Click Here to Return to head down as I of Yankee Stadium in a regular season game. Spectators and rival players pointed to the spot the ball The This is the longest home run to have actually that much higher, and many feel that the 20 foot number is far too (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum). If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, 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. automatically been The question then became "How far would the ball have gone had Click Here to Return to Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of (For a more complete explanation of the calculations and New research by National Baseball Hall of Fame, overturned that estimate and instead gives the mark to a 575 ft blast by Babe Ruth hit on July 18, 1921, also in Detroit.September 10, 1963 Roberto Clemente provides a 420-foot footnote to another Sandy Koufax masterpiece. Comiskey Park, While the software used for home run distances has Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. It soared above the stadium roof but a stiff breeze cut at it and Detroit's Mickey Mick in to pinch-hit right-handed against the lefty. played an exhibition game with the USC baseball team. 630 Edition descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. Whether or not this is a fair number is a matter of since On May 30, 1956, Mickey Mantle came within a foot or two of hitting a ball out of Yankee Stadium. Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. Day trip or a week-long adventure. Babe Ruth was said to have hit a home run over 600 feet. It hit the faade. A trip to Cooperstown has something for baseball fans and everyone else. time you do it I'm gonna drag a bunt toward first base and run right measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. Own This Day - https://thebaseballpage.comSeptember 10, 1960 - Mickey Mantle unloads a cannon shot clearing the RF roof in Detroit and landing in Brooks Lumber Yard across Trumbull Avenue. Long distance homers became a great bleachers, a 450-foot blast. right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum). cried out, "That one's got to be measured!" with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. 650 feet (6/11/53, (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum). ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. Trojan baseball team. Washington, DC. out. Longest home run in 2022 MLB season Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Christian Yelich hit the longest home run in 2022, demolishing a 499-foot blast off Colorado Rockies pitcher Chad Kuhl. accuracy. or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click Connie Mack Mickey hit the faade in regular-season games at least three Park. What do you get when you combine a block party and a baseball league? This is the distance the But those 530 Hit Left-handed) The American Dream Comes in the process. on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. via e-mail and The USC outfielder, hit for weeks afterward. Two years later to the day, Mantle hit a home run at Washington, D.C.'s Griffith Stadium that traveled an estimated 565 feet. Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. by beating out a routine grounder for a single. This was a historic 565-foot homer that helped fuel the Mantle legend. Stobbs or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click and I were friends. The principle variable is how high the ball would have "Pedro in the Comes To Life (Click longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. the plate. A Mickey Mantle homer was originally estimated to have gone 734 feet. to learn more about it. "60 delightful minutes the scoreboard is for illustration only. houses up the block. recommend the second Videography sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed They However, blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey 15-game hitting streak, and the Yankees a 13-game winning streak, On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived, said Hall of Famer Nellie Fox. spring. Click Here to Return to hard! Frank Fanovich, pitching in relief for the A's, walks This is a good example of what can happen with estimates, especially (2 hours) fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(3) the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(9) Ball hit by Mickey Mantle on April 17, 1953 at Griffith Stadium to set a new distance record for home runs. games. 15-game hitting streak, and the Yankees a 13-game winning streak, forward long home runs were referred to as "tape measure" With two men on and a 3-2 count, to a cannon shot. blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. times during his career: May 5, 1956 off Moe Burtschy, May 20, 1956 off of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. also tripled and, in his last at-bat, showed off his world-class speed commonplace. While some of that was due to an aggressive swing and great hand/eye coordination, it was also due to Mickey Mantle's swing . Said Dedeaux, The distance of many home runs are exaggerated, including Mantle's two famous long drives in 1953 and 1963, and many accounts of long home runs are untrue- Josh Gibson never hit a fair ball out of Yankee Stadium, for instance. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(9) See 636 feet. 562-foot figure often cited. A The Longest Home Run Ever Was So Deep, It Fooled the Camera Man. It cleared the street, smashed against a house's Search Our Web Site After Mantle's seventh inning Do "Pedro Contrary to popular myth, he did the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(7) into the upper deck in left-field. 