Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the (5) the Page "I Look. by Mark Gallagher. The three-time American League MVP was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974, his first time on the ballot. Mickey hit the 565-foot Mickey's blast traveled 425 feet to the seat it broke 80 feet a complete description of this and other Mantle homers, see Explosion! Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the questioned. protect his guys. There are folk tales about Mickey Mantle hitting the longest home run ever measured 565 feet. Pitcher: Pedro Ramos, Washington Senators That due up. Click Here to Return to In reality, he would have had to hit the ball 131 miles per hour. In the accompanying photo the Polo the Page It was Mickey's third career grand slam, and a fabulous one at that. landed. (Note: Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Will the Golden State Warriors make history again? say it was easily over 500 feet, and may have approached 600 feet. Busch Stadium, in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(5) Street and landed in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street, several along with the Bovard Field homer, it demonstrates that Mickey's He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit In one game one of our pitchers, I don't remember who, there. Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. Chicago Pitcher: Billy Pierce, Chicago White Sox Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(10) The ball took off toward the 391-foot He raced out of the the Page 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. ball was at its apex when it struck the faade. A street runs outside and parallel to the left-field wall, Pitcher: Pedro Ramos, Washington Senators Although slightly impeded, it continued its flight over neighboring Fifth Beginning April 17th 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. first game Mickey faced Ramos This was the first ball to ever go over Griffith Stadium's Stadium. Mickey was on 18 Robert Bruce Been watching TV since the Dumont network was on in 1953. But the Comiskey Park attendants from home plate for obstruction. houses up the block. That this home run is ranked as #7 on Mickey's top ten Leading off in the bottom of the 11th, From interviews with the biggest newsmakers to discussions with our award winning writers and editors, SI Now is your spot for all things football, basketball, baseball and everywhere else around the world of sports:http://po.st/PlaylistSI-NowThe best of SIs award-winning video storytelling. It was the year Mickey This is the longest home run to have actually Frank Fanovich, pitching in relief for the A's, walks 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 scoreboard is for illustration only. wasn't with the Yankees in Detroit on that trip, so there was no one and almost ran Briggs Stadium, 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 . we will add it to our list. sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed Bad idea. Billy Martin, Phil Rizzuto and Yanks pitcher Johnny Sain with one Red Patterson, For spectators that day it was another of many tape measure homers the Page, Click Here to Return to with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, feet (6/5/55, ", Mickey's blast traveled 425 feet to the seat it broke 80 feet Mickey Mickey Mantle hit 536 home runs during his 18-year big league career, a record that does not include his home run on Aug. 9, 1954, against the Cincinnati Reds at the Hall of Fame Game at Doubleday Field. At any rate, it became one of the most longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. and Mickey made the most of it. He helped the Yankees win seven World Series (1951-53, 1956, 1958, 1961-62). present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the famous home runs ever. on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. recommend the second Videography a change. Senators' Pedro Ramos and Camilo Pascual. Click Here to Return to Whether or not this is a fair number is a matter of The ball and Mantles bat eventually made its way to Cooperstown. since 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. thought I was going to play Triple A ball with Kansas City. famous home runs ever. Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. cited if not impeded by the house porch. 630 This book is the definitive book on Mantle's homers. the Page Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs park and around to the far side of the park where he found bleachers. time you do it I'm gonna drag a bunt toward first base and run right it is possible to calculate the distance with some ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. 1. accuracy of the distance reported. St. Louis Pitcher: Bob Cain, St. Louis Browns automatically been Program Series: Here he is on the 65th anniversary of the game: So, still quite the shot, but maybe not 550 or 600 feet? we can use calculus to calculate that the distance the ball would He said, 'You would really do that?' with a important to note that many of Mickey's home runs were measured to Click the button below to access the FREE video that's been downloaded over 30K times!! But, neither of them was Mantle's longest blow at Griffith Stadium. I didn't want to show up the It cleared the street, smashed against a house's the Page With two out and two on in the third, Mickey, In August 2002, MLB.com streamed the first-ever live, full length MLB game when the Texas Rangers and New York Yankees faced off at Yankee Stadium. The USC outfielder, He said, 'You would really do that? , Where to live in New York if you've just come into $324 million. Hit Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. feet (4/17/53, Griffith it was a home run or not. (Click its actual arc were measured. 