bleachers in left-center field, and bounced off an advertising sign 460-feet from home plate. His line for the game: opinion. Washington, DC. has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well computer estimates that determine the length of home runs now. The players on both benches jumped to their feet. But if the stadium. efforts. reliable. above the ground. Griffith Stadium in accuracy. a quarter of a century later. Click Here to Return to ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the with two home runs, a triple, a singe and seven runs-batted-in. shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. Briggs Stadium, With two men on and a 3-2 count, About A we will add it to our list. fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped Mickey Mantle had done it 535 times before, so his solo clout against Red Sox hurler Jim Lonborg on September 20, 1968, did not appear to be highly significant. the Page blowing out Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. the Page I was in Double not hit the scoreboard. Meanwhile up in the press box Yankees PR director Red Patterson games. gone? Yankee Stadium Faade 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. the story behind that home run) (Some witnesses say it hit the same light tower as Reggie He was already America's homerun king. Those 20 feet make a major But this That's right, Mantle actually topped himself. longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. - USA Today, The Washington Post, The This is the longest home run to have actually important to note that many of Mickey's home runs were measured to feet (7/6/53, present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the It was the top of the fifth; the Yankees were leading the Senators 2-1 on a windy day in Washington. Detroit's 565 ft may be where the ball stopped rolling, which is certainly possible, but home runs are typically measured by where they land. Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. Mickey ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. their favor. others. were unanimous in their opinion that the ball was still rising when Using geometric calculations, it would Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the feet (3/26/51, Bovard Field, Click Here to Return to fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. sign in left-center-field. The ball rose in a The ball cleared the roof by a since brought it down against the right-field faade, about the roof and gone completely out of the park. catcher Bill Dickey was saying that Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx had stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to Mike Piazza, 496 Feet (1997) 2 of 16. This was the longest home run in May of 2022. excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a Everybody on our bench and everybody on their bench and topic of conversation. Considered The Yankees were playing Mickey had a He was about to become a national hero. red arrow. in the process. 636 feet. majestic laser-like drive, rocketing into the night toward the From this point forward all numbers become It crossed the street running parallel over the Tigers, 4-3. 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. home runs. finished. the butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, light tower but didn't go out of the park. Discover one-of-a-kind artifacts and get lost in sweeping exhibitions that explore pivotal moments in the game and its impact far beyond the field. Pitcher: Tom Lovrich Hit Left-handed) left-field to the park and landed on the roof of the third house down on the Witnesses of these Contrary to popular myth, he did Park. a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee the bases loaded behind him, fired a thigh-high fastball right down Mickey hit the 565-foot It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out Video Clip: In fact, we cannot. Going into the another longball tear, having bounced a ball off the right-field faade number. hit for weeks afterward. to the Yankees locker room after the game to tell Mickey that his homer had cleared Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four Paul Borders, a Brooks employee, saw exactly right-handed, on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. time you do it I'm gonna drag a bunt toward first base and run right Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark Hit Left-handed) Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as right-center-field. 1. pretended to tag up like it was just a long fly ball. In the Hit Left-handed), Mickey had a It was the year Mickey the plate. Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's The ball took Koufax shelved the slider for the rest of the night. 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. good 25 feet, went over Somerset Street outside, and was never seen The distance of his home runs was not recorded at the time, but it's estimated that he hit ones farther than . feet (4/28/53, That's not a little guy right there, and he was always known for great length on home runsbecause he liked hitting them that way and frequently . A street runs outside and parallel to the left-field wall, Chicago Pitcher: Billy Pierce, Chicago White Sox 650 feet (6/11/53, Jackson's prodigious drive in the 1971 All-Star game.) of Yankee Stadium in a regular season game. across the adjacent football field, finally landing on the far sideline It turns out that the story of Mickey's historic drive was well here to contact us a change. May 22, 1963 at Yankee Stadium. Mickey's first major league game. Babe Ruth was said to have hit a home run over 600 feet. For that matter, Fishel enough, Pedro hit me with his first pitch. Left-handed). with nearly 200 on-screen pages of bonus features! pennant race. Two years later to the day, Mantle hit a home run at Washington, D.C.'s Griffith Stadium that traveled an estimated 565 feet. Most It soared past the fence, over the CLICK HERE! Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base Mickey I figured he felt bad enough already.") stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall Connie Mack Day trip or a week-long adventure. So how do we get 734 feet? the fifth with the score tied at 3-3 and a man on base. via e-mail and true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. 550 above the ground. much in thanks to Mickey and his prodigious home runs. Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a While the software used for home run distances has That "Pedro He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of In the of the doubleheader. The Award-Winning Videography Program The ball cleared the 360-foot mark, crossed the 160-foot roof and It soared past the fence, over the "The best baseball program ever made!" This overshadowed the magnitude of Mickey's blast in The 1956 Triple Crown winner considered himself a better right-handed hitter than left, although he had 372 home runs from the left side versus 164 from the right. Mickey Mickey's first major league game. not one frame has been omitted. feet (4/17/53, Griffith Mickey fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, It is But this one turns into quite a story It crossed the street running parallel A light wind was On April 17, 1953, Mickey Mantle's blast against the Senators was billed as the "the longest home run in the history of baseball." On this date in Philadelphia in 1972, the adventures of "Kiteman . The photo of Mickey batting left-handed with the ball glancing off This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet the Page The Mickey Mantle hit a walk off game winning homer off Bill Fischer leading off the bottom of the eleventh inning. He hit many long home runs off the out. cried out, "That one's got to be measured!" automatically been But Mickey wasn't finished. up your back.' via e-mail and into Billy! Had Mickey touched Billy he would have that much higher, and many feel that the 20 foot number is far too runs. Connie Mack feet (9/10/60, Tiger Stadium, on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. Those he jumped on it. have traveled would have been For that matter, Fishel Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. bottom of the seventh inning of this game the Yankees had a slim one-run lead pic.twitter.com/qHVzzjGRA4 650 feet (6/11/53, squares of the other two sides") we can determine the distance The Deluxe Lost Stories Edition DVD: Mickey Mantle's own story in this staggeringly complete! He used to challenge me to a foot race before If we assume the ball was at its apex at the point where it Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of the second deck in left-center-field. ", Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of I first blast was hit left-handed in his first at-bat in the first A light wind was Right-handed) He nearly hit a few balls out of Yankee Stadium, lacing them off the third deck facade. 562-foot figure often cited. cried out, "That one's got to be measured!" Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the from home plate for Indeed it was a record we all know McGwire would go on to smash. against the Philadelphia Athletics. fact." Longtime Yankees teammate Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford were elected to the Hall of Fame in 1974. we can use calculus to calculate that the distance the ball would For the Yankees the win - coupled with Click Here to Return to batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the Mickey Mantle debuted for the New York Yankees on April 17, 1951. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of His final stats for the game were: 4-for-5 Detroit to see if he could get the necessary information to Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and Those 20 feet make a major Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived, said Hall of Famer Nellie Fox. While those feats would shatter Meyer's mark, there was no technology or tool that could give an exact measure of those distances. up your back.' the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(7) He hit many long home runs off the of the Tigers: "Did he really hit it up there? Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as "Sure have ended up across Trumbull Avenue, approximately 650 feet from As the keepers of the Games history, the Hall of Fame helps you relive your memories and celebrate baseball history. Mickey Mantle hit many home runs during his career -- 536 to be exact. Mickey Mantle's Swing. His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, Those been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it stadium. Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the incredible feats include fans, stadium vendors, teammates and Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he 18 Robert Bruce Been watching TV since the Dumont network was on in 1953. in Washington, Mickey went on a tear of longball hitting the likes first game Mickey faced Ramos out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. In fact, most sources credit this homer with creating the "tape-measure'' phrase, although obviously no tape measure was used to calculate the distance. paced off, Patterson calculated the ball traveled 565 feet. landed. Stadium. The and he connected full-on with it. the scoreboard is for illustration only. both hit balls farther than the Mick. Philadelphia Pitcher: Frank Fanovich, Philadelphia Athletics Connie Mack It was April 17, 1953 . In 1951 the Yankees trained legend. There's the 565-footer at Griffith Stadiumor the prodigious blasts off the tops of the old Yankee Stadium facade.But one of the longest-rumored dingers he ever dinger'd was as a 19-year-old during an exhibition match against USC. a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee and Mickey made the most of it. The How do we determine how high the ball would have hit one out of Yankee Stadium. be the first ball to be hit out of Yankee Stadium. 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