Although his injury affected his upper cut from the right side, it still can be said he was not injured in 1958. He also hit 26 home runs and recorded 136 runs batted in. On May 22, Mantle hit a line-drive home run off the third-tier facade at Yankee Stadium, the closest that any hitter had come to hitting a fair ball out of the park. Mickey Mantle 1967 - 500th Home Run as aired on WPIX-TV, 5/14/1967 YanksAtShea 6.23K subscribers Subscribe 12K 2.4M views 10 years ago YanksAtShea is very proud to present on its 45th. He delivered a farewell speech on Mickey Mantle Day, June 8, 1969, at Yankee Stadium. http://www.courtsidetweets.comMickey Mantle of the New York Yankees may have been on the other side of his career in 1965, but that didn't stop him from bein. In his sophomore year, he was kicked on the left shin during a practice game, and he developed osteomyelitisan infectious disease that was incurable just a few years earlierin his left ankle. [23][24] Mantle had high hopes that 1953 would be a breakout year but his momentum was stopped by an injury. Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park, Dallas, TX, High School: Commerce HS (Commerce, OK), Debut: The Yankees defeat the Kansas City Athletics 7-4 in a game that lasts only 95 minutes because of rain delays. Little, Brown & Company. document.write(update); During Game 5 of the 1956 World SeriesDon Larsen's perfect game against the Brooklyn DodgersMantle kept the perfect game alive by making a running catch of a deep fly ball off the bat of Gil Hodges, and provided the first of the two runs the Yankees would score with a fourth-inning home run off Brooklyn starter Sal Maglie. Mantle played center field full-time for the Yankees until 1965, when he was moved to left field. $2.19. He is the only player to win a league Triple Crown as a switch hitter. Do you remember who it was? Mantle became a Christian when his former teammate Bobby Richardson, a Baptist, shared his faith with him. Mantle batted left-handed against his father when his father pitched to him right-handed, and he batted right-handed against his grandfather, Charles Mantle, when he pitched to him left-handed. 20 - Mickey Mantle played in the majors for eighteen years, and was not sent to the Midsummer Classic in 1951, or 1966, yet he did appear in twenty All-Star Games! Mantle was interred in the Mantle Family Mausoleum, located in the St. Matthew Section of the Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery in Dallas. [36] When he retired, Mantle was third on the all-time home-run list with 536,[34] and he was the Yankees' all-time leader in games played with 2,401, a record that would be broken by Derek Jeter on August 29, 2011.[37]. [citation needed] Another Mantle homer, hit right-handed off Chuck Stobbs at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. on April 17, 1953, was measured by Yankees traveling secretary Red Patterson (hence the term "tape-measure home run") to have traveled 565 feet (172m). Count 'em . Mantle was able to hit for both average and power,[4] especially tape-measure home runs,[5] a term that was born when a play-by-play caller reacted to one of Mantle's 1953 home runs. August 13, 1995 On December 23, 1951, Mantle married Merlyn Johnson (19322009) in Picher, Oklahoma; they had four sons. In the second game of the 1951 World Series, New York Giants rookie Willie Mays hit a fly ball to right-center field. 376 - Mickey Mantle had a league leading 376 total bases in 1956, setting the American League (and Major League) record for most total bases in a season by a switch hitter. Did you know that when Mick, his nickname, made his big league debut on April 17, 1951, he became the first Commerce High School (Commerce, Oklahoma) graduate to play in the majors? You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. Mutt drove up to Kansas City that day. making a donation to Baseball Almanac : He was of at least partial English ancestry; his great-grandfather George Mantle left Brierley Hill, in England's Black Country, in 1848. Beginning in high school, he suffered both acute and chronic injuries to bones and cartilage in his legs. Mickey Mantle was 19 years young when he played his first game for the New York Yankees. "[18], After a brief slump, Mantle was sent down to the Yankees' top farm team, the Kansas City Blues. "[20] Mantle immediately broke out of his slump, and went on to hit .361 with 11 homers and 50 RBIs during his stay in Kansas City. 