Chuck Stobbs

Charles Klein Stobbs (July 2, 1929 – July 11, 2008) was a right-handed pitcher who spent fourteen seasons in Major League Baseball with the Boston Red Sox (1947–51), Chicago White Sox (1952), Washington Senators (1953–58, 1959–61), and St. Louis Cardinals (1958). A native of West Virginia raised in Norfolk, Virginia, Stobbs starred in football, basketball, and baseball at Granby High School, earning all-state honors in all three sports. He is best remembered as the pitcher who surrendered Mickey Mantle's estimated 565-foot home run at Griffith Stadium in 1953 — widely recognized as the first tape-measure home run of the live-ball era.