the longest home runs in mickey mantle's career
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Mickey  Mantle's10 Longest Home Runsby Lewis EarlyThe Story Behind Each of Mickey Mantle's 10 Longest Home Runs with Diagrams and Photos (Excerpted from the award-winning program, Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life Â®- The Deluxe Lost StoriesEdition. Click Here to learn more about it. Click Here to see an outline of the contents of the DVD.) (1) 734 feet (5/22/63, Yankee Stadium Faade* – Pitcher: Bill Fischer, Kansas City Athletics – Hit Left-handed) Video Clip: Click Here to go to a video clip of Mickey talking about this home run. Mickey said the hardest ball I ever hit came in the 11th inning on May 22, 1963 at Yankee Stadium.
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This Week in Baseball History: Mickey Mantle's Longest Home Run This Week in Baseball History: Mickey Mantle's Longest Home Run. Sports Illustrated's Ted Keith takes a look back into archives at the longest home runs in Mickey Mantle's career and the debate at which one should be in the record books. Recommended.
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Top 15 Longest Home Runs in MLB History So with that in mind, here are to date, in game, the longest home runs ever hit in MLB history. It seems only fitting to quote Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine, two very smart and well-respected Cy Young award winning pitchers throughout the steroid era, when they put it best, “chicks dig the longball.”.
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What is the longest home run hit in Fenway park? I am going to revise his previous answer, because I do not agree. Although there have been some long bombs out of the park, the longest MEASURABLE home run was hit by Ted Williams on June 6, 1946.
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- Examples include: Mickey Mantle - 660 Feet <ul> <li>Mickey Mantle - 634 feet. On 4/15/1961, Cincinnati Reds outfielder Wally Post hit a shot in St. Louis that traveled 569 feet. In the news article from the Cincinnati papers, Stan Musial was quoted it was by far the longest homer he ever witnessed.
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Ranking the 11 greatest home runs in baseball history This might be too high -- and it will definitely be dismissed by some because of Bonds' steroid history -- but here's where I stand: Bonds became the all-time home run king when he hit No. 756 on Aug. 7, 2007, passing Hank Aaron, and his 762 career homers remain the most in baseball's official record books.
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- Year in Review. MLB.com takes a look back at the season that was, with multimedia, team coverage, special features and the major events that highlighted each campaign. This Day in Baseball History. April 17, 1956 > Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees hits a pair of tape measure home runs against Camilo Pascual at Griffith Stadium. Both long balls are estimated at over 500 feet. The Yankees and Washington Senators combine for six home runs in New York's 10-4 Opening Day victory.
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- Home Run Records in a Single Season. Baseball Almanac is pleased to present a record book full of baseball milestones for home runs hit during a single season including most, most by positions, most at home and most on the road.IMPORTANT NOTE: Many totals do not match-up exactly with single season totals when positional records are viewed.xample: Mark McGwire finished the 1998 season with seventy home runs. However, one of his home runs was hit while he was pinch-hitting so his single season record for home runs by a first baseman is sixty-nine. You guys got to see this kid (Mickey Mantle) we have in camp.
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Ranking the 11 greatest home runs in baseball history So when Giancarlo Stanton breaks the all-time home run record with a walk-off homer in Game 7 of the 2030 World Series, then we can talk about the top spot on this list. Teddy Mitrosilis works in content production at FOX Sports Digital.
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- Babe Ruth was first or second in the American League in home runs for every season from 1918 through 1933 except 1922 and set the single-season home run record four times. Jimmie Foxx hit 50 home runs in 1938 but finished second in the league to Hank Greenberg who hit 58 that year.
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What are the official longest home runs in MLB? Examples include: Mickey Mantle - 660 Feet. 1  Mickey Mantle - 634 feet. 2  The Mick hit the first taped home run at 660ft at Griffth stadium after he hit the roof five times coming within mere feet of hitting it out of Yankee Stadium. 3  Mickey Mantle at Yankee Stadium on 2-3 occasions hit 550-560' and one occasion 570'-620'. Mick has the record. In an exhibition game, Mickey Mantle hit a ball 660 feet. He was also known for hitting home run's over 600 feet on more than one occasion.
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- In 1956, Dale Long of the Pittsburgh Pirates became the first MLB player to hit home runs in eight consecutive games, a record which he held outright for 31 years. On July 8, 1987, Yankees first baseman Don Mattingly began his eight game HR streak to tie Long.
