No showboating from the Mick was one of his best attributes. Many players, from this era, should watch how this great ballplayer conducted himself on the field.
more like limped around the bases, especially in 64. He was never the same after blowing out his knee in 51 and they did not have the ability to repair an ACL back then
Mantle was far from pure class. He even said himself that people should try not to be like him. I say this as somebody whose favorite player of all time is Mantle. He was our imperfect king
An era of baseball that I sorely miss. Mantle, Mays, Aaron, Kaline, Killebrew, Robinson. They hit home runs, circled the bases with class, never disrespecting their opponents. Same goes for the NFL!!! Too many Divas, lacking sportsmanship and professionalism.
I'm 75 now and Mickey wasn't so much a hero to me because growing up in Cape Cod, Ma. I was a diehard Red Sox fan from around the time Ted Williams' HOF career ended, and Yaz' HOF career started. Mickey, along with players like Mays, Koufax, Aaron, Ford etc, were players we respected, and loved it when we got their Topps baseball card.
Thank you so much for putting this together! Growing up Mickey was my hero. I actually called his home run off of Barney Schultz in the '64 World Series. My mom looked at me and said, how did you know that he was going to hit a home run? My 13 year old answer to her was, he's Mickey Mantle.
Great video. Mickey was my boyhood idol too. Browing up in N. Jersey in the '50 and '60's, I saw Mantle, Mays and Snider. Three of the greatest centerfielders of all time. To me back then, baseball was life. We shared the same birthday, although Mick was a few years before me. I can remember when he struck out in the '60 series and crying like a baby! I recommend a great book he wrote call "All My Octobers". Details of his world series exploits. To this day, he had one of the best lines of all time. "If I knew I was going to live this long, I'dve taken better care of myself". To this day, I have pictures of Mick on the walls of a spare bedroom in my home!
@@donhuber9131 Yes, Mickey noticed that his knuckleball was coming in flat when Barney was warming up. Mickey told Elston Howard in the on deck circle to go sit down. Elston thought he had lost his mind. Mickey hit the first pitch into the right field upper deck. It sounded like a cannon shot. Barney Schultz never looked. He just walked toward the St. Louis Cardinals dugout.
im 76 now grew up watching mickey mantle and to this day nobody hit homeruns like mantle no one,,,and after all those years he still holds record for most homeruns hit in world series play.
You're absolutely right - Mickey Mantle home runs were distinctive - it was like you could almost feel the incredible power he hit with. Lots of great ballplayers, lots of great home run hitters, but nobody like the Mick. 😁
I was born and raised in the Bronx. Naturally I'm a huge Yankee and Mickey Mantle fan. Played a lot of ball growing up and Mickey was my baseball idol. I was fortunate enough to be at the stadium when the Yankees retired his number in June of 1969. I also met him in May of 1987 in Walden NY at a card show. I almost had the opportunity of bringing him to the card show but I missed the chance. I still was able to get him to autograph a baseball, a painting of The Mick by Robert Steven Simon and I took a polaroid photo of him as he signed my items. I was eight years old when I came home from school and watched him hit WS homerun #16. I fell in love with the Mick at that moment. And just think about this. He was a well known alcoholic who and I quote "What most people don't understand about the Mick is that he played his entire career on one leg". The quote was made by Hank Aaron when he was asked about Mickey when he died and what he thought of his career. The Mick tore his ACL in the 1951 WS. Just imagine what he might have done sober and without a torn ACL. As far as I'm concerned most of the players today like 99.9% of them could not carry The Micks jock!!!!!
I read about that freak injury. I read that the injury tore ALL THREE knee ligaments... ACL, MCL and ??? I don't know how he came back from that for 17 more seasons. I wonder if such a "Sword of Damacles" hanging over his head contributed to the drinking.
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My dad took me to Yankee Stadium in the mid to late 50s to see the Mick. Batting righty, he lined a grand slam home run down the right field line. Needless to say, but what a thrill for a kid born in 1950. Mickey will always be my hero!
Truth be known, I was born in Chicago but grew up a Yankee fan because my mother and father were fans. I discovered that a lot of Americans became Yankee fans because of Mickey. He was the All-American hero to many people back then. I stopped following baseball around 2016 because I got sick and tired of the steroid controversy. The game will never be the same, but boy was it fun back then. Had a blast and happy to have met the many players back then in the 70's and 80's.
Here I am at the age of 76 and I am sending this video to my granddaughter so she can show my great-grandson who and what my baseball ⚾️ hero was all about. Never forgot his incredible power as a right-handed batter. Always a fan even as a boy from PA where most people just hated the Yankees. Those 60's teams were fantastic and Mickey was Marvel Comics superhero.
On the other hand, right field, at least in the Babes' day, was rather short, and lefties could pull a strong fly ball, just over the fence, at 300 feet.
Look at him leave the box and how he ran the bases, and got off the field head down. It was a better game. Guys are getting weighed down by jewelry nowadays.
Let's not forget the number of World Series home runs Mickey hit (18). He performed on the big stage. That's **World Series** home runs, not the newer "Post Season" HR stat. The Mick was the best!
I read more detail about Micky. Amazing story . What injuries he had. ACL his whole career and played with that .His power was unbelievable. Helping the Yankees win 7 World Series . What a player he was. It’s a shame he played in so my pain. Maybe that contributed to his alcoholism
Thanks for your time & effort in compiling this about Mantle. All his home runs were no doubters. No showboating around the bases, either. Good sportsmanship, unlike today's players.
Barry Bonds and Rickey Henderson are examples of non - team players . Neither Barry or Rickey would last a month in the NL in the 1960s as Gibson , Drysdale , Marichal , Bunning and Maloney would constantly knock them down after they saw their rotten attitude .@breadandcircuses8127
Thank you for posting! Every time I see Mickey Mantle the kid comes out in me. It brings a smile and a tear to my face as the memories return. In his prime Mickey was the greatest ballplayer I ever saw. I'm not embarrassed to say I got goosebumps watching this.
My father worked on the grounds crew at Municipal Stadium in Kansas City from 1960-63 and said "the Mick" was very easy going and always polite every time the Yankees came to town. Dad said he always had time to shoot the breeze with the guys and was never fat headed about anything.
Don't forget - there were no "wild cards" or divisional playoffs when Mantle played. The entire post season was seven games maximum. Some players now have been in more post season games than Mantle without ever getting to the Series, which is why I think post season stats are garbage unless you account for the years they're played.
