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Mickey was batting left-handed against the Athletics' right-handed pitcher Bill Fischer.

joe, how could you leave the heart of that team, Mad Dog Dick McCaulife. suspended for 5 gsmes that year and the Tigers lost all 5. Loved Mac.

So true! #3!!! With that stance and elbows at nose level! Forgot his suspension, but remember Kaline slamming the bat rack injuring his hand during the late stretch! This year, those pesky Indians keep winning. I live in Virginia now, and will never, ever root again for Mad Max Scherzer..... Verlander came from a little town about 20 miles from here.

Martin clocked him.........ok?

+isukaman False. It was a high, magestic blast into the upper deck just like The Mick said. Sports Illustrated has an article about it here: www.si.com/mlb/2010/10/29/micky-mantlebook

+Randy Bailin you are an idiot.

+pamela laporte As close as you were to the field in Tiger Stadium you could hear a lot of the player/ump conversations. I remember Earl Weaver cussing out an ump and it was like we were in the same room!

Armando Gallegos You are correct.

Armando Gallegos The entire post McLain, Mcmahon, etc

1968 Tiger Reunion - On You Tube, McClain tells his version of the story and - yep , Price was catching that day...I got Jim Price's autograph that summer at Topp's on Telegraph near Schoolcraft.

+Armando Gallegos I just Googled when Tom tresh was traded and it said Jun 14 1969. about a week after mantle day. mantle day was Jun 9. now that you mention it, im not positive that it was bat day/mantle day. i did go to both and i still have my ticket, but was it the same day.???? went to so many games years ago. we're talking almost 50 yrs ago..... have to google it. i was at some epic games though. i was at reggies 3 homer game in ws oct 77. David wells perfect game, clemens 300th win and the final game of 96 ws. trying to remember if it was bat day

yes i was . and when joe d got his 56th hit . i also caught the mantle 565 ft homer too. lol

no but heres my ticket from david wells perfect game . i save everything. i had to dig it out of the goodies box then take a pic of it, in front of the perfect game poster. i had copies of the tickets frame in the poster. then upload it to google and set it as photo. just so you dont think im full of it armondo.. but i did catch babe ruths called shot in chicago in 1932. lol

+Armando Gallegos I attended mt first big league game on September 6, 1969. Tom Tresh homered to win the game in extra innings for the Tigers. The announcer boomed: TOM (crack) TRESH! The crack was Tresh hitting the ball. Something I'll never forget.

