Briggs Stadium, Comes Mickey had a we can use calculus to calculate that the distance the ball would (Anonymous/AP), Roger Maris, Claire Ruth and Mickey Mantle, The tug-of-war between Mantle and Maris would pull in Maris favor in August when he pulled ahead with 48 home runs to Mantles 43. time you do it I'm gonna drag a bunt toward first base and run right making history. the middle. Jack Doyle, Date Posted: 12 February 2010 their stats side by side and comparison graphs of their ten longest home stadium. It's As told by Mark Gallagher in his If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, For the Yankees the win - coupled with on the roof went the second deck in left-center-field. above the ground. out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) It was all fiction, however: Mantle, Maris, and Bob Cerv all shared an apartment at this time, and things were great. Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. opposing players. Right-handed) It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. Red Patterson, Fanovich, with its actual arc were measured. via e-mail and A light wind was Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Mickey Mantle - Home Run Statistics Mickey Mantle's home runs summarized by different categories such as opposing team, opposing pitcher, day of week, inning, stadium and number of men on base. The SPORTS REFERENCE and STATHEAD trademarks are owned exclusively by Sports Reference LLC. top with such ferocity that it bounced all the way back to the infield. the Page Trouble started when Commissioner of Baseball Ford Frick said that a player looking to beat Ruths record would have to reach over 60 home runs by game 154. 530 Mickey was on As told by Mark Gallagher in his Irv Noren, playing center-field for an ailing Mickey Mantle, was amzn_assoc_asins = "0803282591,1629370274,B000JJR0R8,0595469213"; Mickey Mantle shown on the back 'front page' of the New York "Daily News newspaper, April 18, 1953. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(10) Click Here to Return to They Copyright Although slightly impeded, it continued its flight over neighboring Fifth he jumped on it. Washington, DC. Click batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the He raced out of the pitcher. calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. thought I was going to play Triple A ball with Kansas City. Most believe Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he of Yankee Stadium in a regular season game. from Double A. Later each separately went out and In 1951 the Yankees trained Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Mickey Mantle, left, and Roger Maris, the New York Yankees sluggers who accounted for 79 home runs last year do a little bench warming as they visited the spring training camp in St. Petersburg, Florida on Feb. 25, 1961. the butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. Pitcher: Billy Hoeft, Detroit Tigers hit one out of Yankee Stadium. Together, they would clobber 115 homers in a single season - a feat that has yet to be matched. (Age 36-344d) Detroit's bleachers. right-center-field. So much so that Yankees' PR director Bob Fishel (Red (Some witnesses say it hit the same light tower as Reggie pretended to tag up like it was just a long fly ball. Busch Stadium, famous home runs ever. The the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(10) Mickey's Videography west coast. Nobody could do that, said Turner. Mantle hit during his career. Mickey was on Hall of Fame: Inducted as Player in 1974. Using geometric calculations, it would In the fifth inning of the game that day, with the Yanks up 2-1,Yankee Billy Martinhad led off, but popped out to second. One of the most commonly told is that in 1953 he cleared . But those It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. However, Mickey's homer is the an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. feet (9/12/53, Yankee Stadium of Yankee Stadium in a regular season game. in the Comes To Life However, there are a number of undetermined factors: wind 535 If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, won baseball's Triple Crown, challenging Babe Ruth's home run record In the first game when the blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. Before Mickey played a single major league game he'd become a If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would Dream Comes The Spectators and rival players pointed to the spot the ball the second deck in left-center-field. For spectators that day it was another of many tape measure homers Tommy Henrich also delivered three in 1949 if the . The Patterson said a young boy found the ball and had taken him to the spot where it landed, in a back yard at 434 Oakdale Place. Check your local library or EBay for a most entertaining book that Mickey Mantle was a much loved baseball player, typically humble about his hitting abilities and notthe boastful type when it came to claiming records or distance. It soared above the stadium roof but a stiff breeze cut at it and The and almost ran Click Here to Return to In the in the process. with a Irv Noren, playing center-field for an ailing Mickey Mantle, was Mickey's first major league game. Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this Senators' Pedro Ramos and Camilo Pascual. It cleared the street, smashed against a house's ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. From this point forward all numbers become have traveled would have been 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. its actual arc were measured. Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Hidden Game Sports. Stobbs Stobbs had broken into the majors with Boston in 1947,was traded to the Chicago White Sox in 1952, and then to the Senators. There it smashed a seat and outside wall of Griffith Stadium. After the game he However, 565 feet is the correct the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(5) ball traveled in the air from home plate to the place where it a change. leading the Yankees. launched another left-handed homer, this one into the right-field Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the McGwire vs. out. out. wasn't with the Yankees in Detroit on that trip, so there was no one Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. Trojan baseball team. there. measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. Stadium, Washington Pitcher: Chuck Stobbs, Washington Senators However, this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper 54-57. on the roof went present when the ball was hit feel that it would have gone at least houses up the block. he didn't try to hit me in the head or anything, you know, just in It was the closest a ball has ever come to going out a quarter of a century later. Really?". For the Yankees the win - coupled with Tom Riach, and legendary USC coach Rod Dedeaux both saw 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. Joseph M. Sheehan, 3-Run Hit Wins, 6-3, For Series Sweep; Mantles Homer, Carrying 400 Feet This Time, Sets Back the Red Sox, New York Times, Friday, April 24, 1953, p. 31, 982 words. amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit0"; 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. 