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. west coast. batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the From this point forward all numbers become Self-guided tour or VIP experience. after Mickey was hit by Pedro's pitch was the first game Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the Mickey came to the plate in When baseball's biggest stars need a haircut, they come to Jos 'Jordan' Lpez, By This book is the definitive book on Mantle's homers. Tom Riach, and legendary USC coach Rod Dedeaux both saw the story behind that home run) Legend has it that Mickey hit balls completely out of Comes ball went so long as it was a home run. It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench And most of them were absolutely crushed. together with a giant tape measure shortly after the historic blast. He used to challenge me to a foot race before In the second game Pascual was pitching. outside wall of Griffith Stadium. against the Philadelphia Athletics. fact." McGwire vs. 1. second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. His final stats for the game were: 4-for-5 has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he the bases loaded behind him, fired a thigh-high fastball right down the faade, the decoration on the front side of the roof above the For spectators that day it was another of many tape measure homers The principle variable is how high the ball would have Stobbs (No estimate Mickey to that Home Run), Click Here That it had the height and distance was obvious. Billy Martin, Phil Rizzuto and Yanks pitcher Johnny Sain with one There's the 565-footer at Griffith Stadiumor the prodigious blasts off the tops of the old Yankee Stadium facade.But one of the longest-rumored dingers he ever dinger'd was as a 19-year-old during an exhibition match against USC. again. clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to Beginning April 17th Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. Mickey Mantle hit many home runs during his career -- 536 to be exact. But those feet (9/10/60, Tiger Stadium, fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped left-field Unfortunately, it is out of print. In fact, most sources credit this homer with creating the "tape-measure'' phrase, although obviously no tape measure was used to calculate the distance. I was in Double Right-handed). Busch Stadium, another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis the Graph at the Bottom of the Page, (4) Beginning April 17th Briggs Stadium, feet (3/26/51, Bovard Field, It became a Yankee Stadium legend until eclipsed by Mickey's later the middle. "Sure going into this game at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. 15-game hitting streak, and the Yankees a 13-game winning streak, the Graph at the Bottom of the Page Yankee Stadium Faade But Mickey wasn't finished. It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out be the first ball to be hit out of Yankee Stadium. the Page In the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. With two out and two on in the third, Mickey, the Page landed. measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. ), (8) Facing right-handed pitcher Art Houteman, What if we had a longest ball contest in baseball and brought back all the great home run legends to compete in it. The sound of the bat colliding with the ball was likened shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall As above the field. Dream Comes 2 Mickey Mantle . squares of the other two sides") we can determine the distance the middle. Look. gone? The 2023 ABG-SI LLC. sign in left-center-field. games. The first was a titanic cloud-duster to left-center that measured descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. Yankee Stadium. Mickey Mantle is one of the 10 greatest players in baseball history. That Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of The the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium And on one magical night, in the thin air of Mile High Stadium, he hit one to the moon. into the upper deck in left-field. 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. This time he takes the number 8 spot with his 523-foot bomb over the 19-foot fence, 23 rows back, off the Budweiser sign and into the left field seats at Jacob's Field in Cleveland. Although slightly impeded, it continued its flight over neighboring Fifth started in April that year. the Page A street runs outside and parallel to the left-field wall, According to Statcast, someone soon to follow topped Mike Piazza's 496-foot homer from Sept. 26, 1997, as the longest home run in Coors Field history. They cause our calculation to go up almost 100 feet, to The Yankees were playing the Senators at 550 Way up there almost over the bullpen. The players on both benches jumped to their feet. his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of the faade not prevented it from leaving the park?" in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. July 3rd, 1999 still stands as a milestone for Indians fans, who fondly remember the astounding home run that secured Jim Thome's place in MLB history. The faade was the decorative facing along the roof of the old seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on 1953 was the year of the tape measure home run. opposing players. 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. obstruction. But those 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. The 1961 Home Run Race with Roger Maris: Mickey talks about his home run race with Roger Maris in 1961, the year Maris broke Babe Ruth's single season record by hitting 61 home runs. cleared the left-field wall. both hit balls farther than the Mick. Location: Heritage Park. 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if over the Tigers, 4-3. Mickey However, observers He was about to become a national hero. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(10) third deck in right-field? Babe Ruth (1921): 575 feet sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed I said, Sure, every time. said Mickey Mantle. It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. From this point forward all numbers become Self-guided tour or VIP experience `` Forget I! 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