I met this man back in 1987. Shook his hand and he signed a ball for me. I gave the ball to my brother for xmas that year. I will never forget the look on my brothers face. Just thinking about it now brings tears to my eyes. It was the best xmas ever.

@sugarsingh4951

3 жыл бұрын

Cool story 😀

@glennevans5824

2 жыл бұрын

Very nice..

@ScratchGlass9

Жыл бұрын

Great brother !!!!! 👍👍👍

@rickrobitaille8809

Жыл бұрын

💥🎯🇨🇦🇺🇸😁

@carlt8188

Жыл бұрын

Does he still have it?

It’s painful just to watch him limping around the bases. By 1967, Mickey was a shadow of his former self. He was so hobbled by injuries that he could no longer run and he played at first base that year and again in his final year, 1968. Considering all those serious injuries, it’s a miracle he played as well as he did for as long as he did.

@lewisc215

2 жыл бұрын

Tell us what we don't know, Dork.

@marcosvalverde2451

6 ай бұрын

Mickey Mantle was a great man

The pain just trotting. Mick would rock and roll these pitchers today 😂

The first time I saw the Yankees was in Comiskey Park, 1960. Mantle and Maris hit back to back homers, Awesome.

We'll never know how many more home runs Mickey might have hit if he his legs hadn't been so damaged early in his career. (He still hit 536.). Notice how gingerly he ran around the bases after hitting his 500th home run. He played on hurt, heavily taped legs for years. It was said that in his youth no one ran from the batter's box to first base faster than Mantle.

@JeffVando42

22 күн бұрын

3.1 seconds from home to first, don’t know of many guys that can do that now

@Headlesshorse

21 күн бұрын

Mickey was stubborn, and would not do any rehab on his knee..he was given a weighted boot and instructions for exercises to strengthen the muscles around his damaged knee, it would have helped him..he was always in ahurry to get wasted and laid in his free time.

I am 69 years old and Mickey Mantle will always be my Childhood Hero.

I'm a lifetime Red Sox fan and Mickey was by far my favorite alltime Yankee. Unquestionably.

@MrGoldenthroat

4 жыл бұрын

I loved Mickey but my favorite all time Yankees were Elston Howard and Roy White!!!

@bowlersinger

3 жыл бұрын

Thurman Munson and Bobby Murcer for me. Roy White too. They were my firsts.

look at the way he runs the bases. can you imagine how much pain he must have been in? the long nights of drinking and playing through crippling injuries... still the Greatest Yankee ball player ever.

@scottbennici4689

7 жыл бұрын

Donnie Williams umm what?

@bobmoslow9554

7 жыл бұрын

I appreciate the comment coming from a Red Sox fan-thanks!

@vicepresidentmikepence889

6 жыл бұрын

I think you forgot about Babe Ruth, Kevin Maas, and Joe DiMaggio.

@Cdub31

6 жыл бұрын

Lord Beasley man fuck kevin maas, what about mel hall weeeeee

@manuginobilisbaldspot424

5 жыл бұрын

@@Cdub31 Shane Spencer would like a word.

You can see how he hurts when he swings, but Mantle still hit it about 400 feet. The man had class.

Had his 67 card. His last year with all his career stats. Amazing. My favorite player since I was 7. Now 71. Still collect his cards. Brings back an era long gone.

@kknight4189

4 жыл бұрын

Donald... I have a autographed Ruth ball, Gehrig ball and an autographed Mickey ball... If I ever had to get rid of them, Mickey's would be the last to go

@HereForAStorm

4 жыл бұрын

69 Topps was his last card

@maxg1836

3 жыл бұрын

Cool story Donald! Thanks for sharing your experiences :)

@stevea6816

2 жыл бұрын

68 was his last year

@herecomesforego1787

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, I think I had that one… got got don’t got 😂

He ran the bases like Kirk Gibson after he homered off Eckersley. It's amazing that Mantle played the last several years basically on one leg.

@vanceoverstreet4182

4 жыл бұрын

At one time Mantle was fastest man in baseball

@vanceoverstreet4182

4 жыл бұрын

@MANCHESTER UNITED soccer is the lamist sport ever. Take away the goalie and.shorten the field. Stupid Game

@johncronin9540

3 жыл бұрын

@M Are you posting the same comment in every thread? You sound as if you are trying to convince yourself, as if you aren’t sure soccer is as popular as it is. Why don’t you just go and watch soccer videos? You’d probably enjoy it more than trolling here.

