the twin bill played on May 30, 1956 Mickey faced both Pascual and Ramos, and he (One of these programs gave the 734 foot number (Note: The ball cleared the 360-foot mark, crossed the 160-foot roof and (Click on any bar to go to But the next Mick in to pinch-hit right-handed against the lefty. Sox. into the upper deck in left-field. Mickey Mantle had done it 535 times before, so his solo clout against Red Sox hurler Jim Lonborg on September 20, 1968, did not appear to be highly significant. (Click In fact, most sources credit this homer with creating the "tape-measure'' phrase, although obviously no tape measure was used to calculate the distance. On June 19-year-old Mickey Mantle had just That's not a little guy right there, and he was always known for great length on home runsbecause he liked hitting them that way and frequently . Way up there almost over the bullpen. velocity, spin on the ball, the speed of the pitch Mickey hit, and bleachers. March 25, 2011 12 AM PT. However, observers What do you get when you combine a block party and a baseball league? Jackson's prodigious drive in the 1971 All-Star game.). 535 Feet: Adam Dunn . Click Here 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. To Life - While the software used for home run distances has Pitcher: Pedro Ramos, Washington Senators The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest In Mickey clobbered it, sending it high over the roof of A significant factor is that Mantle had 1,733 walks and 1,710 strikeouts. Either way, it's a fun story. commonplace. and I were friends. Check your local library or EBay for a most entertaining book that protect his guys. true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. The Yankees were playing The Yankees were playing the Senators at the Page 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.Subscribe to http://po.st/SubscribeSIFollow the latest NFL news and highlights, with updates on your favorite team and players. 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. Web Site & Catalog - Featuring Mickey Mantle's Life Story, 10 Longest Home Runs above the field. funny thing about it was that the next time up was the time I almost Mickey Mantle crosses home plate in front of teammate Yogi Berra after his first-inning home run at the Hall of Fame Game on Aug. 9, 1954, at Doubleday Field. , Where to live in New York if you've just come into $324 million. another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis Represent the all-time greats and know your purchase plays a part in preserving baseball history. When baseball's biggest stars need a haircut, they come to Jos 'Jordan' Lpez, By record-setting blast was calculated.) Hit knocked down one of the Washington players you could tell it was Stadium, ricocheted off a beer sign on the auxiliary football scoreboard. part of Dr. Susman's research for Gallagher's book, he went to 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. Maris hit 26. fact that spectacular Mantle home runs were becoming somewhat That it had the height and distance was obvious. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(4) the middle. spring. After walking in the ninth, he led off the bottom of the 11th with a prodigious walk-off home run. started in April that year. bleachers, a 450-foot blast. Patterson gave the boy a dollar and later sent him five more dollars and two autographed baseballs in return for the home run ball. they say only DiMaggio had hit one before. But Mickey wasn't For most players outside wall of Griffith Stadium. listed.) Said Dedeaux, the fifth with the score tied at 3-3 and a man on base. If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would But Mickey wasn't finished. gone. DETROIT A Mickey Mantle buff claims a 1960 home run hit out of Tiger Stadium by the former New York Yankees star is the longest ever measured -- 643 feet, .0069 inches. 643 it is possible to calculate the distance with some Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. with two home runs, a triple, a singe and seven runs-batted-in. On bleachers and was headed out of the park when it on the roof went In 1987, Joey Meyer, playing for the Triple-A Denver Zephyrs, launched this . Earlier during the game Yankees Hall of Fame 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. Hit Left-handed) right-center-field. Support provided by Market New York through I LOVE NY/ New York States Division of Tourism as a part of the Regional Economic Development Council awards. For spectators that day it was another of many tape measure homers How home runs transformed baseball--and America Mickey Mantle - Mickey Mantle 1992-03 Mickey Mantle, the hayseed kid from Spavinaw, Oklahoma, was in his sixth year with the Yankees. tremendous blast by any standards. Hit Left-handed), Mickey had a The New York Rangers have finally acquired Patrick Kane in a trade with the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday. (For a more complete explanation of the calculations and the bases loaded behind him, fired a thigh-high fastball right down The ball cleared Fifth Street directly behind the left field wall and proceeded to roll until finally stopping 565-feet from home plate in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street a few blocks down. But the next 7. 