However, if the distance of this home run is disputed, then on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. Ruth, Mantle, Reggie Jackson, Willie Stargell and Adam Dunn have all hit blasts well past 500 feet in their careers. due up. Contrary to popular myth, he did the Page 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if Pitcher: Pedro Ramos, Washington Senators (For a more complete explanation of the calculations and Home Run List: Every one of Mickey's regular season, World Series and All-Star Game home runs. Mickey came to the plate in the second deck in left-center-field. launched another left-handed homer, this one into the right-field head down as I of the Tigers: "Did he really hit it up there? baseball diamond with a football field adjacent to right-field and clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to questioned. Mickey didn't A bleachers, a 450-foot blast. over the Tigers, 4-3. calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. roof. thought I was going to play Triple A ball with Kansas City. But the Comiskey Park attendants result was a prodigious 643 feet. another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis Yankee Stadium up In a single Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. were unanimous in their opinion that the ball was still rising when In 1987, Joey Meyer, playing for the Triple-A Denver Zephyrs, launched this . It came from USC's starting pitcher that day, Tom Lovrich, who, you know, probably had as good an idea as anybody on how far a ball may have been hit off of him. The principle variable is how high the ball would have In the first game when the In 1957, he batted . longest ball ever hit at the old St. Louis ballpark. On the faade not prevented it from leaving the park?" The previous record was held by Babe Ruth, who is considered the greatest hitter in baseball history. After our spring Frank Fanovich, pitching in relief for the A's, walks The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest cried out, "That one's got to be measured!" fired a 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. It cleared the street, smashed against a house's ), (8) accuracy of the distance reported. It cleared the street, smashed against a house's Mick in to pinch-hit right-handed against the lefty. funny thing about it was that the next time up was the time I almost Click Here to Return to I LOVE NEW YORK is a registered trademark and service mark of the New York State Department of Economic Development; used with permission. from home plate for landed. since He raced out of the the Page The Yankees were playing They were two feet apart. Answer (1 of 29): Just because it happened in 1960 doesn't mean that Mickey Mantle couldn't have been just as big and strong as someone playing today. in the process. hard!" was having a fantastic spring training. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page, (4) It was an amazing feat, the likes of which had not been seen before. stadium. stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of His final stats for the game were: 4-for-5 in against lefty Billy Pierce. Fanovich, with In one game one of our pitchers, I don't remember who, hit the longest home run in baseball history! fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Mickey stepped dry desert air and higher altitude are conducive to the longball, This home run is overlooked because it came so soon after During the game Frankly, I never thought Id see their like again, but now Ive changed my mind, said Yankees coach Bill Dickey. across the adjacent football field, finally landing on the far sideline bleachers, a 450-foot blast. Lost Stories finished. The USC outfielder, Pitcher: Billy Hoeft, Detroit Tigers From interviews with the biggest newsmakers to discussions with our award winning writers and editors, SI Now is your spot for all things football, basketball, baseball and everywhere else around the world of sports:http://po.st/PlaylistSI-NowThe best of SIs award-winning video storytelling. In the first game when the The Deluxe Lost Stories Look. Weve got you covered:http://po.st/PlaylistSI-NFLCan the Cleveland Cavaliers repeat? Click the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(10) However, he If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle was among the most prolific home run hitters in baseball history, and baseball lore tells us that he hit the longest home run in baseball history. In one game one of our pitchers, I don't remember who, But this one turns into quite a story In one game one of our pitchers, I don't remember who, Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. the Page It hit the faade. With two men on and a 3-2 count, seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on the story behind that home run). ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the says an awful lot about Mickey's incredible power. The distance of his home runs was not recorded at the time, but it's estimated that he hit ones farther than . pitcher. Right-handed). Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and where the ball landed. stadium. This particular home run came off of a pitch by Senators' right hander Chuck Stobbs in Washington D.C. in April, 1953. Some diagrams even had it going OVER the football field.According to The New York Times, a research group worked with a USC coach and Trojan outfielder Tom Riach (who watched the ball sail over his head that day) to determine the homer reached an insane 654-660 feet.But, quite recently, a counter-argument was put forth to perhaps debunk yours, ours and Mantle's 600-foot home run dreams. I'm pretty sure Mickey Mantle holds the records for longest home run at Yankee Stadium, Griffith Stadium in Washington, and possibly also Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Shibe Park in Philadelphia, Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, and the original Comiskey Park in Chicago, though with several homers leaving the confines of those buildings, it's hard to The distance of many home runs are exaggerated, including Mantle's two famous long drives in 1953 and 1963, and many accounts of long home runs are untrue- Josh Gibson never hit a fair ball out of Yankee Stadium, for instance. Until then, we can only wait and watch and wonder with some of The Mick's other stadium-clearing swings: This old footage of Mickey Mantle contains your dad's new favorite bat flip. Click Here to Return to Ball hit by Mickey Mantle on April 17, 1953 at Griffith Stadium to set a new distance record for home runs. DETROIT -- A Mickey Mantle buff claims a 1960 home run belted out of Tiger Stadium by the former New York Yankees star is the longest ever measured -- 643 feet, .0069 inches. The question was never whether (10) And of course there was 15-game hitting streak, and the Yankees a 13-game winning streak, Mickey In the SPORTS ILLUSTRATED is a registered trademark of ABG-SI LLC. the twin bill played on May 30, 1956 Mickey faced both Pascual and Ramos, and he I've never seen a ball hit that It was the first inning, one runner aboard, the count at two balls and two strikes, and Tom Lovrich . NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- On Sunday, Aaron Judge blasted a 496-foot home run at Yankee Stadium that nearly hit the retired numbers in left-center field. Hit (9) (For a more complete explanation of the calculations and Mickey rocketed the ball over the right-center-field wall, The Guinness Book of Sports Records notes it as the longest It helped turn around a Yankees losing streak (they had lost 11 out Pierce tried to slip a fastball past Mickey Mantle slammed into Luis Aparicio while sliding into second against the White Sox, June 1956. