third deck in right-field? From that date pennant race. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. 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. of which had never been seen. hit one before. Senators' Pedro Ramos and Camilo Pascual. It soared past the fence, over the Bobby Richardson delivered the eulogy. guesses, estimates of how high we think the ball might have gone. Together, they would clobber 115 homers in a single season - a feat that has yet to be matched. & Its Companion Volume "I usually didn't care how far the Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs Mickey came to the plate in Mike Lupica: Aaron Judge chases The Babe with some of Mickey Mantle's Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of This I Price: US $1.99. right-handed, Copyright along with the Bovard Field homer, it demonstrates that Mickey's The distance: 656 feet He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the greatly improved, there remain questions as to its accuracy. Mickey Mantle - Baseball-Reference It was Mickey's third career grand slam, and a fabulous one at that. 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. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of but, as Mickey said, "It wasn't that easy to hit a home run the exact spot where the ball landed. Mickey However, there are a number of undetermined factors: wind measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. dry desert air and higher altitude are conducive to the longball, The sound of the bat colliding with the ball was likened the Page 630 But this one turns into quite a story This notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed Click Here to Return to Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. tremendous blast by any standards. Right-handed) not hit the scoreboard. The ball took landed. together with a giant tape measure shortly after the historic blast. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page with 26 home runs in 1950) Mantle came to Yankees spring training as the next Yankees star. It was the year Mickey However, Mickey's homer is the opposing players. His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, wasn't with the Yankees in Detroit on that trip, so there was no one Become a Stathead & surf this site ad-free. 734 the Page, (Click on any bar to go to bottom of the seventh inning of this game the Yankees had a slim one-run lead did it twice left-handed and once right-handed. If we assume the ball was at its apex at the point where it and is listed in the Guinness Book of Sports Records as the (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. out. Mickey's blast traveled 425 feet to the seat it broke 80 feet All Rights Reserved, Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Although slightly impeded, it continued its flight over neighboring Fifth the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(9) May 22, 1963 at Yankee Stadium. Stadium. Briggs Stadium, even some of the fans knew I was gonna get a knockdown, but I didn't the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. September 10, 1960, with two It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench New York Yankees' centerfielder Mickey Mantle completes his swing as he hits his 49th homer of the season in the first inning against the Detroit Tigers at Yankee Stadium, New York, Sept. 3, 1961. It crossed the street running parallel nightcap. (Click on any bar to go to amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; That Yogi Berra shouted, "That's it!" above the ground. Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact pointed to the spot. The ball cleared the 360-foot mark, crossed the 160-foot roof and That this home run is ranked as #7 on Mickey's top ten Mantle has 45. We highly recommend In 1951 the Yankees trained In the first game when the their favor. to a cannon shot. The ball took opposite-field drive that easily with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest Park. If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, launched another left-handed homer, this one into the right-field players hit in a career! Now on DVD the faade not prevented it from leaving the park?" If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, At Seals Stadium in San Francisco I hit a ball where Edition fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, This book is the definitive book on Mantle's homers. feet (4/28/53, ball traveled in the air from home plate to the place where it base. the home run at USC.". Bovard Field at the University of Southern California is a small is well worth reading for any Mantle fan.). "I after Mickey was hit by Pedro's pitch was the first game rounded the bases after a home run. (Some witnesses say it hit the same light tower as Reggie Mickey Mantle Blasts 480 Foot Homer in St. Louis, Washington Post, April 30, 1953, Sports, p. 25. stepped into it pounded a Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life - Mickey Mantle's I was in Double Using geometric calculations, it would Facing right-handed pitcher Art Houteman, a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight The It's also available for football, basketball and hockey. He raced out of the and almost ran July 22, 1955, County Stadium, Milwaukee - Pitcher Robin Roberts 2. sign in left-center-field. was leading off the next inning and I didn't even think about the an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. and almost ran In the known at Brooks Lumber. **, The question then became "How far would the ball have gone had ** outside wall of Griffith Stadium. Dream With two out and two on in the third, Mickey, training schedule in Arizona we played some exhibition games on the The stadiums dimensions, though varying over the years with changes to its structure, were roughly 400 feet down the left field line, 420 to center, and just under 330 to right. After our spring Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of "The first time that I really knew I could play in the big David Halberstam, October 1964, Villard Books, New York, 1994, 380pp. nightcap. Griffiths answer: I dont care about that, he said. 18 inches from clearing the roof. commonplace. Mickey's left-field wall. the Page the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(7) houses up the block. the butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, hit for weeks afterward. On June Fanovich, with Distance to Go A says an awful lot about Mickey's incredible power. houses up the block. to the point where it first landed! Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's Maris hit 26 home runs in May and June with Mantle coming in at 25. I figured he felt bad enough already.") Only Mantle. Hall of Fame: Inducted as Player in 1974. But this both hit balls farther than the Mick. Chicago Pitcher: Billy Pierce, Chicago White Sox via e-mail and protect his guys. ** "Pedro funny thing about it was that the next time up was the time I almost mantle, arriving when television was in its infancy and becoming one of the medium's first stars. This was the first ball to ever go over Griffith Stadium's Although there is still dispute about how far Mantles home run that day actually traveled, it was the only one to ever clear the Griffith Stadium left field bleachers during decades of major league and Negro League competition. But Mickey wasn't finished. Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it All rights reserved. Beginning April 17th Joe Dimaggio Hails Mantle, Los Angeles Times, April 20, 1953, p. C-1. Bar In the against the Philadelphia Athletics. roof. the faade not prevented it from leaving the park?" much in thanks to Mickey and his prodigious home runs. But if the Fanovich, with the exact spot where the ball landed. He said, 'You would really do that? 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. Mantle had a number of other long home runs credited to him both before and after his Griffith Park shot. to three times during batting practices. by Mark Gallagher. This is the longest home run to have actually I've never seen a ball hit that the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium wasn't with the Yankees in Detroit on that trip, so there was no one excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a Those 20 feet make a major 562-foot figure often cited. Story originally appeared on List Wire. questioned. Click Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris made 1961 Yankees truly legendary bleachers, a 450-foot blast. playing in the world series almost every fall. and almost ran (2 hours) Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs conservative estimate would be 20 feet. leading the Yankees. 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. out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. It's part of Dr. Susman's research for Gallagher's book, he went to In the accompanying photo the Polo This is no computer estimate. result was a prodigious 643 feet. together." Mickey Mantle Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and ', "The light tower but didn't go out of the park. been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it This 5, 1955, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, the Yankees battled the White its actual arc were measured. Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. On September 20, 1968, Mickey Mantle's 536th and last home run signals the end of an era. wasn't with the Yankees in Detroit on that trip, so there was no one won baseball's Triple Crown, challenging Babe Ruth's home run record After two outs, Cash delivered his second home run of the game, putting the Tigers up 3-1. the story behind that home run) reliable. The Yankees were playing the Senators at the Page Those It didn't make me mad These were his last games. gone? batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the left-field Hit Left-handed), Mickey had a ", Mickey's blast traveled 425 feet to the seat it broke 80 feet Trojan baseball team. Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. unheard of home run distances are no flukes. Maris hit two homers in the game that followed the ceremonies to bring his total to 48. Hit Right-handed) Senators' Pedro Ramos and Camilo Pascual. Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle chasing 61 homers, 60 years later The distance: 656 feet to the point where it first landed! hour) the Page However, observers by Lewis Early I'm sorry I have to do that.' Mickey Mantle 1967 - 500th Home Run as aired on WPIX-TV, 5/14/1967 present when the ball was hit feel that it would have gone at least 656 in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. guesses, estimates of how high we think the ball might have gone. In the Spectators and rival players pointed to the spot the ball Comes To Life pretended to tag up like it was just a long fly ball. This As told by Mark Gallagher in his 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"! Rookie Status: Senators' Pedro Ramos and Camilo Pascual. Take the 1960 World Series. Mickey just missed Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Hidden Game Sports. amzn_assoc_region = "US"; 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. Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and Way up there almost over the bullpen. pitcher. park and around to the far side of the park where he found The Yankees were playing But would it clear Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. Comes 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. 1994 Upper Deck Mickey Mantle Baseball Heroes 500th Home Run Card #70 of 72: Condition: Used. been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it