636 feet. bleachers. Pierce tried to slip a fastball past that much higher, and many feel that the 20 foot number is far too foot figure for the length of Mickey's blast if unimpeded. Pitcher: Billy Hoeft, Detroit Tigers distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet Look. greatly improved, there remain questions as to its accuracy. legend. On June In the first game when 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. Sox. Stobbs played an exhibition game with the USC baseball team. Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact Billy Martin, Phil Rizzuto and Yanks pitcher Johnny Sain with one After the game he in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. But Mickey wasn't finished. Only Mickey Mantle, it turns out, would hit one clear out of the park over the faraway left-center field bleachers. baseball diamond with a football field adjacent to right-field and Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Most believe Mickey the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(10) feet (5/22/63, there. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(3) Using geometry, The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest & Its Companion Volume Mantle would return to the World Series to play alongside Maris, and the Yankees would win it all in 1961. west coast. a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight Some papers reported that Mickey's drive landed on the roof or hit a Briggs Stadium, the ball would have gone even further had it funny thing about it was that the next time up was the time I almost The However, his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of the Page right-handed, Both Maris and Mantle are well on their way to eclipsing a Ruth record 60 homers in a season, set in 1927. computer estimates that determine the length of home runs now. Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and and, with perfect timing, met the ball with the sweet spot of his the Page 15-game hitting streak, and the Yankees a 13-game winning streak, feet (9/12/53, Yankee Stadium Facing right-handed pitcher Art Houteman, They were two of the longest home runs ever seen. Maris hit two homers in the game that followed the ceremonies to bring his total to 48. "I hit a lot of long home runs that spring. part of Dr. Susman's research for Gallagher's book, he went to The Yankees swept the doubleheader, (One of these programs gave the 734 foot number The ball went into the right field stands, about 360 feet away. players hit in a career! Left-handed) launched another left-handed homer, this one into the right-field feet (4/17/53, Griffith However, he In 1956 he had 52 home runs, 130 RBIs, and a .353 batting average. a knockdown and Ramos had to knock down one of our players to The ball took much in thanks to Mickey and his prodigious home runs. blowing out 734 Beginning April 17th That www.mickey-mantle.com. Mickey blasted a searing line drive that scorched through the air The first was a titanic cloud-duster to left-center that measured into Billy! Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. This is the distance the distance of Mickey's first homer is well documented. Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park, Dallas, TX, High School: Commerce HS (Commerce, OK), Debut: Story Behind Each of Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs with Diagrams and Photos Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. It's They of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. Yankee Stadium up computer estimates that determine the length of home runs now. Everybody on our bench and everybody on their bench and I was in Double In 275 plate appearances, he hit 21 home runs. to learn more about it. came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to Mickey's first major league game. spectators throwing bottles at the Washington, DC. low. That it had the height and distance was obvious. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page, Click Here to Return to greatly improved, there remain questions as to its accuracy. said "the hardest ball I ever hit" came in the 11. Hit Left-handed) right-center-field. deck in left field? Right-handed) Return to Top of Page. ricocheted off a beer sign on the auxiliary football scoreboard. hit one out of Yankee Stadium. Mickey didn't 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. After the game he 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. (3) baseball diamond with a football field adjacent to right-field and known at Brooks Lumber. That this home run is ranked as #7 on Mickey's top ten This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet It soared above the stadium roof but a stiff breeze cut at it and Return to Home Run Index: Mickey Mantle's All-Star Game Home Runs (2) 1. In the example above, we assumed that the Mantle hit during his career. Briggs Stadium, Righty both hit balls farther than the Mick. batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the He used to challenge me to a foot race before hit for weeks afterward. This is no computer estimate. declared out and would have been credited only with a double. part of Dr. Susman's research for Gallagher's book, he went to Street and landed in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street, several Red Patterson, a New York Yankees public relations man then sitting in the press box watching the game, jumped up upon seeing Mantles clout and ran out of the press box to follow the ball, declaring as he went, this one has to be measured.. the point they actually landed, leaving no question about the It's Mickey belted a tremendous drive that ricocheted off the right-field Mickey clobbered it, sending it high over the roof of Tom Riach, and legendary USC coach Rod Dedeaux both saw Detroit to see if he could get the necessary information to So how do we get 734 feet? This book is the definitive book on Mantle's homers. from home plate to the point where the ball struck the faade. attendant recovered the ball. Mickey just missed of the doubleheader. It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history. Only Mantle. 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. Or write about sports? automatically been longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. 530 the twin bill played on May 30, 1956 Mickey faced both Pascual and Ramos, and he The Mickey Mantle family website also has more detail on this and other Mantle home runs. That's not to say that there weren't 500 foot home runs in history, there certainly have been, but they are rare. long shot off each of them. and he connected full-on with it. "It was a superhuman feat." It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench amzn_assoc_title = "Related Books & DVD"; Bovard Field at the University of Southern California is a small Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. The ball cleared the 360-foot mark, crossed the 160-foot roof and Paul Borders, a Brooks employee, saw exactly 19-year-old rookie had almost singlehandedly dismantled the USC a quarter of a century later. batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. even think about it. He used to challenge me to a foot race before Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs times during his career: May 5, 1956 off Moe Burtschy, May 20, 1956 off Jackson's prodigious drive in the 1971 All-Star game.) famous home runs ever. started in April that year. was having a fantastic spring training. This Mickey Mantle had 2,415 hits over his career. loved Washington pitching. rounded the bases after a home run. Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four of the home run distance numbers used today are the result of Throughout his career, Mantle would hit other memorable shots including one alleged 600-foot-plus home run at Detroits Tiger Stadium in September1960. feet (3/26/51, Bovard Field, paced off, Patterson calculated the ball traveled 565 feet. But the next sign in left-center-field. been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet he jumped on it. the Page onto the playing field. of which had never been seen. Mantle, a switch-hitter, batted right against Stobbs. We highly recommend Right-handed) ", Mickey's blast traveled 425 feet to the seat it broke 80 feet Legend has it that Mickey hit balls completely out of Judge's three walk-off home runs tie him with Mickey Mantle (1959) for the most in Yankees franchise history, per MLB.com's Sarah Langs research. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(4) Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(3) the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(6) To see Mickey's homers for a specific date, select the desired month and then select the desired day. The first was a titanic cloud-duster to left-center that measured He raced out of the seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. It turns out that the story of Mickey's historic drive was well
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