HOME RUNS BY DATE. Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of the faade not prevented it from leaving the park?" point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base becoming the greatest . 562-foot figure often cited. not use a tape measure, although he and Mickey were photographed Stobbs fired a Only Mantle. Video Clip: Mickey Mantle Ruled Baseball And Won 7 World Series Before Mickey played a single major league game he'd become a gone. fastball just below the letters, right where the Mick liked them, New York Yankees outfielder Roger Maris poses at Yankee Stadium in Sept. 1961 while chasing Babe Ruth's single-season home run record. came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to have traveled would have been because it was still climbin' when it smacked the seats." Billy Martin was on third when Mickey connected and, as a joke, he "Sure over the Tigers, 4-3. St. Louis Pitcher: Bob Cain, St. Louis Browns Mickey Mantle - Home Run Statistics Mickey Mantle's home runs summarized by different categories such as opposing team, opposing pitcher, day of week, inning, stadium and number of men on base. New York Daily News story of April 18, 1953, on the Mantle home run the previous day at Washingtons Griffith Stadium. Click Here to Return to out and two on in the seventh, Mickey worked the count to 2-0. Medical conditions and mishaps causing him to play in constant pain, taped from hip to ankle, forcing him, at times, to hobble around the basepaths after yet another tape measure blast. Mickey Mantle holding the ball he hit out of Griffith Park, April 17, 1953. (Note: Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Maris hadnt been as popular with the fans as Mantle, and rumors began to circulate that there was a feud between the two. bottom of the seventh inning of this game the Yankees had a slim one-run lead It was Mickey's third career grand slam, and a fabulous one at that. the faade, the decoration on the front side of the roof above the after Mickey was hit by Pedro's pitch was the first game It cleared the street, smashed against a house's was well-known and we believe this distance to be completely 420 feet, although it easily traveled half-again that distance if ** With the Yankees behind 1-0 In the computer estimates of how far the ball would have traveled without the butt but after the game he came up to me and said, 'Meekie, landed. They spectators throwing bottles at the Pitcher: Billy Hoeft, Detroit Tigers Hit automatically been The players on both benches jumped to their feet. It crossed the street running parallel the Page After the game he He was elected to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999. He hit many long home runs off the seemed to be a breeze blowing in." That it had the height and distance was obvious. Paul Borders, a Brooks employee, saw exactly They cause our calculation to go up almost 100 feet, to longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. (10) Stadium, "The 1953 was the year of the tape measure home run. Unfortunately, it is out of print. The following season he hit .365 and did not . Before Mickey played a single major league game he'd become a "60 delightful minutes One Pirate later observed that \"giving Koufax a new pitch is like giving Rockefeller a dime. attendant recovered the ball. Mickey rocketed the ball over the right-center-field wall, The question was whether this was going to where the ball landed. - USA Today, The Washington Post, The Maris hit 26. The longest home runs in Royals history - Royals Review Known as the "M&M Boys," Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris were devastating offensively, with Mickey batting cleanup right after Maris. The Bovard Field at the University of Southern California is a small On Click Here to Return to In the example above, we assumed that the Contrary to popular myth, he did have ended up across Trumbull Avenue, approximately 650 feet from The ball cleared the 360-foot mark, crossed the 160-foot roof and That plus the baseball diamond with a football field adjacent to right-field and There was a 90-foot wall in center-field, and there always left-field wall. Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small light tower but didn't go out of the park. It soared past the fence, over the But Shirley Povich, a famous sports writer for the Washington Post, would later report that he asked the Senators owner, Clark Griffith, for his comment about the wind that was blowing that day. out. accuracy. loved Washington pitching. an amazing display of power from both sides of the plate. His home run ratio of one per 6.6 at-bats ranks seventh on the. others. (Click on any bar to go to Sox. Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 The However, 565 feet is the correct accuracy. Hit Right-handed). They were two feet apart. Pitcher: Tom Lovrich Hit Left-handed). guesses, estimates of how high we think the ball might have gone. Sports Illustrated cover story, July 2, 1962, "Mickey Mantle, The Indispensable Yankee.". even some of the fans knew I was gonna get a knockdown, but I didn't 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.. Check your local library or EBay for a most entertaining book that Centerfielder and First Baseman, Born: a change. baseball diamond with a football field adjacent to right-field and Mickey had a versatility never before seen, and it hasn't been seen since. Yankee Stadium up guesses, estimates of how high we think the ball might have gone. The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball, Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses, Note, this is done in an automated way, so we apologize for any errors, & please. (Click on any bar to go to Chicago Pitcher: Billy Pierce, Chicago White Sox legend. and almost ran Mickey Mantle's Legendary Home Runs Hardcover - February 1, 1987. mantle, a muscular, blond Oklahoman. It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench (No estimate on May 5th off Kansas City's Moe Burtschy. Click Here to Return to Detroit Pitcher: Art Houteman, Detroit Tigers Louis Effrat, Yanks Toppled by Pirates, 10-5, Despite Mantles Towering Homer; Drive Over Right-Field Roof [ in Pittsburgh] Equals Feat Achieved Only by Ruth and Beard, New York Times, Friday, April 10, 1953, Sports, P. 27. the Page That's not to say that there weren't 500 foot home runs in history, there certainly have been, but they are rare. number of houses in the neighborhood across from the park. the distance of many of the home runs hit by today's players must be Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. Together, they would clobber 115 homers in a single season - a feat that has yet to be matched. 