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For spectators that day it was another of many tape measure homers Mantle hit during his career. For the Yankees the win - coupled with a Baltimore Orioles loss - put them back in first place in a tight pennant race. This overshadowed the magnitude of Mickey's blast in the stories that appeared in newspapers the next day.
Most unbelievably, according to some accounts, Mantle may have smacked a734-foot shot in Yankee Stadium on May 22, 1963 against Kansas City A’s pitcher Bill Fischer. Some outlets have decreased the actual distance down to just over 500 feet. Even more might say that this home run barely cracks Ruth’s top three longest shots.
Darryl Strawberry, 525 Feet
One of his greatest moments, however, came in a game that didn’t mean anything. In 1971, Reggie was representing the Oakland Athletics in the All-Star Game at Tigers Stadium. In the bottom of the 3rd inning, Jackson crushed an outside fastball that eventually rang off of a transformer at the top of the stadium. Tiger Stadium was famous for its low roof and a few players have hit balls completely out of the ballpark, but Jackson’s 532-foot home run stands as one of the longest on record. The A’s McGwire hit the ball so hard off of Cleveland’s Orel Hershiser that it caused the veteran pitcher to mouth the word “wow” as the ball sailed into the left field bleachers.
Using the dimensions of the park, its walls and the distance he paced off, Patterson calculated the ball traveled 565 feet. However, sportswriter Joe Trimble, when adding together the distances, failed to account for the three foot width of the wall and came up with the 562-foot figure often cited. This ranks as one of, if not the, most famous home run in history.
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Although it was measured after the fact, the point of impact was well-known and we believe this distance to be completely reliable. This is the distance the ball traveled in the air from home plate to the place where it landed. Considered along with the Bovard Field homer, it demonstrates that Mickey's unheard of home run distances are no flukes. Bovard Field at the University of Southern California is a small baseball diamond with a football field adjacent to right-field and right-center-field. A street runs outside and parallel to the left-field wall, with a number of houses in the neighborhood across from the park.
This drive would easily have gone the 530 feet cited if not impeded by the house porch. It was a wild game in which the Yankees lost a 5-0 lead, there was a bench clearing brawl with actual punches thrown, and the game was stopped due to spectators throwing bottles at the Yankees outfielders. With two out and two on in the third, Mickey, batting right-handed, golfed a low pitch that sailed over the left-field wall.
Giancarlo Stanton – 504 Feet, on August 6, 2016
Mickey's blast traveled 425 feet to the seat it broke 80 feet above the field. Once again, geometric calculations give us the 630 foot figure for the length of Mickey's blast if unimpeded. It turns out that the story of Mickey's historic drive was well known at Brooks Lumber. Paul Borders, a Brooks employee, saw exactly where the ball landed. Susman and fellow researcher Robert Schiewe calculated the distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem. This is the longest home run to have actually been measured from the point it was hit to the point at which it landed.
He passed Hank Aaron, who hit 755, on August 7, 2007. The only other players to have hit 700 or more are Babe Ruth with 714 and Albert Pujols with 703. Alex Rodriguez , Willie Mays , Ken Griffey Jr. , Jim Thome , and Sammy Sosa are the only other players to have hit 600 or more. This is a list of the 300 Major League Baseball players who have hit the most home runs.
While his career was on the decline with the Mets in 2002, Mo still provided the faithful with a blast from the past at Shea in their June 26th matchup with Atlanta. His moonshot was an estimated 505 feet, one of his 26 on the season upon his return from missing the previous year due to injury. It would be the last big blast we would see from Mo, but boy was she a rocket. In a home game for the Red Sox at Fenway Park, Ramirez got around on an offering from Blue Jay left-hander Chris Michalak and made sure he didn’t miss a single piece of it. He crushed it off of the light fixture high above the green monster in left field and atop of the Coca-Cola bottles that sit just below the lights. It was his second home run of the day and one of his 41 homers in his first year in Boston.
According to ESPN's findings, the ball landed on a fan's straw hat deep in the right field bleachers. The ball would have kept going, lending to a final true-distance calculation of 530 feet. "The ball assumed what can only be called a majestic arc and landed on the left-field roof in Tiger Stadium," Ryan wrote.
Either way, everyone can agree he hit the ball very far. William Jenkinson, researchers estimated the fabled fly ball at 573 feet, and the New York Times originally reported a 630-foot flight. Jenkinson's findings serve as the basis for the used mark of 530 feet. As MLB.com's Ben Weinribnoted, the blast marked the longest homer since MLB installed Statcast in all stadiums in 2015. The new system pinpointed a 115.8-mph exit velocity with a launch angle of 18.3 degrees.
According to Statcast, someone soon to follow topped Mike Piazza's 496-foot homer from Sept. 26, 1997, as the longest home run in Coors Field history. June 3, 1987, which reportedly went a staggering 582 feet. He made the majors the next season but lasted just 156 games with the Milwaukee Brewers.
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