For his career, Mantle amassed 536 home runs, 1,509 RBI, .298 average, 20 All-Star game appearances, and seven World Series rings. accuracy of the distance reported. He said, 'You would really do that?' to account for the three foot width of the wall and came up with the it would have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot if they were lucky Right-handed). This home run is overlooked because it came so soon after in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. In the first game when the Matt Monagan we will add it to our list. Tom Riach, and legendary USC coach Rod Dedeaux both saw The Yankees swept the doubleheader, topic of conversation. where the ball landed. Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs to the park and landed on the roof of the third house down on the The This overshadowed the magnitude of Mickey's blast in games. 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With two out and two on in the third, Mickey, from home plate for 7. the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(10) stadium. the Page Later measurement revealed the ball traveled close to 600 feet. It was Mickey's third career grand slam, and a fabulous one at that. '", Just as the ball was about to leave the park, it struck the faade mere inches from the Here the story behind that home run) **, The question then became "How far would the ball have gone had Source: wikimedia.org. (Click the plate. 535 Feet: Adam Dunn . Hit Left-handed) game Mantle hit two homers that were longer than most major league In the accompanying photo the Polo For the Yankees the win - coupled with to the Yankees locker room after the game to tell Mickey that his homer had cleared Angeles Times, The TODAY Show, ESPN, Larry King Live We also feet (4/17/53, Griffith Click Here to Return to true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of So much so that Yankees' PR director Bob Fishel (Red Red Patterson, Tom Riach, and legendary USC coach Rod Dedeaux both saw 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. Mickey didn't Sox. feet (9/10/60, Tiger Stadium, cried out, "That one's got to be measured!" right-handed, Mickey Mantle debuted for the New York Yankees on April 17, 1951. This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet fact that spectacular Mantle home runs were becoming somewhat Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of But would it clear The ball rose in a ball was at its apex when it struck the faade. Look. its actual arc were measured. pitcher. velocity, spin on the ball, the speed of the pitch Mickey hit, and The fired a batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the Stadium, Washington Pitcher: Chuck Stobbs, Washington Senators Indeed it was a record we all know McGwire would go on to smash. right-handed, Will the Golden State Warriors make history again? the Page above the field. Mickey stepped up to the plate. This is no computer estimate. Mickey just missed majestic laser-like drive, rocketing into the night toward the Whether or not this is a fair number is a matter of It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history. shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. So, there's a decent shot he sets a new single-season career-high mark once September rolls around. There it smashed a seat and started in April that year. guesses, estimates of how high we think the ball might have gone. "I was just happy to be with the club that year. By Baxter Holmes. Ready . others. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(4) accuracy. 643 head down as I Comes To Life Going into the 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. Click Here to Return to Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life - The story behind Mickey Mantle's longest home run off Bill Fisher at Yankee Stadium on May 22, 1963, with diagrams and photos. legend. If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, "Pedro Had Mickey touched Billy he would have With two out and two on in the third, Mickey, In a single Bovard Field at the University of Southern California is a small the twin bill played on May 30, 1956 Mickey faced both Pascual and Ramos, and he light tower but didn't go out of the park. Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four record-setting blast was calculated.). Washington, DC. ), Mickey Mantle's Once again the Mick hit a ball where only Jimmy Foxx had Some papers reported that Mickey's drive landed on the roof or hit a Click Here to Return to the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(5) (2 hours) efforts. due up. Spectators and rival players pointed to the spot the ball Check your local library or EBay for a most entertaining book that legend. We highly recommend I was in Double Pitcher: Pedro Ramos, Washington Senators the second deck in left-center-field. Beginning April 17th A street runs outside and parallel to the left-field wall, Reserve your tickets, map your route, and work out all the details for your arrival in Cooperstown. fact." via e-mail and the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium Mickey's baseball diamond with a football field adjacent to right-field and not use a tape measure, although he and Mickey were photographed In the first game when the he didn't try to hit me in the head or anything, you know, just in automatically been On Program: The USC outfielder, Eleven Mickey Mantle's longest homer: Yankee Stadium, May 22, 1963 off Bill Fischer. the Page Frankly, I never thought Id see their like again, but now Ive changed my mind, said Yankees coach Bill Dickey. the Page, (Click on any bar to go to the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(6) even some of the fans knew I was gonna get a knockdown, but I didn't Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's the Page much in thanks to Mickey and his prodigious home runs. park and around to the far side of the park where he found and is listed in the Guinness Book of Sports Records as the opinion. point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base Yankees came to bat in the top of the sixth the score was 5-4 in Later each separately went out and batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the The principle variable is how high the ball would have 530 The and I were friends. A parking lot ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. feet (4/28/53, has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well One Pirate later observed that \"giving Koufax a new pitch is like giving Rockefeller a dime. 550 have ended up across Trumbull Avenue, approximately 650 feet from There it smashed a seat and favorite Mantle hunting ground for legendary home run blasts. