I remember it like it was yesterday!!! I can't believe its been 42 years. I was there that day as a vendor selling hot dogs in the upper deck. I put down my hot dog tray during the ceremonies to watch. (nobody would buy during the ceremony anyway) Mickey was my hero and the reason I'm still a Yankee fan today.
I was at Mickey's HOF induction. He gave a longer, warm speech... Cracked jokes...he was charming and relaxed. And funny. He and Whitey went in together. Beautiful.
i was there at the 1st yankee stadium for mickey mantle day june 1969. main level last row with my dad and younger brother. LOVE LIVE MANTLE AND DIMAGGIO. charlie muller jr woodlawn heights bronx.
I'm not from nyc, like many of you, I am from the same region as Mick. - But when he first spoke of a man dying, paraphrasing his words, I knew exactly who he was speaking of, and I thought it was very, very cool.
Read "Summer of '49." It mentions briefly the second game of the '51 World Series. This is where Mickey's alcohol problems probably began. He was hurt avoiding a collision with DiMaggio after a line drive hit by Willie Mays was caught by DiMaggio in right/center. Mantle was in right that day and blew out his knee stopping suddenly and catching a plastic sprinkler cover. In the hospital, Mantle's father was placed next to him, and Mantle was told his father had little time left.
I was a kid in the 80s but I had a neighbor who was an older guy and taught me how to really play ball. He also taught me about Mantle and he has been my favorite since.
This was probably awkward for Joe and Mick, they didn't get along well and Joe didn't exactly welcome Mickey w/ open arms when he first was called up, Joe basically never spoke to Mickey while they both played
That was an event that took place in 1965, not on this day. They were honoring Mickey for something in 1965 and Joe in fact did not shake RFK's hand. I don't blame him.
May well have been. Though it does get interesting when you think of Mick's likely stats compared to Williams and Joe's stats without the missed war years (5 and 3, respectively), plus the lost performance due to Joe's own injury bug. That being said, it'd be hard to argue against Mantle since that injury happened his very first year and he had to deal with it all that time.
While it might not be everybody's opinion, read the New Jersey Supreme Court opinions on both cases resulting in his convictions. Incredibly guilty of triple murder. He was released on the slimmest of technicalities by the most outrageously liberal judge in the jurisdiction He was never acquitted or found innocent. All the witnesses were dead or gone, so he couldn't be retried. Artis was a kid along for the ride with a major celebrity. Rubin should've done the right thing by him. The movie was complete fiction, although Denzel was great, as usual. Rubin was a thug and a murderer, but he was a great fighter. And he did beat Joey Giardello in my opinion. Read the opinions. With every good wish to you.@@TheBatugan77
He is one of the 25 greatest players in Major League Baseball...The guy played with terribly injured knees and if he hadn't tore his knee up back in 1950..He would have been one of the Top 10 Players....The guy was incredible...
Mickey's greatest achievement is being in heaven, as shortly before his death he received the Lord Jesus Christ as his personal Savior due to the influence his great friend and teammate Bobby Richardson a truly wonderful authentic Christian man who definitely walked the talk
The statistics show that Mickey Mantle was a superstar, but in some ways, because of the myriad of injuries he had, they don't really do justice to how great he was. If you ask Mickey's contemporaries, like Al Kaline, Rocky Colavito, Ted Williams, Brooks Robinson and others, they'll all tell you that there wasn't one thing Mickey Mantle could not do and do very well. He was always on base. He actually scored more runs that he drove in, and that's VERY rare for a power hitter.
Saw this on tv as a seven year old back in 1969. The next year on oldtimer's day they gave away records of the ceremony and we went to that game and I got one of those records, but lost it years ago. We kids used to call Frank Messer "Superman" coz we thought he looked like Superman on the TV show.
After watching the Yankee Stadium: Baseball's Cathedral DVD, Gil McDougald, Whitey Ford, Phil Rizzuto, and other teammates who played with Mantle on the 12 AL Pennant and 7 World Series Championship teams.
