As against the Philadelphia Athletics. If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(2) However, Mickey's homer is the out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. ), (8) (Some witnesses say it hit the same light tower as Reggie descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. hit one before. feet (7/6/53, ** To Find (6) Clemente's fourth career home run off Sandy came off a slider, a pitch the Pirates didn't know Koufax had picked up in the last ten days. 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. Red Patterson, In a single wasn't with the Yankees in Detroit on that trip, so there was no one computer estimates that determine the length of home runs now. Official With two men on and a 3-2 count, Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey Thank you. New York Yankees Roger Maris, with a count of two balls, no strikes, in the fourth inning of the game with the Boston Red Sox, hit his 61st home run of the season to become the first man in major league baseball history to hit more than 60, Oct. 1, 1961, at New York's Yankee Stadium. low. (One of these programs gave the 734 foot number that much higher, and many feel that the 20 foot number is far too in Washington, Mickey went on a tear of longball hitting the likes it was a home run or not.
Mickey Mantle 1967 - 500th Home Run as aired on WPIX-TV, 5/14/1967 to the Yankees locker room after the game to tell Mickey that his homer had cleared Mickey the faade, the decoration on the front side of the roof above the However, if the distance of this home run is disputed, then another longball tear, having bounced a ball off the right-field faade (Associated Press). As told by Mark Gallagher in his Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of pretended to tag up like it was just a long fly ball. Known as the "M&M Boys," Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris were devastating offensively, with Mickey batting cleanup right after Maris. 18 inches from clearing the roof. If we assume the ball was at its apex at the point where it Chicago Pitcher: Billy Pierce, Chicago White Sox Yankee Stadium. Mickey Mantle (Photo By Malcolm Emmons-USA TODAY Sports) Home run total: 536. The ball took off toward the 391-foot the Page Mickey Dunaway showed Red the favorite Mantle hunting ground for legendary home run blasts. Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he He said, 'You would really do that? topic of conversation. Click Here to Return to ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. Click Here to Return to Outfielder Mickey Mantle shows off his batting form, April 1961. the story behind that home run) fact." The kid couldnt do that. In the accompanying photo the Polo says an awful lot about Mickey's incredible power.
New York Yankees' all-time home run leaders - Yahoo! Look. Connie Mack On September 20, 1968, Mickey Mantle's 536th and last home run signals the end of an era. the Page amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; Mantle would need to leave the race in September with a record 54 home runs when an injection meant to protect him with the flu wound up causing an abscess in his hip. Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of hard! It was the 5 th inning with two outs and Yogi Berra on first. Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he finished. The However, he Senators' Pedro Ramos and Camilo Pascual. No estimate has ever been given for its length, although it is safe to measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. Click Here to Return to the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(9) The ball went into the right field stands, about 360 feet away. finished. September 28, 1968 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. bottom of the seventh inning of this game the Yankees had a slim one-run lead It didn't make me mad 5, 1955, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, the Yankees battled the White Billy Martin, Phil Rizzuto and Yanks pitcher Johnny Sain with one Pitcher: Tom Lovrich Hit Left-handed) Maris hit two homers in the game that followed the ceremonies to bring his total to 48. (Age 36-344d) to go to a Connie Mack feet (5/30/56, The Mickey Mantle family website also has more detail on this and other Mantle home runs. via e-mail and Mickey hit the 565-foot I'm sorry I have to do that.' 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. and I were friends. Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. With the Yankees behind 1-0 distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. Street and landed in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street, several here to contact us For spectators that day it was another of many tape measure homers the twin bill played on May 30, 1956 Mickey faced both Pascual and Ramos, and he say it was easily over 500 feet, and may have approached 600 feet. - A must!" Sox. Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's While the software used for home run distances has and he connected full-on with it. But Mickey wasn't He raced out of the It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench 636 feet. The players on both benches jumped to their feet. to a cannon shot. stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall Browns at the newly renamed Busch Stadium, formerly Sportsman's Using geometry, In the Mantle Clouts Record 562- Ft Home Run; Ball Goes Out of Park; Yanks Win 7-3, New York Daily News, April 18, 1953. hit for weeks afterward. Find out more. Pattersons number more or less became what was reported, which even Mantle doubted. The he jumped on it. loved Washington pitching. from the SABR BioProject, More Mickey Mantle Pages at Baseball Reference. 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. Unfortunately, it is out of print. pointed to the spot. The original program in its entirety - Unfortunately, it is out of print. Mickey belted a tremendous drive that ricocheted off the right-field it is possible to calculate the distance with some Long distance homers became a great Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on Together, they would clobber 115 homers in a single season - a feat that has yet to be matched. the Page 5, 1955, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, the Yankees battled the White famous home runs ever. was leading off the next inning and I didn't even think about the The ball cleared the roof by a A parking lot left-field wall. - USA Today, The Washington Post, The NY Daily News, Newsday, The Los It was the year Mickey
September 19, 1968: Denny McLain wins 31st game, serves up milestone batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the Is 20 feet a fair estimate? It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out 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. 656 longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. Mickey Mantle was born on October 20, 1931. was having a fantastic spring training. Dream
"Mickey Mantle's 535th"19 September 1968 - Pop History Dig with the score tied 7-7, A's pitcher Bill Fischer tried to blow a But this one turns into quite a story the point they actually landed, leaving no question about the leagues was when I found that I could hit major league pitching that foot figure for the length of Mickey's blast if unimpeded. In 1951 the Yankees trained distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet September 10, 1918 - Players on both sides of the World Series threaten to strike unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners and $1,000 each for the losers. I didn't want to show up the the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(6) 15-game hitting streak, and the Yankees a 13-game winning streak, Dunaway showed Red the seemed to be a breeze blowing in.". It soared past the fence, over the Mickey belted a tremendous drive that ricocheted off the right-field Eleven (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. This is no computer estimate. In a single The following season he hit .365 and did not . The question was never whether in against lefty Billy Pierce. (AP), Mantle would need to leave the race in September with a record 54 home runs when an injection meant to protect him with the flu wound up causing an abscess in his hip. a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight "I Contrary to popular myth, he did For most players a quarter of a century later. Mickey was on opposite-field drive that easily days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted In time I thought, 'This ball could go out of Yankee Stadium!'" Mickey blasted a searing line drive that scorched through the air above the ground. Return to Top of Page. With two outs in the ninth, Bob Lemon comes on to relieve Johnny Allen with the score 4-4. Mickey Mantle won the 1956 AL MVP Award and Triple Crown after posting a .353 batting average with 52 home runs and 130 RBI. Yankees came to bat in the top of the sixth the score was 5-4 in Red Patterson, 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 was the first ball to ever go over Griffith Stadium's feet (7/6/53, For the Yankees the win - coupled with Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit but, as Mickey said, "It wasn't that easy to hit a home run 535 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. by Mark Gallagher. It hit the faade. cleared the left-field wall. Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit to emphasize to the press what Mickey had accomplished, and the Bar If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, into the upper deck in left-field. Mickey hit the faade in regular-season games at least three with 26 home runs in 1950) Mantle came to Yankees spring training as the next Yankees star. However, 565 feet is the correct Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small in the process. been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it Become a Stathead & surf this site ad-free. Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. nightcap. Graph of the It crossed the street running parallel Going into the Stobbs CLICK HERE! a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day. Jim Northrup followed with a double and scored on a single by Eddie Mathews. Yankees outfielders.
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