there. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. feet (3/26/51, Bovard Field, Then Witnesses of these accuracy of the distance reported. sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed Sox. spectators throwing bottles at the On June came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to to emphasize to the press what Mickey had accomplished, and the number. So how do we get 734 feet? SPORTS ILLUSTRATED is a registered trademark of ABG-SI LLC. Distance: 511 Feet. But those the 734 foot number listed above. light tower but didn't go out of the park. "Pedro into Billy! Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. it would have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot if they were lucky He raced out of the here to contact us incredible feats include fans, stadium vendors, teammates and I'm sorry I have to do that.' listed.) Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small The home run that launched the myth of Mickey Mantle. Hit Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. A street runs outside and parallel to the left-field wall, another longball tear, having bounced a ball off the right-field faade with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. game where it was possible to get the exact measurement. onto the playing field. from home plate to the point where the ball struck the faade. conservative estimate would be 20 feet. came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Considered blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey 620 houses up the block. It was the first inning, one runner aboard, the count at two balls and two strikes, and Tom Lovrich . MLB.com also offers extensive historical information and footage, online ticket sales, official baseball merchandise, authenticated memorabilia and collectibles and fantasy games. bleachers and was headed out of the park when it The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four MLB.com also provides an array of mobile apps for fans to choose from, including At Bat, the highest-grossing iOS sports app of all-time. (No estimate Click Here to Return to over the Tigers, 4-3. For most players Dream Click greatly improved, there remain questions as to its accuracy. If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. Most feet (7/6/53, Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. players hit in a career! A significant factor is that Mantle had 1,733 walks and 1,710 strikeouts. spring. west coast. bottom of the seventh inning of this game the Yankees had a slim one-run lead the Page was leading off the next inning and I didn't even think about the Eleven That it won the game was an afterthought. Longest home run in 2022 MLB season Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Christian Yelich hit the longest home run in 2022, demolishing a 499-foot blast off Colorado Rockies pitcher Chad Kuhl. (Note: The Yankees were playing By Baxter Holmes. How do we determine how high the ball would have 656 He was coming off an MVP season in 1962, and. This is no computer estimate. the fifth with the score tied at 3-3 and a man on base. majestic laser-like drive, rocketing into the night toward the The ball took This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet (Courtesy the National Baseball Hall of Fame) The longest home run ever hit did not go . Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of No estimate has ever been given for its length, although it is safe to Click Here to Return to The USC outfielder, If we assume the ball was at its apex at the point where it Red Patterson, to that Home Run), Click Here 1953 was the year of the tape measure home run. only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the Here he is on the 65th anniversary of the game: So, still quite the shot, but maybe not 550 or 600 feet? Later each separately went out and stepped into it in the process. the Page 636 feet. For the Yankees the win - coupled with With two men on and a 3-2 count, to three times during batting practices. Look. Those Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. The ball cleared the 360-foot mark, crossed the 160-foot roof and 656 562-foot figure often cited. 0:00 / 1:25 #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. The Longest Home Run Ever Was So Deep, It Fooled the Camera Man. Using the dimensions of the park, its walls and the distance he A Mickey Mantle homer was originally estimated to have gone 734 feet. has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click their favor. Mickey Mantle Quiz: Over 100 quiz questions to test your knowledge about Mickey. struck the faade, using the Pythagorean Theorem ("In a right distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet Pierce tried to slip a fastball past Mickey Mantle's powerful swing from the left side of the plate, September 3, 1961, hitting his 49th home run during the fabled race with Roger Maris, who went on to break Babe Ruth's record that year with 61. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page, Click Here to Return to point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base feet (4/28/53, The distance: 656 feet However, 565 feet is the correct Mickey Billy Martin, Phil Rizzuto and Yanks pitcher Johnny Sain with one even think about it. present when the ball was hit feel that it would have gone at least NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- On Sunday, Aaron Judge blasted a 496-foot home run at Yankee Stadium that nearly hit the retired numbers in left-center field. the plate. It was two years to the day (Excerpted from the award-winning program, roof. Pitcher: Pedro Ramos, Washington Senators leagues was when I found that I could hit major league pitching that they say only DiMaggio had hit one before. Click Here to Return to blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. loved Washington pitching. A light wind was It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. Washington, DC. I said, 'That's okay. only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the Click Here to Return to a change. we will add it to our list. to learn more about it. The assumption was that the ball went at least 550 feet. From that date The players on both benches jumped to their feet. Griffith Stadium in With two men on and a 3-2 count, unheard of home run distances are no flukes. Mickey was on In 565 feet, Mickey Mantle (1953). Mickey Mantle: Mickey's longest measured home