In 1958, my Dad took me to my first NY Yankees game. He bought me a packet of 5x7 photos of all the players. The next morning, I taped them on my wall above my bed. They stayed there my entire childhood, AND all the players stayed on the team. I feel bad for sports loving children of today. Their favorite players leave all the time. As a sick child, Mickey Mantle's travails with injury were HUGELY inspiring and beneficial to my young ego, fraught with my own difficulties with health. Trading Mickey Mantle would have been devastating. He was my hero. His photo hangs on my office wall of inspiration.
I became a Yankee fan in 3rd grade when The Mick was banging them in 1952. I lived in the NYC suburbs. Almost every postseason the Yankees, Dodgers and Giants were in the series and at it each throats. It was a great time for baseball and a great place to be living.
Great clips. Some of Mickey's homers were massive clouts 😲 To perform as well as he did with the innumerable injuries that plagued him practically his entire career is a testament to his resilience and sheer willpower. RIP 🙏
Great video he was my Idol growing up can only imagine how good he could have been if no injuries & no demons, so impresed by how many opposite field home runs he hit & how far he hit them, his last one against Gibson in 64 was very impressive!
Me too. One day in 1968 I was working after school at a place with his name sake Mantel Brook Farms in DeSoto ,Texas just south of Dallas. One day the boss drives up they get out of the car, and guess who was with him. At 17 I got to shake his hand and talk with him for a little while. Never forget that day.
Mickey always said he did not want to show up the pitcher. He hit his HRs with class and acted like he had been there before and was just helping his teammates. A role model for a different generation. Too bad we somehow lost that. Thanks for creating this fantastic video of baseball history.
that's why 30-game winner, Denny McClain, had no problem serving up a gimme for Mantle's #535, passing Jimmie Foxx, which made him #3 on the All-Time Career HR list then.
Thank you for the video! Mickey was my first sports idol and I can remember as a 10 year old hiding a transistor radio under my pillow so I could listen to the Yankee games and hear each and every one of his at bats. My Dad let me borrow the family station wagon so I could go to Cooperstown and see him inducted into the Hall of Fame. This post brings back so many wonderful childhood memories and as I can see by the other comments, I am not alone!
Great video. Well done and thanks for posting. The years of Mantle & Maris playing together bring back great memories from my childhood. Both retired after the 68 season. I find it interesting that there was a 3 year gap between home run number 14 and number 15 for Mantle. I was not aware that he did not have a home run in the 61 or 62 World Series. I know he was injured towards the end of the 61 season but I don’t recall what his status was for the 62 World Series.
Regarding Mantle's final homer off Gibson. The closing frames of the video show Gibby walking off as though Johnny Keane had sent him to the showers. Gibson actually pitched a complete 7th game victory, although in truth the Yankees knocked the exhausted Gibson around in the final innings. This was the first series that I followed as a kid. One of Mantle's homers was back to back with Maris, very scary! Enjoyed watching our brilliant young outfielders, Brock, Flood and Shannon watch the home runs sail over the wall. If it looks like Mantle's home run off of ace reliever Barney Schultz was "slow pitch", it was because Schultz was a knuckleball specialist. He was usually quite effective. Usually...
I'm a Red Sox and still totally agree, it should be Mickey's trophy, hands down. I was a kid when I saw him homer at Fenway late in his career, utter thrill to this day.
The players today are in much better shape and care for their bodies better. Not sure if anyone was stronger than Mantle tho. Mantle did a lot of 12oz curls and was still better than most everyone today. Even with a torn up knee from that damn sprinkler, he played and ran like the wind. If he didn’t drink and the doctors then had today’s tech to fix his knee, there would probably be some unbreakable records. He was Mike Trout with Aaron Judge power and early Bonds speed and Tony Gwynn contact.
@breadandcircuses8127 He blamed some of those strike-outs on his being hung over!...and many powerful hitters try hard to swing for the fences. My favorite homer dude, Jimmy Wynn, has said that his dad raised him to take hard swings, every time!...it hurt his batting average, but helped his reputation as being the Toy Cannon he was called!
Mike Literas summed it well for me... Mike Trout is today's Mickey Mantle, but Mike takes care of himself and you never read of him having any bad vices. Too bad Mike Trout doesn't play for either LA, SF, St Louis or New York! He would have been in several WS by now.
He was my hero growing up in Havana an also 81 years old,used to to have his rookie card,but god knows what I did with it,nobody like him RIP,my all time hero.
Thanks for refreshing my memory! Ken Boyer also hit a grand slam in '64. It may have changed the outcome of the series. I think Boyer's was off of Al Downing. Both Boyer brothers played third base for their respective teams, which was also memorable!@@tonycsmith5655
@@donhuber9131 That was game 4 in NY. Al Downing was starting because Whitey Ford was injured in game One. Clete Boyer hit a homer in game 7, but the Yanks came up short. Even tho the Yankees lost it was a great World Series. A lot better than the 63 Series. Lol
Easily the best switch hitter all time. As a youngster I was a member of the Washington Senators Knothole Club, which gave me the opportunity to see every American League team play at Old Griffith Stadium. I joined it not to see the Senators but to see the M&M boys when they came to town. Mickey was bigger than life to me.
This is fantastic. Mickey Mantle was my 1st favorite Yankee hero. I became a Yankee fan in 1960 and cried the day that the Pirates beat the Yankees in the World Series. The next year I followed the Yankees on my transistor radio following the Home run race between Mantle and Maris. I wanted Mickey to win. He would have if he didn’t get hurt. GO YANKEES!!
Thanks for the work in putting that together. I was 2 months old when Mickey hit his 1st World Series homer. I turned 8 in the summer of 1960 and by then was a Yankee fan, just in time to Hear them lose to the Pirates in game 7. I had a very cool 3rd grade teacher who was a baseball fan and would allow the class to listen to the World Series games at low volume on the radio I only got to see him play once at the old Cleveland Municipal Stadium in 1965 where in a July double header, he belted one over the left field wall in the 2nd game. Downing had started that game, but got knocked out pretty early and Yanks lost. But I got to see my guy homer so not all was lost. Besides. Stottlemyre had shut Cleveland out the 1st game which made it a good day. Thanks again for the video.
Ol' Mick back in the 50's stepping up there with no gloves, or elbow guards or shin guards, with his felt cap belting them out of the park off the best pitchers of the day.
