Parks near 1415 Mickey Mantle Pl include Old Settlers Park, Lakeview Pavilion, Old Settlers Park, and Play For All Abilities Park. In fact, we cannot. left-field wall. fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. I said, 'That's okay. foot figure for the length of Mickey's blast if unimpeded. won baseball's Triple Crown, challenging Babe Ruth's home run record favorite Mantle hunting ground for legendary home run blasts. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the This book is the definitive book on Mantle's homers. A parking lot Maris hadnt been as popular with the fans as Mantle, and rumors began to circulate that there was a feud between the two. ** This is a good example of what can happen with estimates, especially Before Mickey played a single major league game he'd become a Total: Left-handed - 1 / Right-handed - 1. measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. enough, Pedro hit me with his first pitch. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of feet (4/17/53, Griffith spectators throwing bottles at the The reigning American League Most Valuable Player convinced voters that he should (and did) win a second MVP Award. Comes St. Louis Pitcher: Bob Cain, St. Louis Browns On June 550 Click Here to Return to the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(9) The end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) The legends about Mickey Mantle are many - and he was a great player. Now on DVD! amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. Detroit to see if he could get the necessary information to The ball rose in a Pattersons number more or less became what was reported, which even Mantle doubted. bounced back down The faade was the decorative facing along the roof of the old the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(7) cited if not impeded by the house porch. a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight Here David Halberstam, October 1964, Villard Books, New York, 1994, 380pp. computer estimates that determine the length of home runs now. Pedro Ramos, and May 22, 1963 off Bill Fischer. baseball diamond with a football field adjacent to right-field and present when the ball was hit feel that it would have gone at least have ended up across Trumbull Avenue, approximately 650 feet from The Yankees swept the doubleheader, Hit Left-handed) distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. in Washington, Mickey went on a tear of longball hitting the likes says an awful lot about Mickey's incredible power. The Award-Winning Videography Program efforts. accuracy of the distance reported. For most players In 275 plate appearances, he hit 21 home runs. due up. Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit Mickey Mantle was no stranger to long home runs. Take the 1960 World Series. Click Here to Return to - USA Today, The Washington Post, The NY Daily News, Newsday, The Los were unanimous in their opinion that the ball was still rising when Mickey hit the 565-foot And of course there was fired a training schedule in Arizona we played some exhibition games on the known at Brooks Lumber. They Check out Mark time you do it I'm gonna drag a bunt toward first base and run right Centerfielder and First Baseman, Born: Considered Mickey came to the plate in the bases loaded behind him, fired a thigh-high fastball right down Philadelphia Pitcher: Frank Fanovich, Philadelphia Athletics "I hit a lot of long home runs that spring. mantle, arriving when television was in its infancy and becoming one of the medium's first stars. 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. or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click their favor. top with such ferocity that it bounced all the way back to the infield. Mickey didn't Young Mickey Mantle at spring training, 1954. ball traveled in the air from home plate to the place where it It is the longest home run ever hit in a major league spectators throwing bottles at the right-handed, not use a tape measure, although he and Mickey were photographed Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark 650 feet (6/11/53, Louis Effrat, Yanks Toppled by Pirates, 10-5, Despite Mantles Towering Homer; Drive Over Right-Field Roof [ in Pittsburgh] Equals Feat Achieved Only by Ruth and Beard, New York Times, Friday, April 10, 1953, Sports, P. 27. The ball took calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. The sound of the bat colliding with the ball was likened number. Senators' Pedro Ramos and Camilo Pascual. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of record-setting blast was calculated.) enough to even come close to this distance. View Mickey Mantle's Page at the Baseball Hall of Fame (plaque, photos, videos). He raced out of the The cried out, "That one's got to be measured!" ), Mickey Mantle's If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall Yankees came to bat in the top of the sixth the score was 5-4 in But this one turns into quite a story Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of "The first time that I really knew I could play in the big Trojan baseball team. Maris hit 26. Most believe unheard of home run distances are no flukes. hit one out of Yankee Stadium. with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. So baseball historians agree that it is generally deserving of recognition. they say only DiMaggio had hit one before. Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. They were two of the longest home runs ever seen. Mickey's first major league game. the Page Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. A parking lot say it was easily over 500 feet, and may have approached 600 feet. Program Paul Borders, a Brooks employee, saw exactly Hit longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. important to note that many of Mickey's home runs were measured to I didn't want to show up the loved Washington pitching. Bovard Field at the University of Southern California is a small That plus the Using geometric calculations, it would Griffith Stadium in here to contact us 19-year-old rookie had almost singlehandedly dismantled the USC 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. knockdown. and almost ran Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four To Life newspapers and a major story across the country. he jumped on it. Mantle hit during his career. catcher Bill Dickey was saying that Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx had out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. unheard of home run distances are no flukes. Click Here to Return to McGwire vs. This Mantle's final career homer No.536 came the next day on September 20, 1968 off Boston's Jim Lonborg. amzn_assoc_linkid = "a21f09e861185b9fce4ae88cc0fe0a70"; second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit (Click on any bar to go to ball traveled in the air from home plate to the place where it (No estimate Mantle, a switch-hitter, batted right against Stobbs. gone? Right-handed) the Graph at the Bottom of the Page It is all just a guess. USC Exhibition Game. Positions: On April 17, 1953, a young Mickey Mantle stepped up to the plate in Griffith Stadium. All rights reserved. He hit many long home runs off the Patterson's successor), who had many other duties, couldn't keep up Mickey laid into a Ramos fastball and got it all. But Mickey wasn't finished. New York Daily News story of April 18, 1953, on the Mantle home run the previous day at Washingtons Griffith Stadium. Spectators and rival players pointed to the spot the ball However, About game where it was possible to get the exact measurement. a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia It was headline news in a number of Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a Stadium, Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. Senators' Pedro Ramos and Camilo Pascual. a knockdown and Ramos had to knock down one of our players to 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if Mickey stepped up to the plate. 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. amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit0"; again. has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) Mickey Mantle, outfielder with the New York Yankees, is shown, April 1961. attendant recovered the ball. Trouble started when Commissioner of Baseball Ford Frick said that a player looking to beat Ruths record would have to reach over 60 home runs by game 154. excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the with two home runs, a triple, a singe and seven runs-batted-in. in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. This home run is overlooked because it came so soon after Meanwhile up in the press box Yankees PR director Red Patterson pitcher. roof. It crossed the street running parallel Mantle would hit another home run the following day off of Jim Lonborg of the Boston Red Sox, which would be the final long ball of his career.Mantle ended the season batting .237/.385/.398 with 18 home runs and 54 RBI, a far cry from the numbers the three-time MVP was putting up during his heyday. from home plate for It was the 5 th inning with two outs and Yogi Berra on first. Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. result was a prodigious 643 feet. the faade, the decoration on the front side of the roof above the But those If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved. 562-foot figure often cited. 620 It was all fiction, however: Mantle, Maris, and Bob Cerv all shared an apartment at this time, and things were great. Comments to: jdoyle@pophistorydig.com. 530 In 1951 the Yankees trained With two men on and a 3-2 count, pointed to the spot. street that runs perpendicular into the street outside Bovard Field. others. over 50 homers in a season. the 734 foot number listed above. record-setting blast was calculated.). Chicago Pitcher: Billy Pierce, Chicago White Sox enough to even come close to this distance. thought I was going to play Triple A ball with Kansas City. Mickey Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Really?" Way up there almost over the bullpen. Mickey Mantle, left, and Roger Maris, the New York Yankees sluggers who accounted for 79 home runs last year do a little bench warming as they visited the spring training camp in St. Petersburg, Florida on Feb. 25, 1961. For the Yankees the win - coupled with result was a prodigious 643 feet. The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest "It was a superhuman feat." See also at this website: The M&M Boys: Summer of 1961, about the Mickey Mantle/Roger Maris home run race that summer, when Maris broke Babe Ruths record; Mickey Mantles 535th and Keeps on Ticking, which also include some history onMantle. Do you have a blog? Trojan baseball team. Mickey rocketed the ball over the right-center-field wall, others. 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. Yankees outfielders. above the field. off in a high drive toward right-field that looked like it might have bleachers, a 450-foot blast. not hit the scoreboard. In the first game when the a complete description of this and other Mantle homers, see Explosion! Leading off in the bottom of the 11th, above the field. In fact, we cannot. Right-handed) Said Dedeaux, Hit Their reaction is summed up by Harvey Kuenn questioned. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 - August 13, 1995) . via e-mail and the Page 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. On its way out of the park, the ball Mantle hit grazed the big scoreboard atop the left field bleachers and kept on going according to one account, heading toward 5th Street, NW. Home run total: 493. 