@BrianKliewer

Жыл бұрын

@M The only reason it's so big worldwide is because it takes almost no equipment to take it up. If you got a soccer ball, you're good to go and that's why so many from poor countries get into it.

@DJFredRH

10 ай бұрын

@user-gu4tv4hp6s What Third World country do you live in ? In the USA Baseball is our National Pastime.

Mickey Mantle was my hero when I was a child, and through my teen years. My bedroom looked like a Yankees man cave featuring Mantle. I still have the Indianapolis Star with the front page headline announcing his death.

"if I known I was going to live this long I would of took better care of myself" - Mickey Mantle

@tomitstube

4 жыл бұрын

no he wouldn't have. they all say that.

@dustineiffler7145

4 жыл бұрын

@@tomitstube that was an actual quote of Mickey's

@tomitstube

4 жыл бұрын

@@dustineiffler7145 mantle didn't come up with it, he got it from his neighbor bobby layne, the saying goes back centuries in various forms.

@deesnuts1

3 жыл бұрын

@M soccer is for girls and gays

@johncronin9540

3 жыл бұрын

@M And yet here you are not just watching this, but taking the time to comment on it. And what really is the point? People have the choice to be fans of either sport, or both, or neither. I can tell you this. In America, part of why baseball is so important is that it brings families together, especially generationally, a love for the game passed down from parent, to child, to grandchild, and so forth. I live in Massachusetts. I remember when the Red Sox, after so many years (86) of coming so painfully close, only to have it snatched away, finally won the World Series. Many people went out to cemeteries, to decorate parents and grandparents’ graves with memorabilia, and leaving messages saying, “They did it!” or words to that effect. It also brings entire communities together. I’m sure the same is true of soccer (or football) and of many other sports, whether they are players or spectators and fans. As for which sport, that is secondary. People have different tastes, and that’s expected, and shouldn’t be an issue. If you enjoy it, then enjoy it. It’s a brief escape from the serious issues we NEED to debate and discuss.

Watch this clip and then watch the clip of Mickey hitting a homer in the 7th game of the 1952 World Series--15 years before. It is shocking how quickly and completely his legs deteriorated. He can barely move in 1967; he was so fast in 1952 it was remarkable.

@mfj138

6 жыл бұрын

dape thank JoeD for Mickeys knee injury.

@johnmatheson6052

4 жыл бұрын

Fastest man in baseball, home to 1b, batting lefty, push bunt...on 1b b4 the ball got to the 3b man

@johnvan6803

2 ай бұрын

Joe DiMagio's ego resulted in Mickey's horrible knee injury which he never fully recovered from! He called Mickey off at the last second because HE wanted to send a message that HE was the boss out there! And DiMagio was very jealous of Mickey because he was getting a lot of attention! Joe never helped Mickey adjust to being on the team and was not friendly at all! DiMagio was a great ball player but was a sour puss and self-important and self-absorbed! Never cared for him!

I was in the bleachers at Yankee stadium earlier in that season when he hit 498 right in our direction.

@theaterdreamer

8 жыл бұрын

+bobsam55 I'd have given anything to see Mick play. I'm only 44, so his career was long over before I ever went to the ballpark. But I've own his HBO special, and I've watched him play enough to know what a great he truly was.

It's was nice, to hear the late Jerry Coleman, announcing the play by play, especially on mickey mantles 500th home run.

@gregsears-iy6in

5 ай бұрын

My birthday. I was 13 years old. Love it easy to remember when Mick got his 500th HR.

@SputnickSpooner-jg5gi

3 ай бұрын

He did the play by play for the Padres and was great.

Mickey Mantle was everyone's childhood hero. No steroids, just too bad the Mick had so many injuries.

@rd9793

2 ай бұрын

He was mine for sure.

Amazingly....Mickey’s 500th HR was almost in the exact same spot where Roger Maris hit his 61st at The Stadium just 6 years earlier..

@kimpk1288

Жыл бұрын

It wasn’t near the same spot

Mantle hobbling around the bases is painful to watch...

@870Rem12gauge

5 жыл бұрын

Inspiring.

