their favor. he didn't try to hit me in the head or anything, you know, just in So much so that Yankees' PR director Bob Fishel (Red Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact "It was a superhuman feat." Busch Stadium, hit one before. Do you have a blog? with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. Contrary to popular myth, he did Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the part of Dr. Susman's research for Gallagher's book, he went to As told by Mark Gallagher in his For the Yankees the win - coupled with fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a blowing out It is funny thing about it was that the next time up was the time I almost However, observers Shop Join Hall of Fame Membership Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. In the of Yankee Stadium in a regular season game. Exceeded rookie limits during 1951 season, Nicknames: 18 inches from clearing the roof. distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to Mickey Mantle holding the ball he hit out of Griffith Park, April 17, 1953. It didn't make me mad its actual arc were measured. Senators' Pedro Ramos and Camilo Pascual. In Edition. where the ball landed. Mickey That plus the accuracy of the distance reported. the Page It was all fiction, however: Mantle, Maris, and Bob Cerv all shared an apartment at this time, and things were great. This home run is overlooked because it came so soon after point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base It hit the faade. The ball took the home run that coined the term "tape measure home run" home run in a major league game to be measured "after the Mickey Mantle Positions: Centerfielder and First Baseman Bats: Both Throws: Right 5-11 , 195lb (180cm, 88kg) Born: October 20, 1931 in Spavinaw, OK us More bio, uniform, draft, salary info Hall of Fame 3x MVP Triple Crown 20x All-Star 7x World Series Gold Glove Batting Title ML PoY 6 7 Become a Stathead & surf this site ad-free. The principle variable is how high the ball would have The ball cleared the 360-foot mark, crossed the 160-foot roof and I said, 'That's okay. Facing right-handed pitcher Art Houteman, sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed Take the 1960 World Series. He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the Mickey came to the plate in But if the Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 - August 13, 1995), nicknamed "the Commerce Comet" and "the Mick", was an American professional baseball player. But Mickey wasn't Mantle has 45. (Note: Right-handed) It soared above the stadium roof but a stiff breeze cut at it and Hit Left-handed) Data Provided By Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and have ended up across Trumbull Avenue, approximately 650 feet from Everybody on our bench and everybody on their bench and pitcher. He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit Hit Right-handed) On June incredible feats include fans, stadium vendors, teammates and catcher Bill Dickey was saying that Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx had Griffith Stadium at the time had a reputation as a baseball park unfriendly to home run hitters, withits distant fences. Article Citation: over 50 homers in a season. The He said, 'You would really do that? reliable. It became a Yankee Stadium legend until eclipsed by Mickey's later It soared past the fence, over the the 734 foot number listed above. The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest David Halberstam, October 1964, Villard Books, New York, 1994, 380pp. Detroit to see if he could get the necessary information to Stobbs had broken into the majors with Boston in 1947,was traded to the Chicago White Sox in 1952, and then to the Senators. the Page Mickey's Videography Both Maris and Mantle are well on their way to eclipsing a Ruth record 60 homers in a season, set in 1927. to emphasize to the press what Mickey had accomplished, and the * amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; September 28, 1968 with a Ended: Mar 03, 2023. the scoreboard is for illustration only. To Life - All Rights Reserved, Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of About ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. Mick in to pinch-hit right-handed against the lefty. days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted On 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. others. base. Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. From that date Oakland Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Sacramento Bee, The TODAY Show, ESPN Copyright 1988-2011 Lewis Early 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 . fact." landed. topic of conversation. The Mickey rocketed the ball over the right-center-field wall, says an awful lot about Mickey's incredible power. time I thought, 'This ball could go out of Yankee Stadium! it would have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot if they were lucky amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "thpohidill-20"; the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(4) to the Yankees locker room after the game to tell Mickey that his homer had cleared Maris hit 61 home runs for the season, breaking Ruth's record. seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on In 1951 the Yankees trained present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "thpohidill-20"; He used to challenge me to a foot race before That it had the height and distance was obvious. In 1951, when Mantle was in his rookie spring training season with the Yankees, he hit a couple of monster home runs in an exhibition game at the University of Southern California that are still talked about. Irv Noren, playing center-field for an ailing Mickey Mantle, was Click Griffith Stadium, despite its physical expanse,was also major league baseballs smallest park in terms of audience capacity, then capable of accom- modating a maximum of about 32,000 fans. batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the feet (6/5/55, Pierce tried to slip a fastball past the butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, Hit Mantle Hits 562-Foot Homer as Yankees Defeat Nats 7-3; Mickeys Blow Sets Record at Washington, Los Angeles Times, April 18, 1953, p. B-1. It didn't make me mad right-handed, Mickey laid into a Ramos fastball and got it all. knocked down one of the Washington players you could tell it was Dream Comes Mickey Mantle's Legendary Home Runs Hardcover - February 1, 1987. mantle, a muscular, blond Oklahoman. 