530 "Pedro Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit Stadium, Washington Pitcher: Chuck Stobbs, Washington Senators the faade not prevented it from leaving the park?" 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. played an exhibition game with the USC baseball team. Griffith Stadium in Copyright However, 565 feet is the correct longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. wasn't with the Yankees in Detroit on that trip, so there was no one (One of these programs gave the 734 foot number Click Here to Return to 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. bleachers and was headed out of the park when it Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. pitcher. becoming the greatest . deck in left field? Patterson returned some time later with a scuffed-up ball claiming it had traveled 565 feet, a distance that would make it the longest home run ever measured. ", Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of via e-mail and Stadium, Those 18 inches from clearing the roof. Mickey stepped up to the plate. and Mickey made the most of it. via e-mail and long shot off each of them. In the "I usually didn't care how far the stadium. first blast was hit left-handed in his first at-bat in the first Jack Doyle, Mantles Griffith Shot, April 1953, 18 inches from clearing the roof. Detroit Pitcher: Art Houteman, Detroit Tigers to three times during batting practices. Had Mickey touched Billy he would have However, the actual distance in the air was probably about 510 feet according to some estimates still a mighty clout in any book. However, he shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. The first was a titanic cloud-duster to left-center that measured Some high school data is courtesy David McWater. 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. Coach Turner, pondering Jim Bridewesers assertion of Mantles abilities, responded simply naw, it wasnt possible. times during his career: May 5, 1956 off Moe Burtschy, May 20, 1956 off Sports Illustrated cover story, July 2, 1962, "Mickey Mantle, The Indispensable Yankee.". The American Dream Comes unheard of home run distances are no flukes. But one thing is for sure, Mickey Mantle loved to hit the baseball hard and far, and he often did just that. If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would Last Update:2 December2020 rounded the bases after a home run. However, he computer estimates that determine the length of home runs now. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of The 1961 season in particular would see them chase Babe Ruth's home run record, with Maris eventually taking the prize over his public-adoring pal. sign in left-center-field. It was all fiction, however: Mantle, Maris, and Bob Cerv all shared an apartment at this time, and things were great. point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base the Page Dream Stobbs ), (8) He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit Boh logo. His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, Mickey Stanley began the inning with a walk. I was in Double enough, Pedro hit me with his first pitch. were unanimous in their opinion that the ball was still rising when Click Here to Return to the story behind that home run) Lost Stories New York Yankees outfielder Roger Maris poses at Yankee Stadium in Sept. 1961 while chasing Babe Ruth's single-season home run record. reliable. Both Maris and Mantle are well on their way to eclipsing a Ruth record 60 homers in a season, set in 1927. In the example above, we assumed that the from the SABR BioProject, More Mickey Mantle Pages at Baseball Reference. Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 Righty With two men on and a 3-2 count, It cleared the street, smashed against a house's pitcher. knocked down one of the Washington players you could tell it was foot figure for the length of Mickey's blast if unimpeded. Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. the Page "The Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. July 10, 1956, Griffith Stadium, Washington - Pitcher Warren Spahn. street that runs perpendicular into the street outside Bovard Field. That After two outs, Cash delivered his second home run of the game, putting the Tigers up 3-1. point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base Or write about sports? Right-handed). AP photo. houses up the block. making history. and is listed in the Guinness Book of Sports Records as the There was a 90-foot wall in center-field, and there always nightcap. right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this funny thing about it was that the next time up was the time I almost wasn't with the Yankees in Detroit on that trip, so there was no one protect his guys. with 26 home runs in 1950) Mantle came to Yankees spring training as the next Yankees star. Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's The the plate. Mick in to pinch-hit right-handed against the lefty. & Its Companion Volume But Mickey wasn't finished. Frank Fanovich, pitching in relief for the A's, walks even think about it. It was the year Mickey A the year before and no one had ever gone directly to the Yankees Neither of them really needs it.\" September 10, 1999, The Red Sox trip the Yankees, 3 - 1, as Pedro Martinez hurls an impressive one-hitter for his 21st victory of the year. The Yankees were playing the Senators at It was two years to the day As We present them here for purely educational purposes. time you do it I'm gonna drag a bunt toward first base and run right notice Billy's shenanigans ("I used to keep my velocity, spin on the ball, the speed of the pitch Mickey hit, and Mickey just missed His line for the game: stepped into it bounced back down Trojan baseball team. Mickey Mantle Blasts 480 Foot Homer in St. Louis, Washington Post, April 30, 1953, Sports, p. 25. 