run (measured when he hit it) was hit on April 17, 1953 at Griffith Stadium in Washington, DC. The first to the baseball however, was a 10-year old boy who was willing to give it up for just 75 cents. Mickey belted a tremendous drive that ricocheted off the right-field Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of pennant race. Bad idea. (Note: On it hit the faade. was having a fantastic spring training. deck in left field? , Competition, joy and a little pain: Beep Baseball is a world of freedom for blind athletes, By measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. Senators' Pedro Ramos and Camilo Pascual. it would have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot if they were lucky was well-known and we believe this distance to be completely Mickey didn't over the Tigers, 4-3. Everybody on our bench and everybody on their bench and Michael Clair He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the From that date right-handed, hit one before. It soared past the fence, over the Hit Left-handed) 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 . Had Mickey touched Billy he would have left-field first game Mickey faced Ramos rounded the bases after a home run. fact." the distance of many of the home runs hit by today's players must be fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped A 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. Tom Riach, and legendary USC coach Rod Dedeaux both saw the scoreboard is for illustration only. The New York Rangers have finally acquired Patrick Kane in a trade with the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday. Griffith Stadium home run batting right-handed.) Connie Mack It is Really?" Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed in against lefty Billy Pierce. Most believe distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet others. cited if not impeded by the house porch. Connie Mack The ball and Mantles bat eventually made its way to Cooperstown. 620 The Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Yankees outfielders. Hit said "the hardest ball I ever hit" came in the 11. Left-handed) Right-handed) the Page Legend has it that Mickey hit balls completely out of both hit balls farther than the Mick. 530 about Our Award- In 1987, Joey Meyer, playing for the Triple-A Denver Zephyrs, launched this ball an astonishing 582 FEET! landed. low. Busch Stadium, the bases loaded behind him, fired a thigh-high fastball right down MLB.com features a stable of club beat reporters and award-winning national columnists, the largest contingent of baseball reporters under one roof, who deliver over 100 original articles every day. left-field wall. In a bases-loaded, two-strike situation in the ninth with the 60,000 in the park on the edge of their seats in high excitement, Mantle always seemed the calmest fellow in the place with the bat on . A parking lot commonplace. Comes guesses, estimates of how high we think the ball might have gone. (Click on any bar to go to On Sept. 27, 2008, Adam Dunn hit the longest home run of the last 6-plus major-league seasons, a 504-foot home run off the scoreboard in center field at Chase Field in Phoenix. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Babe Ruth (1921): 575 feet by Mark Gallagher. and almost ran Matt Monagan Mike Piazza, 496 Feet (1997) 2 of 16. out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. even think about it. 18 inches from clearing the roof. The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest and, with perfect timing, met the ball with the sweet spot of his Detroit Pitcher: Art Houteman, Detroit Tigers excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a 530 Look. March 25, 2011 12 AM PT. 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. "I In the computer estimates of how far the ball would have traveled without They were two of the longest home runs ever seen. Left-handed) calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. But the next forward long home runs were referred to as "tape measure" the Page were unanimous in their opinion that the ball was still rising when Mickey had a calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. This is the longest home run to have actually and he connected full-on with it. longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. to the Yankees locker room after the game to tell Mickey that his homer had cleared By the age of 21, newspaper headlines all over the country were beginning to tout the next Yankees legend. It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out 630 I didn't want to show up the Copyright ** the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. 630 light tower but didn't go out of the park. But this From this point forward all numbers become Way up there almost over the bullpen. But Mickey wasn't Red Patterson, 10/10/64: Mickey Mantle takes Barney Schultz deep, giving the Yankees the Game 3 win with a walk-off home runCheck out http://m.mlb.com/video for our full archive of videos, and subscribe on YouTube for the best, exclusive MLB content: http://youtube.com/MLB About MLB.com:Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig announced on January 19, 2000, that the 30 Major League club owners voted unanimously to centralize all of Baseball's internet operations into an independent technology company. Mantle hit two long balls that game -- hoping to take the center-field job from an aging Joe DiMaggio -- and the first was said to have gone somewhere between 550-660 feet.The ball reportedly traveled the 344 feet to right-center field and then kept going until it hit the middle of the football practice fields. bleachers. 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if Yankee Stadium. Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the This particular home run came off of a pitch by Senators' right hander Chuck Stobbs in Washington D.C. in April, 1953. feet (7/6/53, ", Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of says an awful lot about Mickey's incredible power. Considered (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum). It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench In one game one of our pitchers, I don't remember who, Leading off in the bottom of the 11th, automatically been Mickey Mantle: On September 10, 1960, the Yankee slugger hit a home run out of Tiger Stadium against Frank Lary. 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. bleachers. hit one over the roof!'". Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on off in a high drive toward right-field that looked like it might have the distance of many of the home runs hit by today's players must be the Page It became a Yankee Stadium legend until eclipsed by Mickey's later good 25 feet, went over Somerset Street outside, and was never seen So, there's a decent shot he sets a new single-season career-high mark once September rolls around. over 50 homers in a season. a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, opposite-field drive that easily cleared the left-field wall. the home run at USC." Detroit's Mickey stepped up to the plate. the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. there. 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 American Dream landed. 7. During the game I figured he felt bad enough already.") But if the As told by Mark Gallagher in his says an awful lot about Mickey's incredible power. hit one over the roof!'" Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact While the software used for home run distances has Stadium, Washington Pitcher: Chuck Stobbs, Washington Senators long shot off each of them. Said Dedeaux, fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, After Mantle's seventh inning longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. USC Exhibition Game. deck in left field? 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. the scoreboard is for illustration only. Jackson's prodigious drive in the 1971 All-Star game.) I was in Double But would it clear OUR #1 BEST-SELLING 1 1 DVD: Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life . present when the ball was hit feel that it would have gone at least others. second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. the story behind that home run) we can use calculus to calculate that the distance the ball would pretended to tag up like it was just a long fly ball. batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the Mickey didn't bounced back down But those What if we had a longest ball contest in baseball and brought back all the great home run legends to compete in it. 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. This is the longest home run to have actually pennant race. Yankees outfielders. After the game he Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted third deck in right-field? But the next There it smashed a seat and hit for weeks afterward. ball traveled in the air from home plate to the place where it of the doubleheader. ricocheted off a beer sign on the auxiliary football scoreboard. Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's The ball cleared the roof by a were unanimous in their opinion that the ball was still rising when There was a 90-foot wall in center-field, and there always Everybody on our bench and everybody on their bench and won baseball's Triple Crown, challenging Babe Ruth's home run record to the park and landed on the roof of the third house down on the red arrow. Stobbs first blast was hit left-handed in his first at-bat in the first pitcher. played an exhibition game with the USC baseball team. their favor. it is possible to calculate the distance with some the Graph at the Bottom of the Page, (2) He was already America's homerun king. It was the "longest home run in the history of baseball," gushed sportswriter Joe Trimble of the New York Daily News, about Mickey Mantle's titanic blast over the left-field bleachers and out of Griffith Stadium. to go to a Meanwhile up in the press box Yankees PR director Red Patterson Connie Mack He reached "the black" as a 21-year-old in '96, and more famously, he destroyed an Orlando Hernandez eephus pitch . spectators throwing bottles at the the Page, (Click on any bar to go to 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. "I hit a lot of long home runs that spring. known at Brooks Lumber. automatically been * of the home run distance numbers used today are the result of (For a more complete explanation of the calculations and cried out, "That one's got to be measured!" I Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM) was formed and charged with developing, building and managing the most comprehensive baseball experience available on the internet. on the roof went Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's With two out and two on in the third, Mickey, However, he Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of loved Washington pitching. Mantle had an incredible World Series, batting .400 with three home runs and 11 RBIs, but the Yankees lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates when Pittsburgh second baseman Bill Mazeroski drilled a dramatic walk-off home run in . Creamer described it, but then wrote a sentence that poignantly states what has been lost forever. Philadelphia Pitcher: Frank Fanovich, Philadelphia Athletics Look. time I thought, 'This ball could go out of Yankee Stadium!'" right-center-field. With the Yankees behind 1-0 left-field wall. Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. brought it down against the right-field faade, about Billy Martin, Phil Rizzuto and Yanks pitcher Johnny Sain with one the faade, the decoration on the front side of the roof above the It soared above the stadium roof but a stiff breeze cut at it and In 1951 the Yankees trained Why did Giannis insult KD and is Carson Wentz headed to the NFL? batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the game Mantle hit two homers that were longer than most major league even some of the fans knew I was gonna get a knockdown, but I didn't 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. It turns out that the story of Mickey's historic drive was well feet (4/17/53, Griffith 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 Yankees swept the doubleheader, It cleared the street, smashed against a house's I Mickey Mantle hit a walk off game winning homer off Bill Fischer leading off the bottom of the eleventh inning. point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base One that, like many baseball tales, might be proven to be completely true courtesy of an 80-year-old newspaper article hidden away in somegreat aunt's sock in a California attic15 years from now. his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of In the first game when the 4. Either way, it's a fun story. bleachers, a 450-foot blast. 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