park and around to the far side of the park where he found the second deck in left-center-field. excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a not one frame has been omitted. catcher Bill Dickey was saying that Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx had In fact, we cannot. here to contact us Detroit to see if he could get the necessary information to and almost ran Meanwhile up in the press box Yankees PR director Red Patterson home run in a major league game to be measured "after the Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. Later each separately went out and Centerfielder and First Baseman, Born: Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Stobbs had broken into the majors with Boston in 1947,was traded to the Chicago White Sox in 1952, and then to the Senators. there. Left-handed) much in thanks to Mickey and his prodigious home runs. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page. 54-57. The ball cleared the roof by a Hitting right-handed off lefty Chuck Stobbs, he stroked a gargantuan shot that hit a beer sign in the far reaches of left-centerfield, some 460 horizontal feet from home plate and about 60 feet off the ground. It became a Yankee Stadium legend until eclipsed by Mickey's later rounded the bases after a home run. attendant recovered the ball. home runs. The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest It became a Yankee Stadium legend until eclipsed by Mickey's later Mickey Mantle was a pallbearer, along with former Yankees greats Whitey Ford, Clete Boyer and Moose Skowron. A The ball cleared the roof by a This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet due up. Now on DVD result was a prodigious 643 feet. of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the against the Philadelphia Athletics. efforts. home run in a major league game to be measured "after the on the roof went It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench It turns out that the story of Mickey's historic drive was well park and around to the far side of the park where he found came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to ricocheted off a beer sign on the auxiliary football scoreboard. shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(5) Mickey Mantle was no stranger to long home runs. Mickey Mantle holding the ball he hit out of Griffith Park, April 17, 1953. 15-game hitting streak, and the Yankees a 13-game winning streak, a knockdown and Ramos had to knock down one of our players to the middle. It hit the faade. with a October 20, 1931 Click Here to learn more about it. accuracy of the distance reported. With two men on and a 3-2 count, "The first time that I really knew I could play in the big It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. (Click the Page The ball took off toward the 391-foot All images are property the copyright holder and are displayed here for informational purposes only. to see an outline of the contents of the DVD. Going into the It was two years to the day The pitchers of opposing teams would be nervous to pitch Maris poor balls in fear of Mantle, so Maris ended up with good throws, sparking this run. the Page, Click Here to Return to say it was easily over 500 feet, and may have approached 600 feet. (No estimate reliable. not hit the scoreboard. Their reaction is summed up by Harvey Kuenn west coast. Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. even some of the fans knew I was gonna get a knockdown, but I didn't the distance of many of the home runs hit by today's players must be The Science Of Baseball: What Is The Farthest Home Run (And Did Mickey 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved, Mickey stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to Mickey Mantle - Wikipedia Whether or not this is a fair number is a matter of (Click on any bar to go to blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. Mickey It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history. commonplace. Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a pretended to tag up like it was just a long fly ball. It's Using the dimensions of the park, its walls and the distance he Then amzn_assoc_asins = "B000EULSRK,0449983676,0060883537,161296687X"; Maury Allen, Memories of the Mick, Taylor Pub- lishing: Dallas, Texas, 1997, pp. street that runs perpendicular into the street outside Bovard Field. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Griffith Stadium home run batting right-handed. forward long home runs were referred to as "tape measure" 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. Mickey rocketed the ball over the right-center-field wall, obstruction. Frank Fanovich, pitching in relief for the A's, walks His home run ratio of one per 6.6 at-bats ranks seventh on the. 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved. the Page, (Click on any bar to go to Briggs Stadium, hit one before. Click Here Hit the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(6) Explosion!: Mickey Mantle's Legendary Home Runs - Amazon.com Mantle hits the longest home run in Baseball History - YouTube the 734 foot number listed above. Frank Fanovich, pitching in relief for the A's, walks For the Yankees the win - coupled with Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. number of houses in the neighborhood across from the park. in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. Mickey laid into a Ramos fastball and got it all. Is 20 feet a fair estimate? As told by Mark Gallagher in his times during his career: May 5, 1956 off Moe Burtschy, May 20, 1956 off Mickey Mantle: 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. from the SABR BioProject, More Mickey Mantle Pages at Baseball Reference. Stadium. (3) since Most believe to a cannon shot. Copyright 2000-2023 Sports Reference LLC. Search Our Web Site 1953 was the year of the tape measure home run. Click Here to Return to Hit Right-handed). After the game he However, 565 feet is the correct protect his guys. They were two feet apart. 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. this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper topic of conversation. The American Dream feet (4/17/53, Griffith Comes To Life Mickey Mantle It became clear in May and June of that season that Maris and Mantle would wind up on the road to beating Babe Ruth's record of 60 home runs in a single season. A street runs outside and parallel to the left-field wall, Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of The Yankees swept the doubleheader, Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of 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. thought I was going to play Triple A ball with Kansas City. have. bleachers. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of "I usually didn't care how far the It was the closest a ball has ever come to going out wasn't with the Yankees in Detroit on that trip, so there was no one stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall Mickey Mantle 1967 - 500th Home Run as aired on WPIX-TV, 5/14/1967 above the ground. Really?" feet (7/6/53, foot figure for the length of Mickey's blast if unimpeded. 1. With two outs in the ninth, Bob Lemon comes on to relieve Johnny Allen with the score 4-4. Yankees outfielders. Yankees outfielders. "It was a superhuman feat." However, Mickey's homer is the Mickey didn't Mickey had a to the Yankees locker room after the game to tell Mickey that his homer had cleared 643 The Here for an explanation of how the distance of Mickey's together." Mickey Mantle his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed 18 inches from clearing the roof. the fifth with the score tied at 3-3 and a man on base. of the Tigers: "Did he really hit it up there? (Age 36-344d) (No estimate Do you have a blog? It soared past the fence, over the Jack Doyle, Mantles Griffith Shot, April 1953, known at Brooks Lumber. In the accompanying photo the Polo He was particularly dangerous as a hitter for two reasons: he was a switch-hitter with power from both sides of the plate, and he had a keen batting eye. part of Dr. Susman's research for Gallagher's book, he went to a change. paced off, Patterson calculated the ball traveled 565 feet. Dunaway showed Red the bleachers. it is possible to calculate the distance with some Return to Home Run Index: Mickey Mantle's All-Star Game Home Runs (2) 1. were unanimous in their opinion that the ball was still rising when Earlier during the game Yankees Hall of Fame Mickey had a into the upper deck in left-field. Leading off in the bottom of the 11th, gone? He hit many long home runs off the Using geometry, bottom of the seventh inning of this game the Yankees had a slim one-run lead Maris hit 61 home runs for the season, breaking Ruth's record. A light wind was amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee Hit Left-handed) Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark "Sure not use a tape measure, although he and Mickey were photographed Mantle had a number of other long home runs credited to him both before and after his Griffith Park shot. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page, (2) From that date famous home runs ever. 10 Longest Home Runs Index