This Week in Baseball History: Mickey Mantle's Longest Home Run. Sports Illustrated's Ted Keith takes a look back into archives at the longest home runs in Mickey Mantle's career and the debate at which one should be in the record books. Recommended.
exists and is an alternate of . Israel Kamakawiwo'ole died at age 38 from complications of severe obesity on June 26th, 1997. He was the only non goverment official to lay in state at the Hawaiian State Capitol Building in Honolulu. Israel Kamakawiwo'ole died at age 38 from complications of severe obesity on June 26th, 1997.
Hawaiian ukulele musician Israel Kamakawiwo'ole recorded this in a medley with  What A Wonderful World  for his 1993 album Facing Forward. This version was used in the films Finding Forrester, Meet Joe Black, and 50 First Dates, as well as on the television show ER. Kamakawiwo'ole, more often known as IZ, was very obese, weighing about 750 pounds at one point, and he died from respiratory illness connected with his weight.