story is true because I think mclain was fined

Yes, Tom, Mickey really hit a ball 565-feet. On April 17, 1953 at Griffith Stadium in Washington Mickey blasted a 565-foot home run out of the park batting right handed. In left-field there was a billboard for National Bohemian beer. The ball grazed the right-hand edge of the billboard, crossed the street that ran adjacent to the ballpark, and carried down the street that ran perpendicular into Griffith Stadium where it landed in the back yard of the third house down. Yankees PR Director Red Patterson, one of the great PR men in baseball, saw Mickey's homer from the press box and immediately saw its potential for publicity. He ran down the ramps from the press box to the street level, ran around the ballpark to where the ball left the park and began his search for the ball. Up the street he saw 10-year-old Donald Dunaway on his bicycle. He asked him if he saw the ball and Dunaway immediately took him to the spot in the yard of the third house, showed him the depression in the grass where the ball landed, and the ball itself, which he had retrieved. Red measured the distance to the point where it left the ball park, then consulted the blueprints to determine the distance from home plate to the point where it left the park. Total? 565-feet. However, AP picked up the story and made a typo, writing that the ball traveled 562-feet. That headline was picked up by many newspapers, thus the distance is remembered as 562-feet by many people. But the official distance, per Yankees' PR Director Red Patterson, who measured it, was 565-feet. It's listed in the Guinness Book of Sports Records as the longest home run hit in a regular season game that was measured at the time. But this was hardly Mickey's longest home run. During spring training in 1951 (for some reason the Yankees traded spring training facilities with the Giants, so the Yankees trained in Arizona and the Giants in Florida that spring only) The Mick hit two mammoth blasts at Bovard Field at USC (the University of Southern California) on the Yankees barnstorming tour of California toward the end of the spring, both hit left-handed. The first cleared the fence in left-center-field, crossed an adjacent football field, landed a few feet in front of a short wall that bordered the football practice field area, bounced over the wall and disappeared. The ball was seen land by legendary USC coach Rod Dedeaux and center-fielder Tom Riach. Both went out separately and pointed to the spot where the ball landed. The spots they pointed to were less than two feet apart. The distance from home plate to where the ball landed measured an astounding 656-feet. Mickey later blasted an opposite field homer that left the park in right-field, crossed the adjacent street, carried down the street that ran perpendicular into the park, and struck the second-floor porch of the third house down the street. The estimated distance of that shot was 550 feet, possibly the longest opposite field home run ever hit. Mick drove in seven runs in that game. It should be noted that he hit several other amazingly long home runs that spring, including a shot at Seals Stadium in San Francisco where only Joe DiMaggio had ever hit one. He also hit long home runs in Sacramento and El Paso, Texas, where the team played while making its way back to New York. But Mantle's legendary home runs don't stop there. In Detroit on Sept. 10, 1960, batting left-handed against Paul Foytack of the Tigers at Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Mickey launched a dramatic cannon-shot of a home run that cleared the roof above the third deck in right-field, sailed over the street that ran adjacent to the park (Trumbull Avenue), and carried deep into the Brooks Lumber yard. Paul Borders, an employee at the lumber yard, was almost struck by the ball. Some years later researcher Paul Susman returned to the park to determine the length of Mickey's homer. Borders had passed away, but he had shown his good friend Sam Cameron the exact spot where the ball landed, which was 91 feet inside the lumber yard lot. Mr. Susman and mathematician Robert Schiewe measured two of the three legs of the right triangle of Mantle's blast, then used the Pythagorean theorem to determine the distance: 643 feet! While Ted Williams was the first to hit a ball to clear the right-field roof in Tiger Stadium, Mickey hit the 2nd, 3rd and 4th, in 1956, 1958 and the longest of them all in 1960. The 9/10/60 home run is listed in the 1986 Edition of the Guinness Book of Sports Records as the longest home run hit in a regular season game that was measured after the fact. But Mantle himself did not call any of these the hardest ball he ever hit. He reserved that distinction for the ball he hit off the façade at Yankee Stadium on May 22, 1963 off Bill Fischer of Kansas City. (Mantle hit balls that struck the façade at Yankee Stadium five times in his career: 9/12/51 off Virgil Trucks, 8/7/55 off Babe Birrer, 5/5/56 off Moe Burtschy, 5/30/56 off Pedro Ramos, 6/23/57 off Dick Donovan and 5/22/63 off Bill Fischer.) The ball missed leaving the park by mere inches, bouncing off the façade and all the way back to the infield near second base. The distance from home plate to where the ball hit the façade was 360-feet. The distance from the façade to where the ball first struck the field was around 250 feet. Of course the ball hit the façade, which absorbed a good deal of its energy. Mathematicians and physicists have calculated that, had the ball not hit the façade, it would have traveled anywhere from 680-734 feet. The lower number would be the distance if the ball was at its apex when it struck the façade, However, the unanimous opinion of players from both teams, umpires and fans who were interviewed and questioned was that the ball was still rising when it struck the façade. A few inches can make a very big difference when calculating distance. Personally I believe 700-feet is a good estimate since there is every reason to believe that the ball would've risen at least another six inches. But many believe it would have gone much higher, which is why there is such a discrepancy in the estimates of how far it would have gone. So several of Mantle's monster blasts were actually measured, others were calculated. The Griffith Stadium blast coined the term, "Tape Measure Home Run," thanks primarily to Red Patterson, who had Mickey pose with him holding a large tape measure after the Griffith Stadium home run. This photo ran in perhaps hundreds of newspapers around the country, and a new phrase was born: The Tape Measure Home Run. The final answer to your question is, yes, Mickey Mantle definitely hit a 562-foot home run. But the truth is that he hit several balls further than that. Many of those weren't measured because, after Red Patterson left the Yankees, his replacement, Bob Fischel, just wasn't up to running after every monster homer Mickey hit. During one game Fischel ran down the ramps and around the ballpark to retrieve one particularly long home run to return to the press box, out of breath and perspiring heavily, only to find that The Mick had just slammed another one! Some have asked me how I can possibly believe a baseball could be hit 700 feet? My reasoning is as follows: We know Mickey hit homers that measured 565-feet, 643-feet and 656-feet. Mickey himself said that the "hardest ball I ever hit" was the home run that hit the façade on May 22, 1963. It traveled over 600 feet on the rebound (360 feet in the air to the façade, plus another 250 feet in the air back to the infield) and that was after losing a good portion of its return energy when it hit the façade. Taking all of this into account, along with the calculations made by experts, I have to give it to The Mick and believe him when he said it was the hardest ball he ever hit. In addition, in John Brenkus' book, "The Perfection Point," in which he examines the limits of athletic performance in a number of athletic endeavors including how fast a human can run (long distance and sprinting), swimming, holding one's breath, the high jump, the basketball dunk, driving a golf ball, weight lifting and hitting a baseball, he concludes that, with all factors lining up perfectly, a baseball could be hit 750-feet. Benkus' book is not opinion, but rather an analysis of athletic performance by medical specialists, sports doctors, physicists, mathematicians and sports medicine experts. Given their expertise and explanation of how they came to their conclusions, I have to accept their findings. That, along with The Mick's prior performance and his statement about the façade shot, I find that I can indeed accept that he may well have hit that ball 700 feet had it not struck the façade.