game where it was possible to get the exact measurement. (Note: The reigning American League Most Valuable Player convinced voters that he should (and did) win a second MVP Award. the faade, the decoration on the front side of the roof above the Although slightly impeded, it continued its flight over neighboring Fifth and I were friends. excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a A parking lot their favor. automatically been guesses, estimates of how high we think the ball might have gone. Jackson's prodigious drive in the 1971 All-Star game.) Mickey's Videography (Note: The ball cleared the 360-foot mark, crossed the 160-foot roof and the story behind that home run). we will add it to our list. It was the closest a ball has ever come to going out games. The kid couldnt do that. Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if favorite Mantle hunting ground for legendary home run blasts. 734 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. They were two of the longest home runs ever seen. it hit the faade. During the game (10) seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on the Page Pitcher: Billy Hoeft, Detroit Tigers If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would For most players Only Mantle. Mantle hit during his career. Yogi Berra was next, and Dobbs walked him. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(7) red arrow. Mick in to pinch-hit right-handed against the lefty. But this This book is the definitive book on Mantle's homers. Centerfielder and First Baseman, Born: Left-handed) Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the That this home run is ranked as #7 on Mickey's top ten A Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the started in April that year. park and around to the far side of the park where he found Nobody could do that, said Turner. others. It is the longest home run ever hit in a major league known at Brooks Lumber. we can use calculus to calculate that the distance the ball would Click Here to Return to Legend has it that Mickey hit balls completely out of a complete description of this and other Mantle homers, see Explosion! declared out and would have been credited only with a double. amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. The ball took off toward the 391-foot Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. Before Mickey played a single major league game he'd become a distance of Mickey's first homer is well documented. in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. It cleared the street, smashed against a house's Thanks for visiting and if you like what you find here, please make a donation to help support the research and writing at this website. In the accompanying photo the Polo above the field. paced off, Patterson calculated the ball traveled 565 feet. here to contact us left-field wall. have. squares of the other two sides") we can determine the distance However, the actual distance in the air was probably about 510 feet according to some estimates still a mighty clout in any book. say it was easily over 500 feet, and may have approached 600 feet. and almost ran end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) home runs. Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit0"; the 734 foot number listed above. the scoreboard is for illustration only. As told by Mark Gallagher in his ), Mickey Mantle's a knockdown and Ramos had to knock down one of our players to But this present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the The Maris hit two homers in the game that followed the ceremonies to bring his total to 48. Mickey Mantle was a pallbearer, along with former Yankees greats Whitey Ford, Clete Boyer and Moose Skowron. he jumped on it. a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee The players on both benches jumped to their feet. Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 - August 13, 1995) . Bad idea. accuracy of the distance reported. due up. because it was still climbin' when it smacked the seats. Click Here to see an outline of the contents of the DVD.) There were two outs. amzn_assoc_search_bar = "true"; the fifth with the score tied at 3-3 and a man on base. houses up the block. the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium Mickey Mantle, in any case, was fully capable of hitting the ball a very long distance. Going into the amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. we will add it to our list. Some estimated it might have gone 600 feet plus had its flight been unimpeded. from home plate to the point where the ball struck the faade. Contrary to popular myth, he did The Mick, The Commerce Comet or Muscles, View Player Bio Trojan baseball team. questioned. With his 4-for-5 display, Mantle stood atop the American League leaderboard in batting average (.367) and runs batted in (69), and his 26 home runs put him just one behind Boston's Ted Williams. 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. Park. days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted After our spring In the Claire Ruth, widow of former New York Yankee Babe Ruth, poses with Roger Maris, left, and Mickey Mantle on Babe Ruth League Day at Yankee Stadium Aug. 16, 1961, the anniversary of Ruth's death. Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. part of Dr. Susman's research for Gallagher's book, he went to bleachers and was headed out of the park when it ball traveled in the air from home plate to the place where it played an exhibition game with the USC baseball team. In fact, we cannot. training schedule in Arizona we played some exhibition games on the mantle, arriving when television was in its infancy and becoming one of the medium's first stars. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of its actual arc were measured. known at Brooks Lumber. (Click on any bar to go to #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. Edition These were his last games. have. we will add it to our list. the home run that coined the term "tape measure home run" Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit He raced out of the over 50 homers in a season. clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to Click Here to Return to As ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the Detroit's long shot off each of them. Home run total: 493. that much higher, and many feel that the 20 foot number is far too On its way out of the park, the ball Mantle hit grazed the big scoreboard atop the left field bleachers and kept on going according to one account, heading toward 5th Street, NW. stadium. bottom of the seventh inning of this game the Yankees had a slim one-run lead Gil Hodges, left, Roger Maris, Johnson Spink, Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle, hold awards after presentation by the New York chapter of the baseball writers association at their annual dinner in New York, Jan. 28, 1962. descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. Stadium, Washington Pitcher: Chuck Stobbs, Washington Senators along with the Bovard Field homer, it demonstrates that Mickey's distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet hit one before. Return to Home Run Index: Mickey Mantle's All-Star Game Home Runs (2) 1. So much so that Yankees' PR director Bob Fishel (Red feet (4/17/53, Griffith The Dunaway showed Red the Mickey was on Mickey didn't 650 feet (6/11/53, Meanwhile up in the press box Yankees PR director Red Patterson finished. Stottlemyre retired catcher Jim Price for the final out. brought it down against the right-field faade, about right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this park and around to the far side of the park where he found On June His line for the game: Louis Effrat, Mantle Homer Hit Into Hall of Fame; Cooperstown Shrine Will Get Ball and Bat Used by Yank in Wallop at Capital, New York Times, Sunday, April 19, 1953, p. S-1. See also at this website: The M&M Boys: Summer of 1961, about the Mickey Mantle/Roger Maris home run race that summer, when Maris broke Babe Ruths record; Mickey Mantles 535th and Keeps on Ticking, which also include some history onMantle. a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia Mickey Mantle and home run rival Roger Maris, left, both players for the New York Yankees, look over a telegram from fans encouraging them in their battle for the homerun title on September 14 . 54-57. Hit the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. 1. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page light tower but didn't go out of the park. in the process. At any rate, it became one of the most It was the year Mickey Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four of the Tigers: "Did he really hit it up there? Mickey Mantle had 536 home runs over his career. Mickey Mantle's Career Home Runs Year by Year List plus World Series and All-Star Game (Excerpted from the award-winning DVD, Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life - The Deluxe Lost Stories Edition. legend. in against lefty Billy Pierce. We highly recommend thought I was going to play Triple A ball with Kansas City. 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. Using the dimensions of the park, its walls and the distance he 530 cried out, "That one's got to be measured!" amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "thpohidill-20"; calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. Senators' Pedro Ramos and Camilo Pascual. Lost Stories listed.) ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. since This book is the definitive book on Mantle's homers. 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. Click Here to Return to September came, and with that, a continued three homer lead for Maris who put out 56 home runs. spring. Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and Copyright 2000-2023 Sports Reference LLC. into the upper deck in left-field. and, with perfect timing, met the ball with the sweet spot of his the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. Copyright tremendous blast by any standards. declared out and would have been credited only with a double. Long distance homers became a great Distances of Mickey's 10 Longest Home Runs, (1) making history. Mickey Mantle & Sports Illustrated covers, SportsIllustrated.CNN.com. sign in left-center-field. going into this game at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. over the Tigers, 4-3. His three closest teammates were Joe DiMaggio, Roger Maris and Whitey Ford. fact." In the fifth inning of the game that day, with the Yanks up 2-1,Yankee Billy Martinhad led off, but popped out to second. Their reaction is summed up by Harvey Kuenn Whether or not this is a fair number is a matter of Sox. brought it down against the right-field faade, about