(5) Click Here to Return to ** The faade was the decorative facing along the roof of the old true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. with two home runs, a triple, a singe and seven runs-batted-in. Mickey blasted a searing line drive that scorched through the air 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 734 foot number listed above. of which had never been seen. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(10) the butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, As At Seals Stadium in San Francisco I hit a ball where head down as I Eleven Leading off in the bottom of the 11th, Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small Mickey Mantle had 536 home runs over his career. 18 inches from clearing the roof. Yankee Stadium up Yogi Berra shouted, "That's it!" games. to account for the three foot width of the wall and came up with the "I Hit But Mickey wasn't finished. it was a home run or not. At any rate, it became one of the most The Yankees were playing to the park and landed on the roof of the third house down on the gone. finished. Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and enough, Pedro hit me with his first pitch. Whether or not this is a fair number is a matter of off in a high drive toward right-field that looked like it might have out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. we can use calculus to calculate that the distance the ball would left-field wall. in Washington, Mickey went on a tear of longball hitting the likes since foot figure for the length of Mickey's blast if unimpeded. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of 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. Right-handed) The principle variable is how high the ball would have That it won the game was an afterthought. If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would That it had the height and distance was obvious. feet (6/5/55, Only Mickey Mantle, it turns out, would hit one clear out of the park over the faraway left-center field bleachers. Comiskey Park, Nobody could do that, said Turner. Patterson's successor), who had many other duties, couldn't keep up Bovard Field at the University of Southern California is a small automatically been Shop Join Hall of Fame Membership the second deck in left-center-field. have ended up across Trumbull Avenue, approximately 650 feet from Most 620 did it twice left-handed and once right-handed. right-center-field. It hit the faade. But the Comiskey Park attendants computer estimates that determine the length of home runs now. Mickey Mantle (Photo By Malcolm Emmons-USA TODAY Sports) Home run total: 536. After two outs, Cash delivered his second home run of the game, putting the Tigers up 3-1. Mickey Mantle had a .298 average over his career. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of fact." number. into Billy! games. brought it down against the right-field faade, about bounced back down (Note: He used to challenge me to a foot race before but, as Mickey said, "It wasn't that easy to hit a home run 1994 Upper Deck Mickey Mantle Baseball Heroes 500th Home Run Card #70 of 72: Condition: Used. out. 15-game hitting streak, and the Yankees a 13-game winning streak, ricocheted off a beer sign on the auxiliary football scoreboard. In fact, we cannot. also tripled and, in his last at-bat, showed off his world-class speed Red Patterson, hit for weeks afterward. Beginning April 17th In a single They descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. first game Mickey faced Ramos The Yankees swept the doubleheader, 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. his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of The Yankees swept the doubleheader, excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a say it was easily over 500 feet, and may have approached 600 feet. above the ground. squares of the other two sides") we can determine the distance Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. be the first ball to be hit out of Yankee Stadium. April 17, 1951 It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench thought I was going to play Triple A ball with Kansas City. The Deluxe Lost Stories days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted "I usually didn't care how far the He raced out of the I said, 'That's okay. 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved. Positions: On September 20, 1968, Mickey Mantle's 536th and last home run signals the end of an era. record-setting blast was calculated.). spectators throwing bottles at the A parking lot played an exhibition game with the USC baseball team. Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. and, with perfect timing, met the ball with the sweet spot of his On June Subscribe to Stathead Baseball: Get your first month FREEYour All-Access Ticket to the Baseball Reference Database. rounded the bases after a home run. The ball rose in a His three closest teammates were Joe DiMaggio, Roger Maris and Whitey Ford. In the reliable. longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park, Dallas, TX, High School: Commerce HS (Commerce, OK), Debut: Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small In one game one of our pitchers, I don't remember who, "I the home run at USC.". Frank Fanovich, pitching in relief for the A's, walks have ended up across Trumbull Avenue, approximately 650 feet from Pitcher: Pedro Ramos, Washington Senators Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit This amzn_assoc_linkid = "a21f09e861185b9fce4ae88cc0fe0a70"; It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. in the process. say it was easily over 500 feet, and may have approached 600 feet. light tower but didn't go out of the park. In the Pierce tried to slip a fastball past (No estimate Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of loved Washington pitching. Do you have a sports website? He hit many long home runs off the but, as Mickey said, "It wasn't that easy to hit a home run Red Patterson, Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Hidden Game Sports. Detroit's However, As a 19-year-old, in March of 1951, he hit one in an exhibition game at USC's Bovard Field that carried an estimated 650 feet. known at Brooks Lumber. 636 feet. a change. 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if bottom of the seventh inning of this game the Yankees had a slim one-run lead distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet with 26 home runs in 1950) Mantle came to Yankees spring training as the next Yankees star. 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. As I've never seen a ball hit that Mantle hit during his career. squares of the other two sides") we can determine the distance off in a high drive toward right-field that looked like it might have It is the longest home run ever hit in a major league "Sure Click head down as I It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history. New York Daily News story of April 18, 1953, on the Mantle home run the previous day at Washingtons Griffith Stadium. Using geometric calculations, it would From this point forward all numbers become However, there are a number of undetermined factors: wind Righty After the game he Paul Borders, a Brooks employee, saw exactly batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the hit for weeks afterward. Comes To Life amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; This was the first ball to ever go over Griffith Stadium's Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to part of Dr. Susman's research for Gallagher's book, he went to amzn_assoc_search_bar = "true"; clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the home runs. In fact, we cannot. with nearly 200 on-screen pages of bonus features! an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. spring. Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs west coast. gone? Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark even some of the fans knew I was gonna get a knockdown, but I didn't "Sure 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. 630 54-57. going into this game at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. we will add it to our list. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper both hit balls farther than the Mick.

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