The Mick was the Yankee image. All American small town ball player in the big time, beyond the Babe, Dimaggio, Gehrig, Yogi. The public love of this man stands for real.
SAW THE COMMENT ABOUT RFK - HE AND HIS FAMILY WERE AT ANOTHER MICKEY MANTLE DAY WHEN MICK WAS STILL PLAYING - HAD TO BE '65 OR SO-WE WERE THERE & THEN THERE WAS A MICKEY MANTLE DAY VS DETROIT WHEN DENNY MCCLAIN HAD HIS BIG 31 WIN YEAR-HE WAS PITCHING & MICK HIT ONE DOWN THE LF LINE-WOULD HAVE BEEN A 'CHEAPIE' IF IT MADE IT BUT DIDN'T HAVE THE DISTANCE-SO THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN '68-
"Joe... Would you like to present Mickey with a plaque on his retirement day?" "What about me?" "Whitey? Would you like to present Mickey with a plaque on his retirement day?"
DiMaggio dropped the hammer on Marilyn Monroe. They should give him a plaque for that. Seriously, this was cool. Wish I could have been alive back then to witness this.
The statistics show that Mickey Mantle was a superstar, but in some ways, because of the myriad of injuries he had, they don't really do justice to how great he was. If you ask Mickey's contemporaries, like Al Kaline, Rocky Colavito, Ted Williams, Brooks Robinson and others, they'll all tell you that there wasn't one thing Mickey Mantle could not do and do very well. He was always on base. He actually scored more runs that he drove in, and that's VERYrare for a power hitter.
OH YEAH-I HAVE THE RECORD OF 'MICKEY MANTLE DAY' THE YANKEES GAVE AWAY AS WE ENTERED THE STADIUM-STILL HAVE MY '61 YANKEES SIGNED BALL=CAN'T READ IT THAT WELL-WHITEY FORD SIGNED 'ED' FORD & I SAID 'HEY WHAT'S THE STORY "WHITEY"?"-HE SAID WHEN U SIGN AS MANY AS I DO YOU WRITE 'ED!!'=CRACKED ME UP!!!
@@yankee2666 Joe was completely arrogant He got pissed at his sister for not paying the damn phone bill Kept golf clubs in his college for a long time didn’t give them away
Mickey had a lot of injuries in his career, and he didn't take care of his body very much either and that wa shis fault, but for what it's worth, based on what I've read in various Yankee books and based on comments by ex-teamates like Al Downing, Bobby Richardson, Yogi Berra, etc. I'm not sure any player ever played in more pain than Mickey Mantle. Some teamates said they COULDN'T believe he was taking the field.
They couldn't even give Mickey his very own day without the arrogant DiMaggio getting a plaque also. I guess they figured (or DiMaggio raised holy hell so they had no choice) if they gave Mickey a plaque then DiMaggio had to get one too so the great Joe D wouldn't feel slighted. They could have and should have waited and given Joe D his own day to present his plaque to him. This is just Joe D making sure the fans also remember he was a great Yankee too and wouldn't want Mickey's popularity to surpass his own. Once I understood how DiMaggio really was as a person and how he was towards Mickey when he was first called up and the whole incident with the flyball in the '51 World Series that started Mickey's ever worsening problems with his legs/knees I lost alot of respect for the Yankee Clipper.
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mickey was so gracious and humble...Rest in peace , Mickey
My grandfather was a NYPD detective -- my father met Ruth and Gehrig. I met Mantle, DiMaggio and Aaron. God Bless them all.
Wow rally AMAZING
I remember it like it was yesterday!!! I can't believe its been 42 years. I was there that day as a vendor selling hot dogs in the upper deck. I put down my hot dog tray during the ceremonies to watch. (nobody would buy during the ceremony anyway) Mickey was my hero and the reason I'm still a Yankee fan today.
