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Mantle whiffed his first two times up, failing to bunt twice, but batted later in the game with a runner on, no shift, and socked a home run. Mickey mantle s career home runs the complete yearbyyear guide, plus world series, allstar and special home runs including date, lefty or righty, location, team and pitcher. Home of mickey mantle commerce, oklahoma atlas obscura. Nov 11, 2006 no one has ever hit a 600 foot home run check out the article below from the baseball almanac. Mantle hits 565foot home run mickey mantles home run on april 17. Mickey mantle hits his 500th home run in 1967 youtube. The 1960 world series was played between the pittsburgh pirates of the national league nl and the new york yankees of the american league al from october 5, 1960. Mantle is holding the home run ball he hit out of washington, d. Mickey mantle hits a ball off yankee stadiums facade. Mickey mantle hit some of the longest home runs in major league history.

Nobody has ever hit a fair ball out of yankee stadium. Mantles home run is believed to be the longest home run in baseball history by many historians. Include both hourlong awardwinning programs plus a fans guide to mickey mantle, nearly 200 onscreen pages of mickey mantle information including a minibiography, 30 frequently asked questions, mickey quotes. Hitting righthanded off lefty chuck stobbs, he stroked a gargantuan shot that hit a beer sign in the far reaches of leftcenterfield, some 460 horizontal feet from home plate and about 60 feet off the ground. Revisiting mantles griffith stadium home run, april 17. Why mickey mantle was the best switch hitter of alltime. Exceeded rookie limits during 1951 season full name.

Mantle hits the facade at yankee stadium ticket and. Estimates are that the ball might have traveled over 600 ft if it hadnt hit the facade. The game remained tied going into the bottom of the 11th inning with mickey mantle coming up as the lead off hitter. Micks home run hit the facade on the rightfield roof about 370 feet from home. Two years later to the day, mantle hit a home run at washington, d. Patterson then paced off 105 ft from that location to the edge of the stadium, added to it the 460 ft to home plate, and concluded that the ball traveled 565 ft.

Some estimates have this home run by reggie jackson off of dock ellis traveling 7 feet less and landing at 532 feet. Happy 50th birthday, hardest ball mickey mantle ever hit. The hardest thing to do in sports, i think, is to hit a home. May 22, 20 happy 50th birthday, hardest ball mickey mantle ever hit on may 22, 1963, mickey mantle of the yankees hit perhaps his most impressive home run. Take a look at the stars who stopped to strike a pose during the 2020. Mantle played in the 1950s and 60s when players were fast and loose both on and off the field. There was no language for what mickey mantle accomplished on october 10, 1964. As a child growing up in new york in the 1960s, mickey mantle was my favorite player, and not just because we shared the same initials.

Mickey mantle suffered from bedwetting bedwetting treatment. In august 2002, streamed the firstever live full length mlb game over the internet when the texas rangers and new york yankees faced off at yankee stadium. Mickey mantle society for american baseball research. Theres the 565footer at griffith stadium or the prodigious blasts off the tops of the old yankee stadium facade.

Guys like babe ruth, mickey mantle, dick allen are all thrown around for holding records, as well as reggie jackson, mark mcgwire, ken griffey jr. There was no such geography to this one, if only because one of yankee. Mantle played his entire major league baseball mlb career 19511968 with the new york yankees as a center fielder, right fielder, and first baseman. It was one of five home runs mickey mantle hit that struck the facade at yankee stadium in new york. The yankee slugger led off the sixth inning with a home run to center off houston pitcher turk farrell. It was clear that mickey and the entire yankee team were embarrassed that they let a seven run lead get away and now mickey was hoping to end it with one swing of the bat.

Some of the greatest baseball players of alltime have played for the yankees, even if it was just for a short stint in their career. The closest anyone has come was mickey mantle who hit a home run off the facade at the top of the third deck in right field. In may we celebrate one of the things that put mickey mantle on his way to becoming a household name his first home run on may 1, 1951. The last boy reveals micks many sides sportslifers. When a yankees scout came to see one of mantle s teammates mickey hit three home runs in the game and. First, during a game mantle would hit a home run all the back off the third tier facade at yankee. A look at some of the longest home runs ever hit in nyc. Wednesday marks the 60th anniversary of one of the most famous home runs in majorleague history one hit by mickey mantle off chuck stobbs at. Mickey charles mantle october 20, 1931 august, 1995.

Jan 03, 2017 in august 2002, streamed the firstever live full length mlb game over the internet when the texas rangers and new york yankees faced off at yankee stadium. Mickey mantle home run hits the top of the yankee stadium facade. No one has ever hit a 600 foot home run check out the article below from the baseball almanac. Many detailed statistics are based on playbyplay accounts accumulated by retrosheet. Pedro ramos to mickey mantle after ramos knocked him down and mickey hit a ball off the facade his next atbat. Yankee stadium, 53056 mickey diagram of home run hit by mickey mantle off pedro ramos on may 30, 1956. A brief history of the major league baseball player mickey mantle. Cancer claims mickey mantle hero to millions was haunted by own failings.

