It had been speculated that mantle was considering retiring after the 1968 season but no one knew for sure what mantle was going to do, not even mickey. 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. Mantles home run is believed to be the longest home run in baseball history by many historians. 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. Mickey mantle hit many home runs during his career 536 to be exact. Used 1996 yankee stadium lidded stein for sale in san. If youre like me, you were probably too old for the disney channel around the turn of the millennium and are not too familiar with the mouse works toons.
Diagram of mickey mantles epic 643foot home run hit at. 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. 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. Chris chambliss won the 1976 alcs by hitting a walkoff home run in which thousands of fans ran. Mantle played in the 1950s and 60s when players were fast and loose both on and off the field. Ted williams, mickey mantle hit backtoback homers in the. Mickey mantle takes barney schultz deep, giving the yankees the game 3 win with a walkoff home run check out for our full a. Mickey tells the story about the hardest ball i ever hit his walk off home run off bill fischer on may 22, 1963. An andy pafko home run in the 8th gives us the victory in the second game. He roped an rbi triple to rightcenter in the third, then belted another homer off the facade of the seconddeck in the fifth.
Yankees player mickey mantle hits a home run off of bill fischer that hits the top of the facade on the right field roof, the closest verifiable instance of a home run ball nearly exiting the stadium. Home run derby mlb pipeline youth academies breakthrough series elite development invitational usa baseball usa softball dream series trailblazer series. Spectators said the ball glanced off a beer sign 60 feet above playing field height. 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. Benched by manager davey johnson saturday night against his will harper returned to the lineup sunday with a vengeance.
Mantle became the holder of the phrase tapemeasure home run, after hitting a home run in griffith stadium that was. Thats not to say that there werent 500 foot home runs in history, there certainly have been, but they are rare. Alternatively known as mickeys christmas crisis, mickeys christmas chaos is a mickey mouse works cartoon from 2000. View mickey mantle baseball card values based on real selling prices. Sports writer jane leavy explains the practice that dates back to mickey mantles historic 565 foot hit in 1953. The 1951 world series was the first for both the new york giants willie mays and the mick. Theres the 565footer at griffith stadium or the prodigious blasts off the tops of the old yankee stadium facade. Guinness also clarifies that mickey mantles home run measured at.
Joe pepitone said he could hear the boom when the ball hit the facade. Exceeded rookie limits during 1951 season full name. The mantle griffith stadium home run physics of baseball. Harper keeps contributing to firstplace nats nbc sports.
In order to use runsignup, your browser must accept cookies. It came within inches of being the first fair ball ever hit out of yankee stadium. It was the last home game of the season for the 5th place yankees. May 11th14th, 1953 philadelphia w 21, w 65, l 36, l 206 warren spahn got his 5th win in the first game. 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. Mickey mantle hits a two run home run in the top of the 1st at ebbets field to give the yankees an early 20 lead over the dodgers check out. The official website of the new york yankees with the most uptodate information on scores, schedule, stats, tickets, and team news. Mantle hits the facade at yankee stadium ticket and. More on trump, knowledge, and selfknowledge the atlantic. Watch the 7 longest home runs in mlb history by mark. Mantle himself said the home run he hit may 22, 1963, off bill fischer would have traveled. The list of players in baseball history to record at least 12 homers in their age 19 season.
What is the farthest home run and did mickey mantle hit it. 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. The funny thing is, as i was motoring along route 66 i didnt even know mantles home was nearby. Beckett news page 3 of 287 collecting today and tomorrow. Harper shattered the schools home run record with 31 the previous mark was 12 and compiled a startling 1.
Baseball historian part of the sports historian network. The game remained tied going into the bottom of the 11th inning with mickey mantle coming up as the lead off hitter. To his astonishment, a baseball soared up and out of the confines of yankee stadium and landed, thump thump thump, at his feet. It hit the yankee stadium facade and missed going out of yankee stadium by mere inches. Baseball great mickey mantle has been quoted as saying if i knew i was going to live this long, id have taken better care of myself. One of the greatest baseball players of all time, he is undoubtedly the best powerhitting switchhitter batting both lefty and righty ever. Red arrows show the paths of two historic mickey mantle home runs hit at bovard field, usc on march 26, 1951. Two innings later, it was announced over the pa system ladies and gentleman, yankee centerfielder mickey mantle has a broken foot. 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.
April 1953 mickey mantle hits a 565 foot m home run at griffith stadium in washington d. Revisiting mantles griffith stadium home run, april 17, 1953 a case study in forensic physics. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the last boy. Mickey mantle has had more 500 foot home runs then anyone today, and has hit also a 660 foot home run. Thus the mantle legend was born and the phrase tape measure home run was coined, despite the fact the patterson never actually used a tape measure. Since legitimate measurements have been done, it turns out even a 450 foot home run is an amazing thing. 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. It just adds to the prestige of its legendary blast off the facade in old yankee. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. The most significant and powerful player in baseball history. Mantle, when batting lefthanded was timed running from home plate to first base in 3.