Loved watching the videos it took me back to my Grandfather and Father watching baseball games together in mid 50s and 60s into the 70s lots of good memories. It was interesting to see the 50s videos every one dressed up to go to the game.
I remember once being 11 or 12 years and on a Saturday afternoon I was lucky to watch a Yankees baseball game on TV at home in OKlahoma. It’s my recollection that Mickey batting Left got two strikes. He stepped out of the batters box took a breath stepped back in and knocked the ball over the wall. Fast-forward three days later and I’m in the same situation as Mickey in a YMCA (Early 1960’s.) baseball league game. I stepped out of the box, took a deep breath, stepped back in. And knock a home run. Thanks for the memories.
Old school baseball - hit the ball a country mile, run the bases, shake hands with your teammates, head to the dugout. No bat flips, no standing at the plate to "admire" what he did, no histrionics.
True! Old School Baseball Fans--Dressing up to go to a ball game, taking pride in ones appearance, suits and dresses. Nobody looking like the castoffs of a circus freak show like today.
Just think if he played 25 years like Aaron did, Sick of hearing about Aaron, He went to bat over 2500 more times than Babe Ruth, think about that for a minute
If is not a statistic. We could always say if Ruth had more at bats, if Mantle hadn't been injured( or drank ), if Mays hadn't played in Candlestick in the 60's. Aaron was one of the best and most consistent players in the history of the game. Where are the ifs for Aaron. If he hadn't played in the south. If he hadn't received tens of thousands of hate letters and several death threats when he was pursuing 714. I personally think Ruth is still the best offensive player to have played so far , but I would have Aaron somewhere on my team. Consider this fact as well. Aaron had 398 hr before the Braves move to Atlanta.
@breadandcircuses8127I mean that’s fair but I view a compiler as somebody who is still around only to chase career milestones even though they are far past their prime and just hurting their team by playing. Like Pete Rose chasing the hits record even though he was clearly not a major league level player anymore. My point is Aaron was still around the level of an average player when he retired
To put Mantle’s greatness in perspective, at the time he retired, he was third on the all time home run list behind Ruth and Mays (who was still active through 1973). Aaron passed Mantle the following season. But, Mick put up those numbers in only 18 injury filled years and still managed his 9th and last grand slam and a 5 for 5 game in his final year. For everyone else’s stats, there were home runs, but there was not the greatness and the memories of a “Mickey Mantle Home Run.” No one else had that until Aaron Judge. And I think Mantle would have liked him.
Mick put up great numbers in 18 injury filled years that involved hard partying and drinking.. Imagine how well those numbers would have blossomed had he not been a hard drinking partier. Probably would have had well over 700 homers. .. and Aaron likely would have had 800 homers had he not had so many sleepless nights with the KKK constantly threatening him... He and Jackie Robinson's numbers would have had greater numbers with a good sleep every night!!
Those shots to the opposite field Mickey hit vs. the Pirates in 1960, were hit at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh. The ballpark was like the Grand Canyon, and for any player to hit one out, was something special. For Micky Mantle to hit them to the opposite field was sure as hell a show of incredible power.
Several of those blasts, were well over the 400' mark! Jim Wynn, a much smaller dude, often hit 400'+ homers...even a few were over 500', and he only weighed like 175lbs!...of course, Mickey was the better hitter for average, and hit twice as many homers in his career. But the "Toy Cannon" was freaky-strong for his size. Mick was a much bigger guy.
always loved that Mickey said his biggest regret was losing the 1960 World Series, he felt so bad for Casey who was let go soon afterwards. It took a Good Man to admit that.
also: he rooted for Maris, always said Maris deserved to break Ruth's record. The enmity between Mantle & Maris during the HR chase was PURE PRESS FICTION
Amazing clips here. TY for posting these. I attended Mickey Mantle Day June 8, 1969. It was Father's Day. Doubleheader vs Chicago White Sox. Pepitone HR wins game 1 3-1. Yankees swept. MM ceremony between games. Ran on the field after the 2nd game. Doesn't get any better for a 12 YO.
Loved watching this. I started watching Mick in '52, when I was 7. Loved watching opposite field shots on the roof. In this day and age with the tiny parks and the lack of dominant pitching, and current medical science, who knows what kind of numbers he would have put up.
This is a record that is overlooked in "unbreakable records" conversations. No team dominates the baseball landscape the way the Yankees did for so long, and with the way the league has evolved, this record is likely permanent.
The Mick was my boyhood hero; he waved to me in Cleveland in 1963. I didn't realize until this video that his fifteenth to tie Babe Ruth's record was off Koufax, and his 18th and final World Series homer was off Gibson. In the first one, he ran the bases like he was legging out a triple. The guy was all class.
I grew up listening to this. I never enjoyed or had the opportunity to watch them. But I spent many hours listening to the broadcasts while working on the farm. We didn't get the television broadcasts. But I could hide my transistor radio and listen during school. Thank you for revival of the memories.
being over 70 I've seen many of these. took the bike to school as I could beat the school bus home at World Series time. Still amazing Yanks lost to Pitt.... M.M. the true 'Natural . ' I wonder If mod meds could have changed his career. ? S. Koufax ? J. Namath probably yes.
Also my dad took me to Yankee Stadium as much as possible as a 9 year old boy. I remember the year 1961 when the MM Boys were chasing the Babe homerun record of 60 homeruns in a season. I witnessed in the stadium that day in a doubleheader the MM boys Mantle and Maris hitting home runs. It was a memory of a lifetime and a tribute to a great father too who took me ther.
Same here, from Waterbury Connecticut..watched the Yanks on WPIX channel 11 in New York..The M and M boys, 1961, I was 10..The 1960 World Series against Pittsburg still haunts me!!😅
Thank you for putting this together. Big fan of Mantle though I never saw him play; crazy as it sounds I think he's underrated as far as all-time greats go. There was seemingly nothing he couldn't do on a baseball diamond. Also never saw all 18 of these in one place, nice job, subscribed.
My Brother and I grew up idolizing Mr. Mantle and once met Mickey in 1969 as he was making his way into the Cotton Bowl for a Dallas Cowboy game right at dusk just before game started where I sold programs for the game Mick could avoid the crowds that way but he couldn't get by me without me knowing him and of he was very obliging I still have his autograph 😊
He was playing at the highest level in spite of the knee injuries, then Red Schoendienst fell on his shoulder in the 1957 World Series. That impacted the rest of his career. Doctors were amazed at his ability to withstand pain.