Hall of famer mickey mantle hit the first home run in the dome. Later in his life, mantle expressed relief that his father had not known. Estimates are that the ball would have traveled over 600 ft if it hadnt hit the facade. Mantle hits the facade at yankee stadium ticket and scorecard net54baseball. A button that says download on the app store, and if clicked it. September 18, 1956 mickey mantle is 8th to hit 50 home runs in a seaon june 20, 1956 at detroits briggs stadium, mickey mantle hits 2 billy hoeft pitches into right center field bleachers no else hits 1 there may 31, 1956 mickey mantle home run just misses clearing yankee stadiums roof may 18, 1956 mickey mantle hits home run from. His second homer, also hit lefthanded, was a high, oppositefield drive that easily cleared the leftfield wall. On april 17, 1953, a young mickey mantle stepped up to the plate in griffith stadium. Jun 1969 the new york yankees retired mickey mantles uniform no. Mantle hits the longest home run in baseball history youtube. Mickey mantle hit more home runs at yankee stadium than any other player. It was the 5 th inning with two outs and yogi berra on first. Mickey charles mantle october 20, 1931 august, 1995, nicknamed the commerce. One of the greatest baseball players of all time, he is undoubtedly the best powerhitting switchhitter batting both lefty and righty ever.

Apr 03, 2012 tape measure home runs and baseballs biggest hits a home run by washington nationals outfielder jayson werth during spring training had baseball lovers breaking out the tape measure to figure out. Mickey mantles famous 600foot homer at usc may have been. Gallagher, author of three previous books on the bronx bombers, is obviously an idolator of mantle and here traces the ballplayers career by focusing on his home runs. Yankees slugger mickey mantle homers in first game in astrodome. Mickey mantle s tapemeasure home run from april 17, 1953 mlb network remembers. Mickey mantle played in yankee stadium for his entire career. But of his 266 homers there, none was quite as amazing as the one. The only player i know that has hit a 600 foot home run was reggie jackson in. Mickey mantle has had more 500 foot home runs then anyone today, and has hit also a 660 foot home run. It seems like everyone you ask has a different story about the longest home run they ever saw.

The most significant and powerful player in baseball history. The mantle griffith stadium home run physics of baseball. Roger maris and mickey mantle race to break babe ruths singleseason home run record. With 37 homers, he was now a home run hitter, not just an allaround player with. On january 7, 1968, mickey mantle and willie mays put in an appearance at a sporting goods fair at the new yorker hotel. Ron howard gives us an update on willow while visiting the imdb studio at acura festival village at sundance. Mantle hits the longest home run in baseball history. In game 7, bill mazeroski hit a walk off ninthinning home run, the first time a winnertakeall world series game ended with a walk off home run. Revisiting mantles griffith stadium home run, april 17, 1953 a case study in forensic physics. Nov 15, 2011 mantle hits the longest home run in baseball history. Spectators said the ball glanced off a beer sign 60 feet above playing field height. Multiple home run games will sell at a higher price, as will early career, and milestone homers, such as 100, 200, 300, etc.

Considered along with the bovard field homer, it demonstrates that mickeys unheard of home run distances are no flukes. Who hit the longest home run at tiger stadium answers. It was the closest any hitter came to hitting a fair ball out of the park. And when mantle hit a walk off home run against the kansas city in 1963 that struck the facade and came as close to leaving yankee stadium as any ball ever hit, joe pepitone recalls it hit so hard to you could hear boom. He nearly hit a few balls out of yankee stadium, lacing them off the third deck facade. On september 10, 1960, he hit a ball that cleared the rightfield roof at tiger stadium in detroit that was estimated years. Mickey charles mantle october 20, 1931 august, 1995, nicknamed the commerce comet and the mick, was an american professional baseball player. For no one had ever hit a fair ball over the majestic height of the. Mickey mantle hits a home run off of bill fischer that hits the top of the facade on the. Don drysdale to mickey before a world series game, asking him where he wanted to be hit by drysdales pitch when he threw the ball at him.

Home run derby mlb pipeline youth academies breakthrough series elite development invitational usa baseball usa softball dream series trailblazer series. Now, mickey mantle hit a lot of homeruns, but that tape measure came out once. In that time he hit 536 home runs nowhere near the record, some of them prodigious smashes that probably traveled over 600 feet and many that went at least 500 feet. But one of the longestrumored dingers he ever dingerd was as a 19yearold during an exhibition match against usc. View mickey mantle s page at the baseball hall of fame plaque, photos, videos. Mickey mantle shown on the back front page of the new york daily news newspaper, april 18, 1953. The team finished with a record of 10953, eight games ahead of the detroit tigers, and won their 26th american league pennant. Joe pepitone said he could hear the boom when the ball hit the facade.