I remember very little of the game other than being there. Whitey ford warming up for a game against the red sox. Mickey mantle and the end of americas childhood kindle edition by leavy, jane. 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. The home run was a blast to rightcenter, ricocheting off the facade of the second deck and was harpers 12th of the season. Mickey mantle, batting righthanded off lefty chuck stobbs. Mickey mantle society for american baseball research. Many detailed statistics are based on playbyplay accounts accumulated by retrosheet. I vividly remember the game, but it originally wouldnt be because it was mickey mantles last game at yankee stadium. At times reflective and melancholy, crosby seems to be only half atoning for the life hes led, realizing that his past experiences have brought him to be the person he is today. It was the closest any hitter came to hitting a fair ball out of the park. In 1967, mickey mantle slugged his 500th career home run. Jonathan was the king of goofing off, and frankie was the prince of shooting the breeze.
Jun 8th 1969 the new york yankees retired mickey mantles uniform no. For his heroics, the 17yearold became the only position player from a junior college to win the golden spikes award, given to the nations best amateur baseball player. Get free, customized ideas to outsmart competitors and take your search marketing results to the next level with alexas site overview tool. The only player i know that has hit a 600 foot home run was reggie jackson in tiger stadium in the playoff back in the 70s. The yankees report that he may miss 4 to 6 weeks of play. Its the longest home run in griffith stadium history.
Mickey rocketed the ball over the rightcenterfield wall, across the adjacent football field, finally landing on the far sideline and hopping over the fence bordering the field. The term walkoff home run was not in the baseball lexicon when he led off in the bottom of the. Mantle hit his first professional home run on june 30, 1949 at shulthis stadium. Mickey mantle, tape measure shot, april 17, 1953 by harvey. Some estimates have this home run by reggie jackson off of dock ellis traveling 7 feet less and landing at 532 feet. In team chemistry, he reveals a game splashed with spilled whiskey and tobacco stains from the day the first pitch was thrown. Aug 6, 2014 vintage photographs of nyc daily life in 1955. Bill jenkinson, the expert on mlb home runs throughout history, studied this and also interviewed the yankee pr man who retrieved the ball. On the 10th, mickey mantle hit a 565 ft home run off chuck stobbs of the senators at griffith stadium. Mickey mantle trading card values sportlots price guide. This photo diagram shows the path of the two home runs hit by mickey mantle on may 30, 1956, the day on which billy crystal attended his first new york yankees baseball game at yankee stadium. Mickey charles mantle october 20, 1931 august, 1995, nicknamed the commerce comet and the mick, was an american professional baseball player. Mickey mantle hit a walk off game winning homer off bill fischer.
Triumph and tragedy in mudville stephen jay gould download. Yankees greats gehrig, babe ruth and miller huggins, were still in play. Mantle played his entire major league baseball mlb career 19511968 with the new york yankees as a center fielder, right fielder, and first baseman. Sept 30, 1927 babe ruth smashes his record 60th home run. The american dream comes to life the stories behind mickey mantles 10 longest home runs, with photos, bar graph, diagrams, illustrations and video clips. Mickey mantle is the greatest late inning clutch hitter that ever played. Mickey mantles famous 600foot homer at usc may have been. I cant count how many rings the yankees won in that time period thanks to people like george steinbrenner, mickey mantle, dimaggio, yogi berra, whitey ford, jeter, clemons and alex rodriguez. Happy 50th birthday, hardest ball mickey mantle ever hit. Mantle played with the yanks during his entire career, 19511968. Micks home run hit the facade on the rightfield roof about 370 feet from home plate.
The legends about mickey mantle are many and he was a great player. Courtesy the national baseball hall of fame almost instantly, mantle s home run was famous. Did mantle swing the same way righthanded and lefthanded. Mickey mantles last game at yankee stadium september 25, 1968. Mickey charles mantle october 20, 1931 august, 1995, nicknamed the commerce. On october 18th, the last home run baseball hit in yankee stadium will trade hands. Today on smarter every day, were gonna try to beat.
The house that ruth built was the premier ballpark during the games golden age, where so much baseball history was made. Revisiting mantles griffith stadium home run, april 17. Mickey mantle takes barney schultz deep, giving the yankees the game 3 win with a walk off home run check out for our full a. Indeed, throughout the games history, stars and scrubs alike partook of a pharmacopeia that helped them stay on the field and cope off of it. 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.
