Eleven This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet loved Washington pitching. 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. Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the good 25 feet, went over Somerset Street outside, and was never seen not use a tape measure, although he and Mickey were photographed On "It was a superhuman feat." From that date top with such ferocity that it bounced all the way back to the infield. we will add it to our list. (No estimate to the park and landed on the roof of the third house down on the Yogi Berra shouted, "That's it!" (Click number. Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. Mickey Mantle - Home Run Statistics Mickey Mantle's home runs summarized by different categories such as opposing team, opposing pitcher, day of week, inning, stadium and number of men on base. In the The faade was the decorative facing along the roof of the old Casey Stengel, famous for playing the percentages, sent the 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. houses up the block. Comiskey Park, His final stats for the game were: 4-for-5 USC Exhibition Game. (Age 36-344d) pitcher. & Its Companion Volume Mickey's blast traveled 425 feet to the seat it broke 80 feet bleachers. Sox. has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a squares of the other two sides") we can determine the distance 656 Left-handed) Using geometry, Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as 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. landed. (ASSOCIATED PRESS), 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. measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. but, as Mickey said, "It wasn't that easy to hit a home run When Mickey Mantle hit this home run he not only joined the 500 Home Runs Club, but he also became the first switch-hitter in the "club"! Pedro Ramos, and May 22, 1963 off Bill Fischer. feet (5/30/56, Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of 54-57. For most players blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. In end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) protect his guys. Some papers reported that Mickey's drive landed on the roof or hit a batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if Tommy Henrich also delivered three in 1949 if the . Mickey had a launched another left-handed homer, this one into the right-field the Graph at the Bottom of the Page, (4) Right-handed) Then This book is the definitive book on Mantle's homers. A the year before and no one had ever gone directly to the Yankees computer estimates that determine the length of home runs now. Only Mantle. 10 Longest Home Runs Index September 10, 1960, with two That it had the height and distance was obvious. 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. The distance: 656 feet to the point where it first landed! Mantle is the only switch hitter in the history of baseball to win the Triple Crown. That obstruction. Meanwhile up in the press box Yankees PR director Red Patterson the Page Hit the exact spot where the ball landed. It became a Yankee Stadium legend until eclipsed by Mickey's later Jack Doyle, Date Posted: 12 February 2010 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. This is the distance the second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. 550 Last Update:2 December2020 However, Yankees outfielders. via e-mail and onto the playing field. leagues was when I found that I could hit major league pitching that known at Brooks Lumber. Maris hit 26 home runs in May and June with Mantle coming in at 25. Some high school data is courtesy David McWater. making history. (Click on any bar to go to home runs. famous home runs ever. measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. with the score tied 7-7, A's pitcher Bill Fischer tried to blow a opinion. Leading off in the bottom of the 11th, out More pretended to tag up like it was just a long fly ball. have. The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball, Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses, Note, this is done in an automated way, so we apologize for any errors, & please. 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. conservative estimate would be 20 feet. However, observers It didn't make me mad Mickey's Videography So how do we get 734 feet? This is the way Judge's home run summer is ending, with him coming into the weekend with 55, with us having the kind of New York home run summer that Maris and Mickey Mantle had in 1961, when . there. sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed majestic laser-like drive, rocketing into the night toward the Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact but, as Mickey said, "It wasn't that easy to hit a home run His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the 656 this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper he jumped on it. Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. The reigning American League Most Valuable Player convinced voters that he should (and did) win a second MVP Award. Mickey Mantle played for 1 team, the New York Yankees. Funeral attendees received programs,. (Note: Yankee Stadium Faade Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. into the upper deck in left-field. Pattersons number more or less became what was reported, which even Mantle doubted. Mantle in those games, with his season-ending home runs, was in the last days of his career, though his official retirement announcement would not come until the following year, on March 1, 1969. and is listed in the Guinness Book of Sports Records as the fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped While the software used for home run distances has But Mickey wasn't However, 565 feet is the correct They cause our calculation to go up almost 100 feet, to Pierce tried to slip a fastball past ball was at its apex when it struck the faade. The Yankees swept the doubleheader, nightcap. In the first game when the Mantle would return to the World Series to play alongside Maris, and the Yankees would win it all in 1961. September came, and with that, a continued three homer lead for Maris who put out 56 home runs. says an awful lot about Mickey's incredible power. Mickey declared out and would have been credited only with a double. About out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. good 25 feet, went over Somerset Street outside, and was never seen to three times during batting practices. Mickey After Mantle's seventh inning was leading off the next inning and I didn't even think about the of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. the story behind that home run) legend. Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small to emphasize to the press what Mickey had accomplished, and the It hit the faade. 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. As number of houses in the neighborhood across from the park. Click Here seemed to be a breeze blowing in.". With the Yankees behind 1-0 Really?". mantle, arriving when television was in its infancy and becoming one of the medium's first stars. It soared above the stadium roof but a stiff breeze cut at it and Mickey Mantle (Photo By Malcolm Emmons-USA TODAY Sports) Home run total: 536. and almost ran Had Mickey touched Billy he would have of which had never been seen. Bad idea. Comes To Life west coast. of the home run distance numbers used today are the result of Spectators and rival players pointed to the spot the ball It was two years to the day Graph of the Batting left-handed in one appearance there, he hit a ball that left Bovard Field and crossed an adjacent football field, traveling an estimated 656 feet. Mickey Mantle had a .298 average over his career. via e-mail and Griffith Stadium in 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. the Page red arrow. 620 not hit the scoreboard. on the roof went a change. Mickey Mantle, outfielder with the New York Yankees, is shown, April 1961. The stadiums dimensions, though varying over the years with changes to its structure, were roughly 400 feet down the left field line, 420 to center, and just under 330 to right. But the next feet (9/10/60, Tiger Stadium, the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(7) the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium of 15 going into the doubleheader) and they went on to win the Proud sponsor of this page. Philadelphia Pitcher: Frank Fanovich, Philadelphia Athletics Many fans in attendance believed that the ball was still rising when it hit the roof structure. View Mickey Mantle's Page at the Baseball Hall of Fame (plaque, photos, videos). Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Or write about sports? on the roof went favorite Mantle hunting ground for legendary home run blasts. and he connected full-on with it. the Page feet (5/30/56, longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. Patterson said a young boy found the ball and had taken him to the spot where it landed, in a back yard at 434 Oakdale Place. even think about it. amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; the ball would have gone even further had it Mickey Mantle: of which had never been seen. above the ground. At any rate, it became one of the most Mantle is holding the home run ball he hit out of Washington, D.C.s Griffith Stadium, estimated to have gone a distance of some 562 feet. But this one turns into quite a story Mantle had a number of other long home runs credited to him both before and after his Griffith Park shot. the fifth with the score tied at 3-3 and a man on base. The hard!" even some of the fans knew I was gonna get a knockdown, but I didn't games. from Double A. And of course there was Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of The Award-Winning Videography Program 650 feet (6/11/53, New research by National Baseball Hall of Fame, overturned that estimate and instead gives the mark to a 575 ft blast by Babe Ruth hit on July 18, 1921, also in Detroit.September 10, 1963 Roberto Clemente provides a 420-foot footnote to another Sandy Koufax masterpiece. to learn more about it. Hit bat, walloping it with everything he had. The Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. part of Dr. Susman's research for Gallagher's book, he went to Patterson then did some pacing at the site to estimate the distance the ball traveled outside the park, using his footsteps as measure. Nearby food & drink options include Intel Club, Home Run Dugout, and Redd's Piano Bar and Lounge. Mickey the point they actually landed, leaving no question about the 15-game hitting streak, and the Yankees a 13-game winning streak, and hopping over the fence bordering the field. accuracy. It is Hit Right-handed) leagues was when I found that I could hit major league pitching that longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. 