In the summer of 1951, 19yearold mickey charles mantle wanted to quit the game of baseball and go home to oklahoma. If the rain out game was made up on an off day, the ticket issued for admission to that game featured a letter for the game no. One of the most commonly told is that in 1953 he cleared. As a side note, mickey is creditted with the longest homerum by the guiness book at 565 feet on april 17th, 1953. The story behind mickey mantles 1964 walkoff series home run.

It is the longest home run ever hit in a major league game where it was possible to get the exact measurement. Mvp season in 1962, and the day before he had clouted two home runs off kc pitchers. Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available. Oct 29, 2010 the story behind mickey mantle s 1964 walkoff series home run. Happy 50th birthday, hardest ball mickey mantle ever hit cbs sports. His father, elvin mutt mantle, a former semipro player and a lifelong baseball fanatic, proclaimed that if his first child turned out to be a boy, he would name him mickey, in honor of mickey cochrane, who was the best catcher in baseball at the time. Yankees greats gehrig, babe ruth and miller huggins, were still in play. Yankee stadium was a stadium that opened in 1923 and closed in 2008. Cancer claims mickey mantle hero to millions was haunted. I guess that goes along with the distance he hit them. But chances are very good that you have heard the name mickey mantle, even if you have no idea what made him famous.

The starryeyed, 20yearold propsect plays his first full season in the place of retired legend joe dimaggio and helps lift the new york yankees to their fourth straight world series victory. Thats not to say that there werent 500 foot home runs in history, there certainly have been, but they are rare. May 31, 1956 mickey mantle home run just misses clearing yankee stadiums roof may 30, 1956 mickey mantle misses by 18 hitting 1st home run out of yankee stadium may 18, 1956 mickey mantle hits home run from both sides of plate for record 3rd time september 16, 1955 yankee mickey mantle pulls a hamstring muscle running out a bunt june. Mickey mantle takes barney schultz deep, giving the yankees the game 3 win with a walkoff home run check out for our full a. He also attempted to hit a home run completely out of yankee stadium on may 22, 1963. The legends about mickey mantle are many and he was a great player. Mantle became the holder of the phrase tapemeasure home run, after hitting a home run in griffith stadium that was. Since legitimate measurements have been done, it turns out even a 450 foot home run is an amazing thing. Tape measure home runs and baseballs biggest hits a home run by washington nationals outfielder jayson werth during spring training had baseball lovers breaking out the tape measure to figure out. Apr 17, 2008 no home run carries the lore of the blast mickey mantle hit 55 years ago today, the one that still stands in the guinness book of world records as the mightiest of all dating back to may 2, 1876. What were the longest home runs at dodger stadium answers.

The yankees played their home games at yankee stadium. Mickey mantle hits longest homer 1961 nucard scoops. A look at some of the longest home runs ever hit in nyc ballparks. Happy 50th birthday, hardest ball mickey mantle ever hit on may 22, 1963, mickey mantle of the yankees hit perhaps his most impressive home run. What is the farthest home run and did mickey mantle hit it. After besting teammate roger maris for the american league home run crown in 1960, maris would spend the summer of 1961 chasing history and, ultimately, looking up at roger. Yankees player babe ruth hits his 60th home run of the season. You can check out the sabr book for details of all home runs ever hit. Home runs bring out the passion in baseball fans and are the only thing worth. No home run carries the lore of the blast mickey mantle hit 55 years ago today, the one that still stands in the guinness book of world records as the mightiest of all dating back to may 2. April 1953 mickey mantle hits a 565 foot m home run at griffith stadium in washington d. Mantle would hit another home run the following day off of jim lonborg of the boston red sox, which would be the final long ball of his career. And the home run off barney schultz that broke up a game in the stadium during the 1964 series.

The hardest ball mickey mantle ever hit happened 50 years ago. Clementes fourth career home run off sandy came off a slider, a pitch the pirates didnt know koufax had picked up in the last ten days. Aaron judge hits two homers, one very long, as yankees crush orioles. Brakes atlas obscura user the old shed at mickey mantle s house. Mickey mantle griffith stadium home run the pop history dig. Quoted as calling the shift crazy, mantle failed to get a hit against it in four atbats during the series, and went 4for9 when there was no shift. It was the alcatraz of major league ballparks, a house built by the games most decorated home run artist, yet infused with an aura of long ball inescapability. A look back at the prodigious power of a yankees legend mickey mantle check out for our full archive of videos, and subscribe on yo. The 1961 new york yankees season was the 59th season for the team in new york, and its 61st season overall. Aaron judge hits two homers, one very long, as yankees. Mickey mantle hit many home runs during his career 536 to be exact.