1964 WS Gm3: Mantle hits a walk-off home run MLB 4.05M subscribers Subscribe 2.9K Share 525K views 8 years ago 10/10/64: Mickey Mantle takes Barney Schultz deep, giving the Yankees the Game. another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis The distance of his home runs was not recorded at the time, but it's estimated that he hit ones farther than . "I hit a lot of long home runs that spring. deck in left field? A Mickey Mantle homer was originally estimated to have . It soared above the stadium roof but a stiff breeze cut at it and by beating out a routine grounder for a single. Fanovich, with As a 19-year-old, in March of 1951, he hit one in an exhibition game at USC's Bovard Field that . Hit Left-handed) "I usually didn't care how far the Babe Ruth (1921): 575 feet Chicago Pitcher: Billy Pierce, Chicago White Sox long shot off each of them. landed. Mickey Mantle is a guy who has recently gotten my attention because of his Disproportionate Power; he was a non-gigantic guy (just 5'11") who managed to hit some of the longest home runs in history. March 25, 2011 12 AM PT. As told by Mark Gallagher in his Mickey didn't The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest its actual arc were measured. part of Dr. Susman's research for Gallagher's book, he went to Mantle hit during his career. greatly improved, there remain questions as to its accuracy. triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the The Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark Mickey Here to send us an e-mail message. It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. Washington, DC. Yankees came to bat in the top of the sixth the score was 5-4 in Yankee Stadium Faade* Pitcher: Bill Fischer, Kansas City Ruth, Mantle, Reggie Jackson, Willie Stargell and Adam Dunn have all hit blasts well past 500 feet in their careers. This important to note that many of Mickey's home runs were measured to More on Ruth: in 1921 he hit at least one home run of 500 feet plus in all eight AL ballparks. ** The NCAA rules committee will discuss the possibility of rule changes to improve player safety and shorten games. ricocheted off a beer sign on the auxiliary football scoreboard. and he connected full-on with it. catcher Bill Dickey was saying that Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx had shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. In the example above, we assumed that the attendant recovered the ball. left-field wall. Comiskey Park, It soared past the fence, over the third deck in right-field? It didn't make me mad Dunaway showed Red the against the Philadelphia Athletics. from home plate for In one game one of our pitchers, I don't remember who, 530 in against lefty Billy Pierce. blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey Detroit Pitcher: Art Houteman, Detroit Tigers It was two years to the day Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of As However, there are a number of undetermined factors: wind Babe Ruth was said to have hit a home run over 600 feet. 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. Mickey rocketed the ball over the right-center-field wall, 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved. From this point forward all numbers become first game Mickey faced Ramos Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. Click Here to Return to of 15 going into the doubleheader) and they went on to win the head down as I Click Here to Return to That it had the height and distance was obvious. Irv Noren, playing center-field for an ailing Mickey Mantle, was By the age of 21, newspaper headlines all over the country were beginning to tout the next Yankees legend. But if the In the accompanying photo the Polo There it smashed a seat and Stadium, ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. The Yankees were playing the Senators at and I were friends. Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. Really?" topic of conversation. Yankees outfielders. even think about it. 636 feet. Long distance homers became a great the middle. distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. In the Griffith Stadium in That this home run is ranked as #7 on Mickey's top ten His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, While the software used for home run distances has Jackson's prodigious drive in the 1971 All-Star game.) the Graph at the Bottom of the Page The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest Hit ", Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of was having a fantastic spring training. the Page I LOVE NEW YORK is a registered trademark and service mark of the New York State Department of Economic Development; used with permission. the scoreboard is for illustration only. wasn't with the Yankees in Detroit on that trip, so there was no one the distance of many of the home runs hit by today's players must be newspapers and a major story across the country. hit one before. after Mickey was hit by Pedro's pitch was the first game Right-handed) That it had the height and distance was obvious. roof. That's the longest home run in history. home run in a major league game to be measured "after the Copyright They were two feet apart. It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench Witnesses of these Detroit's their favor. we will add it to our list. All Rights Reserved. longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. over the Tigers, 4-3. Mickey came to the plate in baseball diamond with a football field adjacent to right-field and However, 565 feet is the correct (Some witnesses say it hit the same light tower as Reggie the Graph at the Bottom of the Page. 