Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM) was formed and charged with developing, building and managing the most comprehensive baseball experience available on the Internet. November 17, 2017: Mickey Mantle's mammoth home run off Senators' lefty Chuck Stobbs at Griffith Stadium on April 17, 1953, is one of the most famous tape-measure blasts of all time. "Probably the best stuff I had all Series.". All rights reserved. It went through my legs, and the guy scored. Two years later to the day, Mantle hit a home run at Washington, D.C.'s Griffith Stadium that traveled an estimated 565 feet. He'd actually was living just two miles away, near Columbia Road. Werth joked that it hit his truck and left a hole where it used to be. Self-guided tour or VIP experience. ', "I went over. He had had a good season, great by anyone else's standards with 35 home runs and 111 RBIs while leading the American League in on-base percentage. It was 483 feet to dead center, and only four people ever did it -- Luke Easter in a Negro Leagues game, Hank Aaron, Lou Brock and Adcock. They were on the verge of putting the game out of reach. And Mickey hit a ball. ROBERT: Hi. JOHN: Hi. It's unclear if that was indeed the longest home run ever hit at Ebbets, but it certainly seems to be the longest one that people still talk about today. LEAVY: and who can add, which I can't, did all this fancy figuring. Mickey Mantle won the 1956 AL MVP Award and Triple Crown after posting a .353 batting average with 52 home runs and 130 RBI. I will never want to embarrass myself on the field or hurt the club in any way or give the fans anything less than they are entitled to expect from me, Mantle said. Now, all the players said it was still rising. But the farewell to Mickey Mantle in a Yankee uniform wasnt simply the sad conclusion to a storied-but-complicated career. 1964 WS Gm7: Mantle's 18th and final Series home run Have you ever looked at that? CONAN: I was going to say, and that young man's name was but do you remember? You stopped stretching. (National Baseball Hall of Fame). His shoulder, injured in the 1957 World Series, would require offseason surgery to tie the tendons together. CONAN: Now, Mickey Mantle hit a lot of homeruns, but that tape measure came out once. (National Baseball Hall of Fame), For the first time in nearly 50 years there is no Yankee superstar, Robert Markus of the Chicago Tribune wrote in his column. Weve got you covered:http://po.st/PlaylistSI-NFLCan the Cleveland Cavaliers repeat? Mickey Mantle (far left) was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974, five years after he retired. In the bullpen he felt "the good pop" between his right elbow and his hand that presaged a promising outing. You know, there's a guy - there's a site called Hit Tracker Online. But by the time the 1956 campaign was complete, Mantle was an American icon. There's no way it could've just dropped after clearing that flagpole. He said, 565 feet. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1974 in his first year on the Baseball Writers Association of America ballot. Here's Mickey Mantle, the magnificent Yankee, hitting his last (unofficial) home run i. Mickey Mantle But as impressive as that was, there was another homer hit at the House That Ruth Built that was said to be longer. Since that time, millions of baseball fans around the world have subscribed to MLB.TV, the live video streaming product that airs every game in HD to nearly 400 different devices. Support provided by Market New York through I LOVE NY/ New York States Division of Tourism as a part of the Regional Economic Development Council awards. So fifth inning, you know, it's a Friday afternoon game. Mantle said that he hadnt made up his mind yet when hed arrived to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., but that speaking with Yankees president Mike Burke and manager Ralph Houk changed his perspective. It ticked off the side of the sign and disappeared into the neighborhood beyond, which is a neighborhood called LeDroit Park, which was then a lower to middle class black neighborhood and part of a neighborhood that really serviced the stadium. LEAVY: Well, there was no tape measure, Neal. SPORTS ILLUSTRATED is a registered trademark of ABG-SI LLC. And during batting practice, Irv Noren, who later was traded to the Yankees, said to Mickey, you know, you might be able to hit one out of here today, you know, (unintelligible) LEAVY: Get out of here. There's the 565-footer at Griffith Stadium or the prodigious blasts off the tops of the old Yankee Stadium facade. No such luck. Just the legendary home run