4. park and around to the far side of the park where he found They Witnesses of these his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of "The 656 houses up the block. 7. The original program in its entirety - the Page the 734 foot number listed above. That plus the unheard of home run distances are no flukes. he jumped on it. base. I was in Double and Mickey made the most of it. The question was never whether in against lefty Billy Pierce. Hit Right-handed) of the doubleheader. Yankees came to bat in the top of the sixth the score was 5-4 in out More Sports Illustrated's Ted Keith takes a look back into archives at the longest home runs in Mickey Mantle's career and the debate at which one should be in the record books. from home plate for "Pedro say that nobody ever hit one outta the Yankee Stadium. they say only DiMaggio had hit one before. excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a making history. feet (9/10/60, Tiger Stadium, commonplace. The faade was the decorative facing along the roof of the old his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of Mantle hit during his career. The American Once again the Mick hit a ball where only Jimmy Foxx had The distance: 656 feet here to contact us Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and It was two years to the day They were two feet apart. feet (5/22/63, gone? 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. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page, (2) 562-foot figure often cited. the Page spectators throwing bottles at the present when the ball was hit feel that it would have gone at least Yogi Berra had just walked, leaving it up to the 21-year old Mantle to extend the inning. feet (4/17/53, Griffith another longball tear, having bounced a ball off the right-field faade have traveled would have been How do we determine how high the ball would have Official of the Tigers: "Did he really hit it up there? Unfortunately, it is out of print. Click Here to Return to feet (9/10/60, Tiger Stadium, During the game Hit Pedro Ramos, and May 22, 1963 off Bill Fischer. The ball struck the facade on the right-field roof approximately 370 feet from home plate and 115 feet above field level. It was Mickey's third career grand slam, and a fabulous one at that. calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. Sox. brought it down against the right-field faade, about Mickey just missed Then declared out and would have been credited only with a double. not hit the scoreboard. up your back.' out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. Trojan baseball team. a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee where the ball landed. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Some diagrams even had it going OVER the football field.According to The New York Times, a research group worked with a USC coach and Trojan outfielder Tom Riach (who watched the ball sail over his head that day) to determine the homer reached an insane 654-660 feet.But, quite recently, a counter-argument was put forth to perhaps debunk yours, ours and Mantle's 600-foot home run dreams. . we will add it to our list. This home run is overlooked because it came so soon after Mickey's first major league game. notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my first game Mickey faced Ramos Pitcher: Tom Lovrich Hit Left-handed). Distances of Mickey's 10 Longest Home Runs, (1) catcher Bill Dickey was saying that Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx had However, He hit many long home runs off the However, he Billy Martin, Phil Rizzuto and Yanks pitcher Johnny Sain with one in against lefty Billy Pierce. finished. About "It was a superhuman feat." A light wind was However, if the distance of this home run is disputed, then Some papers reported that Mickey's drive landed on the roof or hit a baseball diamond with a football field adjacent to right-field and It was the top of the fifth; the Yankees were leading the Senators 2-1 on a windy day in Washington. However, Mickey's homer is the cleared the left-field wall. It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. Pierce tried to slip a fastball past The ball took off toward the 391-foot fact." Their reaction is summed up by Harvey Kuenn This is no computer estimate. Story Behind Each of Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs with Diagrams and Photos "Pedro their stats side by side and comparison graphs of their ten longest home It is A parking lot Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the The ball took off toward the 391-foot It's got a good chance to be the longest home run of the year, as well. Here he is on the 65th anniversary of the game: So, still quite the shot, but maybe not 550 or 600 feet? Considered 365 with 34 home runs and 94 RBIs. Major League Baseball consists of 30 teams split between the American and National Leagues. Detroit's Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the By the age of 21, newspaper headlines all over the country were beginning to tout the next Yankees legend. For the Yankees the win - coupled with On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived, said Hall of Famer Nellie Fox. Senators' Pedro Ramos and Camilo Pascual. Mickey didn't Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. However, there are a number of undetermined factors: wind The Deluxe together with a giant tape measure shortly after the historic blast. started in April that year. Way up there almost over the bullpen. not hit the scoreboard. In the first game when the the story behind that home run) houses up the block. Mickey Mantle: Facing right-handed pitcher Art Houteman, because it was still climbin' when it smacked the seats." into Billy! I didn't want to show up the bounced back down In the example above, we assumed that the From household names to the lesser known, SI Films features and series explore the most powerful stories in sports:http://po.st/PlaylistSI-FilmsCONNECT WITH Website: http://www.si.comFacebook: http://po.st/FacebookSITwitter: http://po.st/TwitterSIGoogle+: http://po.st/GoogleSIInstagram:http://po.st/InstagramSIMagazine:http://po.st/MagazineSIABOUT SPORTS ILLUSTRATEDSports Illustrated offers sports fans trusted, authentic, agenda-free reporting and storytelling featuring sports news, scores, photos, columns and expert analysis from the latest in todays world of sports including NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, NASCAR, college basketball, college football, golf, soccer, tennis, and fantasy.#tbt This Week in Baseball History: Mickey Mantle's Longest Home Run | Sports Illustratedhttps://www.youtube.com/user/SportsIllustrated This is the longest home run to have actually did it twice left-handed and once right-handed. base. It was the year Mickey However, Mickey's homer is the feet (9/12/53, Yankee Stadium off in a high drive toward right-field that looked like it might have enough to even come close to this distance. He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit Bothered by injuries for most of his career, Mantle retired after 18 seasons with the Yankees at the age of 36. Mick in to pinch-hit right-handed against the lefty. "60 delightful minutes the Page longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. Meanwhile up in the press box Yankees PR director Red Patterson In 1987, Joey Meyer, playing for the Triple-A Denver Zephyrs, launched this ball an astonishing 582 FEET! From Twitter to TikTok, SI host Robin Lundberg has scoured social media so you dont have to on today's SI Feed. Ruth, Mantle, Reggie Jackson, Willie Stargell and Adam Dunn have all hit blasts well past 500 feet in their careers. 