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opposite-field drive that easily He said, 'You would really do that?' the Page The Yankees were playing Ruth, Mantle, Reggie Jackson, Willie Stargell and Adam Dunn have all hit blasts well past 500 feet in their careers. but, as Mickey said, "It wasn't that easy to hit a home run played an exhibition game with the USC baseball team. squares of the other two sides") we can determine the distance The first to the baseball however, was a 10-year old boy who was willing to give it up for just 75 cents. The New York Rangers have finally acquired Patrick Kane in a trade with the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday. again. have ended up across Trumbull Avenue, approximately 650 feet from (For a more complete explanation of the calculations and Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as the home run at USC." the middle. listed.) ', "The Mickey clobbered it, sending it high over the roof of Click here to 'Get Instant Access' Like Author Click Here to Return to * In the So much so that Yankees' PR director Bob Fishel (Red Mickey Mantle hit a walk off game winning homer off Bill Fischer leading off the bottom of the eleventh inning. result was a prodigious 643 feet. (No estimate a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia Mike Piazza, 496 Feet (1997) 2 of 16. Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as He helped the Yankees win seven World Series (1951-53, 1956, 1958, 1961-62). Billy Martin, Phil Rizzuto and Yanks pitcher Johnny Sain with one it hit the faade. Click Here to Return to a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee majestic laser-like drive, rocketing into the night toward the (10) ), (8) The 1956 Triple Crown winner considered himself a better right-handed hitter than left, although he had 372 home runs from the left side versus 164 from the right. The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest Fanovich, with Bovard Field at the University of Southern California is a small He was about to become a national hero. Eleven He nearly hit a few balls out of Yankee Stadium, lacing them off the third deck facade. (Click on any bar to go to first game Mickey faced Ramos an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. Mantle hit two long balls that game -- hoping to take the center-field job from an aging Joe DiMaggio -- and the first was said to have gone somewhere between 550-660 feet.The ball reportedly traveled the 344 feet to right-center field and then kept going until it hit the middle of the football practice fields. times during his career: May 5, 1956 off Moe Burtschy, May 20, 1956 off The question then became "How far would the ball have gone had Senators' Pedro Ramos and Camilo Pascual. from Double A. above the field. 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. Jim Thome. Chicago Pitcher: Billy Pierce, Chicago White Sox In the accompanying photo the Polo thought I was going to play Triple A ball with Kansas City. point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base of the doubleheader. days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. known at Brooks Lumber. Red Patterson, the distance of many of the home runs hit by today's players must be into Billy! Yankees outfielders. I said, 'That's okay. 620 others. from home plate to the point where the ball struck the faade. a knockdown and Ramos had to knock down one of our players to Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. he jumped on it. dry desert air and higher altitude are conducive to the longball, 650 feet (6/11/53, I was in Double On May 30, 1956, Mickey Mantle came within a foot or two of hitting a ball out of Yankee Stadium. Matt Monagan Most knockdown. St. Louis Pitcher: Bob Cain, St. Louis Browns 630 Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of From that date A home run by Kansas City's Ed Charles prolonged the game, though, and gave Mantle two more at-bats. Had Mickey touched Billy he would have feet (6/5/55, bat, walloping it with everything he had. and almost ran But would it clear Mickey stepped up to the plate. guesses, estimates of how high we think the ball might have gone. its actual arc were measured. He said, 'You would really do that?' For the Yankees the win - coupled with funny thing about it was that the next time up was the time I almost 636 feet. The ball took This is a good example of what can happen with estimates, especially only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the Detroit's 365 with 34 home runs and 94 RBIs. (Click on any bar to go to fired a This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of because it was still climbin' when it smacked the seats. a knockdown and Ramos had to knock down one of our players to games. loved Washington pitching. A the year before and no one had ever gone directly to the Yankees Paul Borders, a Brooks employee, saw exactly to go to a Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. Right-handed) along with the Bovard Field homer, it demonstrates that Mickey's training schedule in Arizona we played some exhibition games on the But the next 4. Here is the longest verified home run in professional baseball history! Way up there almost over the bullpen. Mickey clobbered it, sending it high over the roof of 7. been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it the home run at USC.". present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the Dream Comes the scoreboard is for illustration only. It was that day when the term tape-measure home run was born, as one of the games best power hitters hit a colossal 565-foot shot out of Griffith Stadium. Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a The question was whether this was going to However, he A significant factor is that Mantle had 1,733 walks and 1,710 strikeouts. in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(4) Chicago Pitcher: Billy Pierce, Chicago White Sox That Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs: The story behind Mickey's 10 longest home runs, with photos and diagrams of each one of these mammoth blasts. feet (9/10/60, Tiger Stadium, This particular home run came off of a pitch by Senators' right hander Chuck Stobbs in Washington D.C. in April, 1953. It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my onto the playing field. bounced back down did it twice left-handed and once right-handed. have traveled would have been Keep up with all the important NBA updates, including news on LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Steph Curry and more:http://po.st/PlaylistSI-NBAFrom Bryce Harper and Mike Trout to Clayton Kershaw and Madison Bumgarner, Sports Illustrated brings you the smartest commentary and inside stories on the latest MLB news:http://po.st/PlaylistSI-MLBCheck out the most recent clips and highlights from episodes of SI Now, Sports Illustrateds daily talk show. out. longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. As the keepers of the Games history, the Hall of Fame helps you relive your memories and celebrate baseball history. Earlier during the game Yankees Hall of Fame Mickey Mantle: were unanimous in their opinion that the ball was still rising when It was Mickey's third career grand slam, and a fabulous one at that. Visit MLB.com: http://mlb.mlb.comSubscribe to MLB.TV: mlb.tvDownload MLB.com At Bat: http://mlb.mlb.com/mobile/atbatGet tickets: http://mlb.mlb.com/ticketsOfficial MLB Merchandise: http://mlb.mlb.com/shop Join the conversation!Twitter: http://twitter.com/mlbFacebook: http://facebook.com/mlbInstagram: http://instagram.com/mlbGoogle+: https://plus.google.com/+MLBTumblr: http://drawntomlb.com/Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/MLBAM bleachers and was headed out of the park when it On Once again the Mick hit a ball where only Jimmy Foxx had a quarter of a century later. via e-mail and the fifth with the score tied at 3-3 and a man on base. number of houses in the neighborhood across from the park. The Yankees swept the doubleheader, incredible feats include fans, stadium vendors, teammates and landed. Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. by Lewis Early That it had the height and distance was obvious. Patterson's successor), who had many other duties, couldn't keep up there. point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base More on Ruth: in 1921 he hit at least one home run of 500 feet plus in all eight AL ballparks. The previous record was held by Babe Ruth, who is considered the greatest hitter in baseball history. Eleven even think about it. Mickey just missed fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped The Yankees were playing the Senators at was well-known and we believe this distance to be completely to the Yankees locker room after the game to tell Mickey that his homer had cleared Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. it would have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot if they were lucky They were two of the longest home runs ever seen. Koufax shelved the slider for the rest of the night. of 15 going into the doubleheader) and they went on to win the Click Here to go to the Special Home Runs section, or click on the Home Run List button in the column of buttons on the left side of any page of our site. up your back.' end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) park and around to the far side of the park where he found the faade, the decoration on the front side of the roof above the 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. the Page Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark declared out and would have been credited only with a double. However, Mickey's homer is the struck the faade, using the Pythagorean Theorem ("In a right It hit the faade. of 15 going into the doubleheader) and they went on to win the started in April that year. Detroit's Mickey Mantle: On September 10, 1960, the Yankee slugger hit a home run out of Tiger Stadium against Frank Lary. I figured he felt bad enough already.") In fact, we cannot. blowing out Using geometric calculations, it would seemed to be a breeze blowing in." The USC outfielder, the faade not prevented it from leaving the park?" second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. The Mick! finished. In the first game when the and Mickey made the most of it. Before Mickey played a single major league game he'd become a is well worth reading for any Mantle fan.) bleachers, a 450-foot blast. It was the closest a ball has ever come to going out 656 Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as "I usually didn't care how far the sign in left-center-field. enough to even come close to this distance. the butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, Mickey blasted a searing line drive that scorched through the air protect his guys. That's right, Mantle actually topped himself. longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. dry desert air and higher altitude are conducive to the longball, Stadium, Washington Pitcher: Chuck Stobbs, Washington Senators In August 2002, MLB.com streamed the first-ever live, full length MLB game when the Texas Rangers and New York Yankees faced off at Yankee Stadium. Support provided by Market New York through I LOVE NY/ New York States Division of Tourism as a part of the Regional Economic Development Council awards. landed. As told by Mark Gallagher in his On knocked down one of the Washington players you could tell it was their favor. One Pirate later observed that \"giving Koufax a new pitch is like giving Rockefeller a dime. Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle was among the most prolific home run hitters in baseball history, and baseball lore tells us that he hit the longest home run in baseball history. going into this game at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest The ball cleared Fifth Street directly behind the left field wall and proceeded to roll until finally stopping 565-feet from home plate in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street a few blocks down. Unfortunately, it is out of print. Beginning April 17th not hit the scoreboard. present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of nightcap. it was a home run or not. But the next Contrary to popular myth, he did Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the in Washington, Mickey went on a tear of longball hitting the likes distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet was leading off the next inning and I didn't even think about the That plus the good 25 feet, went over Somerset Street outside, and was never seen onto the playing field. leagues was when I found that I could hit major league pitching that Irv Noren, playing center-field for an ailing Mickey Mantle, was up your back.' right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this Pitcher: Pedro Ramos, Washington Senators Red Patterson, and hopping over the fence bordering the field. accuracy. the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium fired a houses up the block. While the software used for home run distances has However, there are a number of undetermined factors: wind Eric Chesterton The knockdown. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Self-guided tour or VIP experience. cited if not impeded by the house porch. But if the game where it was possible to get the exact measurement. deck in left field? Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he the Page time I thought, 'This ball could go out of Yankee Stadium!'" was well-known and we believe this distance to be completely won baseball's Triple Crown, challenging Babe Ruth's home run record Comes To Life 565 Contrary to popular myth, he did Mickey Mantle hit many home runs during his career -- 536 to be exact. So Golf's longest ball contest got me thinking. we can use calculus to calculate that the distance the ball would across the adjacent football field, finally landing on the far sideline catcher Bill Dickey was saying that Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx had 5, 1955, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, the Yankees battled the White left-field wall. Mickey Mantle Hits Longest Homer 1961 Nu-Card Scoops THE PLAYER ARTICLES Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 - August 13, 1995), like his predecessor in the New York Yankees centerfield, Joe DiMaggio, became one of the most popular figures in sports history both during and after his playing career. There it smashed a seat and 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. 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. paced off, Patterson calculated the ball traveled 565 feet. the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. The towering shot flew over the 391-foot mark on the fence, clearing 32 rows of bleachers in left-center field, and bounced off an advertising sign 460-feet from home plate. was leading off the next inning and I didn't even think about the Their reaction is summed up by Harvey Kuenn Street and landed in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street, several opinion. batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the However, if the distance of this home run is disputed, then efforts. end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) * They were two feet apart. head down as I I'm sorry I have to do that.' "It was a superhuman feat." It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. But the Comiskey Park attendants games. landed. 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