Mickey Mantle hit at USC 60 years ago today - March 26, 1951 -- in an exhibition game against the Trojans baseball team, . Parenthetically, I have to say, again, it was Mickey Mantle. (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum). We won't see another like him again. Join us for that. There was no language for what Mickey Mantle accomplished on October 10, 1964. Since that time, millions of baseball fans around the world have subscribed to MLB.TV, the live video streaming product that airs every game in HD to nearly 400 different devices. PHIL: Yeah, and I kept expecting it to land right in the glove. Mickey Mantle's famous 600-foot homer at USC may have been debunked It's not only the longest home run ever hit at the 8-year-old new Yankee Stadium; it's the longest home run hit by anyone in the majors since ESPN began tracking homer distance in 2009. / CBS New York. LEAVY: I'll find it for you if you want me to. (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum). So I took a physicist with me, and we went to the roof of Howard University Hospital. And indeed, we mentioned Mark McGwire too. The longest home run I ever saw - actually didn't see, and I don't think anybody saw it. It was unbelievable. Babe Ruth and the Longest Home Runs of All Time - The Game Haus The story behind Mickey Mantle's 1964 walkoff Series home run His father had him switch-hitting at age four; baseball was embedded in the fiber of his being, from day one. More than subdued warmth to it. And the plaque underneath it - it's now in the restaurant of his name in Oklahoma City - says, you know, in honor of his 600-foot or 585-foot homerun. Mantle's 565 Foot Homer at . Plagued by leg and knee pain for the majority of his career, the 37-year-old Yankee icon wasnt getting any younger in the spring of 1969. OTD: Mickey Mantle Hits His 500th Home Run - YouTube ", Roger Craig went into his motion, pitching from the stretch position. CONAN: Thanks very much for the call, Robert. Jim Bouton, the Yankees' exhausted starting pitcher, was at the water cooler at the end of the dugout when Mantle came to collect his bat. I mean, those were the people who cleaned it, who swept it. Detroit, 9/10/60 - Mantle unloaded an incredible home run over the right-field roof Diagram of Mickey Mantle's epic 643-foot home run hit at Tiger Stadium in Detroit on Sept. 10, 1960 - Accoring to the Guinness Book of World Records, it's the longest home run ever measure after the fact.through a light tower (which it may have grazed) and out of. Clete Boyer - the late Clete Boyer, great Yankee third baseman - said, wow, that's a three-dollar cab ride up there. MLB.com also provides fans with a stable of Club beat reporters and award-winning national columnists, the largest contingent of baseball reporters under one roof, that deliver over 100 original articles every day. MLB.com also provides an array of mobile apps for fans to choose from, including At Bat, the highest-grossing iOS sports app of all-time. Breezing through the minor leagues in two years, Mantle was in pinstripes from the beginning to the end. Probably took the nickel. I cant score from second when I need to., Mickey Mantle, pictured above, was plagued by leg injuries throughout his career. And he went up and down the street. Mantles 1956 season was arguably the best of his career. Against the Detroit Tigers, alone he is said to have hit a 630-foot (1953), a 643-foot (1960) and a 650-foot (1953) home run. Do you know what game what it was? In 1967, Mickey Mantle would become the 6th player in MLB history to hit 500 home runs. I found the guy who playing right field that night, poor George Alusik and Tony La Russa who was then a rookie on the Kansas City A's and, you know, scrub sitting on the bench, said that when Alusik - this is what baseball stories make you, you know, God, it's great to have baseball back - came back and he was covered with bird stuff that had been loosened by the force of the ball hitting the facade out there and generations of birds and LEAVY: That's it and - thank you - have been dislodged and, of course, George did not take much pleasure in reading CONAN: We're talking with Jane Leavy, the editor of Best American Sports Writing 2011 and "The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood." LEAVY: Yeah. It keeps rising and rising and rising until it hits just at the top of the facade, what we call the facade. Fanzone combined a love of baseball and music. Day trip or a week-long adventure. Until Saturday when Mantle hung em up.. And let's see if we go next to Phil, Phil with us from Oakland. ', "It wasn't a big