The tale of Mickey Mantle's 1st HR, which went 600 feet and landed among the monkeys? (opens original article in a new tab)

Mickey Mantle's first professional home run in 1949 is said to have traveled 600 feet and landed near Monkey Island in Independence, Kansas, where a monkey later became the first to survive space travel.

• Mickey Mantle hit his first professional home run in 1949 at Shulthis Stadium in Independence, Kansas.
• The home run is legendarily said to have traveled 600 feet and landed near Monkey Island in the Independence Zoo.
• A rhesus monkey from the same zoo, Miss Able, became the first primate to survive space travel in 1959.