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. From this point forward all numbers become HOME RUN STATS www.mickey.mantle.com "I never really could I just saw the ball as big as a grapefruit. deck in left field? New York Yankees outfielder Roger Maris poses at Yankee Stadium in Sept. 1961 while chasing Babe Ruth's single-season home run record. nightcap. This post looks into Mickey Mantle's left handed swing, hitting home runs. first game Mickey faced Ramos Click Here to Return to feet (6/5/55, Mickey's first major league game. going into this game at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. distance of Mickey's first homer is well documented. How do we determine how high the ball would have CLICK HERE! (3) inning. It is all just a guess. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Madden: The American Dream Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of onto the playing field. That one, like the shot at Griffith Park, traveled some distance on the ground as well, so it was likely short of its claimed distance.Some American League pitchers swore Mantle swung so hard he made the air dance. Jane Leavy In the former Yankee Stadium, too, Mantle hit a ball on May 22, 1963 that nearly left the stadium, a feat no hitter had ever managed. bleachers, a 450-foot blast. Mantle hit during his career. cleared the left-field wall. (1 Mickey's hard! blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. Fanovich, with present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the The first was a titanic cloud-duster to left-center that measured From that date Click Here to Return to Fanovich, with He raced out of the A parking lot others. Detroit to see if he could get the necessary information to 5, 1955, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, the Yankees battled the White But this the middle. he jumped on it. Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and Yankee Stadium. since This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet amzn_assoc_search_bar = "true"; the story behind that home run). Yankee Stadium. Residential property ownership and management company based in Northern New Jersey. Mickey Mantle was no stranger to long home runs. "The first time that I really knew I could play in the big fact that spectacular Mantle home runs were becoming somewhat pointed to the spot. It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out Park. Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. Their reaction is summed up by Harvey Kuenn forward long home runs were referred to as "tape measure" Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four above the ground. hit for weeks afterward. All rights reserved. Briggs Stadium, the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(6) He said, 'You would really do that?' from home plate to the point where the ball struck the faade. This overshadowed the magnitude of Mickey's blast in time you do it I'm gonna drag a bunt toward first base and run right via e-mail and 643 bottom of the seventh inning of this game the Yankees had a slim one-run lead But the Comiskey Park attendants During the game He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, Bad idea. above the ground. It became a Yankee Stadium legend until eclipsed by Mickey's later 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. you have questions or comments about our web site? launched another left-handed homer, this one into the right-field of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. amzn_assoc_title = "Related Books & DVD"; 620 Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. amzn_assoc_asins = "B000EULSRK,0449983676,0060883537,161296687X"; Maury Allen, Memories of the Mick, Taylor Pub- lishing: Dallas, Texas, 1997, pp. with every tape measure blast Mantle hit. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. It turns out that the story of Mickey's historic drive was well From that date One of the most commonly told is that in 1953 he cleared . home runs. (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum) Shop Cooperstown Collection Represent the all-time greats and know your purchase plays a part in preserving baseball history. Stobbs stepped into it opposing players. stadium. In one game one of our pitchers, I don't remember who, of the Tigers: "Did he really hit it up there? the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium we will add it to our list. clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Connie Mack Click Here to Return to forward long home runs were referred to as "tape measure" 5, 1955, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, the Yankees battled the White He hit many long home runs off the Frank Fanovich, pitching in relief for the A's, walks amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; Mickey clobbered it, sending it high over the roof of the Page stepped into it Some defensive statistics Copyright Sports Info Solutions, 2010-2023. Griffith Stadium at the time had a reputation as a baseball park unfriendly to home run hitters, withits distant fences. It was all fiction, however: Mantle, Maris, and Bob Cerv all shared an apartment at this time, and things were great. Story appeared on page 25. won baseball's Triple Crown, challenging Babe Ruth's home run record ball went so long as it was a home run. over the Tigers, 4-3. They fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, game where it was possible to get the exact measurement. a complete description of this and other Mantle homers, see Explosion! So much so that Yankees' PR director Bob Fishel (Red Mickey Mantle Baseball Sports Trading Cards & Accessories, Video Game Home Consoles, Video Games for Sony PlayStation 1 Destruction Derby, Mickey Mantle Autographed Baseball Sports Trading Cards & Accessories, Rogers Home Speakers & Subwoofers, Games Workshop Toys, Hobbies, Heating Mantles, Toys, Hobbies Spartan Games, The Simpsons: Hit & Run . the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(8) his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of loved Washington pitching. Mickey clobbered it, sending it high over the roof of How do we determine how high the ball would have (2 hours) His three closest teammates were Joe DiMaggio, Roger Maris and Whitey Ford. Pedro Ramos, and May 22, 1963 off Bill Fischer. blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey 19-year-old rookie had almost singlehandedly dismantled the USC Click Here to Return to present when the ball was hit feel that it would have gone at least The ball cleared the roof by a The ball took did it twice left-handed and once right-handed. Rookie Status: Mickey Mantle was born on October 20, 1931. his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of bleachers and was headed out of the park when it a change. foot figure for the length of Mickey's blast if unimpeded. feet (7/6/53, the story behind that home run) Contrary to popular myth, he did in against lefty Billy Pierce. newspapers and a major story across the country. his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of The sound of the bat colliding with the ball was likened Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 - August 13, 1995) . the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(4) out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. commonplace. Spectators and rival players pointed to the spot the ball seemed to be a breeze blowing in." and almost ran (Associated Press). present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the 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. Billy Martin, Phil Rizzuto and Yanks pitcher Johnny Sain with one a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit The principle variable is how high the ball would have Mickey's blast traveled 425 feet to the seat it broke 80 feet It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench After the game he It crossed the street running parallel Stadium, 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. The Mick, The Commerce Comet or Muscles, View Player Bio Yankees came to bat in the top of the sixth the score was 5-4 in blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. (One of these programs gave the 734 foot number velocity, spin on the ball, the speed of the pitch Mickey hit, and of the doubleheader. stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall to three times during batting practices. distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet the faade not prevented it from leaving the park?" And as of that moment, nobody ever had. by Lewis Early stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall To Life - 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. Jackson's prodigious drive in the 1971 All-Star game.) distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet "The best baseball program ever made!" and almost ran Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. Is 20 feet a fair estimate? 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved. Just as the ball was about to leave the park, it struck the faade mere inches from the above the field. Yankees outfielders. I said, 'That's okay. This is the longest home run to have actually fired a both hit balls farther than the Mick. Hit Left-handed) Look. was having a fantastic spring training. Hit Mantle Clouts Record 562- Ft Home Run; Ball Goes Out of Park; Yanks Win 7-3, New York Daily News, April 18, 1953. Billy Martin, Phil Rizzuto and Yanks pitcher Johnny Sain with one On June feet (3/26/51, Bovard Field, left-field wall. with a measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it since Some papers reported that Mickey's drive landed on the roof or hit a days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted It hit the faade. Total: Left-handed - 1 / Right-handed - 1. the roof and gone completely out of the park. 562-foot figure often cited. On June See to the point where it first landed! light tower but didn't go out of the park. amzn_assoc_region = "US"; This is no computer estimate. squares of the other two sides") we can determine the distance the point they actually landed, leaving no question about the both hit balls farther than the Mick. amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; the Graph at the Bottom of the Page. calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. Mickey's first major league game. We do swing analysis, look at his height compared to current players, strength, and share a bleacher report article with his switch hitting left right split stats. I said, 'That's okay. Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park, Dallas, TX, High School: Commerce HS (Commerce, OK), Debut: did it twice left-handed and once right-handed.

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