All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. Own This Day - https://thebaseballpage.comSeptember 10, 1960 - Mickey Mantle unloads a cannon shot clearing the RF roof in Detroit and landing in Brooks Lumb. [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. His .353 batting average and 130 RBIs also led both leagues and The Mick became the second Bronx Bomber to win the Triple Crown (Lou Gehrig won it first in 1934), the first and only switch-hitter to win a Triple Crown, and he won the first of three Most Valuable Player Awards this one was unanimous, the first time any Bronx Bomber won it unanimously (and still the only instance by a Yankee). The next was arguably his first great year, as he concluded with 37 home runs and a .306 batting average. [29] On June 5, he tried to prevent a home run by Brooks Robinson in Baltimore when his shoe spikes were caught in the center field chain-link fence as he leaped against the fence for the ball and was coming down. When was Mickey Mantle's last at bat? Mantle became a Christian when his former teammate Bobby Richardson, a Baptist, shared his faith with him. Mickey Mantle hit 536 home runs during his career, 266 while playing at home, 270 while on the road. Also helping Mantle decide to enter the clinic was sportscaster Pat Summerall, who had played for the New York Giants football team at Yankee Stadium, by then a recovering alcoholic and a member of Mantle's Dallas-area country club. Mantle was one of the best players and sluggers of all time, and is regarded by many as the greatest switch hitter in baseball history. It was originally purchased for $50,000 in 1991. He checked into the Betty Ford Clinic on January 7, 1994 after being told by a doctor that his liver was so badly damaged from almost 40 years of drinking that it "looked like a doorstop". 12 - Mickey Mantle is often associated with home runs, but on July 23, 1957, he showed his ability to hit singles, doubles, triples and home runs, completing the twelfth cycle in franchise history for the New York Yankees. With two outs in the ninth, Bob Lemon comes on to relieve Johnny Allen with the score 4-4. [New York Yankees Records], Mickey Mantle | National Baseball Hall of Fame Plaque | Class of 1974 (HOF). Mantle returned to the hospital in late July, and the cancer was found to have spread throughout his body. Shortly after Mantle completed treatment, his son Billy died on March 12, 1994 at age 36 of heart problems brought on by years of substance abuse. 1969 Topps #500 Mickey Mantle Last Name in Yellow PSA 6 EX-MT $875.00 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle #311 PSA 2 STUNNING EYE APPEAL INCREDIBLE CENTERING $84,999.99 1969 Topps #500 Mickey Mantle UER VGEX X2696604 $234.00 1952 Topps # 408 Mickey Mantle - New York Yankees $7.00 1961 Topps #300 Mickey Mantle PSA 6 EX-MT $1,299.99 Frequently, he would dump ice water on those who were showering. [72] He was 63 years old. [42], Mantle's career was plagued with injuries. The 1952 Topps #311 is by far Mantle's most popular baseball card and one of the most recognizable in the entire hobby. How many home runs did Willie Mays have? A settlement was reached allowing for the sale of some of Mantle's belongings for approximately $500,000. vs. BOS 1 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB. 52 - Mickey Mantle hit 52 home runs in 1956, a total that led every hitter from both leagues. Mantle was hospitalized with an abscessed hip resulting from a flu shot that he had received late in the season, leaving Maris to break the record (he finished with 61). He is in 10th place in number of bases-empty bunt singles for his career, with 80 in only 148 at-bats. Roy Clark sang and played "Yesterday, When I Was Young". ", Mickey Mantle Rookie Card | 1951 Bowman Baseball Card (#253 | Checklist)Baseball Almanac Research Library. [65] He said that he was telling the same old stories, and realizing how many of them involved being drunk, including at least one drunk-driving accident, he decided they were not funny any more. Fairchild's poetry celebrates gritty lives in small towns", "Catch me if you can(2002) - You know why the yankees always win? He is bringing that magic and mystique back to the team, and was a natural fit for card number seven." [16] Mantle hit his first professional home run on June 30, 1949, at Shulthis Stadium. [Answer]. However, even "Muscles" once had a brief slump early in his career which was described in Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes (Fadiman, Clifton. 1. "[66] Costas continued: "In the last year of his life, Mickey Mantle, always so hard on himself, finally came to accept and appreciate the distinction between a role model and a hero. Please reorganize this content to explain the subject's impact on popular culture. A history of the Sports Reference Sponsorship System. One Yankee, in 2018, collected two inside the parkers do you remember who it was? [43][44], As a 19-year-old rookie playing right field in his first World Series, Mantle tore the cartilage in his right knee on a fly ball hit by Willie Mays. During this time, Mantle lived with his agent Greer Johnson. Mickey Mantle was born on Tuesday, October 20, 1931, in Spavinaw, Oklahoma. 15 hours. [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). Topps said in a Press Release, "After more than twenty years, we wanted to offer the spot of card number seven to a young, emerging star, but we also wanted it to still be a New York Yankee. Do you remember who it was? Mantle was the uncle of actor and musician Kelly Mantle. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. And that has driven up prices making . Mickey Mantle's Career Home Runs The Complete Year-by-Year Guide, plus World Series, All-Star and Special Home Runs Including Date, Lefty or Righty, Location, Team and Pitcher (Excerpted from the award-winning DVD, Mickey Mantle: T he American Dream Comes To Life - The Deluxe Lost Stories Edition. 