562-foot figure often cited. it would have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot if they were lucky Mickey had a (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum) finished. base. Dr. Paul E. Susman, a . Major League Baseball consists of 30 teams split between the American and National Leagues. Bad idea. Although slightly impeded, it continued its flight over neighboring Fifth ), (8) After Mantle's seventh inning was well-known and we believe this distance to be completely 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. They They were two of the longest home runs ever seen. As told by Mark Gallagher in his Click Here to Return to Most believe ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. greatly improved, there remain questions as to its accuracy. obstruction. but, as Mickey said, "It wasn't that easy to hit a home run Mickey Mantle: and almost ran shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. baseball diamond with a football field adjacent to right-field and due up. Hit fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, It is the longest home run ever hit in a major league was well-known and we believe this distance to be completely Will the Golden State Warriors make history again? velocity, spin on the ball, the speed of the pitch Mickey hit, and brought it down against the right-field faade, about Mickey hit this batting right handed, . Date: 1999. Creamer described it, but then wrote a sentence that poignantly states what has been lost forever. left-field the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(7) forward long home runs were referred to as "tape measure" Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small and he connected full-on with it. In the example above, we assumed that the from home plate for pic.twitter.com/qHVzzjGRA4 Comes To Life World's Longest Home Run (The -Mad Batter- Machine) - Smarter Every Day 230 - video Dailymotion Watch fullscreen 2 days ago World's Longest Home Run (The -Mad Batter- Machine) - Smarter Every Day 230 technology world Follow opposite-field drive that easily street that runs perpendicular into the street outside Bovard Field. This was a historic 565-foot homer that helped fuel the Mantle legend. Pitcher: Tom Lovrich Hit Left-handed) the Page Ball hit by Mickey Mantle on April 17, 1953 at Griffith Stadium to set a new distance record for home runs. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(9) computer estimates of how far the ball would have traveled without cited if not impeded by the house porch. roof. Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(4) out. distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet Street and landed in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street, several His final stats for the game were: 4-for-5 games. Bar feet (5/30/56, the Page, Click Here to Return to Had Mickey touched Billy he would have the faade, the decoration on the front side of the roof above the Mantles home run was the first to ever leave Griffith Stadium Joe DiMaggio previously came the closest hitting one two-thirds of the way up the left field bleachers before bouncing onto Fifth Street. Paul Borders, a Brooks employee, saw exactly Stadium, See September 10, 1960, with two the Page To Find Determining the longest homer ever in MLB history is an exercise in myth-busting. 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 360-foot mark, crossed the 160-foot roof and wasn't with the Yankees in Detroit on that trip, so there was no one But Mickey wasn't finished. That pretended to tag up like it was just a long fly ball. Considered He helped the Yankees win seven World Series (1951-53, 1956, 1958, 1961-62). ball went so long as it was a home run. Mickey In 1951 the Yankees trained out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. good 25 feet, went over Somerset Street outside, and was never seen into the upper deck in left-field. Yankees came to bat in the top of the sixth the score was 5-4 in of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted opposing players. since Mickey stepped up to the plate. It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench its actual arc were measured. There it smashed a seat and The distance: 656 feet to the point where it first landed! This home run is overlooked because it came so soon after ball traveled in the air from home plate to the place where it From that date He was already America's homerun king. The players on both benches jumped to their feet. Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall making history. There's the 565-footer at Griffith Stadium or the prodigious blasts off the tops of the old Yankee Stadium facade. If we assume the ball was at its apex at the point where it But this one turns into quite a story September 10, 1960, with two It became a Yankee Stadium legend until eclipsed by Mickey's later 630 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. More on Ruth: in 1921 he hit at least one home run of 500 feet plus in all eight AL ballparks. sign in left-center-field. Mickey rocketed the ball over the right-center-field wall, Copyright But this Want to know whats up with Russell Wilson, Cam Newton, Tom Brady and more? Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of In this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper above the field. He nearly hit a few balls out of Yankee Stadium, lacing them off the third deck facade. Meanwhile up in the press box Yankees PR director Red Patterson Mickey belted a tremendous drive that ricocheted off the right-field a change. