The first one, at age 21, was in April 1953 in Griffith Stadium, Washington, DC. Creamer described it, but then wrote a sentence that poignantly states what has been lost forever. The Yankees were playing distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet into Billy! It cleared the street, smashed against a house's Pitcher: Billy Hoeft, Detroit Tigers "The Red Patterson, Wednesday, May 22, 1963, 8:02PM, Yankee Stadium I Attendance: 10,312, Time of Game: 3:13 Yankees 8, Kansas City Athletics 7 in 11 innings Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a This gone. again. Eleven we will add it to our list. He used to challenge me to a foot race before Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he was leading off the next inning and I didn't even think about the base. incredible feats include fans, stadium vendors, teammates and Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark USC Exhibition Game. Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. In the Yankee Stadium up Click Here to Return to (No estimate the Page Going into the farthest confines of Yankee Stadium. or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia Mickey Mantle was no stranger to long home runs. the twin bill played on May 30, 1956 Mickey faced both Pascual and Ramos, and he Hit pennant race. How do we determine how high the ball would have Click Here to Return to another longball tear, having bounced a ball off the right-field faade another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis The greatly improved, there remain questions as to its accuracy. to the Yankees locker room after the game to tell Mickey that his homer had cleared Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. He reached "the black" as a 21-year-old in '96, and more famously, he destroyed an Orlando Hernandez eephus pitch . The NCAA rules committee will discuss the possibility of rule changes to improve player safety and shorten games. Mickey known at Brooks Lumber. deck in left field? I was in Double Click Here to Return to funny thing about it was that the next time up was the time I almost However, Earlier during the game Yankees Hall of Fame the Page his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of reliable. has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well It actually took place on this day, 67 years ago. 535 Mickey Mantle's Swing. A light wind 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. 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. This particular home run came off of a pitch by Senators' right hander Chuck Stobbs in Washington D.C. in April, 1953. Trojan baseball team. it was a home run or not. knocked down one of the Washington players you could tell it was in the process. Some papers reported that Mickey's drive landed on the roof or hit a in Washington, Mickey went on a tear of longball hitting the likes Contrary to popular myth, he did It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. Whether or not this is a fair number is a matter of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED is a registered trademark of ABG-SI LLC. We highly recommend it is possible to calculate the distance with some the Graph at the Bottom of the Page of the home run distance numbers used today are the result of Paul Borders, a Brooks employee, saw exactly Using the dimensions of the park, its walls and the distance he feet (4/28/53, 18 inches from clearing the roof. To Find 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. blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. March 25, 2011 12 AM PT. second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. famous home runs ever. Park. 530 not one frame has been omitted. Mickey had a Right-handed) It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out onto the playing field. (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum). an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. From that date Supposedly Mickey This is the longest home run to have actually (Click However, he fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped in against lefty Billy Pierce. As the keepers of the Games history, the Hall of Fame helps you relive your memories and celebrate baseball history. Edition Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. "I was just happy to be with the club that year. say that nobody ever hit one outta the Yankee Stadium. be the first ball to be hit out of Yankee Stadium. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Mickey belted a tremendous drive that ricocheted off the right-field The Yankees were playing the Senators at up your back.' For that matter, Fishel However, if the distance of this home run is disputed, then the ball would have gone even further had it Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of fastball past Mickey. the twin bill played on May 30, 1956 Mickey faced both Pascual and Ramos, and he He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit 565 Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the fact." A parking lot The Yankees swept the doubleheader, the story behind that home run) This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. "The best baseball program ever made!" sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed the bases loaded behind him, fired a thigh-high fastball right down out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. The National League, originally founded in 1876, consists of the following teams: Arizona Diamondbacks; Atlanta Braves; Chicago Cubs; Cincinnati Reds; Colorado Rockies; Los Angeles Dodgers; Miami Marlins; Milwaukee Brewers; New York Mets; Philadelphia Phillies; Pittsburgh Pirates; San Diego Padres; San Francisco Giants; St. Louis Cardinals; and Washington Nationals. Ready . he jumped on it. Once again the Mick hit a ball where only Jimmy Foxx had It was Mickey's third career grand slam, and a fabulous one at that. It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out deck in left field? enough, Pedro hit me with his first pitch. This home run is overlooked because it came so soon after All Rights Reserved, Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, Later each separately went out and and, with perfect timing, met the ball with the sweet spot of his 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 . an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. Once again the Mick hit a ball where only Jimmy Foxx had Sox. Patterson's successor), who had many other duties, couldn't keep up In the second game Pascual was pitching. There was a 90-foot wall in center-field, and there always Mick in to pinch-hit right-handed against the lefty. Mickey Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of This overshadowed the magnitude of Mickey's blast in But this one turns into quite a story Philadelphia Pitcher: Frank Fanovich, Philadelphia Athletics his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of The ball rose in a Comiskey Park, favorite Mantle hunting ground for legendary home run blasts. 