P@@chazq6242 I had never heard that, but it makes sense. After 1957 his left side hitting dropped off a lot. Of course, those were the majority of his at bats. Have you ever heard that Jackie Robinson came over after losing the 1952 Series to congratulate the Yanks? Mickey said Jackie told him he made the difference. For the shy Oklahoma boy it was a thrill, so he said.
18 HR in World Series. Amazing feat. He was before I was old enough. I was only 6 years old. I did not get into sports until 1969. Do not remember at least until 1969 Mantle was such power hitter. Hitting a HR dead center atEbbets field field . My goodness . 436 was dead center
Thanks for this. It was great. Born in 1954 the Mick was my idol. Remember the 3 homers he hit in 64 series especially the first pitch one off Barney Schultz
Then, like me, you remember the 9thinning, after Boyer and Linz solo homers ... Maris and Mantle were on deck when Richardson's pop out was the third out, IF ONLY!... Presume Gibson would'a been pulled had Richardson got on base. But who knows, things were different then. Never got a full explanation why Terry was left in to face McCovey in 1962!?
Koufax got him looking for the 2nd out in the 9th inning. I've never stopped crying. Mantle just flipped the bat, barrel back into his hand, no theatrics.
Pure class. Living in Seattle late 80s and 90s got to see some amazing baseball and players but oh how I would have loved to see some of these games back then.
Mantle crushed the yarn out the ball and then put his head down and sprinted around the bases. Pure class.
I agree
No showboating from the Mick was one of his best attributes. Many players, from this era, should watch how this great ballplayer conducted himself on the field.
Oh god forbid players show emotion or excitement
more like limped around the bases, especially in 64. He was never the same after blowing out his knee in 51 and they did not have the ability to repair an ACL back then
Mantle was far from pure class. He even said himself that people should try not to be like him. I say this as somebody whose favorite player of all time is Mantle. He was our imperfect king
An era of baseball that I sorely miss. Mantle, Mays, Aaron, Kaline, Killebrew, Robinson. They hit home runs, circled the bases with class, never disrespecting their opponents. Same goes for the NFL!!! Too many Divas, lacking sportsmanship and professionalism.
Why do you say modern day athletes behave like Divas?
BECAUSE THEY DO@@TiagoGomez-hb9te
Ernie Banks
@@MichaelDuignan-p2c What do you mean?
@@TiagoGomez-hb9te Because they do.
It's amazing how many guys 65 to 80 and older all say Mickey Mantle was their Childhood Hero.
I'm 75 now and Mickey wasn't so much a hero to me because growing up in Cape Cod, Ma. I was a diehard Red Sox fan from around the time Ted Williams' HOF career ended, and Yaz' HOF career started. Mickey, along with players like Mays, Koufax, Aaron, Ford etc, were players we respected, and loved it when we got their Topps baseball card.
Thank you so much for putting this together! Growing up Mickey was my hero. I actually called his home run off of Barney Schultz in the '64 World Series. My mom looked at me and said, how did you know that he was going to hit a home run? My 13 year old answer to her was, he's Mickey Mantle.
Great video. Mickey was my boyhood idol too. Browing up in N. Jersey in the '50 and '60's, I saw Mantle, Mays and Snider. Three of the greatest centerfielders of all time. To me back then, baseball was life. We shared the same birthday, although Mick was a few years before me. I can remember when he struck out in the '60 series and crying like a baby! I recommend a great book he wrote call "All My Octobers". Details of his world series exploits. To this day, he had one of the best lines of all time. "If I knew I was going to live this long, I'dve taken better care of myself". To this day, I have pictures of Mick on the walls of a spare bedroom in my home!
Barney was our ace reliever in 1964. He was a knuckleball specialist. But when his knuckleball failed to knuckle, well, Mantle showed what happened.
@@donhuber9131 Yes, Mickey noticed that his knuckleball was coming in flat when Barney was warming up. Mickey told Elston Howard in the on deck circle to go sit down. Elston thought he had lost his mind. Mickey hit the first pitch into the right field upper deck. It sounded like a cannon shot. Barney Schultz never looked. He just walked toward the St. Louis Cardinals dugout.
I love it...even though a Cardinal kid!@@billbayes3261
My dad named me after Mantle.
im 76 now grew up watching mickey mantle and to this day nobody hit homeruns like mantle no one,,,and after all those years he still holds record for most homeruns hit in world series play.
You're right. He was the best...a true class act. Rest in peace, Mickey. I miss you.
He hold some more records.
YES SIR, I'M 79 AND I KNOW JUST WHAT YOU'RE TALKIN' ABOUT.........
You're absolutely right - Mickey Mantle home runs were distinctive - it was like you could almost feel the incredible power he hit with. Lots of great ballplayers, lots of great home run hitters, but nobody like the Mick. 😁
Sandy Koufax and Bob Gibson gave up 2 of those homers. Mickey is the GOAT
Those are the two pitchers that stand out with me... A WS homerun off of Koufax and Gibson! You have to be super great to do that!
Totally, I noticed that too, two of of the best pitchers in any era and he got them both. He is the World Series MVP of all time!
@@michaelluna1968 Bob Uecker hit a homer of Sandy Koufax
I was born and raised in the Bronx. Naturally I'm a huge Yankee and Mickey Mantle fan. Played a lot of ball growing up and Mickey was my baseball idol. I was fortunate enough to be at the stadium when the Yankees retired his number in June of 1969. I also met him in May of 1987 in Walden NY at a card show. I almost had the opportunity of bringing him to the card show but I missed the chance. I still was able to get him to autograph a baseball, a painting of The Mick by Robert Steven Simon and I took a polaroid photo of him as he signed my items. I was eight years old when I came home from school and watched him hit WS homerun #16. I fell in love with the Mick at that moment. And just think about this. He was a well known alcoholic who and I quote "What most people don't understand about the Mick is that he played his entire career on one leg". The quote was made by Hank Aaron when he was asked about Mickey when he died and what he thought of his career. The Mick tore his ACL in the 1951 WS. Just imagine what he might have done sober and without a torn ACL. As far as I'm concerned most of the players today like 99.9% of them could not carry The Micks jock!!!!!
I read about that freak injury. I read that the injury tore ALL THREE knee ligaments... ACL, MCL and ??? I don't know how he came back from that for 17 more seasons. I wonder if such a "Sword of Damacles" hanging over his head contributed to the drinking.
I am 69 years old and Mickey Mantle is still my favorite baseball player of all time!!! Thanks for this video!!! Thanks for the memories!!!