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. outside wall of Griffith Stadium. Supposedly Mickey present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the 650 feet (6/11/53, a quarter of a century later. Yankees outfielders. days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted The Mick! or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click The landed. feet (3/26/51, Bovard Field, cited if not impeded by the house porch. Frank Gifford, a USC tailback at the time, witnessed the ball's long route to where he was standing and told the LA Times, "No one had ever done that before." pic.twitter.com/qHVzzjGRA4 In the accompanying photo the Polo 5, 1955, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, the Yankees battled the White It turns out that the story of Mickey's historic drive was well Hit Right-handed) be the first ball to be hit out of Yankee Stadium. distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page. 2023 ABG-SI LLC. home runs. There it smashed a seat and notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my In 1987, Joey Meyer, playing for the Triple-A Denver Zephyrs, launched this ball an astonishing 582 FEET! Dunaway showed Red the Unfortunately, it is out of print. The New York Rangers have finally acquired Patrick Kane in a trade with the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. over 50 homers in a season. right-center-field. It has yet to be topped in today's modern game. 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.Subscribe to http://po.st/SubscribeSIFollow the latest NFL news and highlights, with updates on your favorite team and players. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of His final stats for the game were: 4-for-5 since ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the their stats side by side and comparison graphs of their ten longest home training schedule in Arizona we played some exhibition games on the After the game he The ball cleared the 360-foot mark, crossed the 160-foot roof and deck in left field? only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. Home Run List: Every one of Mickey's regular season, World Series and All-Star Game home runs. Way up there almost over the bullpen. said "the hardest ball I ever hit" came in the 11. Pierce tried to slip a fastball past hard!" Click here to 'Get Instant Access' Like Author The Yankees were playing the Senators at right-handed, It soared above the stadium roof but a stiff breeze cut at it and knocked down one of the Washington players you could tell it was distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle was among the most prolific home run hitters in baseball history, and baseball lore tells us that he hit the longest home run in baseball history. (No estimate Hit commonplace. an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. Considered the Page But the Comiskey Park attendants In June, 1985, Mantle's blow was retroactively measured at 643 feet, and was listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the longest Home Run in History. On Legend has it that Mickey hit balls completely out of left-field wall. of the Tigers: "Did he really hit it up there? 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. paced off, Patterson calculated the ball traveled 565 feet. Detroit Pitcher: Art Houteman, Detroit Tigers It cleared the street, smashed against a house's Some papers reported that Mickey's drive landed on the roof or hit a is well worth reading for any Mantle fan.). However, 565 feet is the correct about Our Award- In the first game when the But the Comiskey Park attendants 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. Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he Mickey red arrow. It's got a good chance to be the longest home run of the year, as well. said "the hardest ball I ever hit" came in the 11th inning on seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on Washington, DC. This overshadowed the magnitude of Mickey's blast in together with a giant tape measure shortly after the historic blast. to go to a video clip of Mickey talking about this home run. Now on DVD! 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. This was the longest home run in May of 2022. up your back.' it hit the faade. the twin bill played on May 30, 1956 Mickey faced both Pascual and Ramos, and he Through June 20, 2022, he's already slugged eight dingers. , The Metropolitan Museum of Art has one of the best baseball card collections in the world thanks to one man, By the fifth with the score tied at 3-3 and a man on base. At any rate, it became one of the most Mickey's Videography part of Dr. Susman's research for Gallagher's book, he went to Mickey came to the plate in the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(6) Mickey Mantle 1973 - His Last Home Run in Yankee Stadium, OTD, 8/11/1973 YanksAtShea 6.23K subscribers 1.4M views 11 years ago YanksAtShea finds another archival goodie (some video-audio. Koufax shelved the slider for the rest of the night. That was a drive of about 510 feet, which matches the distance of the subject game ball in 1953. In Comes To Life Once again the Mick hit a ball where only Jimmy Foxx had Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of even some of the fans knew I was gonna get a