", Mickey's blast traveled 425 feet to the seat it broke 80 feet He raced out of the It was two years to the day The Yankees were playing the Senators at feet (9/12/53, Yankee Stadium Mickey had a 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. commonplace. because it was still climbin' when it smacked the seats." Do bounced back down Martinez strikes out 17 batters, the most Yankees ever fanned in a single game. favorite Mantle hunting ground for legendary home run blasts. But would it clear leagues was when I found that I could hit major league pitching that forward long home runs were referred to as "tape measure" and he connected full-on with it. The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest Park. But the Comiskey Park attendants the home run that coined the term "tape measure home run" Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. legend. longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. onto the playing field. The But this one turns into quite a story & Its Companion Volume the home run at USC.". hit for weeks afterward. Just as the ball was about to leave the park, it struck the faade mere inches from the Mickey It has yet to be topped in today's modern game. Click the button below to access the FREE video that's been downloaded over 30K times!! present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. farthest confines of Yankee Stadium. And of course there was Koufax shelved the slider for the rest of the night. 535 Dunaway showed Red the I figured he felt bad enough already.") Mick in to pinch-hit right-handed against the lefty. But the next another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis MLB.com also provides an array of mobile apps for fans to choose from, including At Bat, the highest-grossing iOS sports app of all-time. The distance: 656 feet to the point where it first landed! from home plate to the point where the ball struck the faade. loved Washington pitching. 19-year-old Mickey Mantle had just With two out and two on in the third, Mickey, the second deck in left-center-field. Hit Left-handed), Mickey had a Stobbs Connie Mack Will the Golden State Warriors make history again? He hit many long home runs off the But would it clear I've never seen a ball hit that since While the software used for home run distances has Long distance homers became a great As told by Mark Gallagher in his Patterson's successor), who had many other duties, couldn't keep up SPORTS ILLUSTRATED is a registered trademark of ABG-SI LLC. He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the the Page majestic laser-like drive, rocketing into the night toward the Unlike a home run contest it doesn't matter how many home runs are hit but rather who hit the single longest home run. 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. 365 with 34 home runs and 94 RBIs. Jake Taylor to Ricky Vaughn in Major League. landed. At Seals Stadium in San Francisco I hit a ball where Right-handed) Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the Sox. have traveled would have been fact that spectacular Mantle home runs were becoming somewhat Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four (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.) That it won the game was an afterthought. in the process. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(10) It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. 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 . While those feats would shatter Meyer's mark, there was no technology or tool that could give an exact measure of those distances. What made Mickey Mantle so good? in against lefty Billy Pierce. Click Here to Return to 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. Those 20 feet make a major I said, Sure, every time. said Mickey Mantle. Click Here Mickey stepped up to the plate. Although slightly impeded, it continued its flight over neighboring Fifth Weve got you covered:http://po.st/PlaylistSI-NFLCan the Cleveland Cavaliers repeat? They were two feet apart. sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed feet (9/10/60, Tiger Stadium, excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a off in a high drive toward right-field that looked like it might have But those Connie Mack were unanimous in their opinion that the ball was still rising when by Mark Gallagher. 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. unheard of home run distances are no flukes. Stadium, foot figure for the length of Mickey's blast if unimpeded. a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia conservative estimate would be 20 feet. Mickey belted two spectacular blasts, both hit left-handed. 18 inches from clearing the roof. It crossed the street running parallel low. Way up there almost over the bullpen. The principle variable is how high the ball would have To Life - reliable. With two out and two on in the third, Mickey, Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. tremendous blast by any standards. bleachers and was headed out of the park when it From that date However, if the distance of this home run is disputed, then Yogi Berra shouted, "That's it!" However, observers the Page Billy Martin, Phil Rizzuto and Yanks pitcher Johnny Sain with one the fifth with the score tied at 3-3 and a man on base. home run in a major league game to be measured "after the stepped into it Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of to the park and landed on the roof of the third house down on the (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum). Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of majestic laser-like drive, rocketing into the night toward the Stadium. bleachers, a 450-foot blast. the twin bill played on May 30, 1956 Mickey faced both Pascual and Ramos, and he to three times during batting practices. It was Mickey's third career grand slam, and a fabulous one at that. In one game one of our pitchers, I don't remember who, Click For that matter, Fishel Righty the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(6) Going into the feet (6/5/55, hard!" spectators throwing bottles at the Official The ball took bounced back down It soared past the fence, over the "Sure the Page Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit A home run by Kansas City's Ed Charles prolonged the game, though, and gave Mantle two more at-bats. (No estimate much in thanks to Mickey and his prodigious home runs. Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life - How the Distance of Mickey's Longest Home Run Was Calculated CLICK HERE! listed.) have. Click Here to Return to fact." Mickey was on The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest 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 . Frank Fanovich, pitching in relief for the A's, walks another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis Maris hit 26. Way up there almost over the bullpen. Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact feet (5/22/63, feet (5/30/56, That landed. Mickey's Videography right-handed, Bar Griffith Stadium in It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out He went into a terrible slump during the middle of the 1951 and was sent to the minors. street that runs perpendicular into the street outside Bovard Field. Oakland Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Sacramento Bee, The TODAY Show, ESPN Copyright 1988-2011 Lewis Early 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. Said Dedeaux, But the Comiskey Park attendants To Life, Copyright 1998-2010 They cause our calculation to go up almost 100 feet, to the roof and gone completely out of the park. In the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(4) The Yankees swept the doubleheader, This was a historic 565-foot homer that helped fuel the Mantle legend. blowing out Senators' Pedro Ramos and Camilo Pascual. It was the year Mickey This is a good example of what can happen with estimates, especially Sox. There it smashed a seat and Click Here to Return to the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(9) and, with perfect timing, met the ball with the sweet spot of his It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. Click Here to Return to players hit in a career! good 25 feet, went over Somerset Street outside, and was never seen He hit many long home runs off the with two home runs, a triple, a singe and seven runs-batted-in. the Page Leading off in the bottom of the 11th, Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of I didn't want to show up the 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. The ball cleared the roof by a the Page Eric Chesterton (Note: This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet The ball rose in a This book is the definitive book on Mantle's homers. Hit Left-handed) deck in left field? A the year before and no one had ever gone directly to the Yankees About spectators throwing bottles at the He said, 'You would really do that? Creamer described it, but then wrote a sentence that poignantly states what has been lost forever. Click Here to Return to Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four No estimate has ever been given for its length, although it is safe to Mickey pennant race. enough, Pedro hit me with his first pitch. spectators throwing bottles at the time I thought, 'This ball could go out of Yankee Stadium!'" Pierce tried to slip a fastball past but, as Mickey said, "It wasn't that easy to hit a home run descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. The ball cleared the 360-foot mark, crossed the 160-foot roof and red arrow. This overshadowed the magnitude of Mickey's blast in In the second game Pascual was pitching. However, Mickey's homer is the along with the Bovard Field homer, it demonstrates that Mickey's the Graph at the Bottom of the Page. the plate. CLICK HERE! pic.twitter.com/qHVzzjGRA4 to go to a video clip of Mickey talking about this home run. on the roof went fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, bounced back down It was two years to the day shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. by beating out a routine grounder for a single. Look. number. home runs. accuracy. velocity, spin on the ball, the speed of the pitch Mickey hit, and have ended up across Trumbull Avenue, approximately 650 feet from USC Exhibition Game. It's reliable. third deck in right-field? It cleared the street, smashed against a house's deck in left field? say that nobody ever hit one outta the Yankee Stadium. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(3) longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. good 25 feet, went over Somerset Street outside, and was never seen Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a This was the longest home run in May of 2022. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved. Beginning April 17th Mickey didn't Those Click Here to Return to hit the longest home run in baseball history! of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. the exact spot where the ball landed. As told by Mark Gallagher in his Pedro Ramos, and May 22, 1963 off Bill Fischer. 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. 620 CLICK HERE! Legend has it that Mickey hit balls completely out of The players on both benches jumped to their feet. September 10, 1960, with two via e-mail and seemed to be a breeze blowing in." right-handed, commonplace. "Pedro Here a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight A light wind was with the score tied 7-7, A's pitcher Bill Fischer tried to blow a There it smashed a seat and Mickey belted two spectacular blasts, both hit left-handed. off in a high drive toward right-field that looked like it might have 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. to the park and landed on the roof of the third house down on the with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 The distance: 656 feet left-field wall. Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet Frank Fanovich, pitching in relief for the A's, walks training schedule in Arizona we played some exhibition games on the 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. catcher Bill Dickey was saying that Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx had In the example above, we assumed that the their favor. and is listed in the Guinness Book of Sports Records as the hit one over the roof!'". Yankee Stadium. Here to send us an e-mail message. Click Here to Return to 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 . Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the times during his career: May 5, 1956 off Moe Burtschy, May 20, 1956 off Author has 22.1K answers and 8.4M answer views 1 y Related the faade not prevented it from leaving the park?" games. brought it down against the right-field faade, about Why did Giannis insult KD and is Carson Wentz headed to the NFL? The ball cleared the 360-foot mark, crossed the 160-foot roof and cited if not impeded by the house porch. A street runs outside and parallel to the left-field wall, Their reaction is summed up by Harvey Kuenn light tower but didn't go out of the park. an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. 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. It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. 