@josephgiuffdrida5387

5 жыл бұрын

Read my reply I just posted about Nodody ever came close to breaking Mantle 18 world series Home Runs Nobody came close to Babe Ruth 15 World Series HR They always talk about Di'maggio 56 game hitting streak never being broken Well Nobody will break Mantles 18 WS HR

@god_hand576

4 жыл бұрын

@MANCHESTER UNITED soccer is only popular due to it being a litteral poverty sport

@kknight4189

4 жыл бұрын

@MANCHESTER UNITED at least baseball isn't played in silk panties and knee highs

@crackhead868

4 жыл бұрын

MANCHESTER UNITED why are you here? Lol

One of the greatest what if stories in baseball, and one of the only that actually was still incredibly great on top of all his injuries

He was my sports hero when I was young. I only saw the Yankees play live once. That was in Detroit in 1963. Two days before the game, he hurt is leg in Baltimore, and didn't make the trip. My aunt even had Mickey Jr. as a student in Dallas, but I never met Mickey. I wore number 7 in Little League.

I grew up in NY. He was and still is my all time favorite player.

I went to a Memorial Day DH in 1968 vs the Senators. He went 5-5 with 2 homers and a double. Next year we went to Mickey. Day in 1969. I still have the program with his picture

The Mick is one of my idols!

Mickey could do it all. Without injuries he would have been greatest of all time

Went from .309 to .298 after 1964 and in 1964 he hit .303 so he was over .310 for most of his career.

@kevaninthe4135

6 жыл бұрын

Losing his .300 average was one of Mick's regrets. "I was a .300 hitter!!!!!!!!!!!!".

@username-zj9id

3 жыл бұрын

He didn't go under .300 till halfway through his final season. He could have retired after '67 with a .302 BA and still hit 518 HR. Also, he pretty much lost the ability to hit left handed after a shoulder injury in the 1958 World Series but refused to quit switch hitting. I think one year he hit something like .424 right handed and. 241 left handed. He would have easily been over .300 in his career if he had solely righthanded after the injury

@jacksmith5692

3 жыл бұрын

@@username-zj9id Very true, he always said my natural side was right handed and I was a much better hitter right handed but had more power left handed. I think he hit .330 lifetime right handed. Albert Pujols has ruined his career numbers as he is now at .299. He was a .328 hitter as a Cardinal and now is down to .299. It happens, Ted Williams was over .350 going into 1958 and then hit .328, .259, and .316 to finish at .344. Mike Piazza was at .331 and finished at .308 due to the brutality of playing catcher. Henry Aaron was at .313 in 1971 and finished at ,305.

@username-zj9id

3 жыл бұрын

@@jacksmith5692 He might have been one of the best right handed hitters of all time. So many what-ifs with his career but incredible that he was as great as he was in spite of everything. I'm reminded of Mickey's lament every time I look at Pujols' stats. His BA, SLG and OPS will only get worse; he hasn't hit close to .300 years. Should retire now that he has passed Mays in HR

@jacksmith5692

3 жыл бұрын

@@username-zj9id I know I told a buddy a few years back that he needed to quit to save his .300 average but his massive money deal I guess is hard to pass up? Mays almost blew it also retiring at .302. He got old early(I sound like Yogi) having his last great year at age 34 in 1965. He was solid in 1966 but from 1967 to 1973 was only a good to poor player. Henry Aaron kept rolling along hitting 40 homers with a ,.301 average as late as 1973 at age 39 in get this 392 at bats. This is why Aaron passed Mays who everyone assumed would pass the Babe. At age 35 Mays had 542 homers and only hit another 118 homers never batting close to .300 again. Babe Ruth from age 31 to 37 hit 343 homers and over .350 in seven seasons. Look at his numbers from 1926 to 1932. He was remarkable!

Poor guy hobbling around the bases, a legend.

In my opinion, if Mickey could have avoided the injuries and later on took better care he would have without a doubt been the best to ever play. When he was healthy and in his prime he was. I got to tell him, that I read in his book "when he was at his best he thought he was at least as good as Willie and the Duke, but in my opinion when he was at his best they could't carry his spikes. " He clapped me on the shoulder and said he appreciated my saying that.

@howie9751

2 жыл бұрын

Who knows how many players may have been the greatest but never got to long major league careers because of injuries. We'll never know.

@snoop11080

Жыл бұрын

Most players didn’t take care of themselves back then

@Brandon_093

Жыл бұрын

Mantle literally played his whole career injured. He was never 100%. His knee injury suffered in the 1951 never got repaired, just healed so so with bed rest and that was it. He had an amazing career but he's still possibly the biggest what if in baseball history

@smilnjac

Жыл бұрын

Mickey could actually pull his lower leg 2 inches away from his knee. How he played 18 years like that, only the Lord knows.