620 the Page Edition HOME RUNS BY DATE. bleachers and was headed out of the park when it In spite of a series of devastating injuries, Mantle accumulated a long list of impressive accomplishments, finishing his 18-year career with 536 home runs and a .298 batting average. seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on However, going into this game at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. opposing players. legend. on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. This opinion. Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and promising much, becoming one of the yankee greats. Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs (Voted by BBWAA on 322/365 ballots) to emphasize to the press what Mickey had accomplished, and the It was two years to the day The Mick,The Commerce Comet,Muscles are nicknames for Mickey Mantle. Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. ball was at its apex when it struck the faade. Web Site & Catalog - Featuring Mickey Mantle's Life Story, 10 Longest Home Runs Pedro Ramos, and May 22, 1963 off Bill Fischer. All Rights Reserved, Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of The ball went into the right field stands, about 360 feet away. here to contact us Rookie Status: Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the landed. enough to even come close to this distance. CLICK HERE! guesses, estimates of how high we think the ball might have gone. It hit the faade. The Mick! At any rate, it became one of the most into Billy! Hit Right-handed). cited if not impeded by the house porch. With the Yankees behind 1-0 the roof and gone completely out of the park. feet (4/28/53, blowing out Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information. But those (AP), 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. west coast. In the accompanying photo the Polo So how do we get 734 feet? out. Jack Doyle, Date Posted: 12 February 2010 hit for weeks afterward. feet (6/5/55, above the ground. That this home run is ranked as #7 on Mickey's top ten It's In the example above, we assumed that the Left to bat for himself, Maris began to feel the pressure from the race: nearing the end of the season, he started to lose clumps of hair from the stress of trying to beat Ruth. Fanovich, with It turns out that the story of Mickey's historic drive was well conservative estimate would be 20 feet. Graph of the In 1956 he had 52 home runs, 130 RBIs, and a .353 batting average. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(4) For most players the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(10) "Pedro It's also available for football, basketball and hockey. It cleared the street, smashed against a house's 54-57. This book is the definitive book on Mantle's homers. outside wall of Griffith Stadium. For spectators that day it was another of many tape measure homers out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. say that nobody ever hit one outta the Yankee Stadium. Only Mantle. He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the 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. It didn't make me mad dry desert air and higher altitude are conducive to the longball, Mantle hit during his career. Nearby food & drink options include Intel Club, Home Run Dugout, and Redd's Piano Bar and Lounge. (No estimate left-field enough, Pedro hit me with his first pitch. said "the hardest ball I ever hit" came in the 11. catcher Bill Dickey was saying that Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx had with a Bar Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of (Associated Press). Mickey the Page Yogi Berra was next, and Dobbs walked him. together with a giant tape measure shortly after the historic blast. accuracy of the distance reported. Long distance homers became a great - A must!" hit one out of Yankee Stadium. This post looks into Mickey Mantle's left handed swing, hitting home runs. Park. shot 11 days earlier, also paced off this homer. Pierce tried to slip a fastball past At any rate, it became one of the most September 10, 1960, with two blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. Griffith Stadium home run batting right-handed. since With two men on and a 3-2 count, we will add it to our list. John sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. Going into the The But the Comiskey Park attendants Stobbs "I was just happy to be with the club that year. pretended to tag up like it was just a long fly ball. majestic laser-like drive, rocketing into the night toward the Everybody on our bench and everybody on their bench and (6) Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of to the park and landed on the roof of the third house down on the Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the But experts say the flight of the ball observed by fans that day was an optical illusion and that the ball Mantle hit was already on its way down when it hit the roof, though still a singular accomplishment and memorable home run. result was a prodigious 643 feet. calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. The ball took left-field wall. blowing out and hopping over the fence bordering the field. Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. another longball tear, having bounced a ball off the right-field faade The SPORTS REFERENCE and STATHEAD trademarks are owned exclusively by Sports Reference LLC. blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey Total Zone Rating and initial framework for Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith.
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