| Bibliographic Entry | Result (w/surrounding text) |
Standardized Result |
|---|---|---|
| Davids, Mark; Neff, Robert F.; Zitzewitz, Paul W. Physics Principles and Problems. United States. 1995: 152. | "A pitched ball is hit by a batter at a 45 °angle. It just clears the outfield fence, 98 m away. Find the velocity of the ball when it left the bat. Assume the fence is the same height as the pitch." | 98 m |
| Jenkinson, William J. The Home Run Encyclopedia. United States. 1996. | "Not surprisingly, all of the great true distance hitters have also been the source of the greatest exaggerations. Despite his extraordinary accomplishments, Babe Ruth is not immune. His tremendous blow to right-center field in Detroit on June 8, 1926, has often been reported as traveling over 600 feet. Certainly, this drive was propelled somewhere around 500 feet in the air, which makes it legitimately historic, but proof that it traveled 600 feet cannot be found." | 183 m |
| "When Mickey Mantle cleared the left-center-field bleachers at Clark Griffith Stadium in Washington on April 17, 1953, the entire baseball world was lead to believe the ball had traveled 565 feet from home plate to the point where it landed. In truth, the figure derived from the distance from home plate to the place where a neighborhood child retrieved the ball." | 172 m | |
| Kuenster, Bob. Baseball's Digest. United States. 2002. | "April 17: Mickey Mantle hits the longest measured home run when he hits a 565-foot blast off Chuck Stobbs of the Senators at Griffith Stadium in Washington." | 172 m |
| Early, Lewis. Mickey Mantle - Mini-Biography. United States. 1998-2002. | "No one in the history of the game has hit the ball farther than Mickey Mantle. His 565-foot home run hit at Griffith Stadium in Washington on April 17, 1953 is the home run that coined the term "tape measure home run." It's listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest home run ever measured." | 172 m |
| "Guinness also notes that Mickey's 643-foot homer hit at Detroit's Tiger Stadium on September 10, 1960 is the longest home run measured "mathematically after the fact." | 196 m | |
| "But neither of those home runs is Mickey's longest. In an exhibition game at the University of Southern California during his rookie spring training in 1951 Mickey walloped a 656-foot shot left-handed that left Bovard Field and crossed an adjacent football field." | 200 m |
Going, going, gone! These famous words are heard all around the United States in the famous game of baseball. Fans are fascinated by the plays, hits, and scoring. The most exciting aspect of the game is a home run. The distance of the longest batted baseball is said to be Mickey Mantle's home run in 1951. It was at spring training in an exhibition game at the University of Southern Carolina measuring at 656 feet (approximately 200 meters). However, there are disputes about this distance.
Some statisticians and baseball experts believe that Mickey Mantle's 565-foot (approximately 172 meters) blast off Chuck Stobbs of the Senators in Washington in 1953 was the longest batted baseball ever. This measurement is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest home run ever measured. Guinness also clarifies that Mickey Mantle's home run measured at 643 feet (approximately 196 meters) is the longest home run measured "mathematically after the fact." This home run was hit at Tiger Stadium in Detroit on September 10, 1960.
Home runs that are hit out of the ball park are measured from where the batter stands to where the ball lands. Therefore, the distances are not accurately measured and are approximations. Mickey Mantle hit some of the longest home runs in the major leagues. His shots that reached over 600 feet set new records in the world of baseball.
Olga Margolina -- 2004