@iamhungey12345

3 ай бұрын

@@snoop11080 Not to the extent of Mickey though, the guy didn't think he'd lived to 40 which hence is lifestyle.

I want ya'll to think about this: Miller threw him a change-up (a good one, at that) and he still managed to blast it out of the park - not just clear the wall but make it land way back. Further understand the pain he was enduring when he swung the bat and you realize just how amazing this man was.

I was one year old on this date and long for the old days and this generation. Glory Days.

This is awesome to watch my grandfather idolized Mickey Mantle my grandfather is a diehard Yankees fan and has been since he was a teenager he grew up poor in Kentucky and they didn’t have a tv he would try to listen to him anytime he could he just wishes he could have seen the Yankees play in person he has just never had the opportunity

As a kid we all wanted to have number 7 on our uniforms. I wanted to be the next Mickie Mantel!

"Mantle had the greatest natural ability of any player that had ever played." --- Ted Williams

@guypatterson7334

9 ай бұрын

Probably correct, and coming from an immortal like Teddy Ballgame, that's a compliment to be sure.

When you see Mickey mantle hit his 500th HomeRun you can see how warned down he is compared to earlier years.

There will never be another Mickey or Willie.

@robbystechman6384

4 жыл бұрын

Or hank or frank or roberto

@tommcconville4270

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, Mickey and Willie were the FIRST REAL 5 tool players in baseball.

@harjimbaugh4234

4 жыл бұрын

Mike Trout.

@tommcconville4270

3 жыл бұрын

@@harjimbaugh4234 Trout is a great player and center fielder, but Mantle and Mays had skills that were other worldly. Willie could do it all, run, field, steal bases, hit for power and avg. Mickey could hit for power, both sides of plate, with home runs and high average. One of the fastest players of all time early in career, could beat out bunts or slow rollers routinely. Yes, he was even a great bunter. And one of the all time best center fielders, he could run down and catch almost anything hit out there. Willie could as well. You obviously did not see them play, they were 2 of the greatest center fielders of all time, along with Joe Di Maggio, Duke Snider and Ken Griffey Jnr. Ken was a fantastic fielding center fielder and one of the best home run and power hitters all time. And a great base runner and base stealers. Trout has to accomplish a lot more to be compared to the great players I just mentioned. Is Trout a better center fielder than Paul Blair or Jim Edmonds, because they also were all time greats. Only time will tell.

@harjimbaugh4234

3 жыл бұрын

@@tommcconville4270 Mike Trout 300 HR by 29 and 3 MVP awards. He will probably win 5 MVP awards and hit 650 HR's if he stays healthy which i think he can do. Not only that but i believe when all is said and done his WAR will be above everyone except maybe Ruth. In the next couple years ppl will be saying he's on the same level as Griffey, Bonds, Mantle, Mays and he will still have 5-6 years left to go. Might be the best of all time although that is mostly subjective

I'm here watching my boyhood hero hit #500 because of an article today about Joe Pepitone suing the HOF to get this bat back, which he loaned to Mantle before the at-bat. Now just trying to figure out why Mantle didn't use his own bat. Have to say, and found the box score online, Mantle waved and smiled specifically to me in the centerfield bleachers in the old Cleveland Stadium in 1963. No one but my dad and I sitting there and didn't know if my voice would carry, but on the maybe second yell of his last name, he turned, smiled, and waved back at me. Great day for an almost 11 yo kid.

@lewisc215

2 жыл бұрын

Gibberish

you could see the pain this man was in

Growing up in Oklahoma I played ball with his great grandson Dillion Mantle!! It was Little League at the time so guess who we were? That's right, we were the Yankees and yes he wore #7. My number in all sports was #4 so I felt lucky enough to honor Lou Gehrig and my other friend was #3 for the Babe. We really played like a little League version of Bronx bombers, non stop home runs even though most of them weren't over the fence. We would steal home on the throwback to the pitcher and everything we could. The other teams in the league hated us kinda like how the Yankees in real life are viewed. It was the perfect

@1biasedherbertfan979

2 жыл бұрын

You were teammates right

@lewisc215

2 жыл бұрын

WE don't care.

Believe it or not even with the injuries Mantle was 7th in AL in OPS in 1967 and 8th in 1968. Still a very, very dangerous hitter.

