On June 20, 1956 – At Detroit’s Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle poles two Billy Hoeft pitches into the right CF bleachers, something no other player had done since the bleachers were built in the late 1930s. New York wins, 7 – 4.
Mickey Mantle is first player to hit homers into RC bleachers at Briggs
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