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. During the 1961 season, Mantle and teammate Roger Maris, known as the M&M Boys, chased Babe Ruth's 1927 single-season home run record. July 22, 1955, County Stadium, Milwaukee - Pitcher Robin Roberts 2. His .353 batting average and 130 RBIs also led both leagues and The Mick became the second Bronx Bomber to win the Triple Crown (Lou Gehrig won it first in 1934), the first and only switch-hitter to win a Triple Crown, and he won the first of three Most Valuable Player Awards this one was unanimous, the first time any Bronx Bomber won it unanimously (and still the only instance by a Yankee). The distance: 656 feet to the point where it first landed! Mickey Jr. later died of liver cancer on December 20, 2000 at age 47. Mutt drove to Independence, Kansas, and convinced Mantle to keep playing. Do you know who it is? Mickey Mantle hit 298 solo homers, 162 with a single runner on base, 67 with two men on base, and 9 grand slams. Mickey Mantle hit 536 home runs during his 18-year big league career, a record that does not include his home run on Aug. 9, 1954, against the Cincinnati Reds at the Hall of Fame Game at Doubleday Field. [62][47] His father died of Hodgkin's disease at age 40 in 1952, and his grandfather also died young of the same disease. [47] Joe Collins, who played with him from 1951 through 1957, recalled that "Mickey was the type of guy who cared about you as a person. In response, Joltin Joe's plaque was hung one inch higher than Mantle's. [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. He also hit 26 home runs and recorded 136 runs batted in. Overall, he hit slightly more home runs away (270) than home (266). [Answer] Or 1967? Page 369): The son of a miner from Oklahoma, Mantle was led to baseball at an early age by his father. He had the highest stolen-base percentage in history at the time of his retirement. Greenwade returned in 1949, after Mantle's high school graduation, to sign Mantle to a minor league contract. Author. Plagued by leg and knee pain for the majority of his career, the 37-year-old Yankee icon wasn't getting any younger in the spring of 1969. . 1 September 2000. He was carried off the field on a stretcher and watched the rest of the World Series on TV from a hospital bed. Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. Do you have a sports website? Shortly before his death, Mantle videotaped a message to be played on Old-Timers' Day, which he was too ill to attend. 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. 6th inning (58), Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Hidden Game Sports. No man. 7 - Mickey Mantle wore #6 when he made his big league debut with the Bronx Bombers, changed to #7, and on Mickey Mantle Day, at Yankee Stadium, June 8, 1969, The Mick's #7 was retired and he was a given a bronze plaque to be hung on the center field wall near the monuments to Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Miller Huggins. [53], In 1992, Mantle wrote My Favorite Summer 1956 about his 1956 season.[54]. Centerfielder and First Baseman, Born: Mantle spoke with remorse about his drinking in a 1994 Sports Illustrated cover story. Do you know who it is? 1959 was the first of four consecutive seasons that two All-Star games were played and Mantle played in seven of these games. 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 hit the park's first home run. 20 June 2011, Page 150. 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. [Answer]. The osteomyelitic condition of Mantle's left leg had exempted him from being drafted for military service since he was 18 in 1949,[22][23] but his emergence as a star center fielder in the major leagues during the Korean War in 1952 led baseball fans to question his 4-F deferment. (His batting average closed 61 points lower than the previous year). Krause Publications. His knee twisted awkwardly and he instantly fell. With 37 homers, he was now a home run hitter, not just an all-around player with tremendous power. However, as the team slumped overall, he was still the team leader in several departments, for example in base stealing (23), runs scored (104), on-base average /percentage (.399) and fielding (.995). [11] Mutt named his son in honor of Mickey Cochrane, a Hall of Fame catcher. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1974, Mantle was the third player from Oklahoma sent to Cooperstown! Thirty, of the fifty-four, were hit on the road, which is also in the record books for most home runs in a single season hit on the road by a switch hitter. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball." He was selected an All-Star as the starting center fielder, but for the first time he could not make the 25-man roster because of the foot injury. He won the MVP award three times, finished second three times, and finished within nine votes of winning five times. [8] Despite his accolades on the field, Mantle's private life was plagued with tumult and tragedy, including a well-publicized bout with alcoholism that led to his death from liver cancer. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (KSWO) - On this day in Oklahoma History, Oklahoma native Mickey Mantle announced his retirement from baseball in 1969. [45] Still, Mantle was known as the "fastest man to first base" and won the American League triple crown in 1956. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. 