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Dec 5, 2022 · Mickey Mantle was only the fifth player in history to get a deal worth that much. On May 22, 1963, the Yankees and Athletics were playing Kansas City at Yankee Stadium. The score was 7-7 going into the bottom of the 11th inning. Mickey Mantle hit left-handed, and a fastball from Bill Fischer hit the right-field roof just two feet from the top.
Aug 21, 1995 · Mickey Mantle, with his death Sunday at 63, passes from these pages forever and becomes the property of anthropologists, people who can more properly put the calipers to celebrity, who can more accurately track the force of personality. We can't do it anymore, couldn't really do it to begin with. He batted this, hit that. You can look it up.
Mar 25, 2011 · The home run that launched the myth of Mickey Mantle. By Baxter Holmes. March 25, 2011 12 AM PT. It was the first inning, one runner aboard, the count at two balls and two strikes, and Tom Lovrich ...
Mickey Mantle was a star from the start, parlaying a talent for the game and boyish good looks into iconic status. In spite of a series of devastating injuri...
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Aug 13, 2015 · Aug 13, 2015. This story originally appeared in the Aug. 21, 1995 issue of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. Mickey Mantle, with his death Sunday at 63, passes from these pages forever and becomes the property ...
Mickey Mantle's majestic power made him the favorite of most Yankees fans. His 536 home runs, though a considerable number, are only tenth best in history. His 10 years of batting above .300 are ...
Mickey Mantle (far left) was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974, five years after he retired. (National Baseball Hall of Fame) “For the first time in nearly 50 years there is no Yankee superstar,” Robert Markus of the Chicago Tribune wrote in his column. “It all started with Babe Ruth and then the Babe was joined by ...
