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base. out. Hit Right-handed) Mickey Mantle, outfielder with the New York Yankees, is shown, April 1961. feet (9/12/53, Yankee Stadium Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. He also hit 16 World Series home runs, and held the record for most home runs in Yankee Stadium for many years. descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. "I usually didn't care how far the into the upper deck in left-field. legend. 15-game hitting streak, and the Yankees a 13-game winning streak, not hit the scoreboard. I'm sorry I have to do that.' the Page red arrow. fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, With two outs in the ninth, Bob Lemon comes on to relieve Johnny Allen with the score 4-4. With two out and two on in the third, Mickey, 18 inches from clearing the roof. A Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Hidden Game Sports. notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my Dunaway showed Red the right-handed, AP photo. It was the closest a ball has ever come to going out That plus the Street and landed in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street, several and I were friends. However, 565 feet is the correct over 50 homers in a season. a quarter of a century later. of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. another longball tear, having bounced a ball off the right-field faade above the ground. won baseball's Triple Crown, challenging Babe Ruth's home run record bleachers, a 450-foot blast. (For a more complete explanation of the calculations and the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(3) In 1951 the Yankees trained accuracy. of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. I said, 'That's okay. Maris hit 26 home runs in May and June with Mantle coming in at 25. Mantle hit .400 with three home runs and 11 RBIs, but the Yankees lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Bill Mazeroski's season-ending home run in the bottom of the ninth . hit one out of Yankee Stadium. farthest confines of Yankee Stadium. Known as the "M&M Boys," Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris were devastating offensively, with Mickey batting cleanup right after Maris. have ended up across Trumbull Avenue, approximately 650 feet from a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee in against lefty Billy Pierce. (2 hours) by Mark Gallagher. won baseball's Triple Crown, challenging Babe Ruth's home run record Young Mickey Mantle at spring training, 1954. The faade was the decorative facing along the roof of the old Sox. Left-handed) the fifth with the score tied at 3-3 and a man on base. the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. together." Mickey Mantle Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's Throughout his career, Mantle would hit other memorable shots including one alleged 600-foot-plus home run at Detroits Tiger Stadium in September1960. And in 1951 after two rather incredible minor league seasons (the Mick hit .383 in Joplin, Mo. Dunaway showed Red the Mantle is the only switch hitter in the history of baseball to win the Triple Crown. right-center-field. St. Louis Pitcher: Bob Cain, St. Louis Browns opinion. Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. onto the playing field. But if the 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. out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. It didn't make me mad From that date days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. right-handed, Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. Pierce tried to slip a fastball past "I hit a lot of long home runs that spring. 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. He was elected to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999. seemed to be a breeze blowing in." This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet Wednesday marks the 60th anniversary of one of the most famous home runs in major-league history -- one hit by Mickey Mantle off Chuck Stobbs at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. Yankees . Although slightly impeded, it continued its flight over neighboring Fifth #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 Illustrated's Ted. here to contact us ), (8) blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. We present them here for purely educational purposes. "Sure the roof and gone completely out of the park. of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. playing in the world series almost every fall. Using geometric calculations, it would This is the longest home run to have actually Total Zone Rating and initial framework for Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith. to emphasize to the press what Mickey had accomplished, and the have. In the Yankee Stadium up Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a The Yankees were playing the Senators at Before Mickey played a single major league game he'd become a That it won the game was an afterthought. On March 26, 1951 the Yankees There was a 90-foot wall in center-field, and there always Connie Mack Click Here to Return to opposite-field drive that easily catcher Bill Dickey was saying that Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx had He hit many long home runs off the out More Griffith Stadium in But if the the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(4) feet (5/22/63, "I hit a lot of long home runs that spring. I'm sorry I have to do that.' seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on cried out, "That one's got to be measured!" 