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My dad took me to Yankee Stadium in the mid to late 50s to see the Mick. Batting righty, he lined a grand slam home run down the right field line. Needless to say, but what a thrill for a kid born in 1950. Mickey will always be my hero!
Truth be known, I was born in Chicago but grew up a Yankee fan because my mother and father were fans. I discovered that a lot of Americans became Yankee fans because of Mickey. He was the All-American hero to many people back then.
I stopped following baseball around 2016 because I got sick and tired of the steroid controversy. The game will never be the same, but boy was it fun back then. Had a blast and happy to have met the many players back then in the 70's and 80's.
Same here. Born in ‘50. Mickey will always be my idol.
Born in 1951, saw that same thing, dad takes us to Yankee Stadium in 1964, saw Mantle hit one dead centerfield..going, going…Gone! Mel Allen..
Mel Allen and Red Barber's voices brings me back to those great times. Thanx for the WS HR's.
So impressed by the opposite field power! About half of those were oppo. One over the RF roof while batting right handed!!!
The opposite field power Mantle had was unbelievable. Notice after each home run no bat flips , no pointing , no chest pounding. Nice .
I love Mickey ❤
I agree class act if anything humble about it no over the top childish show off stuff
Just run the bases, no showing up the pitcher.
That’s because the pictures would hit him otherwise.
@@MrRufusRToyotapictures? Pitchers?
There will never be another Mantle again….RIP and thank you Mick…
The world will never dye of gram slam hits/ home runs / and gram slams /also every thing possible in runs
Sir master Guadalupe Alvarado jr / in,the 1968 "eanttsbes he's !!!?!??!ECT:,
That's right
Here I am at the age of 76 and I am sending this video to my granddaughter so she can show my great-grandson who and what my baseball ⚾️ hero was all about. Never forgot his incredible power as a right-handed batter. Always a fan even as a boy from PA where most people just hated the Yankees. Those 60's teams were fantastic and Mickey was Marvel Comics superhero.
Mickey was larger than life. He came clean when he was dying and gained great respect with his final messages about life. R I P. Mick.
Exactly
@@chazq6242 I THINK BOBBY RICHARDSON HAS A LOT TO DO WITH THAT...............MICK CAN REST IN PEACE NOW, HE PUT HIS FAITH IF JESUS CHRIST........
Seeing Mantle clear the 407 foot sign in right-center, reminds me how massive the old Yankee Stadium was.
True
Just incredible watching him swing so effortlessly and producing towering HR’s.
On the other hand, right field, at least in the Babes' day, was rather short, and lefties could pull a strong fly ball, just over the fence, at 300 feet.
Did you see I think it was #13 or 14 the sign read 436, and he hit it over,nobody like the Mickey,RIP,this great man.
Left center used to be 457 feet, but was "shortened" to 430 feet by 1975. It ended up being 399 feet, which was honestly a joke.
Look at him leave the box and how he ran the bases, and got off the field head down. It was a better game. Guys are getting weighed down by jewelry nowadays.
Mickey hit a lot of WS homers in big spots. The opposite-field power was incredible.
Let's not forget the number of World Series home runs Mickey hit (18). He performed on the big stage. That's **World Series** home runs, not the newer "Post Season" HR stat. The Mick was the best!
Even Mick's swings and misses were impressive!!
He once knocked down the right field stands on a swing and a miss!
Imagine what he could have accompilshed had he not been a drinker
Or gotten hurt in the '51 World Series.
I so enjoyed this!
Thank you for your labor of love!
Mickey will always be the greatest player I ever saw!
I read more detail about Micky. Amazing story . What injuries he had. ACL his whole career and played with that .His power was unbelievable.
Helping the Yankees win 7 World Series .
What a player he was. It’s a shame he played in so my pain. Maybe that contributed to his alcoholism
Thanks for your time & effort in compiling this about Mantle. All his home runs were no doubters. No showboating around the bases, either. Good sportsmanship, unlike today's players.
@breadandcircuses8127 What a sad little comment
Barry Bonds and Rickey Henderson were showboats who only cared about themselves .
They were selfish non - team players .@@Garrett1240
Barry Bonds and Rickey Henderson are examples of non - team players .
Neither Barry or Rickey would last a month in the NL in the 1960s as Gibson , Drysdale , Marichal , Bunning and Maloney would constantly knock them down after they saw their rotten attitude .@breadandcircuses8127
You are right .
Pete Rose , Clemente , Mays and Mantle were true team players , unlike the selfish Barry Bonds and Rickey Henderson .
@@RobertStambaugh-l5r Any other black players you forgot to mention?
Thank you for posting! Every time I see Mickey Mantle the kid comes out in me. It brings a smile and a tear to my face as the memories return. In his prime Mickey was the greatest ballplayer I ever saw. I'm not embarrassed to say I got goosebumps watching this.
He hit many off some outstanding pitchers!!
YEAH THAT WAS A GREAT ONE AGAINST BOB GIBSON
My father worked on the grounds crew at Municipal Stadium in Kansas City from 1960-63 and said "the Mick" was very easy going and always polite every time the Yankees came to town. Dad said he always had time to shoot the breeze with the guys and was never fat headed about anything.
Several opposite field HRs. The Mick not only had great power, he was a highly skillful batter as well. One of the best of all time.
Most people overlook that Mantle had a .329 batting avg right-handed
Don't forget - there were no "wild cards" or divisional playoffs when Mantle played. The entire post season was seven games maximum. Some players now have been in more post season games than Mantle without ever getting to the Series, which is why I think post season stats are garbage unless you account for the years they're played.
Tremendous power to the opposite field. A player's player and all around superstar.
In 1958, my Dad took me to my first NY Yankees game. He bought me a packet of 5x7 photos of all the players. The next morning, I taped them on my wall above my bed. They stayed there my entire childhood, AND all the players stayed on the team.
I feel bad for sports loving children of today. Their favorite players leave all the time.
As a sick child, Mickey Mantle's travails with injury were HUGELY inspiring and beneficial to my young ego, fraught with my own difficulties with health. Trading Mickey Mantle would have been devastating.
He was my hero. His photo hangs on my office wall of inspiration.
My dad took me to Yankee Stadium for the first time in 1958 too. I still those photos and a ball. Priced possessions
I became a Yankee fan in 3rd grade when The Mick was banging them in 1952. I lived in the NYC suburbs. Almost every postseason the Yankees, Dodgers and Giants were in the series and at it each throats. It was a great time for baseball and a great place to be living.