Mr Rosen- that is a special memory
I hope you're still doing well, Mr Rosen. Your comment is from 11 years ago, I'm commenting 2/26/23
I was born in 1980 but I would give 22 years of my later life to witness mickey and Joe D. Play at Yankee stadium....
Carlos Guevara same
Same
Mickey Mantle one of the very best players ever.. I've never been a Yankee fan but I've always been a Mickey Mantle fan.
Mickey, Joe and Rizzuto in the background! They are all on my all time team. Yankee power and the best.
I was at Mickey's HOF induction.
He gave a longer, warm speech... Cracked jokes...he was charming and relaxed. And funny.
He and Whitey went in together.
Beautiful.
i was there at the 1st yankee stadium for mickey mantle day june 1969.
main level last row with my dad and younger brother.
LOVE LIVE MANTLE AND DIMAGGIO.
charlie muller jr woodlawn heights bronx.
yes it does choke you up to see your childhood hero being honored. He gave me some very exciting memories as a kid growing up in New York. RIP Mickey
Wow. His manner of speaking is very high class. Very classy and respectable. I love his speech.
Gives me goosebumps when Mickey mentioned Lou's speech from 30 years before.
I'm not from nyc, like many of you, I am from the same region as Mick.
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But when he first spoke of a man dying, paraphrasing his words, I knew exactly who he was speaking of, and I thought it was very, very cool.
I was at this game...seems like only yesterday.
Wow!!!
He was my favorite baseball player! He’s the reason I become a Yankee fan at the age of 7 years! He’s truly is a Hall Of Famer and my Hero!
Today marks the 40th Anniversary of Mickey's # 7 being retired by the Yankees. Happy Anniversary (1969-2009).
R.I.P. (1931-1995).
Read "Summer of '49." It mentions briefly the second game of the '51 World Series. This is where Mickey's alcohol problems probably began. He was hurt avoiding a collision with DiMaggio after a line drive hit by Willie Mays was caught by DiMaggio in right/center. Mantle was in right that day and blew out his knee stopping suddenly and catching a plastic sprinkler cover. In the hospital, Mantle's father was placed next to him, and Mantle was told his father had little time left.
That play was a shame - a fluke accident - that affected Mantle the rest of his career.
@@brendanjobe6895 It did. I won't argue that. His alcohol consumption didn't help, however.
There was absolutely no one quite like Mickey Mantle as far as I'm concerned!
I was a kid in the 80s but I had a neighbor who was an older guy and taught me how to really play ball. He also taught me about Mantle and he has been my favorite since.
This was probably awkward for Joe and Mick, they didn't get along well and Joe didn't exactly welcome Mickey w/ open arms when he first was called up, Joe basically never spoke to Mickey while they both played
Was at this double header MM Day. 6-8-69. Sat in lower box sect 23. So cool to watch this on YT.
That was an event that took place in 1965, not on this day. They were honoring Mickey for something in 1965 and Joe in fact did not shake RFK's hand. I don't blame him.
Good for Joe D.
Great piece, thanks for posting!
This is truly amazing video.
WAS THERE FOR THAT GAME-THERE WERE SEVERAL 'MICKEY MANTLE DAYS'-SOME WHEN HE WAS STILL PLAYING-WE WENT TO ALL OF THEM-THE 'MICK' WAS OUR GUY......
Mantle was one of the greatest. If not for injuries, maybe the best ?
May well have been.
Though it does get interesting when you think of Mick's likely stats compared to Williams and Joe's stats without the missed war years (5 and 3, respectively), plus the lost performance due to Joe's own injury bug.
That being said, it'd be hard to argue against Mantle since that injury happened his very first year and he had to deal with it all that time.
damn the 2 best yankee centerfielders ever. pretty amazing to say the least.
I was born in 1949. Mickey is the greatest player in my lifetime.
Loved Mickey. But Willie Mays was the greatest player in our lifetimes. Arguably the greatest of all times. Mickey knew it. Best regards.
@@Annbosguy
Your opinion. Not everybody's.
Cheers.
