Mythology surrounding baseball home-run distances are as old as the game itself. In 1953, New York Yankees center fielder Mickey Mantle is believed ... ranking of the longest home runs in Derby ...

Determining the longest homer ever in MLB history is an exercise in myth-busting. Babe Ruth was said to have hit a home run over 600 feet. A Mickey Mantle homer was originally estimated to have ...

But it does recognize the original tape-measure home run hit by another Yankee. The longest-ever hit by the prodigious Mickey Mantle exited Washington’s Griffith Stadium on April 17, 1953.

Why? Because he could do stuff like this. That is a 514-foot blast, certainly long enough to get him on the top-10 longest home runs of all-time list. However, since this didn't happen in the ...

In the world of baseball, few moments create excitement like a colossal home run. The crack of the bat, the ball soaring into the distance and the eruption of the crowd capture the essence of ...