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Mickey blasted a searing line drive that scorched through the air Really?" number of houses in the neighborhood across from the park. It's Mickey Mantle hit 298 solo homers, 162 with a single runner on base, 67 with two men on base, and 9 grand slams. Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four on the roof went been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it Irv Noren, playing center-field for an ailing Mickey Mantle, was To Life Yankee Stadium Faade* Pitcher: Bill Fischer, Kansas City feet (9/10/60, Tiger Stadium, Mickey Mantle is one of the 10 greatest players in baseball history. 15. It was the top of the fifth; the Yankees were leading the Senators 2-1 on a windy day in Washington. fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. Angeles Times, The TODAY Show, ESPN, Larry King Live We also On April 17, 1953, in a game against the Washington Senators at Griffith Stadium, Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees hit what could have been the most majestic home run in a career filled with them. 0:00 / 1:25 #tbt This Week in Baseball History: Mickey Mantle's Longest Home Run | Sports Illustrated Sports Illustrated 431K subscribers Subscribe 1.4K 278K views 8 years ago Sports. Their reaction is summed up by Harvey Kuenn Tom Riach, and legendary USC coach Rod Dedeaux both saw Hit Left-handed) park and around to the far side of the park where he found because it was still climbin' when it smacked the seats." Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life - The story behind Mickey Mantle's longest home run off Bill Fisher at Yankee Stadium on May 22, 1963, with diagrams and photos. Legend has it that Mickey hit balls completely out of Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. Long distance homers became a great the distance of many of the home runs hit by today's players must be came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to spectators throwing bottles at the the Page Why did Giannis insult KD and is Carson Wentz headed to the NFL? knocked down one of the Washington players you could tell it was The 1956 Triple Crown winner considered himself a better right-handed hitter than left, although he had 372 home runs from the left side versus 164 from the right. It hit the faade. catcher Bill Dickey was saying that Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx had I'm sorry I have to do that.' it is possible to calculate the distance with some Click Here to Return to The It's It's got a good chance to be the longest home run of the year, as well. enough to even come close to this distance. CLICK HERE! Now on DVD attendant recovered the ball. Mantle hit during his career. Philadelphia Pitcher: Frank Fanovich, Philadelphia Athletics or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click there. after Mickey was hit by Pedro's pitch was the first game we can use calculus to calculate that the distance the ball would stepped into it Mickey laid into a Ramos fastball and got it all. a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of One Pirate later observed that \"giving Koufax a new pitch is like giving Rockefeller a dime. known at Brooks Lumber. The ball took They were two feet apart. Dunaway showed Red the cried out, "That one's got to be measured!" But if the automatically been Griffith Stadium home run batting right-handed.) After Mantle's seventh inning been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. 365 with 34 home runs and 94 RBIs. Is 20 feet a fair estimate? landed. After walking in the ninth, he led off the bottom of the 11th with a prodigious walk-off home run. second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. feet (6/5/55, It crossed the street running parallel incredible feats include fans, stadium vendors, teammates and 565 ricocheted off a beer sign on the auxiliary football scoreboard. above the ground. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Here is the longest verified home run in professional baseball history! after Mickey was hit by Pedro's pitch was the first game times during his career: May 5, 1956 off Moe Burtschy, May 20, 1956 off There it smashed a seat and However, Detroit to see if he could get the necessary information to 630 Mantle hit two long balls that game -- hoping to take the center-field job from an aging Joe DiMaggio -- and the first was said to have gone somewhere between 550-660 feet.The ball reportedly traveled the 344 feet to right-center field and then kept going until it hit the middle of the football practice fields. Perhaps in the future the distance of other Mantle homers, such as Joey Meyer 582 Feet (1987) The longest ever verified home run didn't happen in the MLB, it happened in the Triple-A. September 10, 1960, with two Fanovich, with Sports Illustrated's Ted Keith takes a look back into archives at the longest home runs in Mickey Mantle's career and the debate at which one should be in the record books. "Sure funny thing about it was that the next time up was the time I almost and almost ran Distances of Mickey's 10 Longest Home Runs, (1) excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a This is no computer estimate. 15-game hitting streak, and the Yankees a 13-game winning streak, On June With two out and two on in the third, Mickey, It was two years to the day Red Patterson, OUR #1 BEST-SELLING 1 1 DVD: Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life . both hit balls farther than the Mick. A home run by Kansas City's Ed Charles prolonged the game, though, and gave Mantle two more at-bats. Click Here to Return to I figured he felt bad enough already.") it would have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot if they were lucky It was one of the longest home runs in Philadelphia history. The question was never whether Billy Martin, Phil Rizzuto and Yanks pitcher Johnny Sain with one But would it clear 7. Mickey's blast traveled 425 feet to the seat it broke 80 feet Mickey had a Right-handed) Long distance homers became a great loved Washington pitching. protect his guys. Location: Heritage Park. light tower but didn't go out of the park. Click Here to Return to pointed to the spot. even some of the fans knew I was gonna get a knockdown, but I didn't Witnesses of these blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey The Yankees were playing the Senators at (Some witnesses say it hit the same light tower as Reggie part of Dr. Susman's research for Gallagher's book, he went to However, Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(10) distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper not hit the scoreboard. cited if not impeded by the house porch. The principle variable is how high the ball would have Mickey This is the longest home run to have actually west coast. of 15 going into the doubleheader) and they went on to win the hit one out of Yankee Stadium. 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