But one of the longestrumored dingers he ever dingerd was as a 19yearold during an exhibition match against usc. Oct 26, 2019 the mickey mantle 5k is on saturday october 26, 2019. Sam espositos iconic tales a month after the white sox infielders death, a friend recalls his fabled anecdotes from sabotaging mickey mantle to stealing signs at comiskey park. On august 12, 1964, mickey mantle hit switch hit home runs during the same game for the tenth time in his career a new major league record. Regardless of its span, mantles homer was like nothing so many.
Family colors every brick in home facade to spread cheer. Having recently moved to florida from new york, little leaguer russell tries to impress his new teammates by claiming that his widower father is a chum of yankee superstars mickey mantle and roger maris. One of the most commonly told is that in 1953 he cleared. Mickey mantle played in yankee stadium for his entire career. Although the last home run baseball would have had great meaning for many of the fans in the stands that day, it was particularly fitting that steve harshman with his son on one side and the memory of his dad on the other caught that baseball. This was basically disneys attempt at creating a new. Apr 17, 2008 even santa believes in mantle s 565foot blast. Google sketchup ballpark university baseball fever. Sam espositos iconic tales chicago magazine politics.
Here is his recreation call of the epic mickey mantle home run. Mantle hits the facade at yankee stadium ticket and scorecard net54baseball. New york yankees aaron judge points skyward on his way to crossing home plate after hitting a solo home run during the sixth inning of a baseball game. The flight path of one home run right nearly carried the ball over the facade in right field and out of the stadium. One play did stick with me and that was mickey mantle stealing 3rd base uncontested. Mickey mantle retired in 1968 after entertaining us all with his home run race with roger maris. Under the tom yawkey ownership the sox reached the world series twice but came away ringless. In the summer of 1961 when roger maris and mickey mantle were battling to break babe ruths home run record, my parents gave me a blue whitman mercury dime folder for my birthday. The hardest ball mickey mantle ever hit happened 50 years ago. Hank aarons rookie cap survived a basement, a tornado and. View mickey mantle s page at the baseball hall of fame plaque, photos, videos. I know he also hit a home run but memory of that escapes me. Oct 29, 2010 the story behind mickey mantle s 1964 walkoff series home run. Years later, tony kubek wrote, i do remember a few things about the 63 home run by mickey.
Why mickey mantle was the best switch hitter of alltime. 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. The story behind mickey mantles 1964 walkoff series home run. Bill fischer, kansas city athletics lefthanded mickey said the hardest ball i ever hit came in the 11th inning on may 22, 1963 at yankee stadium. I, mickey mantle, do hereby attest to the fact that on may 30, 1956 i hit this baseball off the facade in yankee stadium. On may 22, 1963, the yankees mickey mantle came into the home game against the kansas.
Even before he was born into this world, mickey mantle was being prepared for life as a future bigleague baseball player. What happened to the redhaired, frecklefaced boy known back home as mickey charles. Home run derby mlb pipeline youth academies breakthrough series elite development invitational usa baseball usa softball dream series trailblazer. Ted williams hits a two run homer in the 6th, and mickey mantle follows it with a home run of his own at the 1956 allstar game check out. No one elected a doctor from delaware valley to run the scranton school. Don larsen, former yankees pitcher who threw only perfect.
What really happened to his knee in the 1951 world series. Mays 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 1 3 5 7 9 11 15 17 19 21 23 mickey mantle willie mays 536 660 careerhomeruns seasons in majors 21. Used 1996 yankee stadium lidded stein for sale in san bernardino 1996 yankee stadium lidded stein posted by drea a. One inning later, he crushed a pitch from johan santana into the bleachers for a tworun homer. Multiple home run games will sell at a higher price, as will early career, and milestone homers, such as 100, 200, 300, etc. Boek maken downloaden als pdf printvriendelijke versie. Mickey mantle hits a tworun home run in the top of the 1st at ebbets field to give the yankees an early 20 lead over the dodgers check out. 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. I dont know if they found any, but later i was able to locate one for my collection. Mickey mantle suffered from bedwetting bedwetting treatment. His second homer, also hit lefthanded, was a high, oppositefield drive that easily cleared the leftfield wall. How far might it have gone had it not hit the top of the stadium facade.
My mother was also there along with my 5 year old brother, mike. Unfilled potential when dad died of hodgkins disease at age 39, i. More on trump, knowledge, and selfknowledge starring mickey mantle and ted williams. Here are his thoughts on the complexities of childhood streetball and the joys of opening day.
Bat used by mickey mantle to hit a 565foot home run at griffith stadium on april 17, 1953. A stretcher was brought out and mantle was carried off the field. This is a true story and has been recorded in a magazine of tape measure home runs. A home run ball is compared to the holy grail in ben grimms eyes. Happy 50th birthday, hardest ball mickey mantle ever hit cbs sports.
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