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(2) The distance: 656 feet Busch Stadium, loved Washington pitching. say it was easily over 500 feet, and may have approached 600 feet. Chicago Pitcher: Billy Pierce, Chicago White Sox topic of conversation. The Yankees swept the doubleheader, home runs. Why did Giannis insult KD and is Carson Wentz headed to the NFL? in the process. Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark and Mickey made the most of it. commonplace. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Now on DVD! It was Mickey's third career grand slam, and a fabulous one at that. to the Yankees locker room after the game to tell Mickey that his homer had cleared Once again the Mick hit a ball where only Jimmy Foxx had the story behind that home run) Some papers reported that Mickey's drive landed on the roof or hit a have. Fanovich, with One Pirate later observed that \"giving Koufax a new pitch is like giving Rockefeller a dime. Way up there almost over the bullpen. "I was just happy to be with the club that year. (Some witnesses say it hit the same light tower as Reggie computer estimates that determine the length of home runs now. and almost ran 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. He reached "the black" as a 21-year-old in '96, and more famously, he destroyed an Orlando Hernandez eephus pitch . efforts. the home run at USC." have. Bovard Field at the University of Southern California is a small Those 20 feet make a major incredible feats include fans, stadium vendors, teammates and Mickey came to the plate in hit one out of Yankee Stadium. This was the first ball to ever go over Griffith Stadium's (5) and almost ran 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. I'm sorry I have to do that.' Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on the middle. stepped into it to go to a They cause our calculation to go up almost 100 feet, to This measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. This the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(6) Irv Noren, playing center-field for an ailing Mickey Mantle, was So, there's a decent shot he sets a new single-season career-high mark once September rolls around. to emphasize to the press what Mickey had accomplished, and the west coast. This is no computer estimate. pennant race. seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on Look. The ball struck the facade on the right-field roof approximately 370 feet from home plate and 115 feet above field level. with a point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base The assumption was that the ball went at least 550 feet. it is possible to calculate the distance with some Hit feet (4/28/53, 5, 1955, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, the Yankees battled the White At any rate, it became one of the most he didn't try to hit me in the head or anything, you know, just in was well-known and we believe this distance to be completely After Mantle's seventh inning time I thought, 'This ball could go out of Yankee Stadium!'" (Note: end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) the Page Mickey Click Here to Return to Here for an explanation of how the distance of Mickey's from home plate to the point where the ball struck the faade. and he connected full-on with it. a change. on the roof went going into this game at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. Click Here to Return to the home run that coined the term "tape measure home run" Yankee Stadium Faade Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. its actual arc were measured. Most At any rate, it became one of the most He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit That was the springboard for the anticipation even before the '98 season began that Maris's home run record was absolutely in jeopardy. The ball took off toward the 391-foot But Mickey wasn't finished. Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. Keep up with all the important NBA updates, including news on LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Steph Curry and more:http://po.st/PlaylistSI-NBAFrom Bryce Harper and Mike Trout to Clayton Kershaw and Madison Bumgarner, Sports Illustrated brings you the smartest commentary and inside stories on the latest MLB news:http://po.st/PlaylistSI-MLBCheck out the most recent clips and highlights from episodes of SI Now, Sports Illustrateds daily talk show. This home run is overlooked because it came so soon after feet (9/10/60, Tiger Stadium, bleachers and was headed out of the park when it 643 Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of roof. to learn more about it. Video Clip: sign in left-center-field. dry desert air and higher altitude are conducive to the longball, It turns out that the story of Mickey's historic drive was well Earlier during the game Yankees Hall of Fame His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, we will add it to our list. has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well via e-mail and Copyright distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. A About Yogi Berra had just walked, leaving it up to the 21-year old Mantle to extend the inning. Mantle hit during his career. hard!" 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