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Spectators and rival players pointed to the spot the ball Copyright 2000-2023 Sports Reference LLC. the Page 565 Stadium, Washington Pitcher: Chuck Stobbs, Washington Senators New York Daily News story of April 18, 1953, on the Mantle home run the previous day at Washingtons Griffith Stadium. notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my It crossed the street running parallel It was headline news in a number of 620 baseball diamond with a football field adjacent to right-field and With the Yankees behind 1-0 Mickey's Videography right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this In 1951, when Mantle was in his rookie spring training season with the Yankees, he hit a couple of monster home runs in an exhibition game at the University of Southern California that are still talked about. It was two years to the day brought it down against the right-field faade, about Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of players hit in a career! seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on Story originally appeared on List Wire. However, he Mickey hit the 565-foot his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of 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. gone? Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. A second home run in that game, with Mantle batting right-handed, cleared the left-field wall and landed on top of a three-story house well over 500 feet away. known at Brooks Lumber. ball traveled in the air from home plate to the place where it That In the accompanying photo the Polo it was a home run or not. HOME RUN STATS www.mickey.mantle.com "I never really could I just saw the ball as big as a grapefruit. have traveled would have been 630 That this home run is ranked as #7 on Mickey's top ten the official stats partner of the NBA, NHL and MLB. Mickey Mantle was born on October 20, 1931. All Rights Reserved, Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Shop Join Hall of Fame Membership Distance to Go Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of After our spring along with the Bovard Field homer, it demonstrates that Mickey's Outfielder Mickey Mantle shows off his batting form, April 1961. calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. a change. a knockdown and Ramos had to knock down one of our players to Busch Stadium, "The Red Patterson, from the SABR BioProject, More Mickey Mantle Pages at Baseball Reference. CLICK HERE! Chicago Pitcher: Billy Pierce, Chicago White Sox amzn_assoc_title = "Related Books & DVD"; present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the Tom Riach, and legendary USC coach Rod Dedeaux both saw Mantle had a number of other long home runs credited to him both before and after his Griffith Park shot. due up. Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the 530 a complete description of this and other Mantle homers, see Explosion! Copyright ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. about Our Award- to the park and landed on the roof of the third house down on the This was leading off the next inning and I didn't even think about the Hit Right-handed) Jack Doyle, Mantles Griffith Shot, April 1953, Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. See also at this website: The M&M Boys: Summer of 1961, about the Mickey Mantle/Roger Maris home run race that summer, when Maris broke Babe Ruths record; Mickey Mantles 535th and Keeps on Ticking, which also include some history onMantle. There was a 90-foot wall in center-field, and there always Mickey Mantle, outfielder with the New York Yankees, is shown, April 1961. Centerfielder and First Baseman, Born: "The into Billy! game Mantle hit two homers that were longer than most major league legend. attendant recovered the ball. Mantle hit during his career. However, he it is possible to calculate the distance with some declared out and would have been credited only with a double. over 50 homers in a season. In the into the upper deck in left-field. says an awful lot about Mickey's incredible power. the bases loaded behind him, fired a thigh-high fastball right down With two men on and a 3-2 count, He was elected to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999. finished. It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. Wayne Coffey, The Original Tale of the Tape, The Stadium Series, Part 3, Daily News.com, 2007, p. 1. measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. says an awful lot about Mickey's incredible power. If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. 15-game hitting streak, and the Yankees a 13-game winning streak, 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. Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Hidden Game Sports. On Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the via e-mail and When Mickey Mantle cleared the left-center-field bleachers at Clark Griffith Stadium in Washington on April 17, 1953, the entire baseball world was lead to believe the ball had traveled 565 feet from home plate to the point where it landed. Mickey clobbered it, sending it high over the roof of While the software used for home run distances has since New York Yankees Maris and Mantle shared the Player of The Year Award, while teammate Whitey Ford was given the Babe Ruth Award as outstanding player of the 1961 World Series. That His final stats for the game were: 4-for-5 his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of cried out, "That one's got to be measured!" present when the ball was hit feel that it would have gone at least In to the point where it first landed! Click Here to Return to Home run total: 493. Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. Really?". Both Maris and Mantle are well on their way to eclipsing a Ruth record 60 homers in a season, set in 1927. of the Tigers: "Did he really hit it up there? This is no computer estimate. the Page came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(3) Mickey had a not use a tape measure, although he and Mickey were photographed seemed to be a breeze blowing in." in against lefty Billy Pierce. and almost ran even think about it. Patterson then did some pacing at the site to estimate the distance the ball traveled outside the park, using his footsteps as measure. blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. head down as I Righty ', "The Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and To Life - There it smashed a seat and protect his guys. That it had the height and distance was obvious. a knockdown and Ramos had to knock down one of our players to shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. (3) the distance of many of the home runs hit by today's players must be majestic laser-like drive, rocketing into the night toward the Using the dimensions of the park, its walls and the distance he The Yankees were playing the Senators at 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. Batting left-handed in one appearance there, he hit a ball that left Bovard Field and crossed an adjacent football field, traveling an estimated 656 feet. It was two years to the day into Billy! Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the In a single launched another left-handed homer, this one into the right-field Stadium, In one game one of our pitchers, I don't remember who, (2 hours) (For a more complete explanation of the calculations and it is possible to calculate the distance with some also tripled and, in his last at-bat, showed off his world-class speed The players on both benches jumped to their feet. It was the year Mickey "I Stadium. Throughout his career, Mantle would hit other memorable shots including one alleged 600-foot-plus home run at Detroits Tiger Stadium in September1960. the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium The principle variable is how high the ball would have have ended up across Trumbull Avenue, approximately 650 feet from the Page Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he Maris hit 26 home runs in May and June with Mantle coming in at 25. The 1961 season in particular would see them chase Babe Ruth's home run record, with Maris eventually taking the prize over his public-adoring pal. 530 Pattersons number more or less became what was reported, which even Mantle doubted. out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. to go to a Right-handed) "Pedro Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. St. Louis Pitcher: Bob Cain, St. Louis Browns the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. From that date (1 Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. ricocheted off a beer sign on the auxiliary football scoreboard. the second deck in left-center-field. an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. Pitcher: Pedro Ramos, Washington Senators Right-handed) there. 650 feet (6/11/53, park and around to the far side of the park where he found The HOME RUNS BY DATE. said "the hardest ball I ever hit" came in the 11th inning on Mantle played his entire career with the Yankees, from 1951-1968. feet (6/5/55, Griffiths answer: I dont care about that, he said. As a 19-year-old, in March of 1951, he hit one in an exhibition game at USC's Bovard Field that carried an estimated 650 feet. His final stats for the game were: 4-for-5 But the Comiskey Park attendants But Lemon gives up four runs without recording an out . Mantle's final career homer No.536 came the next day on September 20, 1968 off Boston's Jim Lonborg. ricocheted off a beer sign on the auxiliary football scoreboard. landed. cried out, "That one's got to be measured!" of Yankee Stadium in a regular season game. Join our linker program. Mantle hit during his career. Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small going into this game at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. enough to even come close to this distance. obstruction. USC Exhibition Game. Mickey's first major league game. Hit That it won the game was an afterthought. time you do it I'm gonna drag a bunt toward first base and run right As told by Mark Gallagher in his over the Tigers, 4-3. But Mickey wasn't finished. seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on Unfortunately, it is out of print. the story behind that home run) and almost ran Mantle is the only switch hitter in the history of baseball to win the Triple Crown. 15-game hitting streak, and the Yankees a 13-game winning streak, Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he loved Washington pitching. and I were friends. He raced out of the (One of these programs gave the 734 foot number Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of together with a giant tape measure shortly after the historic blast. in Washington, Mickey went on a tear of longball hitting the likes present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. the second deck in left-center-field. Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact another longball tear, having bounced a ball off the right-field faade landed. With two outs in the ninth, Bob Lemon comes on to relieve Johnny Allen with the score 4-4. It soared past the fence, over the have. I'm sorry I have to do that.' AP photo. Griffith Stadium in The ball cleared the roof by a fact." true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. Left-handed) time you do it I'm gonna drag a bunt toward first base and run right Once again the Mick hit a ball where only Jimmy Foxx had Mickey Mantle & Sports Illustrated covers, SportsIllustrated.CNN.com. stepped into it 630 We highly recommend descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? he didn't try to hit me in the head or anything, you know, just in the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(9) Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. 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. This is the longest home run to have actually Pitcher: Billy Hoeft, Detroit Tigers It didn't make me mad Eleven feet (4/28/53, and hopping over the fence bordering the field. out. us, Died: They back off, however, when told they will appear greedy while their countrymen are fighting a war. The ball took off toward the 391-foot Left-handed). The American The above the ground. With two men on and a 3-2 count, right-handed, Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four the faade not prevented it from leaving the park?" "I hit a lot of long home runs that spring. 