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. Other times, he would leave fake snakes, bugs, or frogs around for Phil Rizzuto to find. 91 - Mickey Mantle was the ninety-first ballplayer from the state of Oklahoma. Mantle was 19 years old when he broke into the big leagues on April 17, 1951, with the New York Yankees. Willie Mays had 660 home runs over his career. View Mickey Mantle's Page at the Baseball Hall of Fame (plaque, photos, videos). document.write(update); us, Died: Too easy? You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. In 1957, Mantle had a career high .521 OBP, the Major League record for highest on-base percentage by a switch hitter in a single season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball." 4th inning (69), [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. His lifestyle was restored to its former luxury by his leadership in the sports-memorabilia craze that swept the U.S. beginning in the 1980s. His on-base percentage at one point, reached .537. In 1958, The Mick hit an inside the park home run on May 9, 1958, another on May 20, 1958, and a third on June 5, 1958. Mantle had his first 100 plus RBI year, in 1954, in a full season and regained .300 status. 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. In 1960 Mantle started in both All-Star games, getting two walks in the first and a single in the second game. From 1959 through 1962, two All-Star Games were played each of those years, and The Commerce Comet was sent to all eight of those Midsummer Classics! - Mantle, Mickey. The doctor bluntly told Mantle that the damage to his system was so severe that "your next drink could be your last." 19-year-old Mickey Mantle had just hit the longest home run in baseball history! Dave Kingman has power. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. [41], Mantle was also one of the best bunters for base hits of all time. 5th inning (44), [Answer], 2,401 - Mickey Mantle wore pinstripes in 2,401 games, the franchise record for games played as a New York Yankee. [10], Mantle was assigned to the Yankees' Class-D Independence Yankees of the KansasOklahomaMissouri League,[15] where he played shortstop. Mantle's career total, 1733 walks, are also still a Major League record for most bases on balls by a switch hitter. Joe DiMaggio was playing center field. Music! 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. In spite of short foul pole dimension of 296 feet (90m) to left and 301 feet (92m) to right in original Yankee Stadium, Mantle gained no advantage there as his stroke both left and right-handed drove balls there to power alleys of 344' to 407' and 402' to 457' feet (139m) from the plate. One Yankee, in 2018, collected two inside the parkers do you remember who it was? He played halfback and Oklahoma offered him a football scholarship. [27] DiMaggio, Hank Greenberg, and Ted Williams, who had just retired, had been paid over $100,000 in a season, and Ruth had a peak salary of $80,000. ", Mantle was assigned uniform #6, signifying the expectation that he would become the next Yankees star, following Babe Ruth (#3), Lou Gehrig (#4) and Joe DiMaggio (#5). in Spavinaw, OK 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. Dave Kingman has power. "Sixty! Did you know that Mickey Mantle once said, "Hitting the ball was easy. [59][60], Mantle allegedly took his first drink of alcohol at age 19, when teammate Hank Bauer gave him a beer that he "chugged as if it were soda pop", according to baseball historian Frank Russo. He called his father saying, "I don't think I can play baseball anymore." All rights reserved. Some high school data is courtesy David McWater. 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. This was the first of numerous injuries that plagued his 18-year career with the Yankees. Mantle's original plaque, along with DiMaggio's, are now on display at the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center, with the DiMaggio plaque still hung higher than Mantle's. 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. Mantle desired to be remembered as a stellar teammate. The year in which Yankees teammates Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle pursue Babe Ruth's hallowed single-season home run record is chronicled by a 13-year-old boy from the Bronx, whose. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The next closest switch hitter had a career WAR of 85.3. [Answer]. ', "Damn Yankees: A Washington Fan's Fantasy", "Fanfares for the Common Man: B.H. Mantle two times hit balls off the third-deck facade at Yankee Stadium, nearly becoming the only player to hit a fair ball out of the stadium during a game. No man. 20 June 2011, Page 150. Although his batting average was his lowest since his rookie year, his league-leading 40 home runs and 94 runs batted in, saw him come in a close second to Roger Maris's MVP award. Basketball. All images are property the copyright holder and are displayed here for informational purposes only. Where what happened yesterday is being preserved today. [15] Mantle won the Western Association batting title, with a .383 average. var pfHeaderImgUrl = '';var pfHeaderTagline = '';var pfdisableClickToDel = 0;var pfHideImages = 0;var pfImageDisplayStyle = 'right';var pfDisablePDF = 0;var pfDisableEmail = 0;var pfDisablePrint = 0;var pfCustomCSS = 'https://www.baseball-almanac.com/css/print.css';var pfBtVersion='2';(function(){var js,pf;pf=document.createElement('script');pf.type='text/javascript';pf.src='//cdn.printfriendly.com/printfriendly.js';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(pf)})(); Mickey Charles Mantle was a Major League Baseball player who spent his entire 18-year career playing for the New York Yankees (1951-1968). [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. copyright=new Date(); At Mantle's funeral, Eddie Layton played "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" on the Hammond organ because Mickey had once told him that it was his favorite song. The town respected Mantle's privacy, refusing either to talk about him to outsiders or to direct fans to his home. He won 3 MVP Awards and was selected to play in 20 All-Star Games. - Mantle, Mickey. Topps said in a Press Release, "After more than twenty years, we wanted to offer the spot of card number seven to a young, emerging star, but we also wanted it to still be a New York Yankee. Some now call this his last home run at Yankee Stadium. All Rights Reserved by Baseball Almanac, Inc.Hosted by Hosting 4 Less. How is that possible? 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