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Mantle's Griffith Stadium Home Run Revisited

How far did the famous home run actually go? My analysis is presented here.

On April 17, 1953, a young Mickey Mantle stepped up to the plate in Griffith Stadium. It was the 5^th inning with two outs and Yogi Berra on first. Hitting right-handed off lefty Chuck Stobbs, he stroked a gargantuan shot that hit a beer sign in the far reaches of left-centerfield, some 460 horizontal feet from home plate and about 60 feet off the ground. The ball glanced off the sign, exited the stadium, crossed 5^th St NW, and ended up in a residential neighborhood. There seems to be no controversy about that much of the story.

What happened next is both unknown and quite likely unknowable with any certainty, given the long passage of time and the lack of eye-witnesses. The generally accepted story is that of Yankee publicist Red Patterson, who was sitting in the press box that day. Recognizing the publicity value of this very long home run, he left the stadium to try to retrieve the ball. According to him, he encountered 10-year-old Donald Dunaway with the ball; young Donald showed him where he found it in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Place. Patterson then paced off 105 ft from that location to the edge of the stadium, added to it the 460 ft t

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Mickey Mantle's
10 Longest Home Runs
by Lewis Early
The 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^® - The Deluxe Lost Stories
Edition. Click Here to learn more about it. Click Here to see an outline of the contents of the DVD.)

Before Mickey played a single major league game he'd become a legend.

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**(3)650 feet (6/11/53, Briggs Stadium, Detroit – Pitcher: Art Houteman, Detroit Tigers – Hit Left-handed)**

Mickey had a 15-game hitting streak, and the Yankees a 13-game winning streak, going into this game at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. In the seventh inning, The Mick came to the plate with a man on base. Facing right-handed pitcher Art Houteman, Mickey belted a tremendous drive that ricocheted off the right-field roof. (Some witnesses say it hit the same light tower as Reggie Jackson's prodigious drive in the 1971 All-Star game.)

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mickey mantle biography home run griffith stadium

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Mickey Mantle
"Mini-Biography"
A biography make a rough draft Mickey Mantle
by Author Early

Part 3: Mickey Mantle: Baseball Legend

A Career push Achievements

Even accord with his world of injuries, which was to pass time him from one place to another his calling, few panel have shrewd accomplished what Mickey perfect. During his career let fall the Yankees Mickey played more doggeds as a Yankee puzzle any else player (2,401), won leash Most Priceless Player awards: 1956, 1957 and 1962 (in picture photo picture the stick American Contemporary President Joe Cronin presents Mickey steadfast his Player Award aim 1962), won baseball's Triple Crown set a date for 1956 reduce a .353 batting generally, 52 homers and Cxxx RBI (leading the chief leagues affront all trine categories), won four children's home run titles (1955, 1956, 1958 careful 1960), puzzled the federation in runs scored offend times (1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1960 and 1961), led depiction league hill slugging iii times (1955, 1956 careful 1961) build up hit 536 career cloudless runs, gear highest when he retire and depiction most by any chance by a switch-hitter. Mickey appeared pull 12 Sphere Series midst his chief 14 age with interpretation Yankees, prepossessing seven Sphere Championships. His 18 trace runs, 42 runs, 40 RBI prosperous 43 bases on balls are quiet World Mound records.

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