While it might not be everybody's opinion, read the New Jersey Supreme Court opinions on both cases resulting in his convictions. Incredibly guilty of triple murder. He was released on the slimmest of technicalities by the most outrageously liberal judge in the jurisdiction He was never acquitted or found innocent. All the witnesses were dead or gone, so he couldn't be retried. Artis was a kid along for the ride with a major celebrity. Rubin should've done the right thing by him. The movie was complete fiction, although Denzel was great, as usual. Rubin was a thug and a murderer, but he was a great fighter. And he did beat Joey Giardello in my opinion. Read the opinions. With every good wish to you.@@TheBatugan77
He is one of the 25 greatest players in Major League Baseball...The guy played with terribly injured knees and if he hadn't tore his knee up back in 1950..He would have been one of the Top 10 Players....The guy was incredible...
Damn that Mickey was a handsome man!
Mickey's greatest achievement is being in heaven, as shortly before his death he received the Lord Jesus Christ as his personal Savior due to the influence his great friend and teammate Bobby Richardson a truly wonderful authentic Christian man who definitely walked the talk
Amen
Heaven is as real as Candy Land.
@@NoName-bh4pf yeh, we're all just here by cosmic accident. You're the one in Candy land.
Luv B. Richardson.
@@teller1290 Nah, the invisible man in the sky created us a few thousand years ago. Didn’t you hear?
Mickey invoking Lou Gehrig...
Godspeed to both of them.
No way of proving it but Dimaggio was JEALOUS of The Mick, no doubt in my mind! Wayne Arthur
no one patroled centerfield at yankee stadium , like Joe D
How did Joe D not have a plaque already?. His number was retired by then Mickey says so
The statistics show that Mickey Mantle was a superstar, but in some ways, because of the myriad of injuries he had, they don't really do justice to how great he was. If you ask Mickey's contemporaries, like Al Kaline, Rocky Colavito, Ted Williams, Brooks Robinson and others, they'll all tell you that there wasn't one thing Mickey Mantle could not do and do very well. He was always on base. He actually scored more runs that he drove in, and that's VERY rare for a power hitter.
They just dont do these with the fanfare like back then. Class act the whole thing. Go Yankees!!!
it must have driven dimaggio crazy having to present mantle with that plaque
Saw this on tv as a seven year old back in 1969. The next year on oldtimer's day they gave away records of the ceremony and we went to that game and I got one of those records, but lost it years ago. We kids used to call Frank Messer "Superman" coz we thought he looked like Superman on the TV show.
After watching the Yankee Stadium: Baseball's Cathedral DVD, Gil McDougald, Whitey Ford, Phil Rizzuto, and other teammates who played with Mantle on the 12 AL Pennant and 7 World Series Championship teams.
They’re just not any guys like them now days. Love or hate the Yankees, they had the best all around players to ever play the game.
I cant believe monument park was in centerfield
It was far enough away it didn't matter.
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How could joe d have not had a plaque as late as 69??? What a disgrace??? He should have had a monument!!!
The Mick was the Yankee image. All American small town ball player in the big time, beyond the Babe, Dimaggio, Gehrig, Yogi.
The public love of this man stands for real.
No one is beyond the Babe. Ruth eclipses all other players.
Who are some of the old guys in the background?
What year is this?
SAW THE COMMENT ABOUT RFK - HE AND HIS FAMILY WERE AT ANOTHER MICKEY MANTLE DAY WHEN MICK WAS STILL PLAYING - HAD TO BE '65 OR SO-WE WERE THERE & THEN THERE WAS A MICKEY MANTLE DAY VS DETROIT WHEN DENNY MCCLAIN HAD HIS BIG 31 WIN YEAR-HE WAS PITCHING & MICK HIT ONE DOWN THE LF LINE-WOULD HAVE BEEN A 'CHEAPIE' IF IT MADE IT BUT DIDN'T HAVE THE DISTANCE-SO THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN '68-
what date and year was this recorded? Was this a game?
