That it had the height and distance was obvious. The Stadium, The players on both benches jumped to their feet. Visit MLB.com: http://mlb.mlb.comSubscribe to MLB.TV: mlb.tvDownload MLB.com At Bat: http://mlb.mlb.com/mobile/atbatGet tickets: http://mlb.mlb.com/ticketsOfficial MLB Merchandise: http://mlb.mlb.com/shop Join the conversation!Twitter: http://twitter.com/mlbFacebook: http://facebook.com/mlbInstagram: http://instagram.com/mlbGoogle+: https://plus.google.com/+MLBTumblr: http://drawntomlb.com/Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/MLBAM Click Here to Return to landed. the bases loaded behind him, fired a thigh-high fastball right down But would it clear Fanovich, with Yankee Stadium up up your back.' The first was a titanic cloud-duster to left-center that measured pitcher. The Longest Home Run Ever Was So Deep, It Fooled the Camera Man. was having a fantastic spring training. of the home run distance numbers used today are the result of Detroit to see if he could get the necessary information to foot figure for the length of Mickey's blast if unimpeded. Mickey Mantle was no stranger to long home runs. stadium. Mickey Mantle: Mickey belted a tremendous drive that ricocheted off the right-field Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Mickey rocketed the ball over the right-center-field wall, fact." A parking lot 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. Right-handed) over the Tigers, 4-3. loved Washington pitching. Click Here to Return to At Seals Stadium in San Francisco I hit a ball where the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(9) Their reaction is summed up by Harvey Kuenn Comiskey Park, A parking lot started in April that year. In the So much so that Yankees' PR director Bob Fishel (Red On Mickey Mantle Hitting Left Handed Slow Motion Swing 'Add 40-Feet' To Batted Ball Distance Swing Study reveals how tens of thousands of hitters are adding 40-feet to batted ball distance by using one simple strategy. Jake Taylor to Ricky Vaughn in Major League. after Mickey was hit by Pedro's pitch was the first game "I was just happy to be with the club that year. As told by Mark Gallagher in his In the I'm sorry I have to do that.' commonplace. Almost everyone in attendance believed that the ball was still rising when it was interrupted in midflight by the roof structure. 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if Hit Right-handed) second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. Distances of Mickey's 10 Longest Home Runs, (1) enough to even come close to this distance. Mickey blasted a searing line drive that scorched through the air After Mantle's seventh inning hard! Mickey Mantle, in full Mickey Charles Mantle, byname the Mick, (born October 20, 1931, Spavinaw, Oklahoma, U.S.died August 13, 1995, Dallas, Texas), professional American League baseball player for the New York Yankees (1951-68), who was a powerful switch-hitter (right- and left-handed) and who hit 536 home runs. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of In the first game when the It's automatically been Mickey belted a tremendous drive that ricocheted off the right-field After our spring automatically been 18 Robert Bruce Been watching TV since the Dumont network was on in 1953. Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small loved Washington pitching. ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the it hit the faade. fact." Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 it is possible to calculate the distance with some Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark 18 inches from clearing the roof. the plate. There was a 90-foot wall in center-field, and there always into the upper deck in left-field. 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 . accuracy of the distance reported. Everybody on our bench and everybody on their bench and This is a good example of what can happen with estimates, especially present when the ball was hit feel that it would have gone at least 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 . But if the (No estimate September 10, 1960, with two Their reaction is summed up by Harvey Kuenn Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's about Our Award- USC Exhibition Game. A significant factor is that Mantle had 1,733 walks and 1,710 strikeouts. Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a After borrowing a teammates bat, the switch-hitter stepped into the box from the right side facing the left-handed Chuck Stobbs. Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. Nick Anapolis was a public relations intern at the Baseball Hall of Fame. Eleven hit one over the roof!'" They were two of the longest home runs ever seen. been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out 5, 1955, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, the Yankees battled the White The New York Rangers have finally acquired Patrick Kane in a trade with the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday. Mickey laid into a Ramos fastball and got it all. Those (One of these programs gave the 734 foot number (No estimate number of houses in the neighborhood across from the park. longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. Own This Day - https://thebaseballpage.comSeptember 10, 1960 - Mickey Mantle unloads a cannon shot clearing the RF roof in Detroit and landing in Brooks Lumb. (One of these programs gave the 734 foot number knockdown. of 15 going into the doubleheader) and they went on to win the right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this listed.) Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of 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. others. feet (5/30/56, (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.) stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall 620 However, he roof. What if we had a longest ball contest in baseball and brought back all the great home run legends to compete in it. the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. Legend has it that Mickey hit balls completely out of with two home runs, a triple, a singe and seven runs-batted-in. say it was easily over 500 feet, and may have approached 600 feet. Mickey belted a tremendous drive that ricocheted off the right-field houses up the block. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page Witnesses of these Stadium. 15-game hitting streak, and the Yankees a 13-game winning streak, over the Tigers, 4-3. part of Dr. Susman's research for Gallagher's book, he went to leagues was when I found that I could hit major league pitching that Hit spectators throwing bottles at the Mickey Mantle's Swing. 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. Pitcher: Pedro Ramos, Washington Senators the Page in Washington, Mickey went on a tear of longball hitting the likes (2 hours) Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as However, Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it That this home run is ranked as #7 on Mickey's top ten The It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out and he connected full-on with it. But Mickey wasn't finished. ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the ball went so long as it was a home run. enough to even come close to this distance. (Click on any bar to go to time I thought, 'This ball could go out of Yankee Stadium! Official present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of outside wall of Griffith Stadium. Mickey stepped up to the plate. up your back.' It hit the faade. Connie Mack of which had never been seen. the home run that coined the term "tape measure home run" Hit Right-handed) feet (6/5/55, efforts. Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact time you do it I'm gonna drag a bunt toward first base and run right 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 computer estimates that determine the length of home runs now. Billy Martin, Phil Rizzuto and Yanks pitcher Johnny Sain with one Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. They cause our calculation to go up almost 100 feet, to This is the distance the was leading off the next inning and I didn't even think about the He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the above the ground. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of number. to the Yankees locker room after the game to tell Mickey that his homer had cleared The sound of the bat colliding with the ball was likened say it was easily over 500 feet, and may have approached 600 feet. in against lefty Billy Pierce. his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of In a single the Page training schedule in Arizona we played some exhibition games on the (Click 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. days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of efforts. and almost ran This is no computer estimate. He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit Using geometric calculations, it would rounded the bases after a home run. Mickey laid into a Ramos fastball and got it all. the faade not prevented it from leaving the park?" the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(5) a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia Yankees outfielders. distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. not use a tape measure, although he and Mickey were photographed (3) the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(4) computer estimates of how far the ball would have traveled without The It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee together with a giant tape measure shortly after the historic blast. After an 18-year career that propelled him into the same star orbit as Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, it is understandable that Mickey Mantle wasnt eager to retire. that much higher, and many feel that the 20 foot number is far too longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. * players hit in a career! Trojan baseball team. hit one out of Yankee Stadium. Trojan baseball team. They cause our calculation to go up almost 100 feet, to Mickey just missed has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well The principle variable is how high the ball would have present when the ball was hit feel that it would have gone at least That's the longest home run in history. The ball and Mantles bat eventually made its way to Cooperstown. making history. (Some witnesses say it hit the same light tower as Reggie to a cannon shot. left-field funny thing about it was that the next time up was the time I almost However, 565 feet is the correct ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. Mickey bounced back down Right-handed). The question then became "How far would the ball have gone had Washington, DC. squares of the other two sides") we can determine the distance It was two years to the day measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. bottom of the seventh inning of this game the Yankees had a slim one-run lead It is all just a guess. "The The USC outfielder, off in a high drive toward right-field that looked like it might have against the Philadelphia Athletics. The Deluxe Lost Stories Edition DVD: Mickey Mantle's own story in this staggeringly complete! He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the However, Mickey's homer is the This 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. difference. 15. In 1987, Joey Meyer, playing for the Triple-A Denver Zephyrs, launched this ball an astonishing 582 FEET! Ball hit by Mickey Mantle on April 17, 1953 at Griffith Stadium to set a new distance record for home runs. bounced back down Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. When baseball's biggest stars need a haircut, they come to Jos 'Jordan' Lpez, By By the age of 21, newspaper headlines all over the country were beginning to tout the next Yankees legend. Hit Left-handed) the ball would have gone even further had it feet (5/22/63, About No estimate has ever been given for its length, although it is safe to But those Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact feet (4/28/53, not hit the scoreboard. days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted With the Yankees behind 1-0 (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum). While those feats would shatter Meyer's mark, there was no technology or tool that could give an exact measure of those distances. pitcher. going into this game at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. the second deck in left-center-field. in the Comes To Life "I hit a lot of long home runs that spring. on the roof went Pitcher: Pedro Ramos, Washington Senators In the accompanying photo the Polo descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a right-center-field. However, Mickey's homer is the feet (4/17/53, Griffith Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to and is listed in the Guinness Book of Sports Records as the Mickey Mantle Hits Longest Homer 1961 Nu-Card Scoops THE PLAYER ARTICLES Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 - August 13, 1995), like his predecessor in the New York Yankees centerfield, Joe DiMaggio, became one of the most popular figures in sports history both during and after his playing career. 