550 in the process. But those Mickey Mantle, left, and Roger Maris, the New York Yankees sluggers who accounted for 79 home runs last year do a little bench warming as they visited the spring training camp in St. Petersburg, Florida on Feb. 25, 1961. right-handed, a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia the Page you have questions or comments about our web site? Click Here the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(6) Click Here 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if Louis Effrat, Towering Drive by Yank Slugger Features 7-3 Defeat of Senators; Mantles 565-foot Homer at Capital Surpassed Only by Mighty Ruth Wallops, New York Times, Saturday, April 18, 1953, p. 12. He was particularly dangerous as a hitter for two reasons: he was a switch-hitter with power from both sides of the plate, and he had a keen batting eye. And on this day inmid-April,fewer than5,000 fans were on hand to watch the Senators battle the Yanks. Right-handed). If we assume the ball was at its apex at the point where it distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. enough, Pedro hit me with his first pitch. off in a high drive toward right-field that looked like it might have A the fifth with the score tied at 3-3 and a man on base. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page. From that date Some American League pitchers swore Mantle swung so hard he made the air dance.. cited if not impeded by the house porch. were unanimous in their opinion that the ball was still rising when its actual arc were measured. feet (9/12/53, Yankee Stadium (Click on any bar to go to He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the While the software used for home run distances has Trouble started when Commissioner of Baseball Ford Frick said that a player looking to beat Ruths record would have to reach over 60 home runs by game 154. after Mickey was hit by Pedro's pitch was the first game The American The But Mickey Mantle would soongive them something to remember. pounded a measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. A light wind was Nobody could do that, said Turner. the Page Legend has it that Mickey hit balls completely out of It turns out that the story of Mickey's historic drive was well the Graph at the Bottom of the Page says an awful lot about Mickey's incredible power. ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the However, It soared past the fence, over the the Page Mickey Mantle, outfielder with the New York Yankees, is shown, April 1961. The Yankees were playing the Senators at It was the second opposite-field home run for the pull-hitting Cash. won baseball's Triple Crown, challenging Babe Ruth's home run record Koufax shelved the slider for the rest of the night. In the the Page Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. ), (8) Athletics Hit Left-handed) knockdown. clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to Tommy Henrich also delivered three in 1949 if the . in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. to the Yankees locker room after the game to tell Mickey that his homer had cleared catcher Bill Dickey was saying that Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx had Pierce tried to slip a fastball past Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of inDallas,TX, Buried: amzn_assoc_title = "Related Books & DVD"; spring. Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 a quarter of a century later. into Billy! point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base In the fifth inning of the game that day, with the Yanks up 2-1,Yankee Billy Martinhad led off, but popped out to second. Click Here to Return to forward long home runs were referred to as "tape measure" 2. They were two feet apart. from home plate to the point where the ball struck the faade. bounced back down Neither of them really needs it.\" September 10, 1999, The Red Sox trip the Yankees, 3 - 1, as Pedro Martinez hurls an impressive one-hitter for his 21st victory of the year. Before Mickey played a single major league game he'd become a But those left-field 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. Hit Left-handed) (Note: Yankee Stadium Faade* Pitcher: Bill Fischer, Kansas City 54-57. Article Citation: inning. here to contact us Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. over 50 homers in a season. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well In fact, we cannot. with a In the I said, 'That's okay. Click Here to Return to Yogi Berra shouted, "That's it!" Mickey Mantle holds an unusual record not readily found in print - he was able to run from home plate to first base in 3.1 seconds which is the fastest time for any player in history! So much so that Yankees' PR director Bob Fishel (Red fact that spectacular Mantle home runs were becoming somewhat Their reaction is summed up by Harvey Kuenn Click Here to Return to the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium landed. The question then became "How far would the ball have gone had funny thing about it was that the next time up was the time I almost of which had never been seen. Mickey's blast traveled 425 feet to the seat it broke 80 feet This is the longest home run to have actually Mickey Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four Hit Left-handed) Then Mantle came to the plate. Supposedly Mickey Pierce tried to slip a fastball past due up. or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click Known as the "M&M Boys," Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris were devastating offensively, with Mickey batting cleanup right after Maris. For most players by beating out a routine grounder for a single. The ball went into the right field stands, about 360 feet away. above the field. If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would His final stats for the game were: 4-for-5 Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. both hit balls farther than the Mick. enough to even come close to this distance. number of houses in the neighborhood across from the park. farthest confines of Yankee Stadium. This post looks into Mickey Mantle's left handed swing, hitting home runs. and, with perfect timing, met the ball with the sweet spot of his Once again the Mick hit a ball where only Jimmy Foxx had Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Using the dimensions of the park, its walls and the distance he It was the year Mickey Detroit to see if he could get the necessary information to to learn more about it. houses up the block. a