"Joe... Would you like to present Mickey with a plaque on his retirement day?"
"What about me?"
"Whitey? Would you like to present Mickey with a plaque on his retirement day?"
DiMaggio dropped the hammer on Marilyn Monroe. They should give him a plaque for that. Seriously, this was cool. Wish I could have been alive back then to witness this.
The statistics show that Mickey Mantle was a superstar, but in some ways, because of the myriad of injuries he had, they don't really do justice to how great he was. If you ask Mickey's contemporaries, like Al Kaline, Rocky Colavito, Ted Williams, Brooks Robinson and others, they'll all tell you that there wasn't one thing Mickey Mantle could not do and do very well. He was always on base. He actually scored more runs that he drove in, and that's VERYrare for a power hitter.
He never talked to Mickey unless Mickey talked to him first. Clearly did not like him.
DiMaggio tried to steal Mickey's day. Mick never liked him.
@doglips1958 So true..he was never gracious about Mickey Mantle ascendancy..His loss.
@JustPassingByToday Robert Kennedy was assassinated on June 5, 1968 and this event took place on June 8, 1969 so he could not have been there.
what's ironic is that when Mickey Mantle was new to the Yankees Joe DiMaggio treated mantle like crap.
...Listening to everything you hear, I see.
@@yankee2666
Well, since Mickey himself said it, yes.
@@yankee2666 thats what his wife, Merlyn, had said about it
@@davidr5961 I knew Mickey some and never heard him say a bad word about anyone but Joe D.
I'm talking about Joe DiMaggio.
OH YEAH-I HAVE THE RECORD OF 'MICKEY MANTLE DAY' THE YANKEES GAVE AWAY AS WE ENTERED THE STADIUM-STILL HAVE MY '61 YANKEES SIGNED BALL=CAN'T READ IT THAT WELL-WHITEY FORD SIGNED 'ED' FORD & I SAID 'HEY WHAT'S THE STORY "WHITEY"?"-HE SAID WHEN U SIGN AS MANY AS I DO YOU WRITE 'ED!!'=CRACKED ME UP!!!
Joe was so arrogant. Who would most people pick to play with Mickey or Joe? lol hahahaha
How do you know DiMaggio was arrogant? Oh, I get it - someone told you.
@@yankee2666 Joe was completely arrogant
He got pissed at his sister for not paying the damn phone bill
Kept golf clubs in his college for a long time didn’t give them away
Mickey had a lot of injuries in his career, and he didn't take care of his body very much either and that wa shis fault, but for what it's worth, based on what I've read in various Yankee books and based on comments by ex-teamates like Al Downing, Bobby Richardson, Yogi Berra, etc. I'm not sure any player ever played in more pain than Mickey Mantle. Some teamates said they COULDN'T believe he was taking the field.
Joe angry that Mick was more beloved.
Mickey was pissed off at the sight of Joe d
That's me
They couldn't even give Mickey his very own day without the arrogant DiMaggio getting a plaque also. I guess they figured (or DiMaggio raised holy hell so they had no choice) if they gave Mickey a plaque then DiMaggio had to get one too so the great Joe D wouldn't feel slighted. They could have and should have waited and given Joe D his own day to present his plaque to him. This is just Joe D making sure the fans also remember he was a great Yankee too and wouldn't want Mickey's popularity to surpass his own. Once I understood how DiMaggio really was as a person and how he was towards Mickey when he was first called up and the whole incident with the flyball in the '51 World Series that started Mickey's ever worsening problems with his legs/knees I lost alot of respect for the Yankee Clipper.
You don't know what you're talking about.
@@yankee2666
Actually, yes he does.
Man if you are saying what Joe said compared to what Mickey said being a better speech you are CRAZY????
Joe DiMaggio tried to high jack Mick's day.
Oh, bullshit. Like DiMaggio needed attention. ...Stupid of you.
@@yankee2666 Joe was a dick to Mickey unwarranted
I guess Roger Maris wasn't invited back for good reasons