Great clips. Some of Mickey's homers were massive clouts 😲
To perform as well as he did with the innumerable injuries that plagued him practically his entire career is a testament to his resilience and sheer willpower. RIP 🙏
Agree!
I did not know Micky was played with injuries.
Remarkable what he did despite that
Let's not forget that he was one of the most talented players to ever play in the Mayor Leagues.
@@TheSports50 When he lost the hr race to Maris I believe he had a suppurating infection the size of s baseball on one leg
Yes. I read about his health issues. Amazing athlete to deal with medical issues and perform the way he did
Great video he was my Idol growing up can only imagine how good he could have been if no injuries & no demons, so impresed by how many opposite field home runs he hit & how far he hit them, his last one against Gibson in 64 was very impressive!
Me too. One day in 1968 I was working after school at a place with his name sake Mantel Brook Farms in DeSoto ,Texas just south of Dallas. One day the boss drives up they get out of the car, and guess who was with him. At 17 I got to shake his hand and talk with him for a little while. Never forget that day.
Mickey always said he did not want to show up the pitcher. He hit his HRs with class and acted like he had been there before and was just helping his teammates. A role model for a different generation. Too bad we somehow lost that. Thanks for creating this fantastic video of baseball history.
AMEN
@@yardlimit8695 Why do you say this?
Reggie Jackson was the same way
that's why 30-game winner, Denny McClain, had no problem serving up a gimme for Mantle's #535, passing Jimmie Foxx, which made him #3 on the All-Time Career HR list then.
Thank you for the video! Mickey was my first sports idol and I can remember as a 10 year old hiding a transistor radio under my pillow so I could listen to the Yankee games and hear each and every one of his at bats. My Dad let me borrow the family station wagon so I could go to Cooperstown and see him inducted into the Hall of Fame. This post brings back so many wonderful childhood memories and as I can see by the other comments, I am not alone!
Head low, elbows high. Loved his home run trot. I was there for Game 3 of the 64 WS.
Wow!
Imagine him in today's stadiums with modern baseballs....
And tiny strike zones.
Center Field at Yankee Stadium was 461, with a 20 foot wall. Today it's 400 Feet.
Great video. Well done and thanks for posting. The years of Mantle & Maris playing together bring back great memories from my childhood. Both retired after the 68 season. I find it interesting that there was a 3 year gap between home run number 14 and number 15 for Mantle. I was not aware that he did not have a home run in the 61 or 62 World Series. I know he was injured towards the end of the 61 season but I don’t recall what his status was for the 62 World Series.
Mic was hurt for the 621 series only went 1-6 in 62 he played all 7 games but only had 3 hits
Regarding Mantle's final homer off Gibson. The closing frames of the video show Gibby walking off as though Johnny Keane had sent him to the showers. Gibson actually pitched a complete 7th game victory, although in truth the Yankees knocked the exhausted Gibson around in the final innings.
This was the first series that I followed as a kid. One of Mantle's homers was back to back with Maris, very scary! Enjoyed watching our brilliant young outfielders, Brock, Flood and Shannon watch the home runs sail over the wall.
If it looks like Mantle's home run off of ace reliever Barney Schultz was "slow pitch", it was because Schultz was a knuckleball specialist. He was usually quite effective. Usually...
RIDICULOUS THE WORLD SERVES MVP IS NAMED AFTER MAYS. HE WON ONE SERIES. 71 AB’S, O HR. MICKEY WON 7, 18 HR!! MORE YANKEE BIAS….
I'm a Red Sox and still totally agree, it should be Mickey's trophy, hands down. I was a kid when I saw him homer at Fenway late in his career, utter thrill to this day.
@@vicprovost2561 YES!! YANKEE BIAS!! JOE D YOGI N WHITEY WERE NOT FIRST BALLOT HALL OF FAMERS!!!!
RIDICULOUS!!!!
Man, the crack of the bat on those radio broadcasts is haunting...
You could see the dust fly off the ball vs Koufax
The players today are in much better shape and care for their bodies better. Not sure if anyone was stronger than Mantle tho. Mantle did a lot of 12oz curls and was still better than most everyone today. Even with a torn up knee from that damn sprinkler, he played and ran like the wind. If he didn’t drink and the doctors then had today’s tech to fix his knee, there would probably be some unbreakable records. He was Mike Trout with Aaron Judge power and early Bonds speed and Tony Gwynn contact.
He did. Didn't ground into many double plays though.@breadandcircuses8127
@breadandcircuses8127 He blamed some of those strike-outs on his being hung over!...and many powerful hitters try hard to swing for the fences. My favorite homer dude, Jimmy Wynn, has said that his dad raised him to take hard swings, every time!...it hurt his batting average, but helped his reputation as being the Toy Cannon he was called!
Mike Literas summed it well for me... Mike Trout is today's Mickey Mantle, but Mike takes care of himself and you never read of him having any bad vices. Too bad Mike Trout doesn't play for either LA, SF, St Louis or New York! He would have been in several WS by now.
Been a Yankee fan as long as I can remember, I'm 70 now. Brought back many memories. Thank you.
Mickey Mantle was my hero growing up.I’m 81 and he is still my hero.I learned to switch hit from one of my older brothers because of him.RIP Mickey.
Same here, I'm 73.
Exactly
My hero…was, is,and will always be “The Mick”..
He was my hero growing up in Havana an also 81 years old,used to to have his rookie card,but god knows what I did with it,nobody like him RIP,my all time hero.
Thank you everyone.The Mick had many many fans even if you were not a Yankee fan.
Thanks for this. I was lucky enough to see Micky hit 2 in one game in 1961. Roger hit one that day. What a great memory !
Cool!
Mantle and Maris hit back to back homers in the '64 series against the Cardinals. That was frightening.
@@donhuber9131 That was game 6, and Joe Pepitone hit a Grand Slam in the same game.
Thanks for refreshing my memory! Ken Boyer also hit a grand slam in '64. It may have changed the outcome of the series. I think Boyer's was off of Al Downing. Both Boyer brothers played third base for their respective teams, which was also memorable!@@tonycsmith5655
@@donhuber9131 That was game 4 in NY. Al Downing was starting because Whitey Ford was injured in game One. Clete Boyer hit a homer in game 7, but the Yanks came up short. Even tho the Yankees lost it was a great World Series. A lot better than the 63 Series. Lol
Greatest switch hitter in MLB history.