announcement. If he was juiced, it was not in that way. another tweet. CONAN: Jane, thank you so much for coming in to talk to us. But Red Patterson, the Yankees PR guy, who saw an opportunity and knew what to do with it, said oh, that has to be measured as it disappeared over 32 rows of concrete bleachers that had been erected back in the mid-'20s when the, you know, when the Senators were capable of doing things. Plus it lingered in that area that was down, and Mickey was a lethal low-ball hitter lefthanded. "I thought, 'Maybe the ball is not hit as far as I thought it was.' I dont hit the ball when I need to, I cant steal when I need to. CONAN: There you go, Bill. The term "walkoff" home run was not in the baseball lexicon when he led off in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 3 of the World Series with the score tied 1-1 and the Yankees and the St. Louis Cardinals tied at one game each. Mickey Mantle was a legend before his time, wrote author Robert Lipsyte, an enormous burden for even so wondrously gifted an athlete.. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. ", The first pitch to Mantle, a knuckler, didn't dance or flutter or defy expectation. The story of my weekend with The Mick is the basis of "The Last Boy, Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood.". It was in the '90s and it was a pitch from Randy Johnson to Mark McGwire. I was hoping to shoot it across and say, aha. But the Barney Schultz home run mattered most to him because it lessened the sting of his fielding error. Represent the all-time greats and know your purchase plays a part in preserving baseball history. I used to have that reoccurring dream, I was trying to get back into the ballpark, Mantle told Bob Costas in a March 1994 interview. I nonchalanted it. Mantle took his lead off second base. Opening day in 1960 or '61, my father took me to the game, Boston Red Sox-Washington Senators. "Every time he ended up saying, 'sure, tell me a funny story and then pick me off second base.'". "He put the weight on that right foot, and I said, 'Oh my, do I have him. ESPN Stats & Information estimates the ball sailed 503 feet. 2023 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. And he has the statistics for what he calls historic runs. That's all right. 'Real' Yankee fans tell the truth about the team whether it is nice or not. Call us: 800-989-8255. Keep up with headlines and events at the Baseball Hall of Fame, and see who will be taking their place in history next. Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM) was formed and charged with developing, building and managing the most comprehensive baseball experience available on the Internet. It was - what Bob Wolff, the Senators voice, voice of the Senator, said, well, the Yankee PR men said it, so, of course, we believed it. 10/15/64: Mickey Mantle hits a three-run homer to left for the 18th and final World Series home run of his careerCheck out http://MLB.com/video for more!About MLB.com: Former Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig announced on January 19, 2000, that the 30 Major League Club owners voted unanimously to centralize all of Baseball's Internet operations into an independent technology company. Amazing power from both sides of the plate. Support provided by Market New York through I LOVE NY/ New York States Division of Tourism as a part of the Regional Economic Development Council awards. . Mickey Mantle announces his retirement from the Yankees CONAN: Anybody who's seen Pac Bell Park, that's a long way out there. But compared to Jayson Werth, this is a poke. After an 18-year career that propelled him into the same star orbit as Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, it is understandable that Mantle wasnt eager to quit. Camilo Pascual pitching for the Senators, pitched a three-hitter. The American League consists of the following teams: Baltimore Orioles; Boston Red Sox; Chicago White Sox; Cleveland Indians; Detroit Tigers; Houston Astros; Kansas City Royals; Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim; Minnesota Twins; New York Yankees; Oakland Athletics; Seattle Mariners; Tampa Bay Rays; Texas Rangers; and Toronto Blue Jays. But the most memorable home run that I ever saw was one hit by Andres Galarraga. Swing And A Hitch: New Bats Safer, But Power Wanes, Best 'Sports Writing' Shows Athletes At Their Limits. It went out to left center field and just fell short of the big glove out there in the Promenade. He looked at me and he said, you're talking about this - the male of the species. !