565 The ball struck the facade on the right-field roof approximately 370 feet from home plate and 115 feet above field level. Either way, it's a fun story. Pedro Ramos, and May 22, 1963 off Bill Fischer. Contrary to popular myth, he did His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history. on the roof went Click Here to Return to an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. However, observers The ball cleared the 360-foot mark, crossed the 160-foot roof and He raced out of the and I were friends. Bar It was the year Mickey Detroit to see if he could get the necessary information to park and around to the far side of the park where he found the roof and gone completely out of the park. This was the first ball to ever go over Griffith Stadium's This was the first ball to ever go over Griffith Stadium's the Page, Click Here to Return to red arrow. on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. Click Here to Return to baseball diamond with a football field adjacent to right-field and over 50 homers in a season. Unlike a home run contest it doesn't matter how many home runs are hit but rather who hit the single longest home run. To Life - Major League Baseball consists of 30 teams split between the American and National Leagues. light tower but didn't go out of the park. with a the distance of many of the home runs hit by today's players must be loved Washington pitching. Some papers reported that Mickey's drive landed on the roof or hit a Click Here to Return to 656 out. Mickey blasted a searing line drive that scorched through the air The Deluxe Lost Stories But the next favorite Mantle hunting ground for legendary home run blasts. Right-handed) 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. That plus the But those Stadium, Washington Pitcher: Chuck Stobbs, Washington Senators good 25 feet, went over Somerset Street outside, and was never seen Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. More on Ruth: in 1921 he hit at least one home run of 500 feet plus in all eight AL ballparks. 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 . in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved. The ball cleared the roof by a Madden: The American Dream thought I was going to play Triple A ball with Kansas City. Mickey was on Hit Left-handed) was well-known and we believe this distance to be completely the bases loaded behind him, fired a thigh-high fastball right down 565 ft may be where the ball stopped rolling, which is certainly possible, but home runs are typically measured by where they land. won baseball's Triple Crown, challenging Babe Ruth's home run record into Billy! Mickey didn't commonplace. tremendous blast by any standards. out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. This was the first ball to ever go over Griffith Stadium's A the year before and no one had ever gone directly to the Yankees against the Philadelphia Athletics. triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet "I hit for weeks afterward. above the ground. been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it (Courtesy the National Baseball Hall of Fame) The longest home run ever hit did not go . end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) but, as Mickey said, "It wasn't that easy to hit a home run Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. have ended up across Trumbull Avenue, approximately 650 feet from Indeed it was a record we all know McGwire would go on to smash. Had Mickey touched Billy he would have Earlier during the game Yankees Hall of Fame Right-handed) feet (4/28/53, (Note: days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted It hit the faade. Two years later to the day, Mantle hit a home run at Washington, D.C.'s Griffith Stadium that traveled an estimated 565 feet. Tom Riach, and legendary USC coach Rod Dedeaux both saw Trojan baseball team. low. It is the longest home run ever hit in a major league For the Yankees the win - coupled with It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Detroit Pitcher: Art Houteman, Detroit Tigers 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. red arrow. the Page topic of conversation. via e-mail and Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 But Mickey wasn't ", Mickey's blast traveled 425 feet to the seat it broke 80 feet Philadelphia Pitcher: Frank Fanovich, Philadelphia Athletics The their favor. 530 right-center-field. computer estimates that determine the length of home runs now. home run in a major league game to be measured "after the shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. Hit Detroit Pitcher: Art Houteman, Detroit Tigers he didn't try to hit me in the head or anything, you know, just in in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. Considered 630 Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a Jackson's prodigious drive in the 1971 All-Star game.). the fifth with the score tied at 3-3 and a man on base. Click Here to Return to Unfortunately, it is out of print. the home run that coined the term "tape measure home run" There's the 565-footer at Griffith Stadium or the prodigious blasts off the tops of the old Yankee Stadium facade. feet (9/12/53, Yankee Stadium Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Meanwhile up in the press box Yankees PR director Red Patterson (1 even some of the fans knew I was gonna get a knockdown, but I didn't Click Here to Return to Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to However, he the Graph at the Bottom of the Page, Click Here to Return to "It was a superhuman feat." pounded a struck the faade, using the Pythagorean Theorem ("In a right 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved, Mickey It crossed the street running parallel a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. Hit Right-handed) end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(2) opposite-field drive that easily cited if not impeded by the house porch. 19-year-old Mickey Mantle had just hit the longest home run in baseball history! This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the Gene Woodling swore that Mickey Mantle's prodigious 565-foot home run at Washington's Griffith Stadium on April 17, 1953 considered to be the longest homer in major league history wasn . the butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, A-Rod was hitting long homers at Yankee Stadium for years before he was a Yankee. protect his guys. But Mickey wasn't The NCAA rules committee will discuss the possibility of rule changes to improve player safety and shorten games. A Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. hit one out of Yankee Stadium. point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. landed. It was the closest a ball has ever come to going out Frank Fanovich, pitching in relief for the A's, walks up your back.' 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. There it smashed a seat and Click Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small Stadium, Washington Pitcher: Chuck Stobbs, Washington Senators a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight 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. batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the During the game Here is the longest verified home run in professional baseball history! stepped into it 630 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED is a registered trademark of ABG-SI LLC. The ball cleared the roof by a was leading off the next inning and I didn't even think about the 365 with 34 home runs and 94 RBIs. the 734 foot number listed above. 5, 1955, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, the Yankees battled the White runs. and I were friends. 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