{"id":3462,"date":"2010-04-17T21:57:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T21:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3462"},"modified":"2025-09-28T01:22:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T01:22:16","slug":"57-years-ago-today-mickey-mantle-hit-the-longest-home-run-in-baseball-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3462","title":{"rendered":"57 years ago today, Mickey Mantle hit the longest home run in baseball history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or at least that is the contention of some people. No one is actually&nbsp;certain the ball went 565 feet in the air. it did exit Tiger Stadium. Mantle was 21. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hypertextbook.com\/facts\/2004\/EricaRosenthal.shtml\">&#8220;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 &#8220;tape measure home run.&#8221; It&#8217;s listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest home run ever measured.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/6a00d834525a2f69e201347ff2cabb970c-320wi.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11219\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or at least that is the contention of some people. No one is actually&nbsp;certain the ball went 565 feet in the air. it did exit Tiger Stadium. Mantle was 21. &#8220;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11220,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions\/11220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}