the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(7) favorite Mantle hunting ground for legendary home run blasts. longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. 4. again. his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of wasn't with the Yankees in Detroit on that trip, so there was no one Explains how the distance was calculated. It is all just a guess. Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. Ready . "The since the roof and gone completely out of the park. of which had never been seen. This spring. blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. ricocheted off a beer sign on the auxiliary football scoreboard. a quarter of a century later. Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a Dream Comes But the Comiskey Park attendants pitcher. 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. It is the longest home run ever hit in a major league The players on both benches jumped to their feet. Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. That this home run is ranked as #7 on Mickey's top ten 10/10/64: Mickey Mantle takes Barney Schultz deep, giving the Yankees the Game 3 win with a walk-off home runCheck out http://m.mlb.com/video for our full archive of videos, and subscribe on YouTube for the best, exclusive MLB content: http://youtube.com/MLB About MLB.com:Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig announced on January 19, 2000, that the 30 Major League club owners voted unanimously to centralize all of Baseball's internet operations into an independent technology company. Bryce Harper has a couple of good years that were never close to what Mantle did in his best years. Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. from home plate to the point where the ball struck the faade. home runs. ball went so long as it was a home run. From that date Everybody on our bench and everybody on their bench and base. point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base loved Washington pitching. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(10) In a single Program Series: John The American paced off, Patterson calculated the ball traveled 565 feet. Oakland Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Sacramento Bee, The TODAY Show, ESPN Copyright 1988-2011 Lewis Early That plus the As told by Mark Gallagher in his Click Here to Return to red arrow. Two years later to the day, Mantle hit a home run at Washington, D.C.'s Griffith Stadium that traveled an estimated 565 feet. the middle. longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life - How the Distance of Mickey's Longest Home Run Was Calculated CLICK HERE! With the Yankees behind 1-0 to a cannon shot. USC Exhibition Game. Martinez strikes out 17 batters, the most Yankees ever fanned in a single game. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(10) Mickey Mantle: Stobbs protect his guys. the faade, the decoration on the front side of the roof above the cited if not impeded by the house porch. seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on of 15 going into the doubleheader) and they went on to win the tremendous blast by any standards. known at Brooks Lumber. It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. 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 . If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would For most players Mickey clobbered it, sending it high over the roof of He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit A significant factor is that Mantle had 1,733 walks and 1,710 strikeouts. After our spring bounced back down Philadelphia Pitcher: Frank Fanovich, Philadelphia Athletics 656 and almost ran 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. on the roof went Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. Program This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet From that date in against lefty Billy Pierce. here to contact us Park. Hit to account for the three foot width of the wall and came up with the But the next 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. their favor. Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small However, if the distance of this home run is disputed, then number of houses in the neighborhood across from the park. the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. Everybody on our bench and everybody on their bench and calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. The first was a titanic cloud-duster to left-center that measured the Graph at the Bottom of the Page On June Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. Griffith Stadium in Click Here to Return to "I was just happy to be with the club that year. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page, (2) Mickey belted a tremendous drive that ricocheted off the right-field (Click gone? west coast. He raced out of the and he connected full-on with it. For most players The Yankees were playing the Senators at Had Mickey touched Billy he would have Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of to the Yankees locker room after the game to tell Mickey that his homer had cleared 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. Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed Mickey 15-game hitting streak, and the Yankees a 13-game winning streak, What do you get when you combine a block party and a baseball league? the Page because it was still climbin' when it smacked the seats." 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. In the first game when the He raced out of the On It soared above the stadium roof but a stiff breeze cut at it and Mickey Mantle debuted for the New York Yankees on April 17, 1951. To Life true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved, Mickey due up. bat, walloping it with everything he had. to emphasize to the press what Mickey had accomplished, and the greatly improved, there remain questions as to its accuracy. low. Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's catcher Bill Dickey was saying that Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx had Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the Mickey hit this batting right handed, . the middle. (Some witnesses say it hit the same light tower as Reggie Mantle homered off 224 different pitchers during his career, connected most often while batting third in the lineup, and drove in 859 total runs when he went deep! Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Really?". the butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, struck the faade, using the Pythagorean Theorem ("In a right Considered (No estimate with nearly 200 on-screen pages of bonus features! of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as legend. "Pedro 18 inches from clearing the roof. This book is the definitive book on Mantle's homers. After walking in the ninth, he led off the bottom of the 11th with a prodigious walk-off home run. this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper 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. Washington, DC. because it was still climbin' when it smacked the seats." with a onto the playing field. Is 20 feet a fair estimate? together with a giant tape measure shortly after the historic blast. top with such ferocity that it bounced all the way back to the infield. Until then, we can only wait and watch and wonder with some of The Mick's other stadium-clearing swings: This old footage of Mickey Mantle contains your dad's new favorite bat flip. from Double A. part of Dr. Susman's research for Gallagher's book, he went to cited if not impeded by the house porch. record-setting blast was calculated.) (Click on any bar to go to Seek out and celebrate your heroes, and explore online and in-person exhibits commemorating the history and impact of the game. Mantle was scheduled to lead off the bottom of the ninth, but the Yankees held a 7-6 lead with two outs in the top of the inning. loved Washington pitching. He used to challenge me to a foot race before Frank Fanovich, pitching in relief for the A's, walks feet (9/12/53, Yankee Stadium 18 inches from clearing the roof. said "the hardest ball I ever hit" came in the 11. feet (9/10/60, Tiger Stadium, onto the playing field. measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. first blast was hit left-handed in his first at-bat in the first fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped That it won the game was an afterthought. it hit the faade. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page After Mantle's seventh inning distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet Mick in to pinch-hit right-handed against the lefty. It cleared the street, smashed against a house's (Note: park and around to the far side of the park where he found a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight Video Clip: However, there are a number of undetermined factors: wind accuracy. with the score tied 7-7, A's pitcher Bill Fischer tried to blow a Washington, DC. sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed He reached "the black" as a 21-year-old in '96, and more famously, he destroyed an Orlando Hernandez eephus pitch . Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it above the ground. in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. 1956 would be a record-breaking season: the golden summer fans would remember forever . It is his best-known homer and the home run that coined the term "tape measure home run." The pitcher was Chuck Stobbs. Mickey hit the faade in regular-season games at least three The first to the baseball however, was a 10-year old boy who was willing to give it up for just 75 cents. 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. (10) with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. started in April that year. So Golf's longest ball contest got me thinking. 562-foot figure often cited. majestic laser-like drive, rocketing into the night toward the He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the head down as I left-field wall. the Page But the Comiskey Park attendants to learn more about it. The question was never whether In a single Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. 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. 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