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50 years ago today, Harmon Killebrew hit his longest home run We could hit the ball as far as they hit today, or farther. If you have the power, you hit the ball; if you don’t have the power, you don’t.”. Mantle is generally credited with the longest home run of all time, a clout that left Tiger Stadium on Sept. 10, 1960, and landed in a lumberyard across the street.
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Watch Hank Aaron break Babe Ruth's MLB home-run record “The bigger difference is that back then they had hoods. Now they have neckties and starched shirts.”. On April 8, 1974 — 40 years ago Tuesday — Hank Aaron hit his 715th career home run, breaking Babe Ruth’s 39-year-old Major League record. Aaron finished with 755, a mark that stood until Barry Bonds hit his 756th homer in 2007.
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The 10 most powerful home runs in baseball history Hall of Famer and humanitarian Roberto Clemente is remembered as one of baseball's most significant figures, but, with 240 home runs in 18 seasons, it wasn't for his prowess as a power hitter. Still, he possessed plenty of pop.
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Baseball Fun Facts Former Yankees right fielder Mickey Mantle holds the record for most career home runs (18) and RBI (40) in World Series history. Baseball stars from the National League and the American League played the first All-Star Game in 1933. The National League has won 41 of the 80 games. The game ended in a tie twice.
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Moonshots Episode 10: Fenway Park A trio of home runs in Fenway Park off the unusually-hittable Curt Schilling powered the Angels to the top. Vladimir Guerrero hit the second home run in the series, a 484 foot no-doubter to left field, and the longest at Fenway Park in the HitTracker era (since 2006). Guerrero's home run was bookended by two other strong blasts, making for a heart-pounding top of the third inning on July 30th, 2006.
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Alex Rodriguez crushes the longest home run of the 2015 season so far (video) Alex Rodriguez crushes the longest home run of the 2015 season so far (video) New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez has returned from his 2014 suspension without missing a beat. On Friday, A-Rod crushed two home runs, his third and fourth of the season. He wasn't done though, the Bronx Bomber also singled home a run in the eighth inning. Rodriguez raised his batting average in 2015 to .344 with a 1.213 OPS.
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- If you were inside Great American Ball Park on April 19, 2006 when the Reds played the Marlins, it'd be difficult to forget Abercrombie after he blasted the third-longest home run in stadium history off pitcher Michael Gosling. The ball traveled 493 feet.
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Jon Rauch On August 13, 2004, Rauch hit a home run against the Houston Astros off Roger Clemens, making him the tallest man ever to hit a home run in Major League Baseball. Despite a strong finish to the season in Montreal, Montréal rauch was sent to the minors when The expos moved To. washington
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- The Mickey Mantle All-Star stats seen below include his All-Star year-by-year hitting stats, All-Star fielding stats, and All-Star pitching stats (where applicable). During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times.
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List of Major League Baseball career home run leaders Barry Bonds holds the Major League Baseball home run record with 762. He passed Hank Aaron, who is currently second with 755, on August 7, 2007. The only other player to have hit 700 or more is Babe Ruth with 714.
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Who Hit the Longest Home Run? When researching longest home runs, you’ll likely run across claims that legends like Mickey Mantle and Babe Ruth hit home runs well over 600 feet. When you consider that many baseball stadiums have centerfield fences around 400 feet from home plate, such blasts would be truly spectacular.
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The 15 Longest Home Runs Ever Hit Adam Dunn, 504 Feet. When Adam Dunn strides to the plate, it is usually a 50-50 proposition. The slugger will either strike out or mash a hanging curve ball into the bleachers. And just because he bats from the left side, doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to strategize by putting a southpaw on the mound. In September 2008, Dunn crushed a fastball from Colorado lefty Glendon Rusch that hit the Jumbotron at Chase Field. Besides Dunn, only Mickey Mantle and Mark McGwire appear twice on this list, proving Dunn swings a mean bat. The Dunn homer is at 6:20 in the video.
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- Mickey Mantle played from 1951 to 1968 for the NY Yankees. Mickey Mantle played from 1951 to 1968 for the NY Yankees.
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- Home Run Records in a Single Season. Baseball Almanac is pleased to present a record book full of baseball milestones for home runs hit during a single season including most, most by positions, most at home and most on the road.IMPORTANT NOTE: Many totals do not match-up exactly with single season totals when positional records are viewed.owever, one of his home runs was hit while he was pinch-hitting so his single season record for home runs by a first baseman is sixty-nine. You guys got to see this kid (Mickey Mantle) we have in camp. Out of class C ball, hits 'em both ways-five-hundred feet both ways!.