On March 11, 1956, New York Yankee icon Mickey Mantle hit a spring training homer off Larry Jackson in Al Lang Field (where you could still see spring games through 2008) in St. Petersburg, Fla., over the wall and into the bay.
Stan Musial, playing left field for the Cardinals in this game, claimed that, “No home run has ever cleared my head by as much…”
Mize the Magnificent
Johnny Mize and Rube Foster were elected to the Hall of Fame on March 11, 1981.