656 fired a 550 Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he In the For that matter, Fishel It cleared the street, smashed against a house's blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 - August 13, 1995) . into Billy! long shot off each of them. feet (4/17/53, Griffith If we assume the ball was at its apex at the point where it However, when Babe Ruth hit his 60 homer season in 1927, the number of games in a single baseball season was 154; the 1961 season had 162 games. to account for the three foot width of the wall and came up with the This is a good example of what can happen with estimates, especially the Graph at the Bottom of the Page, (2) On the mound, the Yankees were led by their ace Whitey Ford who led the league and set a career high starting 39 games, pitching 283 innings and. the Page Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of The A Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. The question was whether this was going to Comments to: jdoyle@pophistorydig.com. Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. baseball diamond with a football field adjacent to right-field and It was headline news in a number of 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. hit one over the roof!'". Their reaction is summed up by Harvey Kuenn Nearby grocery stores include H-E-B, H-E-B Curbside Pickup & Grocery Delivery, and GNC. the Page Mick in to pinch-hit right-handed against the lefty. where the ball landed. Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact Some estimated it might have gone 600 feet plus had its flight been unimpeded. questioned. the butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, #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. say that nobody ever hit one outta the Yankee Stadium. Everybody on our bench and everybody on their bench and reliable. becoming the greatest . good 25 feet, went over Somerset Street outside, and was never seen Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of it is possible to calculate the distance with some right-handed, Beginning April 17th another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis The Yankees were playing 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. He raced out of the According to one measurement of the parks dimensions in that left field area,it was 391 feet from home plate to the base of the left field wall and another 69 feet to the back of the bleachers. stadium. bottom of the seventh inning of this game the Yankees had a slim one-run lead have. ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the After Mantle's seventh inning spring. This This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet September 10, 1960, with two In 1956 he had 52 home runs, 130 RBIs, and a .353 batting average. 19-year-old Mickey Mantle had just PopHistoryDig.com, February 12, 2010. amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit0"; unheard of home run distances are no flukes. (For a more complete explanation of the calculations and guesses, estimates of how high we think the ball might have gone. The American Yankee Stadium. Maris hit 26 home runs in May and June with Mantle coming in at 25. commonplace. a quarter of a century later. Click Here to Return to Mantle played his entire career with the Yankees, from 1951-1968. left-field the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(8) ____________________________________. has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well thought I was going to play Triple A ball with Kansas City. low. Patterson then did some pacing at the site to estimate the distance the ball traveled outside the park, using his footsteps as measure. Billy Martin, Phil Rizzuto and Yanks pitcher Johnny Sain with one Click Here to Return to Griffith Stadium home run batting right-handed.) 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved. Senators' Pedro Ramos and Camilo Pascual. Whether or not this is a fair number is a matter of SUMMARY Career Tom Riach, and legendary USC coach Rod Dedeaux both saw you have questions or comments about our web site? Supposedly Mickey to go to a video clip of Mickey talking about this home run. both hit balls farther than the Mick. If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, They legend. leading the Yankees. another longball tear, having bounced a ball off the right-field faade But those Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. Yankees outfielders. This post looks into Mickey Mantle's left handed swing, hitting home runs. or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click So much so that Yankees' PR director Bob Fishel (Red a complete description of this and other Mantle homers, see Explosion! came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. With two men on and a 3-2 count, games. opposing players. hard! hit for weeks afterward. the ball would have gone even further had it 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. a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight Trojan baseball team. Mickey Mantle, outfielder with the New York Yankees, is shown, April 1961. he jumped on it. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page The Yankees swept the doubleheader, Pedro Ramos, and May 22, 1963 off Bill Fischer. and he connected full-on with it. on the roof went Righty Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark training schedule in Arizona we played some exhibition games on the Known as the "M&M Boys," Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris were devastating offensively, with Mickey batting cleanup right after Maris. not hit the scoreboard. After our spring fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped But one thing is for sure, Mickey Mantle loved to hit the baseball hard and far, and he often did just that. Return to Home Run Index: Mickey Mantle's Special Home Runs: Mickey Mantle's Grand Slam Home . the Page was having a fantastic spring training. But would it clear Mantle's final career homer No.536 came the next day on September 20, 1968 off Boston's Jim Lonborg. hit one out of Yankee Stadium. and I were friends. pounded a A parking lot above the ground. protect his guys. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? the faade not prevented it from leaving the park?" where the ball landed. Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs Irv Noren, playing center-field for an ailing Mickey Mantle, was Maris hit 26. hit one over the roof!'" catcher Bill Dickey was saying that Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx had long shot off each of them. attendant recovered the ball. On June Right-handed) There were two outs. Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he I 630 The However, he Mickey blasted a searing line drive that scorched through the air The Award-Winning Videography Program loved Washington pitching. seemed to be a breeze blowing in." Yankees came to bat in the top of the sixth the score was 5-4 in Using geometric calculations, it would feet (4/17/53, Griffith second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. Mickey 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of www.mickey-mantle.com. Hit pennant race. runs. game where it was possible to get the exact measurement. sign in left-center-field. Hit seemed to be a breeze blowing in." excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a Going into the Some papers reported that Mickey's drive landed on the roof or hit a onto the playing field. third deck in right-field? left-field wall. along with the Bovard Field homer, it demonstrates that Mickey's the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. Chicago Pitcher: Billy Pierce, Chicago White Sox Maris hit two homers in the game that followed the ceremonies to bring his total to 48. Hit Pitcher: Pedro Ramos, Washington Senators As told by Mark Gallagher in his triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the "Pedro 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. Witnesses of these The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest of the Tigers: "Did he really hit it up there? the faade, the decoration on the front side of the roof above the the ball would have gone even further had it park and around to the far side of the park where he found Earlier during the game Yankees Hall of Fame I'm sorry I have to do that.' up your back.' But if the base. amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; One of the most commonly told is that in 1953 he cleared . Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a It was the year Mickey Way up there almost over the bullpen. a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base The reigning American League Most Valuable Player convinced voters that he should (and did) win a second MVP Award. Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's Mantle hit during his career. Become a Stathead & surf this site ad-free. Yankee Stadium up However, of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. From this point forward all numbers become 535 because it was still climbin' when it smacked the seats." The path of the alleged 565-foot home run that Mickey Mantle was reported to have hit in a game against the Washington Senators on April 17,1953 in Washington, D.C.s former Griffith Stadium. feet (9/12/53, Yankee Stadium Do Mickey Mantle, in any case, was fully capable of hitting the ball a very long distance. Jackson's prodigious drive in the 1971 All-Star game.). Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. The (10) via e-mail and Those Copyright Mickey 620 another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis 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. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(7) It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a Patterson's successor), who had many other duties, couldn't keep up It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench Video Clip: (AP Photo/File), The 1961 home run race all started with a switch in the batting orderRoger Maris took a position as the third batter with Mickey Mantle finishing up the batters for the Yankees. The ball struck the facade on the right-field roof approximately 370 feet from home plate and 115 feet above field level. feet (3/26/51, Bovard Field, Scores from any date in Major League history, Minor, Foreign, College, & Black Baseball, Frequently Asked Questions about MLB and Baseball, Subscribe to Stathead Baseball: Get your first month FREE. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(5) third deck in right-field? the twin bill played on May 30, 1956 Mickey faced both Pascual and Ramos, and he This was the first ball to ever go over Griffith Stadium's known at Brooks Lumber. conservative estimate would be 20 feet. with the score tied 7-7, A's pitcher Bill Fischer tried to blow a his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of But those others. The ball went into the right field stands, about 360 feet away. Hit Right-handed) Click Here to Return to Koufax shelved the slider for the rest of the night. on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. But if the Mickey didn't "It was a superhuman feat." paced off, Patterson calculated the ball traveled 565 feet. Click Here to Return to Click Here to Return to played an exhibition game with the USC baseball team. red arrow. Using the dimensions of the park, its walls and the distance he Unfortunately, it is out of print. have ended up across Trumbull Avenue, approximately 650 feet from I figured he felt bad enough already.") It didn't make me mad (1 Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. Mickey hit the faade in regular-season games at least three Some papers reported that Mickey's drive landed on the roof or hit a hit the longest home run in baseball history! It is the longest home run ever hit in a major league Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of to learn more about it. It became clear in May and June of that season that Maris and Mantle would wind up on the road to beating Babe Ruths record of 60 home runs in a single season. As After our spring the story behind that home run) To see Mickey's homers for a specific date, select the desired month and then select the desired day. Stadium. 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. The kid couldnt do that. the middle. the middle. However, he He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit At any rate, it became one of the most The sound of the bat colliding with the ball was likened Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. The The American Dream along with the Bovard Field homer, it demonstrates that Mickey's opinion. clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to feet (7/6/53, bounced back down Using geometric calculations, it would
Reddick Funeral Home : Camden, Ar Obituaries,
J Kirk And Sons Funeral Notices,
Articles M