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Other times, he would leave fake snakes, bugs, or frogs around for Phil Rizzuto to find. [citation needed], On January 16, 1961, Mantle became the highest-paid player in baseball by signing a $75,000 (equivalent to $680,000 in 2021) contract. One of the 1952 cards (Topps; #311; SGC MT 9.5) sold for $12.6 million in August 2022. Krause Publications. He was selected an All-Star for the eleventh consecutive season and played in the first game,[3] but because of a recurrence of an old injury, he did not play in the second game. On August 28, 2011, Derek Jeter passed The Mick and finished his career the new all-time leader with 2,747 regular season games played the most in New York Yankees' history. [10] He was selected an "All-Star" for the first time and made the AL team, but did not play in the five-inning All-Star game that had Boston Red Sox Dom DiMaggio at center field. Mantle was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1974. [10] In 1948, Yankees scout Tom Greenwade came to Baxter Springs to watch Mantle's teammate, third baseman Willard "Billy" Johnson. 2007 Topps #MHR293 Mickey Mantle . July 22, 1955, County Stadium, Milwaukee - Pitcher Robin Roberts 2. Mantle appeared in 12 World Series including seven championships, and he holds World Series records for the most home runs (18), RBIs (40), extra-base hits (26), runs (42), walks (43), and total bases (123). Some defensive statistics Copyright Sports Info Solutions, 2010-2023. After its presentation by Joe DiMaggio, Mantle gave a similar plaque to DiMaggio, telling the crowd, "Joe DiMaggio's deserves to be higher." Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1974, Mantle was the third player from Oklahoma sent to Cooperstown! In 1998, The Sporting News placed Mantle at 17th on its list of baseball's 100 greatest players. [66] He established the Mickey Mantle Foundation to raise awareness for organ donations. [75], On Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium, June 8, 1969, Mantle's number 7 was retired and he was a awarded a bronze plaque to be hung on the center field wall near the monuments to Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Miller Huggins. 91 - Mickey Mantle was the ninety-first ballplayer from the state of Oklahoma. [10] He hit .267 with 13 home runs and 65 RBI in 96 games. [6] He hit 536 career home runs, batted .300 or more ten times, and is the career leader (tied with Jim Thome) in walk-off home runs, with 13: 12 in the regular season and one in the postseason. He called his father saying, "I don't think I can play baseball anymore." One Yankee, in 2018, collected two inside the parkers do you remember who it was? The next day his father appearead unannounced in Mantle's hotel room and started packing a suitcase, jamming Mantle's clothes into it. On August 25, 1996, about a year after his death, Mantle's Monument Park plaque was replaced with a monument bearing the words "A great teammate" and keeping a phrase that had been included on the original plaque: "A magnificent Yankee who left a legacy of unequaled courage." Like Mickey, Merlyn and three of their sons became alcoholics,[56] and Billy developed Hodgkin's disease, as had several previous men in Mantle's family. A school in Manhattan was renamed for Mantle on June 4, 2002. We present them here for purely educational purposes. His knee twisted awkwardly and he instantly fell. 7th inning (53), His football playing nearly ended his athletic career. He is bringing that magic and mystique back to the team, and was a natural fit for card number seven." Mantle had his breakout season in 1956 after showing progressive improvement each of his first five years. On top of all that, he set World Series records for home runs (18), runs (42), RBI (40), total bases (125) and bases on . [citation needed], Early in 1995, doctors discovered that Mantle's liver had been severely damaged by both alcohol-induced cirrhosis and hepatitis C. They also discovered that he had an inoperable liver cancer known as undifferentiated hepatocellular carcinoma, which further necessitated a liver transplant. He is the only player in history to hit 150 home runs from both sides of the plate. "[66] Richardson read the poem at Mantle's funeral, which he described as being extremely difficult. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. Did you know that Mickey Mantle appeared in 74 games at home, had 230 at-bats, drove in 59 runs, scored 63 times, had 76 hits (8 doubles / 6 triples / 24 home runs), walked 66 times (6 intentional), struck out 44 times, was hit by a pitcher 0 times, sacrificed 3 times (1 hits & 2 flies), and finished at home with a .330 batting average, .476 on You can work back down there." Maris did not follow suit, and many in the press viewed him as surly. The low batting average caused his lifetime average to dip below .300, which caused him anguish the next year as he worked with a statistician to review all of his at-bats since 1951, hoping to find enough uncounted hits to elevate his average to .2995, but his lifetime average remained .298. [52] In 1983, he worked