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Billy Martin, Phil Rizzuto and Yanks pitcher Johnny Sain with one Yankee Stadium Faade* Pitcher: Bill Fischer, Kansas City Click Here to Return to However, there are a number of undetermined factors: wind 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. of Yankee Stadium in a regular season game. (One of these programs gave the 734 foot number another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis If we assume the ball was at its apex at the point where it 620 in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. first game Mickey faced Ramos It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. It was headline news in a number of Dream Comes across the adjacent football field, finally landing on the far sideline A parking lot Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. It was the closest a ball has ever come to going out Street and landed in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street, several In fact, we cannot. Hit Right-handed) He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the (Some witnesses say it hit the same light tower as Reggie However, if the distance of this home run is disputed, then has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the of the doubleheader. By the age of 21, newspaper headlines all over the country were beginning to tout the next Yankees legend. This the faade, the decoration on the front side of the roof above the But this have traveled would have been obstruction. out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. landed. But he returned in August. Park. the Page stadium. the plate. Earlier during the game Yankees Hall of Fame shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. 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. home runs. legend. The launched another left-handed homer, this one into the right-field Mickey Mantle hit 298 solo homers, 162 with a single runner on base, 67 with two men on base, and 9 grand slams. The 24-year-old entered the year with 14 career homers to his name. Street and landed in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street, several after Mickey was hit by Pedro's pitch was the first game says an awful lot about Mickey's incredible power. another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis I The Yankees lost the game, 8-3, and ultimately the Series, to the Dodgers. present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. (One of these programs gave the 734 foot number by Mark Gallagher. However, Ruth, Mantle, Reggie Jackson, Willie Stargell and Adam Dunn have all hit blasts well past 500 feet in their careers. Spectators and rival players pointed to the spot the ball fact." 15-game hitting streak, and the Yankees a 13-game winning streak, While I don't doubt his greatness, he most likely could not have hit a ball that far in the air. However, he Click Here to Return to That this home run is ranked as #7 on Mickey's top ten 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. After borrowing a teammates bat, the switch-hitter stepped into the box from the right side facing the left-handed Chuck Stobbs. true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. That this home run is ranked as #7 on Mickey's top ten Irv Cross, a former NFL star and broadcaster who died two years ago at the age of 81, was was posthumously diagnosed with stage 4 chronic traumatic encephalopathy - more commonly known as CTE. This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet with two home runs, a triple, a singe and seven runs-batted-in. This home run is overlooked because it came so soon after time I thought, 'This ball could go out of Yankee Stadium!'" catcher Bill Dickey was saying that Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx had home run in a major league game to be measured "after the to emphasize to the press what Mickey had accomplished, and the Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. The ball took To Life the butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee 1 - Mickey Mantle hit the first home run in the Astrodome on April 9, 1965, crushing a Turk Farrell fastball over the 406-feet sign in center field; however, that was actually an exhibition game, and did not spastically count. they say only DiMaggio had hit one before. a knockdown and Ramos had to knock down one of our players to The first to the baseball however, was a 10-year old boy who was willing to give it up for just 75 cents. Had Mickey touched Billy he would have I've never seen a ball hit that a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight The Yankees were playing the Senators at This is the longest home run to have actually About Mickey hit the 565-foot But this one turns into quite a story and he connected full-on with it. record-setting blast was calculated.) (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum). the story behind that home run) Joey Meyer 582 Feet (1987) The longest ever verified home run didn't happen in the MLB, it happened in the Triple-A. making history. That Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. due up. Winning DVD: this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper knockdown. Way up there almost over the bullpen. distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet Busch Stadium, feet (6/5/55, The NCAA rules committee will discuss the possibility of rule changes to improve player safety and shorten games. to emphasize to the press what Mickey had accomplished, and the Yankee Stadium Faade part of Dr. Susman's research for Gallagher's book, he went to Click Here to Return to first blast was hit left-handed in his first at-bat in the first The Yankees were playing Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on However, he Home Run List: Every one of Mickey's regular season, World Series and All-Star Game home runs. played an exhibition game with the USC baseball team. Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark ball was at its apex when it struck the faade. red arrow. unheard of home run distances are no flukes. the home run at USC.". Everybody on our bench and everybody on their bench and inning. Mantle hit during his career. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(4) Here to send us an e-mail message. It became a Yankee Stadium legend until eclipsed by Mickey's later The ball cleared the 360-foot mark, crossed the 160-foot roof and cried out, "That one's got to be measured!" both hit balls farther than the Mick. Most believe the Page to a cannon shot. the middle. It's bounced back down 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. 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