@theaterdreamer

8 жыл бұрын

+CapAnson12345 first of all, /tip of the cap for even knowing who Cap Anson was. Secondly, about Mickey. He wasn't the player he once was in the late 60s, partially because he didn't take care of himself (he didn't think he was going to see 40), but in large part because of the injuries. But the Mick was still a force to be reckoned with even then. In '66, he had a .927 OPS, which would be close to the top ten today. His legs were gone by then, but he was still a .380-.400 OBP guy because he was walking 100 + times each season. When I think of the greats, guys like Pete Rose and Ty Cobb were overachievers. They didn't have supernatural athletic abilities, but they just wanted it more than everybody else. Then, you have guys like Mantle, Mays and Clemente. Mantle, especially, was superhuman. That he was able to do what he did with the myriad of injuries he suffered, is mind boggling. I have had about 35 major bone fractures in my life because of a condition I was born with. Mick broke things all the time, healed up a bit, and then went back out onto the diamond, and dominated. If he hadn't torn up his knee as a rookie in the World Series, he might have been the first guy to hit 40 home runs and steal 40 bases. He was the fastest guy in the Majors when he was called up. When I die, God willing, I'll go to Heaven, and there will be a big baseball stadium where all the greats play. And, I'm going to sit front row, and watch Mick play with a set of healthy legs.

@CapAnson12345

8 жыл бұрын

Mantle in my humble opinion was the greatest natural athlete to ever play baseball (except possibly for Bo Jackson, who wasn't anywhere near as good)

@theaterdreamer

8 жыл бұрын

You might be right. It's hard to say, because the game has been played for so long, and there are a lot of players I never got the chance to see. But Mantle was a freak. One guy that was terribly underrated as an athlete was Clemente. The guy hit the ball a lot harder than people ever give him credit for. He hit a few home runs that were estimated at 500 feet. But he didn't swing for the fences because he felt he helped his team more by getting on base. But as great as he was at the plate (career .317 AVG with his 3,000 hits), nobody but Willie Mays could touch him there. The guy had incredible instincts off the bat. He got to everything. And anybody that tried for an extra base on a hit to right regretted it. He didn't have a right arm. He had a howitzer. Another guy that was freakishly good was Robin Yount. I watched him play many times in person at County Stadium. The guy was one big muscle. He didn't have the build of a power hitter, but the ball absolutely jumped off of his bat. He had outstanding range, excellent speed, and a great eye at the plate. It's a shame he ruined his shoulder in 1984. He's one of the ten best all-around shortstops to ever play the game, but he'd have easily been top 5 if he had spent his entire career there. The shoulder robbed him of some of his power. He hit 29 out in 1982, and would have gone over 30 a few times. Still, he racked up a lot of extra base hits in his prime. He and Molitor were a joy to watch together.

@derSilberMeister

8 жыл бұрын

+the 'stache Oh man, I'm a sucker for this kind of anecdotes and/or stats and knowledge of the game. Wish I could go back in time and watch the Mick play.

@870Rem12gauge

7 жыл бұрын

Easily the best switch hitter ever.

Mickey, Willie and the Duke. You won’t see that type of talent in one town again.

look at him struggling to trot the bases, Guy was just made of something special.

Fantastic memory. Thanks

Greatest player in my life time wish i had a 1952 rc

@tommcconville4270

3 жыл бұрын

Greatest player I'm my lifetime as well Rob, I saw him play at Yankee Stadium in the sixties. That's the one and only, the original, the BEST Yankee Stadium. The house that Ruth built.

Poor guy could barely get around the bases. If he never stepped in that drain in right field pulling up to let Joe D take a fly ball, he would easily have hit over 60 and cleared 700 homers. Fast as lightning too

When he passed away a little bit of my childhood went with him.

Years ago, I went through all the 1968 game logs to find out when his career batting average never went above 0.300 unrounded and never exceeded 0.2994 to the at-bat. I'll have to edit this when I retrieve the file but it was depressing.

Maybe the single best baseball player in history. If not for the injuries, might have had the best numbers in history.

Love Mickey ❤️❤️❤️

@870Rem12gauge

7 жыл бұрын

I had a Mick lunch box in school. '65 or '66.

What a shame early in his career he ruined his knee by the drain at Yankee stadium…..tore ligaments guy was a super fast runner..If he took better care of himself cud have easily had 650 plus homers….and a few more years

Icon. Visionary. Legend. 🙏🏻

He was on his last legs as a player in 1967. The following year was his last season.

My heroe...