at the Claridge Resort and Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey as a greeter and community representative. Overall, he hit slightly more home runs away (270) than home (266). As a muscular, 5-11,' 195-pound baseball player, Mickey Mantle packed amazing power into his swings, and during his career would hit some memorable 500-foot-plus home run shots. Author. ", Mickey Mantle Rookie Card | 1951 Bowman Baseball Card (#253 | Checklist)Baseball Almanac Research Library. Mantle hit some of the longest home runs in Major League history. [Mickey Mantle Quotes], Mickey 'The Commerce Comet' Mantle Autograph on a 1983 Donruss Hall of Fame Heroes Baseball Card (#43), Mickey Mantle Miscellaneous Items of Interest. Mantle was the starting center fielder in the second All-Star Game's lineup, getting a single and a walk in four at bats. Madden, Bill. 6th inning (58), His on-base percentage at one point, reached .537. Copyright 1999- "During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. Out of frustration, he called his father one day and told him, "I don't think I can play baseball anymore." In that season, he also hit another long home run at Yankee Stadium to left-center field that was reported to have traveled 502 feet. He also hit his second All-Star Game home run that season. "No boy ever loved his father more," he said. 146 - Mickey Mantle was walked 146 times in 1957, the most bases on balls awarded a switch-hitter during a single season in Major League history. Mantle became the highest-paid active player of his time. He hit one over the right center field roof at Briggs Stadium, which is said to have traveled 643 feet. He called his father saying, "I don't think I can play baseball anymore." Mantle served as a part-time color commentator on NBC's baseball coverage in 1969, teaming with Curt Gowdy and Tony Kubek to call some Game of the Week telecasts as well as that year's All-Star Game. Do you remember what player hit the first regular season / official home run (April 12, 1965) in the Astrodome? Or write about sports? In 1956, Mantle had a career high .705 slugging average, the Major League record for highest slugging average by a switch hitter in a single season. But Mickey wasn't finished. Over the course of time, however, Mantle (with a little help from his teammate Whitey Ford, a native of Queens) had learned to deal with the New York media and had gained the favor of the press. I'll swear I expect to see that boy just take off and fly any time. Mantle was also known for his incredible ability to avoid grounding into double plays. Two Armed Forces physicals were ordered, including a highly publicized exam on November 4, 1952, which was brought on by his All-Star selection, that ended in a final rejection. [Mickey Mantle Quotes] Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Mickey Mantle 2006 Topps Multi-Year Issue Home Run History #MHR293 New York at the best online prices at eBay! Despite the fears of those who knew him that this tragedy would send him back to drinking, Mantle remained sober. Mantle was selected an All-Star every season during his 18-year career except 1951 and 1966, and did not play in the 1952, 1963, and 1965 seasons. But he struggled with the Yankees and was sent down to their farm team in Kansas City, where he went 0 for 22 in a strong slump. Mantle was one of the greatest offensive threats in baseball history and is considered to be one of the best baseball players of all time. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball." Some now call this his last home run at Yankee Stadium. 376 - Mickey Mantle had a league leading 376 total bases in 1956, setting the American League (and Major League) record for most total bases in a season by a switch hitter. [12] Mantle spoke warmly of his father and said that he was the bravest man whom he had ever known. Who did Topps select? Mantle was the uncle of actor and musician Kelly Mantle. [30] In 1964, Mantle hit .303 with 35 home runs and 111 RBIs, and played center field in the All-Star game. The Daily News reported it as a 502-foot homer. Mickey Mantle Memories and Memorabilia. "TELEVISION: Summerall's Struggle with Alcohol" (, "THE DEATH OF A HERO; Mantle's Cancer 'Most Aggressive' His Doctors Had Seen", "Sports of The Times; Mickey Mantle's Cancer", "Questions Are Raised On Mantle Transplant", "Mickey Mantle, Great Yankee Slugger, Dies at 63", "Merlyn Mantle, widow of Mickey, dies at 77", "Cheers, Tears Ring For Mantle As Uniform No. the official stats partner of the NBA, NHL and MLB. [50], After the failure of Mickey Mantle's Country Cookin' restaurants in the early 1970s, the popular Mickey Mantle's Restaurant & Sports Bar opened in New York at 42 Central Park South (59th Street) in 1988. 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