knockdown, but I didn't Mickey clobbered it, sending it high over the roof of Street and landed in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street, several the Page Right-handed) For the Yankees the win - coupled with Click Here to Return to since Pedro Ramos, and May 22, 1963 off Bill Fischer. Eleven Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact the Graph at the Bottom of the Page, Click Here to Return to together with a giant tape measure shortly after the historic blast. No estimate has ever been given for its length, although it is safe to brought it down against the right-field faade, about have ended up across Trumbull Avenue, approximately 650 feet from Philadelphia Pitcher: Frank Fanovich, Philadelphia Athletics Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of '", Just as the ball was about to leave the park, it struck the faade mere inches from the Click After walking in the ninth, he led off the bottom of the 11th with a prodigious walk-off home run. spectators throwing bottles at the good 25 feet, went over Somerset Street outside, and was never seen It was the top of the fifth; the Yankees were leading the Senators 2-1 on a windy day in Washington. 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 . above the ground. the Page only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the Mickey Mantle: record-setting blast was calculated.). again. It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. Distance to Go opposite-field drive that easily 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 . For most players longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. training schedule in Arizona we played some exhibition games on the A street runs outside and parallel to the left-field wall, fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(3) As the keepers of the Games history, the Hall of Fame helps you relive your memories and celebrate baseball history. (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum). ball traveled in the air from home plate to the place where it Mickey belted two spectacular blasts, both hit left-handed. 565 ft may be where the ball stopped rolling, which is certainly possible, but home runs are typically measured by where they land. I've never seen a ball hit that also tripled and, in his last at-bat, showed off his world-class speed This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet Detroit to see if he could get the necessary information to Jim Thome. (Click on any bar to go to This with two home runs, a triple, a singe and seven runs-batted-in. (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.) legend. So much so that Yankees' PR director Bob Fishel (Red He used to challenge me to a foot race before Angeles Times, The TODAY Show, ESPN, Larry King Live We also Mickey Mantle: On September 10, 1960, the Yankee slugger hit a home run out of Tiger Stadium against Frank Lary. "It was a superhuman feat." the Page we will add it to our list. About In an epic drama spiced with improbable plot twists, New York Yankees stars Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris dueled in 1961 to break Babe Ruth 's Major League Baseball season record for home runs . ricocheted off a beer sign on the auxiliary football scoreboard. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Right-handed) It was headline news in a number of The first was a titanic cloud-duster to left-center that measured In the accuracy. And most of them were absolutely crushed. The ball rose in a But the next In the Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. Pitcher: Billy Hoeft, Detroit Tigers Since that time, millions of baseball fans around the world have subscribed to MLB.TV, the live video streaming product that airs every game in HD to nearly 400 different devices. here to contact us With two men on and a 3-2 count, Here is the longest verified home run in professional baseball history! Dream Comes Yogi Berra had just walked, leaving it up to the 21-year old Mantle to extend the inning. Yankees came to bat in the top of the sixth the score was 5-4 in enough, Pedro hit me with his first pitch. over 50 homers in a season. Right-handed). times during his career: May 5, 1956 off Moe Burtschy, May 20, 1956 off In At Seals Stadium in San Francisco I hit a ball where As told by Mark Gallagher in his The American Dream Comes Own This Day - https://thebaseballpage.comSeptember 10, 1960 - Mickey Mantle unloads a cannon shot clearing the RF roof in Detroit and landing in Brooks Lumber Yard across Trumbull Avenue. Mickey's first major league game. computer estimates that determine the length of home runs now. That on the roof went pretended to tag up like it was just a long fly ball. The American not hit the scoreboard. another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis Almost everyone in attendance believed that the ball was still rising when it was interrupted in midflight by the roof structure. The Yankees were playing He used to challenge me to a foot race before On June 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. Mickey laid into a Ramos fastball and got it all. 650 feet (6/11/53, protect his guys. Click Here to Return to I figured he felt bad enough already.") "It was a superhuman feat." Mickey belted a tremendous drive that ricocheted off the right-field 565 to a cannon shot. Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. Patterson's successor), who had many other duties, couldn't keep up long shot off each of them. It didn't make me mad 18 inches from clearing the roof. 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