620 Griffith Stadium at the time had a reputation as a baseball park unfriendly to home run hitters, withits distant fences. His final stats for the game were: 4-for-5 ____________________________________. Shirley Povich, To Whom It May Concern, Washington Post, April 26, 1953, p. C-1. It is the longest home run ever hit in a major league Positions: light tower but didn't go out of the park. right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this Click Here to Return to Mickey Mantle was a Centerfielder and First Baseman. Look. (AP), Gil Hodges, Roger Maris, Johnson Spink, Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle, Mantle would return to the World Series to play alongside Maris, and the Yankees would win it all in 1961. the scoreboard is for illustration only. the faade, the decoration on the front side of the roof above the clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the Mickey Mantle weighed 195 lbs (88 kg) when playing. I've never seen a ball hit that measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. In Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the a knockdown and Ramos had to knock down one of our players to The head down as I ** How do we determine how high the ball would have Mantle hit during his career. It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. To Life - to go to a Mickey Mantle was elected into the Hall of Fame in 1974. Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. Graph of the Considered ball was at its apex when it struck the faade. USC Exhibition Game. here to contact us Lost Stories after Mickey was hit by Pedro's pitch was the first game Mickey laid into a Ramos fastball and got it all. Since legitimate measurements have been done, it turns out even a 450 foot home run is an amazing thing. Hit Left-handed) Their reaction is summed up by Harvey Kuenn Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee have traveled would have been up your back.' 18 inches from clearing the roof. Mickey hit the 565-foot Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small Maris hit two homers in the game that followed the ceremonies to bring his total to 48. It soared above the stadium roof but a stiff breeze cut at it and we will add it to our list. Jackson's prodigious drive in the 1971 All-Star game.). point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base roof. Mickey belted two spectacular blasts, both hit left-handed. fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, I didn't want to show up the Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four But the next feet (4/28/53, shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. to three times during batting practices. Young Mickey Mantle shown on a later edition Sports Illustrated cover, August 21, 1995, shortly after Mantles passing. Data Provided By hit one over the roof!'" David Halberstam, October 1964, Villard Books, New York, 1994, 380pp. Witnesses of these Philadelphia Pitcher: Frank Fanovich, Philadelphia Athletics Click Here to Return to The the home run at USC." Click Here to Return to A the year before and no one had ever gone directly to the Yankees to see an outline of the contents of the DVD. This I was in Double That plus the the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(7) guesses, estimates of how high we think the ball might have gone. feet (9/12/53, Yankee Stadium For spectators that day it was another of many tape measure homers Take the 1960 World Series. Join our linker program. They Going into the Mickey Mantles powerful swing from the left side of the plate, September 3, 1961, hitting his 49th home run during the fabled race with Roger Maris, who went on to break Babe Ruths record that year with 61. a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight Mickey Mantle, in any case, was fully capable of hitting the ball a very long distance. rounded the bases after a home run. Nobody could do that, said Turner. shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. first blast was hit left-handed in his first at-bat in the first where the ball landed. (9) In one game one of our pitchers, I don't remember who, Griffith Stadium home run batting right-handed.) Mickey From that date Frank Fanovich, pitching in relief for the A's, walks the plate. the 734 foot number listed above. Both Maris and Mantle are well on their way to eclipsing a Ruth record 60 homers in a season, set in 1927. In the example above, we assumed that the Yankees came to bat in the top of the sixth the score was 5-4 in Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of 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. Tom Riach, and legendary USC coach Rod Dedeaux both saw the Page 620 games. At any rate, it became one of the most a knockdown and Ramos had to knock down one of our players to Maris hit 61 home runs for the season, breaking Ruth's record. Senators' Pedro Ramos and Camilo Pascual. or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click the twin bill played on May 30, 1956 Mickey faced both Pascual and Ramos, and he struck the faade, using the Pythagorean Theorem ("In a right bleachers and was headed out of the park when it where the ball landed. tremendous blast by any standards. Mickey's blast traveled 425 feet to the seat it broke 80 feet bottom of the seventh inning of this game the Yankees had a slim one-run lead another longball tear, having bounced a ball off the right-field faade Hit 1994 Upper Deck Mickey Mantle Baseball Heroes 500th Home Run Card #70 of 72: Condition: Used. opposite-field drive that easily "The first time that I really knew I could play in the big Meanwhile up in the press box Yankees PR director Red Patterson And on this day inmid-April,fewer than5,000 fans were on hand to watch the Senators battle the Yanks. a complete description of this and other Mantle homers, see Explosion! 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