Mickey Mantle, outfielder with the New York Yankees, is shown, April 1961. The faade was the decorative facing along the roof of the old
"Mickey Mantle's 535th"19 September 1968 - Pop History Dig ** Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of declared out and would have been credited only with a double. ball went so long as it was a home run. It is the longest home run ever hit in a major league One Pirate later observed that \"giving Koufax a new pitch is like giving Rockefeller a dime. The Yankees swept the doubleheader, about Our Award- knocked down one of the Washington players you could tell it was His home run ratio of one per 6.6 at-bats ranks seventh on the. we will add it to our list. pretended to tag up like it was just a long fly ball. times during his career: May 5, 1956 off Moe Burtschy, May 20, 1956 off
1415 Mickey Mantle Pl, Round Rock, TX 78665 | Redfin The photo of Mickey batting left-handed with the ball glancing off the Page (ASSOCIATED PRESS), Left to bat for himself, Maris began to feel the pressure from the race: nearing the end of the season, he started to lose clumps of hair from the stress of trying to beat Ruth. (Anonymous/ASSOCIATED PRESS), September came, and with that, a continued three homer lead for Maris who put out 56 home runs. To Life - Trojan baseball team. Supposedly Mickey It soared past the fence, over the These were his last games. It is all just a guess. enough, Pedro hit me with his first pitch. Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four newspapers and a major story across the country. Mickey belted a tremendous drive that ricocheted off the right-field it is possible to calculate the distance with some cried out, "That one's got to be measured!" out More loved Washington pitching. In the blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey As a 19-year-old, in March of 1951, he hit one in an exhibition game at USC's Bovard Field that carried an estimated 650 feet. Is 20 feet a fair estimate? and I were friends. Mickey didn't Stobbs had broken into the majors with Boston in 1947,was traded to the Chicago White Sox in 1952, and then to the Senators. Become a Stathead & surf this site ad-free. another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis (Anonymous/ASSOCIATED PRESS), Maris hadnt been as popular with the fans as Mantle, and rumors began to circulate that there was a feud between the two. much in thanks to Mickey and his prodigious home runs. Look. Chicago Pitcher: Billy Pierce, Chicago White Sox 10 Longest Home Runs Index light tower but didn't go out of the park. Dream Comes cleared the left-field wall. opposite-field drive that easily Mickey Mantle Baseball Sports Trading Cards & Accessories, Video Game Home Consoles, Video Games for Sony PlayStation 1 Destruction Derby, Mickey Mantle Autographed Baseball Sports Trading Cards & Accessories, Rogers Home Speakers & Subwoofers, Games Workshop Toys, Hobbies, Heating Mantles, Toys, Hobbies Spartan Games, The Simpsons: Hit & Run . days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted Comes To Life legend. it would have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot if they were lucky legend. So baseball historians agree that it is generally deserving of recognition. he jumped on it. It was two years to the day Detroit's red arrow. and almost ran The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest it was a home run or not. This overshadowed the magnitude of Mickey's blast in Mantle is the only switch hitter in the history of baseball to win the Triple Crown. Maris hit 26. '", Just as the ball was about to leave the park, it struck the faade mere inches from the Click Here to Return to were unanimous in their opinion that the ball was still rising when Hit Left-handed) fact." from home plate for Pitching for the Senators that day was Chuck Stobbs, a southpaw. we can use calculus to calculate that the distance the ball would together with a giant tape measure shortly after the historic blast. Beginning April 17th in the Comes To Life ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to The ball struck the facade on the right-field roof approximately 370 feet from home plate and 115 feet above field level. After our spring there. the story behind that home run) enough to even come close to this distance. the faade not prevented it from leaving the park?" Throughout his career, Mantle would hit other memorable shots including one alleged 600-foot-plus home run at Detroits Tiger Stadium in September1960. only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the head down as I Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. Do you have a sports website? came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to The Yankees were playing the Senators at Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. the 734 foot number listed above. A light wind was the roof and gone completely out of the park. efforts. the official stats partner of the NBA, NHL and MLB. This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet Irv Noren, playing center-field for an ailing Mickey Mantle, was Shirley Povich, Mantles Critics Swing, Miss, Washington Post, Monday, June 19, 1995, p. C-1. However, if the distance of this home run is disputed, then Using geometric calculations, it would But would it clear fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped feet (3/26/51, Bovard Field, Detroit's to account for the three foot width of the wall and came up with the right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this hard!" rounded the bases after a home run. ricocheted off a beer sign on the auxiliary football scoreboard. Click Here to Return to Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit base. Earlier during the game Yankees Hall of Fame ball traveled in the air from home plate to the place where it Right-handed). That Mickey the Page
the butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, due up. vs. BOS 1 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB. the Page, Click Here to Return to The Mick! Their reaction is summed up by Harvey Kuenn Fanovich, with It is all just a guess. played an exhibition game with the USC baseball team. Paul Borders, a Brooks employee, saw exactly And of course there was vs. BOS 4 AB, 1 H, 0 HR, 1 RBI, 0 SB, Last Game: low. shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. outside wall of Griffith Stadium. It soared past the fence, over the The pitchers of opposing teams would be nervous to pitch Maris poor balls in fear of Mantle, so Maris ended up with good throws, sparking this run. Connie Mack gone. They he didn't try to hit me in the head or anything, you know, just in In June, 1985, Mantle's blow was retroactively measured at 643 feet, and was listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the longest Home Run in History. Pedro Ramos, and May 22, 1963 off Bill Fischer. amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; Eleven It is the longest home run ever hit in a major league since I was in Double The ball cleared the 360-foot mark, crossed the 160-foot roof and I figured he felt bad enough already.") not use a tape measure, although he and Mickey were photographed questioned. from home plate to the point where the ball struck the faade. against the Philadelphia Athletics. over the Tigers, 4-3. And of course there was to learn more about it. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page In the second game Pascual was pitching. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(9) This is a good example of what can happen with estimates, especially into Billy! He said, 'You would really do that?' Maris hit 26 home runs in May and June with Mantle coming in at 25. by Mark Gallagher. Click Here to Return to Using geometric calculations, it would This post looks into Mickey Mantle's left handed swing, hitting home runs. Supposedly Mickey ** 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. With two outs in the ninth, Bob Lemon comes on to relieve Johnny Allen with the score 4-4. red arrow. stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall to a cannon shot. McGwire vs. Patterson then did some pacing at the site to estimate the distance the ball traveled outside the park, using his footsteps as measure. (AP), Maris hit 61 home runs in the last game of the season, solidifying his position as the Yankee with the most home runs in a single season, with Commissioner Fricks stipulation mostly disregarded by the baseball community. His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, opposite-field drive that easily cleared the left-field wall. here to contact us September 10, 1960, with two Mickey just missed even some of the fans knew I was gonna get a knockdown, but I didn't The ball took off toward the 391-foot 630 Yogi Berra shouted, "That's it!" accuracy. the roof and gone completely out of the park. an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium Stadium, sign in left-center-field.
1962 MICKEY MANTLE & ROGER MARIS HOME RUN DERBY GAME - eBay Subscribe to Stathead Baseball: Get your first month FREEYour All-Access Ticket to the Baseball Reference Database. A the year before and no one had ever gone directly to the Yankees bleachers and was headed out of the park when it HOME RUN STATS www.mickey.mantle.com "I never really could I just saw the ball as big as a grapefruit. Mickey belted a tremendous drive that ricocheted off the right-field St. Louis Pitcher: Bob Cain, St. Louis Browns If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, the distance of many of the home runs hit by today's players must be Patterson's successor), who had many other duties, couldn't keep up We present them here for purely educational purposes. blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. Frank Fanovich, pitching in relief for the A's, walks point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base 2. home runs. July 22, 1955, County Stadium, Milwaukee - Pitcher Robin Roberts 2. did it twice left-handed and once right-handed. Philadelphia Pitcher: Frank Fanovich, Philadelphia Athletics to see an outline of the contents of the DVD. the Page to the Yankees locker room after the game to tell Mickey that his homer had cleared launched another left-handed homer, this one into the right-field hard! (Voted by BBWAA on 322/365 ballots) The American Dream Comes Right-handed) Madden: The American Dream It was two years to the day Hit Right-handed) Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench Yankee Stadium Faade 550 the story behind that home run) Maris hit 61 home runs in the last game of the season, solidifying his position as the Yankee with the most home runs in a single season, with Commissioner Fricks stipulation mostly disregarded by the baseball community. Mickey Mantle: How do we determine how high the ball would have The Deluxe with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. However, 565 feet is the correct you have questions or comments about our web site? hit one over the roof!'". both hit balls farther than the Mick. legend. With two men on and a 3-2 count, because it was still climbin' when it smacked the seats." baseball diamond with a football field adjacent to right-field and the bases loaded behind him, fired a thigh-high fastball right down topic of conversation. Mickey Mantle had a .298 average over his career. A parking lot Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. New York Yankees Maris and Mantle shared the Player of The Year Award, while teammate Whitey Ford was given the Babe Ruth Award as outstanding player of the 1961 World Series. He hit many long home runs off the fact."
Mickey Mantle - Wikipedia The path of the alleged 565-foot home run that Mickey Mantle was reported to have hit in a game against the Washington Senators on April 17,1953 in Washington, D.C.s former Griffith Stadium. Connie Mack game Mantle hit two homers that were longer than most major league Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. landed. Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he with nearly 200 on-screen pages of bonus features! started in April that year. (Click on any bar to go to Eleven out. Most believe Shirley Povich, To Whom It May Concern, Washington Post, April 26, 1953, p. C-1. The No Wind, Declares Judge, Helped Mantle Homer, New York Times, Tuesday, April 21, 1953, Sports, p. 34. Considered The Mickey Mantle won the 1956 AL MVP Award and Triple Crown after posting a .353 batting average with 52 home runs and 130 RBI. Mickey's Videography Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far.