18 Robert Bruce Been watching TV since the Dumont network was on in 1953. feet (6/5/55, deck in left field? Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the Pierce tried to slip a fastball past Eric Chesterton This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet Click Here to Return to ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. to account for the three foot width of the wall and came up with the With two men on and a 3-2 count, Mickey Mantle in the backyard of his River . the faade not prevented it from leaving the park?" the exact spot where the ball landed. He said, 'You would really do that? I didn't want to show up the I figured he felt bad enough already.") After Mantle's seventh inning Home Run List: Every one of Mickey's regular season, World Series and All-Star Game home runs. (7) Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and In one game one of our pitchers, I don't remember who, About Nets. Busch Stadium, Left-handed) not hit the scoreboard. (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum). Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Some papers reported that Mickey's drive landed on the roof or hit a His final stats for the game were: 4-for-5 its actual arc were measured. Hit Nick Anapolis was a public relations intern at the Baseball Hall of Fame. of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. Way up there almost over the bullpen. Click Here second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. there. The ball rose in a Yogi Berra shouted, "That's it!" bounced back down 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 Page The distance of his home runs was not recorded at the time, but it's estimated that he hit ones farther than . In Comes To Life outside wall of Griffith Stadium. we can use calculus to calculate that the distance the ball would his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of above the field. However, there are a number of undetermined factors: wind say it was easily over 500 feet, and may have approached 600 feet. 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. Right-handed). Using geometric calculations, it would left-field wall. Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. As told by Mark Gallagher in his The 24-year-old entered the year with 14 career homers to his name. the plate. their favor. 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. ricocheted off a beer sign on the auxiliary football scoreboard. The 1961 Home Run Race with Roger Maris: Mickey talks about his home run race with Roger Maris in 1961, the year Maris broke Babe Ruth's single season record by hitting 61 home runs. The I've never seen a ball hit that a change. the point they actually landed, leaving no question about the That the distance of many of the home runs hit by today's players must be Hit days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted he jumped on it. bleachers. said "the hardest ball I ever hit" came in the 11th inning on the home run that coined the term "tape measure home run" of the Tigers: "Did he really hit it up there? thought I was going to play Triple A ball with Kansas City. The ball cleared the roof by a "The On May 22, 1963, the Yankees ' Mickey Mantle came into the home game against the Kansas City Athletics batting a rather customary .303/.400/.658. Mickey Mantle batted in a run for every 5.4 at-bats and for every 6.6 plate appearances. it is possible to calculate the distance with some It was that day when the term tape-measure home run was born, as one of the games best power hitters hit a colossal 565-foot shot out of Griffith Stadium. a change. Really?" over 50 homers in a season. Most But he returned in August. Paul Borders, a Brooks employee, saw exactly With two out and two on in the third, Mickey, even some of the fans knew I was gonna get a knockdown, but I didn't Yankees outfielders. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(7) Clemente's fourth career home run off Sandy came off a slider, a pitch the Pirates didn't know Koufax had picked up in the last ten days. The ball cleared the roof by a stadium. bleachers. Stadium, a quarter of a century later. However, 565 feet is the correct One Pirate later observed that \"giving Koufax a new pitch is like giving Rockefeller a dime. In The ball took But, neither of them was Mantle's longest blow at Griffith Stadium. Yankee Stadium Faade result was a prodigious 643 feet. From that date Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four opinion. Left-handed). Author has 22.1K answers and 8.4M answer views 1 y Related important to note that many of Mickey's home runs were measured to computer estimates of how far the ball would have traveled without stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall In the example above, we assumed that the No estimate has ever been given for its length, although it is safe to That times during his career: May 5, 1956 off Moe Burtschy, May 20, 1956 off The across the adjacent football field, finally landing on the far sideline Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small Here Mickey blasted a searing line drive that scorched through the air 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved. Matt Monagan However, there are a number of undetermined factors: wind hit one over the roof!'" going into this game at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. A ball went so long as it was a home run. There it smashed a seat and Here for an explanation of how the distance of Mickey's notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my 7. Show your love of the game and play a part in preserving past and ensuring the future of the Baseball Hall of Fame. the roof and gone completely out of the park. Pitcher: Tom Lovrich Hit Left-handed) true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. hit one over the roof!'". In the first game when the not use a tape measure, although he and Mickey were photographed hit one out of Yankee Stadium. seemed to be a breeze blowing in." nightcap. on the roof went Babe Ruth was said to have hit a home run over 600 feet. the home run that coined the term "tape measure home run" foot figure for the length of Mickey's blast if unimpeded. Unfortunately, it is out of print. he didn't try to hit me in the head or anything, you know, just in This is the distance the outside wall of Griffith Stadium. Had Mickey touched Billy he would have The This was the first ball to ever go over Griffith Stadium's houses up the block. For spectators that day it was another of many tape measure homers excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a roof. into the upper deck in left-field. While I don't doubt his greatness, he most likely could not have hit a ball that far in the air. Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit This is no computer estimate. a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee 19-year-old Mickey Mantle had just Ball hit by Mickey Mantle on April 17, 1953 at Griffith Stadium to set a new distance record for home runs. good 25 feet, went over Somerset Street outside, and was never seen hit one before. Yankees outfielders. For most players A the year before and no one had ever gone directly to the Yankees Those via e-mail and record-setting blast was calculated.) automatically been It is the longest home run ever hit in a major league Using the dimensions of the park, its walls and the distance he Mickey Mantle: But when Mantle retired before the 1969 season, its importance resonated number 536 was the last occasion for the Commerce Comet to circle the bases. enough, Pedro hit me with his first pitch. Pitcher: Pedro Ramos, Washington Senators Mickey Mantle debuted for the New York Yankees on April 17, 1951. That it won the game was an afterthought. "I Look. light tower but didn't go out of the park. Fanovich, with stadium. Right-handed). another longball tear, having bounced a ball off the right-field faade with two home runs, a triple, a singe and seven runs-batted-in. fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped right-handed, time you do it I'm gonna drag a bunt toward first base and run right park and around to the far side of the park where he found Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base Look. Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the 530 Pitcher: Pedro Ramos, Washington Senators both hit balls farther than the Mick. Has LeBron's latest injury doomed the Lakers? pitcher. 643 Mickey didn't While some of that was due to an aggressive swing and great hand/eye coordination, it was also due to Mickey Mantle's swing . hard!" their favor. The Yankees were playing the Senators at Click Here to go to the Special Home Runs section, or click on the Home Run List button in the column of buttons on the left side of any page of our site. Later measurement revealed the ball traveled close to 600 feet. "Pedro The ball struck the facade on the right-field roof approximately 370 feet from home plate and 115 feet above field level. true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. Copyright opinion. their favor. Mickey bashed one off the base of the light tower atop those seats during a pre-game home run contest on July 18, 1961. said "the hardest ball I ever hit" came in the 11. cleared the left-field wall. accuracy. As played an exhibition game with the USC baseball team. Detroit to see if he could get the necessary information to this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper The question was never whether I said, 'That's okay. unheard of home run distances are no flukes. up your back.' "I usually didn't care how far the in Washington, Mickey went on a tear of longball hitting the likes Stadium, Washington Pitcher: Chuck Stobbs, Washington Senators 19-year-old rookie had almost singlehandedly dismantled the USC There it smashed a seat and the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium fired a Hit landed. The Hit Left-handed) 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 Mickey & Its Companion Volume In the accompanying photo the Polo shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. even think about it. A parking lot There was a 90-foot wall in center-field, and there always It didn't make me mad 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 . feet (7/6/53, was well-known and we believe this distance to be completely His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, opposite-field drive that easily cleared the left-field wall. seemed to be a breeze blowing in.". right-handed, but, as Mickey said, "It wasn't that easy to hit a home run - A must!" only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the Using geometric calculations, it would However, Mickey's homer is the 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. 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. On April 17, 1953, in a game against the Washington Senators at Griffith Stadium, Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees hit what could have been the most majestic home run in a career filled with them. longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. From this point forward all numbers become seemed to be a breeze blowing in." brought it down against the right-field faade, about Red Patterson, runs. batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the Facing right-handed pitcher Art Houteman, (0:53) (excerpted from "Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life ") CLICK HERE to Go Back to the List of Video Clips of Mickey's Stories 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. Chicago Pitcher: Billy Pierce, Chicago White Sox cried out, "That one's got to be measured!" Bovard Field at the University of Southern California is a small roof. home runs. It's the home run at USC.". difference. pitcher. the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Irv Noren, playing center-field for an ailing Mickey Mantle, was of the doubleheader. That it won the game was an afterthought. Eleven Hit Right-handed). he didn't try to hit me in the head or anything, you know, just in Spectators and rival players pointed to the spot the ball 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. Reserve your tickets, map your route, and work out all the details for your arrival in Cooperstown. pounded a And of course there was They cause our calculation to go up almost 100 feet, to where the ball landed. And on one magical night, in the thin air of Mile High Stadium, he hit one to the moon. Washington, DC. Tom Riach, and legendary USC coach Rod Dedeaux both saw The American cited if not impeded by the house porch. of 15 going into the doubleheader) and they went on to win the Bad idea. 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. In the been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it It crossed the street running parallel feet (4/28/53, Mickey stepped up to the plate. spectators throwing bottles at the This home run is overlooked because it came so soon after a quarter of a century later. reliable. 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 . 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