Definitely without question
@@seanohare5488Even Ted Williams said that.
Easily the best switch hitter all time. As a youngster I was a member of the Washington Senators Knothole Club, which gave me the opportunity to see every American League team play at Old Griffith Stadium. I joined it not to see the Senators but to see the M&M boys when they came to town. Mickey was bigger than life to me.
No doubt about thaT. Not to many switch hitters.
There's a fellow named Eddie Murray who holds the all-time record for rbi's and hit over 500 homers, that wasn't too bad
Classy guy. A true hero.
This is fantastic. Mickey Mantle was my 1st favorite Yankee hero. I became a Yankee fan in 1960 and cried the day that the Pirates beat the Yankees in the World Series. The next year I followed the Yankees on my transistor radio following the Home run race between Mantle and Maris. I wanted Mickey to win. He would have if he didn’t get hurt. GO YANKEES!!
Thanks for the work in putting that together. I was 2 months old when Mickey hit his 1st World Series homer. I turned 8 in the summer of 1960 and by then was a Yankee fan, just in time to Hear them lose to the Pirates in game 7. I had a very cool 3rd grade teacher who was a baseball fan and would allow the class to listen to the World Series games at low volume on the radio I only got to see him play once at the old Cleveland Municipal Stadium in 1965 where in a July double header, he belted one over the left field wall in the 2nd game. Downing had started that game, but got knocked out pretty early and Yanks lost. But I got to see my guy homer so not all was lost. Besides. Stottlemyre had shut Cleveland out the 1st game which made it a good day. Thanks again for the video.
When he hit right handed it would make a noise I can still remember.
Yes the HRs he hit in Pittsburgh and St Louis were opposite field blasts!
Such a clean sharp swing what bat speed....man we miss you Mick!
Intentionally walking Mantle with the bases loaded would've been the smart move.
Eighteen WS HR’s. Insane. Superhuman.
I loved those days. I was born in 1953 and have been a Yankee’s fan all my life. Would trade some things to go back for a few days.
Ol' Mick back in the 50's stepping up there with no gloves, or elbow guards or shin guards, with his felt cap belting them out of the park off the best pitchers of the day.
Yep! Although a Cardinal kid, I admired Norm Cash of the Tigers playing mind games with Gibson in '68 by not wearing a batting helmet as well.
Gimmie Mickey any day over DiMaggio.
Loved watching the videos it took me back to my Grandfather and Father watching baseball games together in mid 50s and 60s into the 70s lots of good memories. It was interesting to see the 50s videos every one dressed up to go to the game.
I remember once being 11 or 12 years and on a Saturday afternoon I was lucky to watch a Yankees baseball game on TV at home in OKlahoma. It’s my recollection that Mickey batting Left got two strikes. He stepped out of the batters box took a breath stepped back in and knocked the ball over the wall. Fast-forward three days later and I’m in the same situation as Mickey in a YMCA (Early 1960’s.) baseball league game. I stepped out of the box, took a deep breath, stepped back in. And knock a home run. Thanks for the memories.
Mick's inspiration :)
Old school baseball - hit the ball a country mile, run the bases, shake hands with your teammates, head to the dugout. No bat flips, no standing at the plate to "admire" what he did, no histrionics.
True! Old School Baseball Fans--Dressing up to go to a ball game, taking pride in ones appearance, suits and dresses. Nobody looking like the castoffs of a circus freak show like today.
I was always a Yankees hater, but always had the utmost respect for Mantle.It's cool seeing these home runs by The Mick.
Aaron was a great player and wonderful man,but if Mickey played in Fulton County Stadium he would have hit 50 plus HRs every year
Just think if he played 25 years like Aaron did, Sick of hearing about Aaron, He went to bat over 2500 more times than Babe Ruth, think about that for a minute
@@billysikes1374, agree Aaron was not the same caliber player!
If is not a statistic. We could always say if Ruth had more at bats, if Mantle hadn't been injured( or drank ), if Mays hadn't played in Candlestick in the 60's.
Aaron was one of the best and most consistent players in the history of the game. Where are the ifs for Aaron. If he hadn't played in the south. If he hadn't received tens of thousands of hate letters and several death threats when he was pursuing 714.
I personally think Ruth is still the best offensive player to have played so far , but I would have Aaron somewhere on my team. Consider this fact as well. Aaron had 398 hr before the Braves move to Atlanta.
@breadandcircuses8127I mean that’s fair but I view a compiler as somebody who is still around only to chase career milestones even though they are far past their prime and just hurting their team by playing. Like Pete Rose chasing the hits record even though he was clearly not a major league level player anymore. My point is Aaron was still around the level of an average player when he retired
I rate Rose , Clemente and Mays over Aaron .@@ilikepie19921
To put Mantle’s greatness in perspective, at the time he retired, he was third on the all time home run list behind Ruth and Mays (who was still active through 1973). Aaron passed Mantle the following season. But, Mick put up those numbers in only 18 injury filled years and still managed his 9th and last grand slam and a 5 for 5 game in his final year. For everyone else’s stats, there were home runs, but there was not the greatness and the memories of a “Mickey Mantle Home Run.” No one else had that until Aaron Judge. And I think Mantle would have liked him.
Mick put up great numbers in 18 injury filled years that involved hard partying and drinking.. Imagine how well those numbers would have blossomed had he not been a hard drinking partier. Probably would have had well over 700 homers. .. and Aaron likely would have had 800 homers had he not had so many sleepless nights with the KKK constantly threatening him... He and Jackie Robinson's numbers would have had greater numbers with a good sleep every night!!
Those shots to the opposite field Mickey hit vs. the Pirates in 1960, were hit at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh. The ballpark was like the Grand Canyon, and for any player to hit one out, was something special. For Micky Mantle to hit them to the opposite field was sure as hell a show of incredible power.
Several of those blasts, were well over the 400' mark! Jim Wynn, a much smaller dude, often hit 400'+ homers...even a few were over 500', and he only weighed like 175lbs!...of course, Mickey was the better hitter for average, and hit twice as many homers in his career. But the "Toy Cannon" was freaky-strong for his size. Mick was a much bigger guy.
@@curbozerboomer1773 So true! They didn't nickname Jim Wynn 'The Toy Cannon' for nothing. He was a miniature Dick Allen.
always loved that Mickey said his biggest regret was losing the 1960 World Series, he felt so bad for Casey who was let go soon afterwards. It took a Good Man to admit that.
also: he rooted for Maris, always said Maris deserved to break Ruth's record. The enmity between Mantle & Maris during the HR chase was PURE PRESS FICTION
@@37center Yogi Berra said Mickey broke down and cried in the dugout after their loss to the Pirates in 1960.