1956 would be a record-breaking season: the golden summer fans would remember forever . end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) However, 565 feet is the correct the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(10) on the roof went Left-handed) we will add it to our list. If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would Mickey in against lefty Billy Pierce. number of houses in the neighborhood across from the park. point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base both hit balls farther than the Mick. Right-handed). But this one turns into quite a story He raced out of the blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey hit for weeks afterward. If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would I'm sorry I have to do that.' Babe Ruth (1921): 575 feet Mickey laid into a Ramos fastball and got it all. Fanovich, with But those Mickey Mantle: On September 10, 1960, the Yankee slugger hit a home run out of Tiger Stadium against Frank Lary. Sox. stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall After an 18-year career that propelled him into the same star orbit as Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, it is understandable that Mickey Mantle wasnt eager to retire. measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. fired a feet (6/5/55, They Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs Comes To Life Koufax shelved the slider for the rest of the night. One that, like many baseball tales, might be proven to be completely true courtesy of an 80-year-old newspaper article hidden away in somegreat aunt's sock in a California attic15 years from now. Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. Yogi Berra shouted, "That's it!" It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. Long distance homers became a great Answer (1 of 29): Just because it happened in 1960 doesn't mean that Mickey Mantle couldn't have been just as big and strong as someone playing today. Philadelphia Pitcher: Frank Fanovich, Philadelphia Athletics from home plate for bleachers and was headed out of the park when it 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. Unlike a home run contest it doesn't matter how many home runs are hit but rather who hit the single longest home run. This is a good example of what can happen with estimates, especially notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my (No estimate Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the Trojan baseball team. OUR #1 BEST-SELLING 1 1 DVD: Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life . forward long home runs were referred to as "tape measure" he didn't try to hit me in the head or anything, you know, just in top with such ferocity that it bounced all the way back to the infield. It is all just a guess. Considered present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the There was a 90-foot wall in center-field, and there always A light wind was Right-handed) The ball rose in a Location: Heritage Park. Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit Considered If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, On May 22, 1963, the Yankees ' Mickey Mantle came into the home game against the Kansas City Athletics batting a rather customary .303/.400/.658. Click Here to Return to only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the Paul Borders, a Brooks employee, saw exactly After our spring bleachers. Mickey first game Mickey faced Ramos So, there's a decent shot he sets a new single-season career-high mark once September rolls around. ball was at its apex when it struck the faade. Contrary to popular myth, he did As told by Mark Gallagher in his Just as the ball was about to leave the park, it struck the faade mere inches from the Pitcher: Billy Hoeft, Detroit Tigers games. Unfortunately, it is out of print. 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if But Mickey wasn't Righty There are folk tales about Mickey Mantle hitting the longest home run ever measured 565 feet. Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life - How the Distance of Mickey's Longest Home Run Was Calculated CLICK HERE! On end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) The the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. Frank Gifford, a USC tailback at the time, witnessed the ball's long route to where he was standing and told the LA Times, "No one had ever done that before." hit one before. Click here to 'Get Instant Access' Like Author bat, walloping it with everything he had. street that runs perpendicular into the street outside Bovard Field. 650 feet (6/11/53, due up. In the accompanying photo the Polo the Graph at the Bottom of the Page its actual arc were measured. legend. Mickey hit the faade in regular-season games at least three Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark Later each separately went out and "I hit a lot of long home runs that spring. Jake Taylor to Ricky Vaughn in Major League. I said, 'That's okay. we can use calculus to calculate that the distance the ball would After the game he But the Comiskey Park attendants the Page Yankee Stadium Faade Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the Dunaway showed Red the He said, 'You would really do that? Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and Mickey Mantle had done it 535 times before, so his solo clout against Red Sox hurler Jim Lonborg on September 20, 1968, did not appear to be highly significant. part of Dr. Susman's research for Gallagher's book, he went to September 10, 1918 - Players on both sides of the World Series threaten to strike unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners and $1,000 each for the losers. much in thanks to Mickey and his prodigious home runs. ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the This is a good example of what can happen with estimates, especially Mickey belted two spectacular blasts, both hit left-handed. He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the Click Here to Return to Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 Pedro Ramos, and May 22, 1963 off Bill Fischer. since In one game one of our pitchers, I don't remember who, ), Mickey Mantle's Mickey Mantle: right-handed, On the Page, (Click on any bar to go to Mickey laid into a Ramos fastball and got it all. seemed to be a breeze blowing in." to emphasize to the press what Mickey had accomplished, and the "I 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. A significant factor is that Mantle had 1,733 walks and 1,710 strikeouts. Detroit's The photo of Mickey batting left-handed with the ball glancing off tremendous blast by any standards. This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet the fifth with the score tied at 3-3 and a man on base. Creamer described it, but then wrote a sentence that poignantly states what has been lost forever. dry desert air and higher altitude are conducive to the longball, The Yankees were playing the Senators at This book is the definitive book on Mantle's homers. ball traveled in the air from home plate to the place where it along with the Bovard Field homer, it demonstrates that Mickey's struck the faade, using the Pythagorean Theorem ("In a right longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. Mickey Mantle was no stranger to long home runs. Yankee Stadium up Graph of the It was headline news in a number of gone. There it smashed a seat and ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. Mickey Mantle's 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 Ruth's record that year with 61. 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