Mickey Mantle
MONTCLAIR, NJ - APRIL 29: Danny Mantle (L), Brandon Steiner (2nd L) and Joe Pepitone (3rd L) attend the press conference announcing Mickey Mantle Signed Contract Auction To Assist Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund at Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center on April 29, 2013 in Montclair, New Jersey.
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The Yankees think Mickey Mantle is something new. They forget Reiser ... Maybe Pete Reiser was the purest ball player of all time. I don’t know. There is no exact way of measuring such a thing, but when a man of incomparable skills, with full knowledge of what he is doing, destroys those skills and puts his life on the line in the pursuit of his endeavor as no man in his game ever has, perhaps he is the truest of them all.
We can no longer remain silent ... The statements and suggestions that Dad used a corked bat more than 49 years ago, to cheat at a game he worshipped, are false. Let us be clear: Dad didn't need, and never used, a corked bat.
I bet it's better than what you wrote about me.More quotes »
Newsday's coverage
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Anatomy of a weird triple play
's Johnny Roseboro and threw to third baseman Bobby Cox , who doubled off Tony Oliva . Cox fired to first baseman Mickey Mantle , who recorded the out against Bob Allison . It happened on a Monday night with 7,238 people in the stands.Friday's feat was remarkable Read more »
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David Wright honored but says he's no Derek Jeter
the rest of his playing days with the Mets.The Yankees have retained a procession of franchise players -- Joe DiMaggio , Mickey Mantle and Derek Jeter donned nothing but pinstripes -- but the Mets had never culled one of their own until Wright."To me, he's Read more »
Around the web
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Bryce Harper: A crash course in history
out than one of his later Dodger teammates, Jackie Robinson. In one season, Reiser stole home eight times. "The Yankees think Mickey Mantle is something new. They forget Reiser," wrote Heinz. "Maybe Pete Reiser was the purest ball player of all time. I don't from New Haven Register Read more »
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Corked bat, allegedly Mantle's, pulled from auction
YORK, May 14 (UPI) -- A sports memorabilia company pulled an illegally corked bat, allegedly Mickey Mantle 's, from auction after a statement of complaint by the Mantle family. Grey Flannel Auctions removed the announcement of the auction of the bat, and its from United Press International Read more »
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The Time Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays Did a Dual Interview for Esquire
the photo shoot. Willie made rabbit ears behind Mantle's head; Mickey reciprocated with his middle finger. On January 7, 1968, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays put in an appearance at a sporting goods fair at the New Yorker Hotel. By that time, they had become from The Atlantic Read more »
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Marshals to Tiger: Don't Blame Us
is the golfer and there is the man, and both are great, as Jay Gatsby was great, as Barry Bonds and Mickey Mantle and Michael Jordan were great. Can you imagine someone more exciting and flawed and unknowable than Tiger Woods? For a half-hour there at the from Real Clear Sports Read more »
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Bronx Banter Book Excerpt: Mickey and Willie
stands as the best thing ever written about him. Also published in 2010 was Jane Leavy’s Mantle biography, The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood, the most detailed of the nine versions of his life. There are also six volumes of autobiography, from SNY.tv Read more »
