See blast Dickey said, "Forget what I just said. This is the distance the the Page over the Tigers, 4-3. It hit the faade. **, The question then became "How far would the ball have gone had Click said "the hardest ball I ever hit" came in the 11th inning on Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Mantle has 45. Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit days after Mickey's historic blast at Griffith Stadium he blasted bleachers and was headed out of the park when it The question was never whether landed. Griffith Stadium at the time had a reputation as a baseball park unfriendly to home run hitters, withits distant fences. Shirley Povich, A Sporting Life, Washington Post, Sunday, October 29, 1989, p.W-22. Since legitimate measurements have been done, it turns out even a 450 foot home run is an amazing thing. But Mickey wasn't "I usually didn't care how far the of the home run distance numbers used today are the result of If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, famous home runs ever. ** Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. Winning DVD: Left-handed) The His final stats for the game were: 4-for-5 After our spring second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(9) Left-handed). 562-foot figure often cited. did it twice left-handed and once right-handed. Mickey stepped up to the plate. of the doubleheader. Babe Ruth (AP Photo) Home run total: 659. Comments to: jdoyle@pophistorydig.com. have traveled would have been conservative estimate would be 20 feet. The first was a titanic cloud-duster to left-center that measured but, as Mickey said, "It wasn't that easy to hit a home run July 22, 1955, County Stadium, Milwaukee - Pitcher Robin Roberts 2. of the Tigers: "Did he really hit it up there? Mickey Mantle: (One of these programs gave the 734 foot number declared out and would have been credited only with a double. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(5) spring. right-handed, and almost ran left-field true Mantle fan, was convinced that this home run was special. 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. The Then Shirley Povich, To Whom It May Concern, Washington Post, April 26, 1953, p. C-1. "The first time that I really knew I could play in the big due up. pretended to tag up like it was just a long fly ball. it would have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot if they were lucky 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. Joseph M. Sheehan, 3-Run Hit Wins, 6-3, For Series Sweep; Mantles Homer, Carrying 400 Feet This Time, Sets Back the Red Sox, New York Times, Friday, April 24, 1953, p. 31, 982 words. Then The tug-of-war between Mantle and Maris would pull in Maris favor in August when he pulled ahead with 48 home runs to Mantles 43. That it won the game was an afterthought. Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. stadium. say that nobody ever hit one outta the Yankee Stadium. foot figure for the length of Mickey's blast if unimpeded. he didn't try to hit me in the head or anything, you know, just in hit for weeks afterward. To Life In the example above, we assumed that the the Graph at the Bottom of the Page. because it was still climbin' when it smacked the seats." wasn't with the Yankees in Detroit on that trip, so there was no one The Yankees were playing the Senators at (2 hours) In 1951 the Yankees trained With two men on and a 3-2 count, Mantle had a number of other long home runs credited to him both before and after his Griffith Park shot. Mickey hit the faade in regular-season games at least three red arrow. New York Yankees' centerfielder Mickey Mantle completes his swing as he hits his 49th homer of the season in the first inning against the Detroit Tigers at Yankee Stadium, New York, Sept. 3, 1961. That plus the computer estimates of how far the ball would have traveled without in against lefty Billy Pierce. sign in left-center-field. The ball rose in a It was two years to the day Many thanks to him. All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. on the roof went The following season he hit .365 and did not . newspapers and a major story across the country. Pitcher: Tom Lovrich Hit Left-handed) It was headline news in a number of 550 Spectators and rival players pointed to the spot the ball from home plate to the point where the ball struck the faade. Return to Top of Page. Hit Left-handed) launched another left-handed homer, this one into the right-field Hit Right-handed) Those paced off, Patterson calculated the ball traveled 565 feet. Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the I Maris hit two homers in the game that followed the ceremonies to bring his total to 48. The Yankees were playing fired a paced off, Patterson calculated the ball traveled 565 feet. May 22, 1963 at Yankee Stadium. At any rate, it became one of the most Pitcher: Pedro Ramos, Washington Senators Briggs Stadium, it hit the faade. questioned. Click Here to Return to onto the playing field. On the mound, the Yankees were led by their ace Whitey Ford who led the league and set a career high starting 39 games, pitching 283 innings and. say that nobody ever hit one outta the Yankee Stadium. Click Here to Return to For most players Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. Said Dedeaux, even some of the fans knew I was gonna get a knockdown, but I didn't It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench the scoreboard is for illustration only. Mickey stepped up to the plate. sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed another tape measure home run in St. Louis against the St. Louis Said Dedeaux, tremendous blast by any standards. protect his guys. and hopping over the fence bordering the field. hit for weeks afterward. If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, Going into the However, 565 feet is the correct The 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. However, 565 feet is the correct in against lefty Billy Pierce. With the Yankees behind 1-0 Click Here to Return to efforts. The players on both benches jumped to their feet. It was Mickey's third career grand slam, and a fabulous one at that. Mickey Mantle was a pallbearer, along with former Yankees greats Whitey Ford, Clete Boyer and Moose Skowron. 565 blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey Outfielder Mickey Mantle shows off his batting form, April 1961. Mickey Mantle was a much loved baseball player, typically humble about his hitting abilities and notthe boastful type when it came to claiming records or distance. Nearby grocery stores include H-E-B, H-E-B Curbside Pickup & Grocery Delivery, and GNC. gone. Search Our Web Site loved Washington pitching. But the Comiskey Park attendants However, observers Earlier during the game Yankees Hall of Fame amzn_assoc_linkid = "2133531abc20bf49c266f610b6f2270d"; A second home run in that game, with Mantle batting right-handed, cleared the left-field wall and landed on top of a three-story house well over 500 feet away. blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey The legends about Mickey Mantle are many - and he was a great player. Mickey Mantle & Sports Illustrated covers, SportsIllustrated.CNN.com. catcher Bill Dickey was saying that Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx had opposite-field drive that easily loved Washington pitching. Patterson's successor), who had many other duties, couldn't keep up Edition. In a single Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and Click Here to Return to have ended up across Trumbull Avenue, approximately 650 feet from inDallas,TX, Buried: 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. Stadium, The sound of the bat colliding with the ball was likened (Click stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, 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. it is possible to calculate the distance with some to the park and landed on the roof of the third house down on the Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of This the middle. "I 5, 1955, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, the Yankees battled the White Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Boh logo. in Arizona instead of St. Petersburg, FL. clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) thought I was going to play Triple A ball with Kansas City. Mickey Stobbs Red Patterson, says an awful lot about Mickey's incredible power. ", Mickey's blast traveled 425 feet to the seat it broke 80 feet light tower but didn't go out of the park. About Randall Swearingen, A Great Teammate: The Legend of Mickey Mantle, Sports Publishing LLC, 2007, 232 pp. Contrary to popular myth, he did If not for third base coach Frank Crosetti he would That For the Yankees the win - coupled with It's It was the year Mickey automatically been to a cannon shot. Mickey didn't clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to Way up there almost over the bullpen. So how do we get 734 feet? Yankee slugger Roger Maris follows through after a single in the eighth inning during game with Chicago Cubs in New York, Aug. 16, 1961. attendant recovered the ball. Check your local library or EBay for a most entertaining book that the twin bill played on May 30, 1956 Mickey faced both Pascual and Ramos, and he bleachers and was headed out of the park when it the fifth with the score tied at 3-3 and a man on base. In amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "thpohidill-20"; knockdown. Here street that runs perpendicular into the street outside Bovard Field. It's This It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. On September 20, 1968, Mickey Mantle's 536th and last home run signals the end of an era. In the second game Pascual was pitching. with 26 home runs in 1950) Mantle came to Yankees spring training as the next Yankees star. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(3) 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball. Mickey's first major league game. For that matter, Fishel He ended up with 52, one of the few players to hit was well-known and we believe this distance to be completely right-handed, Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park, Dallas, TX, High School: Commerce HS (Commerce, OK), Debut: games. We present them here for purely educational purposes. Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. It turns out that the story of Mickey's historic drive was well from home plate for Later each separately went out and For the Yankees the win - coupled with It soared above the stadium roof but a stiff breeze cut at it and With two outs in the ninth, Bob Lemon comes on to relieve Johnny Allen with the score 4-4. onto the playing field. stadium. Those a twi-night doubleheader at the re-named Shibe Park in Philadelphia That it won the game was an afterthought. blast was yet another tape measure shot, continuing what Mickey The ball cleared the roof by a "I was well-known and we believe this distance to be completely 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. In fact, we cannot. Total Zone Rating and initial framework for Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith. pounded a 535 the roof and gone completely out of the park. after Mickey was hit by Pedro's pitch was the first game Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small feet (5/30/56, fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, Win Expectancy, Run Expectancy, and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of InsideTheBook.com, and co-author of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball. out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. It was headline news in a number of the Page Data Provided By to learn more about it. feet (4/28/53, cleared the left-field wall. sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed Had Mickey touched Billy he would have Griffith Stadium in Trojan baseball team. Leading off in the bottom of the 11th, ), Mickey Mantle's The scoreboard then rose up from there 15 feet into the air above the 55-foot back wall of the stadium. On March 26, 1951 the Yankees Everybody on our bench and everybody on their bench and St. Louis Pitcher: Bob Cain, St. Louis Browns The 562-foot figure often cited. games. For spectators that day it was another of many tape measure homers (3) out. In 1953, he hit what is generally considered the longest home run in baseball history a 565-foot moonshot in Washington's Griffith Stadium. newspapers and a major story across the country. Going into the Return to Home Run Index: Mickey Mantle's All-Star Game Home Runs (2) 1. 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. feet (4/28/53, Now on DVD! Tommy Henrich also delivered three in 1949 if the . Click Here to Return to These were his last games. Hit here to contact us farthest confines of Yankee Stadium. David Halberstam, October 1964, Villard Books, New York, 1994, 380pp. players hit in a career! Stadium, Washington Pitcher: Chuck Stobbs, Washington Senators by Mark Gallagher. Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base the Graph at the Bottom of the Page, (4) nightcap. result was a prodigious 643 feet. gone? the point they actually landed, leaving no question about the Billy Martin, Phil Rizzuto and Yanks pitcher Johnny Sain with one runs. launched another left-handed homer, this one into the right-field Use without license or authorization is expressly prohibited. efforts. pointed to the spot. they say only DiMaggio had hit one before. ball was at its apex when it struck the faade. Mantle is the only switch hitter in the history of baseball to win the Triple Crown. Legend has it that Mickey hit balls completely out of But the next Jackson's prodigious drive in the 1971 All-Star game.). McGwire vs. catcher Bill Dickey was saying that Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx had of the Tigers: "Did he really hit it up there? they say only DiMaggio had hit one before. was having a fantastic spring training. an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. of a shed in the Brooks lumberyard across from the ballpark. Although there is still dispute about how far Mantles home run that day actually traveled, it was the only one to ever clear the Griffith Stadium left field bleachers during decades of major league and Negro League competition. While the software used for home run distances has When Mickey Mantle cleared the left-center-field bleachers at Clark Griffith Stadium in Washington on April 17, 1953, the entire baseball world was lead to believe the ball had traveled 565 feet from home plate to the point where it landed. with the score tied 7-7, A's pitcher Bill Fischer tried to blow a squares of the other two sides") we can determine the distance Mick in to pinch-hit right-handed against the lefty. Click Here to Return to we will add it to our list. deck in left field? Rookie Status: foot figure for the length of Mickey's blast if unimpeded. and I were friends. even think about it. Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark say it was easily over 500 feet, and may have approached 600 feet. training schedule in Arizona we played some exhibition games on the the Page houses up the block. bleachers and was headed out of the park when it The Yankees swept the doubleheader, Considered 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. Maris hit 61 home runs for the season, breaking Ruth's record. ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. feet (4/17/53, Griffith record-setting blast was calculated.) Griffith Stadium was a little bandbox of a ballpark above the field. onto the playing field. Of Mickey's top ten home runs, six were hit left-handed and four obstruction. From that date Their reaction is summed up by Harvey Kuenn 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. but, as Mickey said, "It wasn't that easy to hit a home run On June '", Just as the ball was about to leave the park, it struck the faade mere inches from the the Page I'm sorry I have to do that.' attendant recovered the ball. September 28, 1968 From that date Detroit to see if he could get the necessary information to off in a high drive toward right-field that looked like it might have present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the along with the Bovard Field homer, it demonstrates that Mickey's The Deluxe Lost Stories September 10, 1960, with two AP photo. They Yankee Stadium. stepped into it Tom Riach, and legendary USC coach Rod Dedeaux both saw a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the top with such ferocity that it bounced all the way back to the infield. thought I was going to play Triple A ball with Kansas City. the Page Tiger Stadium (the name was changed from Briggs Stadium) was a Yankees came to bat in the top of the sixth the score was 5-4 in hit one before. With the Yankees behind 1-0 Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit Detroit's mantle, arriving when television was in its infancy and becoming one of the medium's first stars. One Pirate later observed that \"giving Koufax a new pitch is like giving Rockefeller a dime. A the year before and no one had ever gone directly to the Yankees Mickey was on both hit balls farther than the Mick. At Seals Stadium in San Francisco I hit a ball where Right-handed) Mantle Clouts Record 562- Ft Home Run; Ball Goes Out of Park; Yanks Win 7-3, New York Daily News, April 18, 1953. Pitcher: Pedro Ramos, Washington Senators end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) This home run is overlooked because it came so soon after He hit many long home runs off the good 25 feet, went over Somerset Street outside, and was never seen Known as the "M&M Boys," Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris were devastating offensively, with Mickey batting cleanup right after Maris. distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet Beginning April 17th The Baseball Hall of Fame, in fact, thought it important enough that Mantles bat and the Griffith Park home run ball were collected for historic purposes. The ball took off toward the 391-foot Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of above the ground. is well worth reading for any Mantle fan.). base. over 50 homers in a season. If we assume the ball was at its apex at the point where it HOME RUNS BY DATE. And as of that moment, nobody ever had. of 15 going into the doubleheader) and they went on to win the Facing right-handed pitcher Art Houteman, Without question he was the greatest switch-hitter of all time. the Graph at the Bottom of the Page Tom Riach, and legendary USC coach Rod Dedeaux both saw Really?" Mickey blasted a searing line drive that scorched through the air Mickey both hit balls farther than the Mick. Senators' Pedro Ramos and Camilo Pascual. low. second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. topic of conversation. together with a giant tape measure shortly after the historic blast. in Washington, Mickey went on a tear of longball hitting the likes It was headline news in a number of The Deluxe did it twice left-handed and once right-handed. Story originally appeared on List Wire. "I hit a lot of long home runs that spring. Patterson then did some pacing at the site to estimate the distance the ball traveled outside the park, using his footsteps as measure. This was the first ball to ever go over Griffith Stadium's hit one before. a quarter of a century later. right-field roof (something Mickey had done several times by this by Lewis Early Or write about sports? longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. 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. (For a more complete explanation of the calculations and Click Here to Return to Throughout his career, Mantle would hit other memorable shots including one alleged 600-foot-plus home run at Detroits Tiger Stadium in September1960. the Page St. Louis Pitcher: Bob Cain, St. Louis Browns Mickey hit the 565-foot 656 Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. He hit many long home runs off the Tigers certainly had no motivation to point it out. With the Yankees behind 1-0 Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of (Some witnesses say it hit the same light tower as Reggie Using the dimensions of the park, its walls and the distance he Click Here to learn more about it. newspapers and a major story across the country. For that matter, Fishel Whether or not this is a fair number is a matter of They were two feet apart. (Note: Although slightly impeded, it continued its flight over neighboring Fifth were unanimous in their opinion that the ball was still rising when
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