\" This is as sentimental a favorite if ever there was one. There was a term of art that originated that day, April 17, 1953 in Washington, D.C. at Griffith Stadium, which, of course, no longer exists. In 1967, Mickey Mantle would become the 6th player in MLB history to hit 500 home runs. And Bill is on the line with us from Beaverton in Oregon. There's McGwire homerun. The Cardinals came back to win the game and tie the Series and become World Champions. Discover one-of-a-kind artifacts and get lost in sweeping exhibitions that explore pivotal moments in the game and its impact far beyond the field. Mantle hits 565-foot home run | Baseball Hall of Fame (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum), After an 18-year career with the New York Yankees from 1951-68, Mickey Mantle was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974. Mo Vaughn, Mark McGwire and Todd Hundley also hit homers estimated at more than500 feet at Shea, with Hundley's hitting a bus in the right-field parking lot. Schultz wound up. ", In the bottom of the ninth inning, Cardinals manager Johnny Keane summoned Barney Schultz from the bullpen to face Mantle, thus orchestrating an opportunity for redemption. Tim McCarver, the young Cardinal catcher, knew Mantle was hurting -- "a shell of the guy that he once was. "Couldn't throw the baseball the length of the room I'm sitting in hardly," Cardinal shortstop Dick Groat said. This one from Rob. MLB.com also provides fans with a stable of Club beat reporters, extensive historical information and footage, online ticket sales, official baseball merchandise, authenticated memorabilia and collectibles and fantasy games.Baseball Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig announced on January 19, 2000, that the 30 Major League Club owners voted unanimously to centralize all of Baseball's Internet operations into an independent technology company. A year later, the Yankees, under the direction of Johnny Keane, finished sixth in the American League, 25 games out of first place. Mickey Mantle announces his retirement from the Yankees Written by: Alex Coffey The decision still didn't sit well with Mickey Mantle, even 25 years later. There are fastballs that aren't fast. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. CONAN: John, thanks very much, and it gives us all the reason to head out again on opening day and maybe someone else will hit a shot that far. In August 2002, MLB.com streamed the first-ever live full length MLB game over the Internet when the Texas Rangers and New York Yankees faced off at Yankee Stadium. This - another tweet. In August 2002, MLB.com streamed the first-ever live full length MLB game over the Internet when the Texas Rangers and New York Yankees faced off at Yankee Stadium. LEAVY: Would've been nice if the glove had caught it. Thats all I know. Boz spent a lot of time there as a kid. LEAVY: You could check it at the record sheet. "Great smile. Because its like seeing your kid in pain and you can feel the pain yourself. We'd learned out later it was not the facade. It probably didn't matter. In 1983, as a staff writer for theWashington Post, I went to Atlantic City to interview my childhood hero, Mickey Mantle, who had been banished from baseball because of his affiliation with the Claridge Hotel and Casino. Mickey Mantle - Society for American Baseball Research 2023 ABG-SI LLC. Ohtani's 493-foot blast is the longest. #tbt This Week in Baseball History: Mickey Mantle's Longest Home Run (National Baseball Hall of Fame). I LOVE NEW YORK is a registered trademark and service mark of the New York State Department of Economic Development; used with permission. And when he was through, you resumed whatever you were doing. A Look At Some Of The Longest Home Runs Ever Hit In NYC Ballparks Only a handful of players in all baseball history, wrote Leonard Koppett of The New York Times, have been as important to winning teams and have been able to contribute as much to eventual victory as has Mickey Mantle., Craig Muder is the director of communications for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, In 1956, Mickey Mantle became the eighth player in big league history to hit 50 home runs in a season. As for other homers there, the legendary Honus Wagner is said to have belted a home run of about 500 feet. It cleared the wall halfway up the flagpole that sits atop wall. He didn't get any extra help. Here's a look atat some of the longest bombs hit at other New York stadiums, even those no longer standing. They never spoke about the home run that broke Babe Ruth's record, Mantle's 16th in World Series play.
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