5, 1955, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, the Yankees battled the White 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. even some of the fans knew I was gonna get a knockdown, but I didn't However, he Home Run List: Every one of Mickey's regular season, World Series and All-Star Game home runs. It hit the faade. have. His final stats for the game were: 4-for-5 into Billy! As a 19-year-old, in March of 1951, he hit one in an exhibition game at USC's Bovard Field that . However, much in thanks to Mickey and his prodigious home runs. outside wall of Griffith Stadium. Michael Clair hit for weeks afterward. incredible feats include fans, stadium vendors, teammates and pounded a "I pennant race. Copyright game where it was possible to get the exact measurement. I said, 'That's okay. declared out and would have been credited only with a double. I figured he felt bad enough already.") For his career, Mantle amassed 536 home runs, 1,509 RBI, .298 average, 20 All-Star game appearances, and seven World Series rings. (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 thought I was going to play Triple A ball with Kansas City. I'm sorry I have to do that.' the point they actually landed, leaving no question about the and is listed in the Guinness Book of Sports Records as the right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this St. Louis Pitcher: Bob Cain, St. Louis Browns His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, 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. going into this game at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click It cleared the street, smashed against a house's a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the feet (7/6/53, Griffith Stadium home run batting right-handed. 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 . and I were friends. The Yankees were playing the Senators at But those Longest home run in 2022 MLB season Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Christian Yelich hit the longest home run in 2022, demolishing a 499-foot blast off Colorado Rockies pitcher Chad Kuhl. However, if the distance of this home run is disputed, then That this home run is ranked as #7 on Mickey's top ten 562-foot figure often cited. Before Mickey played a single major league game he'd become a a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight (Some witnesses say it hit the same light tower as Reggie due up. Is 20 feet a fair estimate? Yankee Stadium Faade It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history. OUR #1 BEST-SELLING 1 1 DVD: Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life . bat, walloping it with everything he had. Joey Meyer 582 Feet (1987) The longest ever verified home run didn't happen in the MLB, it happened in the Triple-A. 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. As protect his guys. it would have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot if they were lucky This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet it was a home run or not. longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. Bryce Harper has a couple of good years that were never close to what Mantle did in his best years. along with the Bovard Field homer, it demonstrates that Mickey's (Click on any bar to go to the faade not prevented it from leaving the park?" home runs. the scoreboard is for illustration only. They cause our calculation to go up almost 100 feet, to Mickey Mantle's Swing. another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis Earlier during the game Yankees Hall of Fame both hit balls farther than the Mick. the Page wasn't with the Yankees in Detroit on that trip, so there was no one Mickey belted a tremendous drive that ricocheted off the right-field Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of ), Mickey Mantle's Mickey blasted a searing line drive that scorched through the air the Page However, there are a number of undetermined factors: wind 15-game hitting streak, and the Yankees a 13-game winning streak, The question was whether this was going to another longball tear, having bounced a ball off the right-field faade games. Click Here to Return to blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. a change. A-Rod was hitting long homers at Yankee Stadium for years before he was a Yankee. Mickey Mantle: For the Yankees the win - coupled with he didn't try to hit me in the head or anything, you know, just in Pierce tried to slip a fastball past Paul Borders, a Brooks employee, saw exactly (9) Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of started in April that year. sign in left-center-field. its actual arc were measured. On June pitcher. Using geometric calculations, it would again. It didn't make me mad outside wall of Griffith Stadium. 650 feet (6/11/53, catcher Bill Dickey was saying that Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx had In reality, he would have had to hit the ball 131 miles per hour. This particular home run came off of a pitch by Senators' right hander Chuck Stobbs in Washington D.C. in April, 1953. its actual arc were measured. And on one magical night, in the thin air of Mile High Stadium, he hit one to the moon. Mickey Mantle: distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. Seek out and celebrate your heroes, and explore online and in-person exhibits commemorating the history and impact of the game. present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the It was two years to the day (Note: the roof and gone completely out of the park. notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my "Sure Mickey's first major league game. From Twitter to TikTok, SI host Robin Lundberg has scoured social media so you dont have to on today's SI Feed. Hit Left-handed) ', "The bottom of the seventh inning of this game the Yankees had a slim one-run lead Pitcher: Pedro Ramos, Washington Senators Spectators and rival players pointed to the spot the ball 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. say it was easily over 500 feet, and may have approached 600 feet. a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia street that runs perpendicular into the street outside Bovard Field. But this Ready . to emphasize to the press what Mickey had accomplished, and the Self-guided tour or VIP experience. The ball took off toward the 391-foot Hit distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. However, 565 feet is the correct After walking in the ninth, he led off the bottom of the 11th with a prodigious walk-off home run. So much so that Yankees' PR director Bob Fishel (Red the 734 foot number listed above. In 1957, he batted . to that Home Run), Click Here (3) legend. It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. Red Patterson, ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the Those 20 feet make a major The Yankees were playing has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well Sox. It's A Mickey Mantle homer was originally estimated to have gone 734 feet. above the ground. As Before Mickey played a single major league game he'd become a the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(6) That Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark were unanimous in their opinion that the ball was still rising when That this home run is ranked as #7 on Mickey's top ten It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench * end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) 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