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On August 13, 1995, Mickey Mantle, American Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder (1956 Triple Crown, 20-time All Star), died of liver cancer at 63. From the article:
"Mantle was arguably the greatest offensive threat of any center fielder in baseball history. He has the highest career OPS+ of any center fielder and he had the highest stolen base percentage in history at the time of his retirement. In addition, compared to the four other center fielders on the all-century team, he had the lowest career rate of grounding into double plays (by far) and he had the highest World Series on-base percentage and World Series slugging percentage. He also had an excellent 0.984 fielding percentage when playing center field. Mantle was noted for his ability to hit for both average and power,[4] especially tape measure home runs.[5] He hit 536 MLB career home runs, batted .300 or more ten times, and is the career leader (tied with Jim Thome) in walk-off home runs, with a combined thirteen, twelve in the regular season and one in the postseason.
Mantle won the Triple Crown in 1956, leading the major leagues in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in (RBI); he later wrote a book about his best year in baseball.[6] To date, he is the last Triple Crown winner to have led all of Major League Baseball in all three Triple Crown categories. He was an All-Star for 16 seasons, playing in 16 of the 20 All-Star Games that were played.[a] He was an American League (AL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) three times and a Gold Glove winner once. Mantle appeared in 12 World Series including seven championships, and holds World Series records for the most home runs (18), RBIs (40), extra-base hits (26), runs (42), walks (43), and total bases."
"Mantle was arguably the greatest offensive threat of any center fielder in baseball history. He has the highest career OPS+ of any center fielder and he had the highest stolen base percentage in history at the time of his retirement. In addition, compared to the four other center fielders on the all-century team, he had the lowest career rate of grounding into double plays (by far) and he had the highest World Series on-base percentage and World Series slugging percentage. He also had an excellent 0.984 fielding percentage when playing center field. Mantle was noted for his ability to hit for both average and power,[4] especially tape measure home runs.[5] He hit 536 MLB career home runs, batted .300 or more ten times, and is the career leader (tied with Jim Thome) in walk-off home runs, with a combined thirteen, twelve in the regular season and one in the postseason.
Mantle won the Triple Crown in 1956, leading the major leagues in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in (RBI); he later wrote a book about his best year in baseball.[6] To date, he is the last Triple Crown winner to have led all of Major League Baseball in all three Triple Crown categories. He was an All-Star for 16 seasons, playing in 16 of the 20 All-Star Games that were played.[a] He was an American League (AL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) three times and a Gold Glove winner once. Mantle appeared in 12 World Series including seven championships, and holds World Series records for the most home runs (18), RBIs (40), extra-base hits (26), runs (42), walks (43), and total bases."
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Personally got his autograph when I was 12 years old. (Yanks were at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore playing "the birds".
Personally got his autograph when I was 12 years old. (Yanks were at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore playing "the birds".
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SPC Woody Bullard
Mantle signed his picture for me at a spring training game when I was 9 years old.
My father had taken me to the game. He did not play in the game but was walking
by me after the game with pitcher Whitey Ford when I showed him the photo and
asked him to sign it. He was really nice and said sure kid. My dad put the picture in
a glass frame. I was not a NY Yankee fan but I did like the "Mick".
My father had taken me to the game. He did not play in the game but was walking
by me after the game with pitcher Whitey Ford when I showed him the photo and
asked him to sign it. He was really nice and said sure kid. My dad put the picture in
a glass frame. I was not a NY Yankee fan but I did like the "Mick".
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Dave, do you remember when we were kids playing baseball? Everyone wanted to be Mickey Mantle. Lol. SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
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LTC Tom Jones
SGT (Join to see) - Really loved "the Mick" but I was always pretending to be Cleveland outfielder Rocky Colavito. Couldn't be a cooler name than that in the eyes of a ten year old.
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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
SGT (Join to see) - growing up on the farm didn't leave much time for that.
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