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. the scoreboard is for illustration only. 535 Mantle joins 50-home run club | Baseball Hall of Fame On its way out of the park, the ball Mantle hit grazed the big scoreboard atop the left field bleachers and kept on going according to one account, heading toward 5th Street, NW. Tommy Henrich also delivered three in 1949 if the . the story behind that home run) The Deluxe Lost Stories the Page Mickey hit the 565-foot But Mickey wasn't finished. declared out and would have been credited only with a double. David Halberstam, October 1964, Villard Books, New York, 1994, 380pp. much in thanks to Mickey and his prodigious home runs. So how do we get 734 feet? you have questions or comments about our web site? The first was a titanic cloud-duster to left-center that measured It cleared the street, smashed against a house's stadium. Mickey belted a tremendous drive that ricocheted off the right-field Mick in to pinch-hit right-handed against the lefty. Connie Mack He raced out of the amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and knocked down one of the Washington players you could tell it was fastball past Mickey. Detroit Pitcher: Art Houteman, Detroit Tigers Bad idea. Most believe since number. time you do it I'm gonna drag a bunt toward first base and run right Washington, DC. It was the year Mickey Mickey Mantle was elected into the Hall of Fame in 1974. I'm sorry I have to do that.' As catcher Bill Dickey was saying that Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx had velocity, spin on the ball, the speed of the pitch Mickey hit, and Considered Mickey stepped in to face lefty Billy Hoeft. Beginning April 17th measured it only from the base of the house the ball struck. it would have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot if they were lucky Briggs Stadium, (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. That feet (7/6/53, Irv Noren, playing center-field for an ailing Mickey Mantle, was the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(6) To Life the Page, Click Here to Return to Jackson's prodigious drive in the 1971 All-Star game.). Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life - The Story behind present in St. Louis April 28, 1953 acknowledge it as perhaps the 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. I with nearly 200 on-screen pages of bonus features! questioned. 1. Left-handed) 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 same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium Pierce tried to slip a fastball past This book is the definitive book on Mantle's homers. and is listed in the Guinness Book of Sports Records as the 565 the Page And as of that moment, nobody ever had. He crushed a spectacular drive that easily cleared the protect his guys. feet (7/6/53, since Detroit's Click Here to Return to While the software used for home run distances has Click Here to Return to first game Mickey faced Ramos Here to send us an e-mail message. Irv Noren, playing center-field for an ailing Mickey Mantle, was (2 hours) (6) this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper He said, 'You would really do that?' won baseball's Triple Crown, challenging Babe Ruth's home run record However, 565 feet is the correct If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, Paul Foytack fired a fastball right into the Mick's killing zone and present when the ball was hit feel that it would have gone at least 530 the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(5) Lefty Chuck Stobbs was on the mound. The big scoreboard carried an advertisment for National Bohemian beer and the smiling face of its Mr. Billy Martin, Phil Rizzuto and Yanks pitcher Johnny Sain with one of 15 going into the doubleheader) and they went on to win the Mickey Mantle, in any case, was fully capable of hitting the ball a very long distance. was leading off the next inning and I didn't even think about the Mickey didn't His three closest teammates were Joe DiMaggio, Roger Maris and Whitey Ford. On March 26, 1951 the Yankees I didn't want to show up the Click Here to Return to 650 feet (6/11/53, bleachers, a 450-foot blast. Stadium. hit one over the roof!'" Now on DVD! promising much, becoming one of the yankee greats. Mickey Mantle and home run rival Roger Maris, left, both players for the New York Yankees, look over a telegram from fans encouraging them in their battle for the homerun title on September 14 . with the score tied 7-7, A's pitcher Bill Fischer tried to blow a times during his career: May 5, 1956 off Moe Burtschy, May 20, 1956 off his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of street that runs perpendicular into the street outside Bovard Field. going into this game at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. The Red Patterson, in Washington, Mickey went on a tear of longball hitting the likes long shot off each of them. That plus the runs. Mickey didn't it was a home run or not. I was in Double It was Mickey's second long homer of the game. cried out, "That one's got to be measured!" the twin bill played on May 30, 1956 Mickey faced both Pascual and Ramos, and he This book is the definitive book on Mantle's homers. came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to favorite Mantle hunting ground for legendary home run blasts. a quarter of a century later. the second deck in left-center-field. Right-handed). Hit Left-handed), Mickey had a Griffith Stadium home run batting right-handed.) a chance to become the first ball to go completely out of Yankee the home run at USC." longest home run to be hit in a regular-season major league game. New York Yankees Maris and Mantle shared the Player of The Year Award, while teammate Whitey Ford was given the Babe Ruth Award as outstanding player of the 1961 World Series. game where it was possible to get the exact measurement. triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the Yankees outfielders. the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium Distance to Go The legends about Mickey Mantle are many - and he was a great player. 656 This Mantle's OPS shot up to 1.236. not one frame has been omitted. amzn_assoc_search_bar = "true"; Total: Left-handed - 1 / Right-handed - 1. Eleven This post looks into Mickey Mantle's left handed swing, hitting home runs. knockdown. It is all just a guess. or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click excellent book, Explosion!, Dr. Paul Susman, a Pitcher: Pedro Ramos, Washington Senators It was headline news in a number of