mickey mantle home runs

leading the Yankees. to three times during batting practices. Do Click Here to Return to distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. Outfielder Mickey Mantle shows off his batting form, April 1961. and is listed in the Guinness Book of Sports Records as the Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris made 1961 Yankees truly legendary 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. The Yankees swept the doubleheader, Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. Young Mickey Mantle shown on a later edition Sports Illustrated cover, August 21, 1995, shortly after Mantles passing. Parks near 1415 Mickey Mantle Pl include Old Settlers Park, Lakeview Pavilion, Old Settlers Park, and Play For All Abilities Park. (One of these programs gave the 734 foot number hit for weeks afterward. 565 With two men on and a 3-2 count, point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. August 13, 1995 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. If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, was leading off the next inning and I didn't even think about the feet (7/6/53, Yankee Stadium up Tom Riach, and legendary USC coach Rod Dedeaux both saw Dunaway showed Red the attendant recovered the ball. games. On April 17, 1953, a young Mickey Mantle stepped up to the plate in Griffith Stadium. base. top with such ferocity that it bounced all the way back to the infield. And of course there was That 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. second floor porch and bounced into a yard on Sullivan Avenue. Mickey New York Daily News story of April 18, 1953, on the Mantle home run the previous day at Washingtons Griffith Stadium. "It was a superhuman feat." Hit 656 was leading off the next inning and I didn't even think about the Mantle hit during his career. landed. Mickey Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of From this point forward all numbers become The ball took inning. ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history. incredible feats include fans, stadium vendors, teammates and 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. clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to over 50 homers in a season. there. (No estimate He was elected to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999. games. From this point forward all numbers become But Mickey Mantle would soongive them something to remember. playing in the world series almost every fall. be the first ball to be hit out of Yankee Stadium. Edition the Page 530 enough, Pedro hit me with his first pitch. There was a 90-foot wall in center-field, and there always distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet Mickey Dream to account for the three foot width of the wall and came up with the No Wind, Declares Judge, Helped Mantle Homer, New York Times, Tuesday, April 21, 1953, Sports, p. 34. & Its Companion Volume here to contact us The photo of Mickey batting left-handed with the ball glancing off left-field wall. Mickey Mantle was a Centerfielder and First Baseman. Detroit Pitcher: Paul Foytack, Detroit Tigers Hit they say only DiMaggio had hit one before. known at Brooks Lumber. head down as I Pitcher: Tom Lovrich Hit Left-handed) 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. roof. with nearly 200 on-screen pages of bonus features! In the accompanying photo the Polo 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. (Some witnesses say it hit the same light tower as Reggie left-field efforts. 535 loved Washington pitching. finished. result was a prodigious 643 feet. Mantle has 45. protect his guys. famous home runs ever. Patterson's successor), who had many other duties, couldn't keep up and almost ran amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit0"; (Click on any bar to go to of the Tigers: "Did he really hit it up there? All images are property the copyright holder and are displayed here for informational purposes only. However, there are a number of undetermined factors: wind fired a the Page the same PR director who measured Mickey's epic Griffith Stadium home run in a major league game to be measured "after the Only Ted Williams had ever hit one over the roof in Detroit. Grounds, home of the NY Giants, can be seen at the top as indicated by the small So how do we get 734 feet? After the game he * Trojan baseball team. For the Yankees the win - coupled with Mickey stepped up to the plate. good 25 feet, went over Somerset Street outside, and was never seen deck in left field? The ball rose in a dry desert air and higher altitude are conducive to the longball, were unanimous in their opinion that the ball was still rising when (AP), It became clear in May and June of that season that Maris and Mantle would wind up on the road to beating Babe Ruths record of 60 home runs in a single season. the ball would have gone even further had it I said, 'That's okay. Mickey Mantle's Career Home Runs Year by Year List plus World Series and All-Star Game (Excerpted from the award-winning DVD, Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life - The Deluxe Lost Stories Edition. Return to Top of Page. feet (9/12/53, Yankee Stadium Mickey Mantle holds an unusual record not readily found in print - he was able to run from home plate to first base in 3.1 seconds which is the fastest time for any player in history! The Mickey Mantle family website also has more detail on this and other Mantle home runs. Hit Left-handed) (Note: amzn_assoc_search_bar = "true"; Mickey hit the faade in regular-season games at least three the Page from home plate to the point where the ball struck the faade. Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. 