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.
He had three grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. He died of natural causes March 20, 2007 at age 94 in the Redwood City care home where he had lived for the prior three years. Baez had been divorced from his wife, Joan Bridge Baez, for several years, at the time of his death.