1961 Topps # 406 Mantle Blasts 565 FT. Home Run

[DrSatanis]

Gentlemen...we have been tasked to do our own version of the Warren Commission Report for this...it is our duty as collectors.

[doug.goodman]

The link I posted from the HOF notes that 565 included travel after it landed

[jingram058]

Originally Posted by doug.goodman

The link I posted from the HOF notes that 565 included travel after it landed

Who cares this far removed from the event. Topps made a really cool card of it.

[Beercan collector]

Hitting a beer sign 460 feet away is good enough for me .

[GasHouseGang]

Originally Posted by Beercan collector

Hitting a beer sign 460 feet away is good enough for me .

Shouldn't Mantle have won some free beer? Like that sign they used to have in the outfield at one of the ballparks. Hit this sign and win a free suit. Was that what it was?

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Originally Posted by GasHouseGang

Shouldn't Mantle have won some free beer?

They could have at least given him a dollar.

[jp1216]

Looked up more on the weather on April 17, 1953 in D.C.
Typical Spring day. Temps in the 60s with a strong wind out of the west. Found some hourly data which doesn't account for gusts. The ball certainly had a push along the way.

[ASF123]

Originally Posted by GasHouseGang

Shouldn't Mantle have won some free beer? Like that sign they used to have in the outfield at one of the ballparks. Hit this sign and win a free suit. Was that what it was?

Pretty sure having to pay for beer was not much of an issue for the Mick.

[oldjudge]

Interesting article. So the professor concludes that the minimum distance the ball could traveled was 538 feet. That includes losing velocity by glancing off a sign. It makes it appear that if the ball had not clipped the sign it might have traveled over 565 feet and even ignoring the loss of velocity from glancing off the sign it could have traveled 565 feet.