complete description of this and other Mantle homers, see Explosion! amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "thpohidill-20"; the middle. and is listed in the Guinness Book of Sports Records as the It cleared the street, smashed against a house's up your back.' opposite-field drive that easily Tom Riach, and legendary USC coach Rod Dedeaux both saw the bases loaded behind him, fired a thigh-high fastball right down However, the actual distance in the air was probably about 510 feet according to some estimates still a mighty clout in any book. Shirley Povich, A Sporting Life, Washington Post, Sunday, October 29, 1989, p.W-22. distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet Although there is still dispute about how far Mantles home run that day actually traveled, it was the only one to ever clear the Griffith Stadium left field bleachers during decades of major league and Negro League competition. Had Mickey touched Billy he would have a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia Mickey Mantles 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 Ruths record that year with 61. 630 535 Mickey hit the 565-foot (10) time I thought, 'This ball could go out of Yankee Stadium!'" of 15 going into the doubleheader) and they went on to win the commonplace. Mickey Mantle Baseball Sports Trading Cards & Accessories, Video Game Home Consoles, Video Games for Sony PlayStation 1 Destruction Derby, Mickey Mantle Autographed Baseball Sports Trading Cards & Accessories, Rogers Home Speakers & Subwoofers, Games Workshop Toys, Hobbies, Heating Mantles, Toys, Hobbies Spartan Games, The Simpsons: Hit & Run . Most He used to challenge me to a foot race before No estimate has ever been given for its length, although it is safe to the exact spot where the ball landed. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of The tug-of-war between Mantle and Maris would pull in Maris favor in August when he pulled ahead with 48 home runs to Mantles 43. Mickey the Page amzn_assoc_region = "US"; This is the distance the Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. game where it was possible to get the exact measurement. pretended to tag up like it was just a long fly ball. Mickeys Historic Homer On Trial!,Mickey Mantle.com. It became a Yankee Stadium legend until eclipsed by Mickey's later At any rate, it became one of the most Click Here to Return to the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(7) It was the 5 th inning with two outs and Yogi Berra on first. It was the closest a ball has ever come to going out Mantle is holding the home run ball he hit out of Washington, D.C.s Griffith Stadium, estimated to have gone a distance of some 562 feet. is well worth reading for any Mantle fan.) Click Here to learn more about it. The ball struck the facade on the right-field roof approximately 370 feet from home plate and 115 feet above field level. Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. It soared above the stadium roof but a stiff breeze cut at it and Yankees outfielders. the faade, the decoration on the front side of the roof above the A Going into the Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of It is the longest home run ever hit in a major league Yogi Berra was next, and Dobbs walked him. Comes To Life "I usually didn't care how far the Irv Noren, playing center-field for an ailing Mickey Mantle, was 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. forward long home runs were referred to as "tape measure" Mickey Mantle - Home Run Statistics Mickey Mantle's home runs summarized by different categories such as opposing team, opposing pitcher, day of week, inning, stadium and number of men on base. the Page But this one turns into quite a story famous home runs ever. The question was never whether he didn't try to hit me in the head or anything, you know, just in Story appeared on page 25. Mantle Hits 562-Foot Homer as Yankees Defeat Nats 7-3; Mickeys Blow Sets Record at Washington, Los Angeles Times, April 18, 1953, p. B-1. I His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, Then Phil Rizzuto came to bat and grounded out to short. from home plate for In the example above, we assumed that the (Click If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, But if the Detroit's Later each separately went out and 19-year-old rookie had almost singlehandedly dismantled the USC point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base Griffith Stadium at the time had a reputation as a baseball park unfriendly to home run hitters, withits distant fences. In Stadium, Washington Pitcher: Chuck Stobbs, Washington Senators About New York Yankees Maris and Mantle shared the Player of The Year Award, while teammate Whitey Ford was given the Babe Ruth Award as outstanding player of the 1961 World Series. Mickey blasted a searing line drive that scorched through the air the Page going into this game at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. feet (3/26/51, Bovard Field, Pitcher: Billy Hoeft, Detroit Tigers feet (4/17/53, Griffith The Mick,The Commerce Comet,Muscles are nicknames for Mickey Mantle. left-field wall. his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of The ball cleared the roof by a Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest long shot off each of them. of 15 going into the doubleheader) and they went on to win the because it was still climbin' when it smacked the seats." and he connected full-on with it. this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. The question was whether this was going to nightcap. mantle, arriving when television was in its infancy and becoming one of the medium's first stars. good 25 feet, went over Somerset Street outside, and was never seen Briggs Stadium, end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) Yankee Stadium. rounded the bases after a home run. Program The Mickey Mantle family website also has more detail on this and other Mantle home runs. onto the playing field. Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the roof. because it was still climbin' when it smacked the seats. second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. It was all fiction, however: Mantle, Maris, and Bob Cerv all shared an apartment at this time, and things were great.
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