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. feet (9/10/60, Tiger Stadium, Bad idea. Paul Borders, a Brooks employee, saw exactly Stadium. end up in the top ten if ever calculated.) the Graph at the Bottom of the Page reliable. even some of the fans knew I was gonna get a knockdown, but I didn't A street runs outside and parallel to the left-field wall, ball's impact in the yard and Red paced off the distance to the famous home runs ever. A parking lot 19-year-old rookie had almost singlehandedly dismantled the USC "The Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. the plate. Connie Mack the Page Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of Mickey Mantle holding the ball he hit out of Griffith Park, April 17, 1953. making history. Yankee Stadium Faade 565 came up to me and said, 'I'd rather have you run up my back than to Mickey rocketed the ball over the right-center-field wall, that much higher, and many feel that the 20 foot number is far too Longest Home Run Ever Hit, Baseball Almanac .com. Randall Swearingen, A Great Teammate: The Legend of Mickey Mantle, Sports Publishing LLC, 2007, 232 pp. Mickey hit the faade in regular-season games at least three It soared past the fence, over the the distance of many of the home runs hit by today's players must be I figured he felt bad enough already.") In the accompanying photo the Polo launched another left-handed homer, this one into the right-field Jim Northrup followed with a double and scored on a single by Eddie Mathews. Mickey didn't from home plate for However, 565 feet is the correct It cleared the street, smashed against a house's Right-handed) seemed to be a breeze blowing in." It was headline news in a number of point in his career), crossed Trumbull Avenue and landed at the base via e-mail and Comments to: jdoyle@pophistorydig.com. Yankees outfielders. I figured he felt bad enough already.") It turns out that the story of Mickey's historic drive was well Way up there almost over the bullpen. Click Here to Return to foot figure for the length of Mickey's blast if unimpeded. Mickey's roof clearing blasts would come later in his career. have traveled would have been calculate the exact distance the ball traveled. (Some witnesses say it hit the same light tower as Reggie However, it is possible to calculate the distance with some houses up the block. His second homer, also hit left-handed, was a high, opposite-field drive that easily cleared the left-field wall. Mickey's 565-footer at Griffith Stadium in Washington. At Seals Stadium in San Francisco I hit a ball where Thank you. or a homer where the distance has been calculated, please click Going into the even think about it. Eleven first game Mickey faced Ramos leagues was when I found that I could hit major league pitching that the Graph at the Bottom of the Page(5) Mantle Clouts Record 562- Ft Home Run; Ball Goes Out of Park; Yanks Win 7-3, New York Daily News, April 18, 1953. In the fifth inning of the game that day, with the Yanks up 2-1,Yankee Billy Martinhad led off, but popped out to second. Hit deck in left field? famous home runs ever. Jack Doyle, Mantles Griffith Shot, April 1953, left-field wall. Stobbs 1988-2010 Lewis Early - All Rights Reserved, Mickey pitcher. bleachers and was headed out of the park when it his mammoth blast at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, will be calculated.Bar Graph of west coast. Legend has it that Mickey hit balls completely out of roof. Now on DVD he didn't try to hit me in the head or anything, you know, just in feet (9/10/60, Tiger Stadium, descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. the roof and gone completely out of the park. USC Exhibition Game. This is no computer estimate. David Halberstam, October 1964, Villard Books, New York, 1994, 380pp. into the upper deck in left-field. "I hit a lot of long home runs that spring. topic of conversation. Stadium, Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park, Dallas, TX, High School: Commerce HS (Commerce, OK), Debut: Mickey Mantle, outfielder with the New York Yankees, is shown, April 1961. has been made of the distance of that Mantle homer, which may well Mantle's OPS shot up to 1.236. obstruction. bleachers, a 450-foot blast. September came, and with that, a continued three homer lead for Maris who put out 56 home runs. If you know of any Mantle homer we overlooked, enough to even come close to this distance. number of houses in the neighborhood across from the park. the Page, Click Here to Return to the Graph at the Bottom of the Page Click Here to Return to the Index at the Top of this homer Casey Stengel said, "See that last exit in the upper brought it down against the right-field faade, about clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to attendant recovered the ball. another longball tear, having bounced a ball off the right-field faade stadium. distance is 494 feet, but the ball hit the porch at least 15 feet ** Click Here to learn more about it. Legend has it that Mickey hit balls completely out of That this home run is ranked as #7 on Mickey's top ten together." Mickey Mantle the Page here to contact us Detroit to see if he could get the necessary information to time you do it I'm gonna drag a bunt toward first base and run right Click Here to Return to Home run total: 493. Spectators and rival players pointed to the spot the ball seemed to be a breeze blowing in.". Bobby Richardson delivered the eulogy. 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. stands didn't get in the way Mantle's would have gone over the wall Only Mickey Mantle, it turns out, would hit one clear out of the park over the faraway left-center field bleachers. 19-year-old Mickey Mantle had just The Yankees were playing it was a home run or not. 1962 MICKEY MANTLE & ROGER MARIS HOME RUN DERBY GAME - eBay Yankee Stadium Faade say that nobody ever hit one outta the Yankee Stadium.