Amazing clips here. TY for posting these. I attended Mickey Mantle Day June 8, 1969. It was Father's Day. Doubleheader vs Chicago White Sox. Pepitone HR wins game 1 3-1. Yankees swept. MM ceremony between games. Ran on the field after the 2nd game. Doesn't get any better for a 12 YO.
Awesome memories
Pepitone hit a grand slam in the '64 series against my Cardinals.
That follow through swing is like no other. I love watching his bat.
Fabulous example of the plate coverage that Mantle had ! Drove the ball ( right- handed) to right and right center !
I didnt know Mantle had such oppo power from both sides.
The one in the 1960 World Series to RCF was insane. Over the 436 sign in RCF.
Loved watching this. I started watching Mick in
'52, when I was 7. Loved watching opposite field shots on the roof. In this day and age with the tiny parks and the lack of dominant pitching, and current medical science, who knows what kind of numbers he would have put up.
When running the bases you could tell his right leg never healed 100 percent
Thanks Mick you'll always be my hero
Look at the way he ran before ge got hurt, he was so fluid when you can still see the speed.
This is a record that is overlooked in "unbreakable records" conversations. No team dominates the baseball landscape the way the Yankees did for so long, and with the way the league has evolved, this record is likely permanent.
The Mick was my boyhood hero; he waved to me in Cleveland in 1963. I didn't realize until this video that his fifteenth to tie Babe Ruth's record was off Koufax, and his 18th and final World Series homer was off Gibson. In the first one, he ran the bases like he was legging out a triple. The guy was all class.
I am from NY and the Yankees, and Mickey, were the best part of my growing up!
Thanks for uploading these!!! Mantle was amazing
Glad you enjoyed!
What a talent on the ballfield, Damn Bottle has taken down many. He just seemed to have one of the smoothest and quick swings
I grew up listening to this. I never enjoyed or had the opportunity to watch them. But I spent many hours listening to the broadcasts while working on the farm. We didn't get the television broadcasts. But I could hide my transistor radio and listen during school. Thank you for revival of the memories.
The Mick.....The One And Only!
Great job!!!
Ty
being over 70 I've seen many of these. took the bike to school as I could beat the school bus home at World Series time. Still amazing Yanks lost to Pitt.... M.M. the true 'Natural . ' I wonder If mod meds could have changed his career. ? S. Koufax ? J. Namath probably yes.
Off Koufax and Gibson...very cool.
Also my dad took me to Yankee Stadium as much as possible as a 9 year old boy. I remember the year 1961 when the MM Boys were chasing the Babe homerun record of 60 homeruns in a season. I witnessed in the stadium that day in a doubleheader the MM boys Mantle and Maris hitting home runs. It was a memory of a lifetime and a tribute to a great father too who took me ther.
Same here, from Waterbury Connecticut..watched the Yanks on WPIX channel 11 in New York..The M and M boys, 1961, I was 10..The 1960 World Series against Pittsburg still haunts me!!😅
Thank you for putting this together. Big fan of Mantle though I never saw him play; crazy as it sounds I think he's underrated as far as all-time greats go. There was seemingly nothing he couldn't do on a baseball diamond. Also never saw all 18 of these in one place, nice job, subscribed.
Knocking Gibson out of a WS game would be a lifetime achievement in itself for almost anyone 😊
My Brother and I grew up idolizing Mr. Mantle
and once met Mickey in
1969 as he was making his way into the Cotton Bowl for a Dallas Cowboy game right at dusk just before game started where I sold programs for the game
Mick could avoid the crowds that way but he couldn't get by me without me knowing him and of he was very obliging I still have his autograph 😊
I have a dozen autographed classic images of Mickey Mantle as well as one of his bats....Priceless to me
The first thing we watched on our new 1954 Hoffman, was a Yankees game...I saw the Mick blast one, and I was hooked from then on...
He was playing at the highest level in spite of the knee injuries, then Red Schoendienst fell on his shoulder in the 1957 World Series. That impacted the rest of his career. Doctors were amazed at his ability to withstand pain.
Yea they say after that injury he couldn’t throw as well
P@@chazq6242 I had never heard that, but it makes sense. After 1957 his left side hitting dropped off a lot. Of course, those were the majority of his at bats. Have you ever heard that Jackie Robinson came over after losing the 1952 Series to congratulate the Yanks? Mickey said Jackie told him he made the difference. For the shy Oklahoma boy it was a thrill, so he said.
thank you for putting this collectio of World Series home runs by Mickey Mantle together. He was one of kind.
heard about him and everytime i see highlights he's rounding the bases!
18 HR in World Series. Amazing feat. He was before I was old enough. I was only 6 years old. I did not get into sports until 1969.
Do not remember at least until 1969
Mantle was such power hitter. Hitting a HR dead center atEbbets field field . My goodness . 436 was dead center
It was amazing
The fact that he hit homers off of Koufax and Gibson when he was already on the decline, just tells you how special Mantle was.
Opposite field against Bob Gibson? YIKES!!!
Awesome thanks for sharing,my favorite player of all time hitting his Last world series home run against my favorite pitcher of all time Bob Gibson
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Thanks for this. It was great. Born in 1954 the Mick was my idol. Remember the 3 homers he hit in 64 series especially the first pitch one off Barney Schultz
Then, like me, you remember the 9thinning, after Boyer and Linz solo homers ... Maris and Mantle were on deck when Richardson's pop out was the third out, IF ONLY!... Presume Gibson would'a been pulled had Richardson got on base. But who knows, things were different then. Never got a full explanation why Terry was left in to face McCovey in 1962!?
Nice to see him in the first few years when he could run the bases without a limp and without pain.
Great job putting this together. Really enjoyed it! Love baseball history and that is one record that will probably never be broken.
That homerun of sandy koufax is more worth than the 17 other homers
Koufax got him looking for the 2nd out in the 9th inning. I've never stopped crying. Mantle just flipped the bat, barrel back into his hand, no theatrics.
My childhood hero!
Pure class. Living in Seattle late 80s and 90s got to see some amazing baseball and players but oh how I would have loved to see some of these games back then.
Like Aaron Judge he had incredible power to the opposite field - though he was 5' 11" and Judge is 6' 7"!