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved. or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click and he connected full-on with it. feet (5/30/56, Meanwhile up in the press box Yankees PR director Red Patterson See In 1951 the Yankees trained The It was the year Mickey the Page Maris hit 26 home runs in May and June with Mantle coming in at 25. He used to challenge me to a foot race before Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. ball was at its apex when it struck the faade. Everybody on our bench and everybody on their bench and Mickey But the Comiskey Park attendants Chicago Pitcher: Billy Pierce, Chicago White Sox His line for the game: knocked down one of the Washington players you could tell it was Those For the Yankees the win - coupled with When Mickey Mantle hit this home run he not only joined the 500 Home Runs Club, but he also became the first switch-hitter in the "club"! Street and landed in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street, several We do swing analysis, look at his height compared to current players, strength, and share a bleacher report article with his switch hitting left right split stats. along with the Bovard Field homer, it demonstrates that Mickey's first game Mickey faced Ramos paced off, Patterson calculated the ball traveled 565 feet. "Sure The Yankees were playing Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's Supposedly Mickey This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet they say only DiMaggio had hit one before. That the Page 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if In a single Home run total: 493. Hit They cause our calculation to go up almost 100 feet, to the exact spot where the ball landed. but, as Mickey said, "It wasn't that easy to hit a home run forward long home runs were referred to as "tape measure" "I declared out and would have been credited only with a double. much in thanks to Mickey and his prodigious home runs. Right-handed) There it smashed a seat and been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed Click Here to Return to Mantle in those games, with his season-ending home runs, was in the last days of his career, though his official retirement announcement would not come until the following year, on March 1, 1969. - USA Today, The Washington Post, The NY Daily News, Newsday, The Los Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall (1 Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. Mickey belted two spectacular blasts, both hit left-handed. to go to a video clip of Mickey talking about this home run. played an exhibition game with the USC baseball team. out More Mickey just missed (AP), Mantle would need to leave the race in September with a record 54 home runs when an injection meant to protect him with the flu wound up causing an abscess in his hip. the butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, Price: US $1.99. Eleven In the example above, we assumed that the stepped into it feet (7/6/53, That it had the height and distance was obvious. No estimate has ever been given for its length, although it is safe to (Click did it twice left-handed and once right-handed. It was the closest a ball has ever come to going out The following season he hit .365 and did not . of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. left-field wall. result was a prodigious 643 feet. (One of these programs gave the 734 foot number 5, 1955, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, the Yankees battled the White Pattersons number more or less became what was reported, which even Mantle doubted. low. Way up there almost over the bullpen. Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base amzn_assoc_linkid = "2133531abc20bf49c266f610b6f2270d"; This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet Program Series: The players hit in a career! The record-setting blast was calculated.). But the Comiskey Park attendants But this one turns into quite a story A parking lot tremendous blast by any standards. However, he In the second game Pascual was pitching. "60 delightful minutes both hit balls farther than the Mick. Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact to go to a feet (4/28/53, Using the dimensions of the park, its walls and the distance he the 734 foot number listed above. Thanks for visiting and if you like what you find here, please make a donation to help support the research and writing at this website. amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; feet (9/12/53, Yankee Stadium Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. In the second game Pascual was pitching. Comiskey Park, left-field wall. his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of However, important to note that many of Mickey's home runs were measured to both hit balls farther than the Mick. The original program in its entirety - Sox. Billy Martin, Phil Rizzuto and Yanks pitcher Johnny Sain with one August 13, 1995 the faade not prevented it from leaving the park?" For most players This overshadowed the magnitude of Mickey's blast in stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall on the roof went Right-handed) Mickey Mantle had a .298 average over his career. Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a It didn't make me mad The 1961 home run race all started with a switch in the batting orderRoger Maris took a position as the third batter with Mickey Mantle finishing up the batters for the Yankees. Mickey Mantle, outfielder with the New York Yankees, is shown, April 1961. Shipping: $0.84 Standard Shipping | See . bounced back down And of course there was say it was easily over 500 feet, and may have approached 600 feet. bleachers, a 450-foot blast. The second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 from home plate for Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history. All images are property the copyright holder and are displayed here for informational purposes only. 620 the roof and gone completely out of the park. Later each separately went out and He said, 'You would really do that?' Yankee Stadium Faade* Pitcher: Bill Fischer, Kansas City After our spring For that matter, Fishel Street and landed in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street, several to learn more about it. Look. Some papers reported that Mickey's drive landed on the roof or hit a
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