I am fascinated by the original Yankee Stadium. The renovation really did change its entire identity.

Today is the 54 year anniversary!! Absolute Legend.

Pitcher grooved that one for Mick. Very cool.

@tomhagerstrom

3 ай бұрын

Not grooved@

Welcome to the club Miguel Cabrera!!

Poor Mickey he was really hurting, My favorite player since I was 13 back in Havana.

There will never be a player in the modern era like Mickey Mantle. He was more than a Baseball player. he was an American hero. every kid wanted to be like him. He hit the farthest home runs, and he hit a lot of them. Aaron never hit 50 in a season. I don't know how Willie Mays hit so many out of Candlestick, the winds were terrible. But Left Field in Yankee Stadium was called :Death Valley" for a reason-457 deep Right center, 461 to dead center, 463 just off to the left of center where the monuments were. The wall was 16 feet high. Only 5 players ever managed to hit one in the center field bleachers- Mantle and Ruth did it numerous times. Also I think Harmon Killebrew did it, and Frank Howard. Aaron was the on NL player to do it once in the world Series.

@BigBadBosco

5 жыл бұрын

Hank Aaron was tremendously affected by his years in Milwaukee. If he had played in almost any other National League park he would have hit over 50 homers in a single multiple times. Of course, when Mantle hit RH in Yankee Stadium he too, was hampered.

@smilnjac

5 жыл бұрын

So right, Harmon Killebrew once asked Mickey after flying out to him in deep center, How the Hell do you play here ?

@stevea6816

2 жыл бұрын

Mays hit 52 in 1965, at age 34. I read winds blew from LF to RF at Candlestick so he obviously lost a lot of HRs there

Before Aaron Judge, there was Mickey!

If Mutt Mantle had lived passed 1952, Mick would have hit 700 home runs and been the greatest player in history. Mutt would’ve not allowed him to go wild in New York.

My fav player who played before my time to collect items of & I'm so glad that I got to watch 2 old gms rebroadcast on TV back in the '90's just so that I can say that I actually got to see the Mick play!

I've shed tears a few times over sports heroes, Muhammad Ali at the Atlanta Olympics, Thurman Munson's death and when I was a young teenager it was 1967 I believe and Mickey got a clear line drive base hit to right and collapsed half way to first base!

There will only be one number 7 ...

Welshman,Mantle might have been blasted when he hit No. 500,which was a frequent occurrence. I heard the Mick's 535th and penultimate homer on Sept.14,1968,off the Tigers' 31-game winner Denny McLain at Tiger Stadium,and later McLain and most Yankees and Tigers said that Number Seven was plowed when he smashed that down-the-middle lob by McLain nearly out of Tiger Stadium.

Like how the orioles catcher is watching on so intently. Likely grew up idolizing Mickey, himself.

Mickey the Great

Better field view and production in 1967.. sometimes less is more .

That homer ended up being the winning run in the game and was Mickey's 500th. If he had retired immediately after that game, his career batting average would have been over .300.

Its amazing he played as well as he did those last few years. 0:21 He looks so over running, like hes ready to just lay down there at second base and wait for the stretcher. Even in that bad of shape he was hitting home runs. Great career

The great Mick!

Left-handed homer-he hit 372 batting left-handed and 164 batting from the right. Makes sense because there are more right-handed pitchers. He hit with power from the left. He hit for a much higher batting average as a right-hander though, around 50 points higher.

Willie Mays just passed away. Just think, at one time New York had Mickey, Willie and the Duke as Center fielders. There will never be an array like that in one town ever again. Mantle, Mays and Snider. They were the best.

I was born in 1957 My mom told me my first words,we're Mom Dad And Mickey Mantle And I'm shore they were The Great Mickey Mantle My very first idol in sports

Hated when they renovated the old Yankee Stadium and hated it even more when they tore it down.

in regards to comments on losing 300 lifetime ave mantle still was over 300 till the all star break in 1968 he lost it over the last three months of the 68 season his last season terrible

What a legend!! I’m still bitter about Kramer punching him in the face.

My first big leagues season

Poignant running the bases with those bad knees.

Best ever who hits 536 hrs and bats .298 career with those kinds of injuries?

@brianreed1859

5 жыл бұрын

You have a good argument

Mantle was on his last legs as a player that year. The following season (1968) was his last.

I love the original yankee stadium, after the renovations, it just wasn't the same.

@kevaninthe4135

6 жыл бұрын

My uncle always said "The Real Yankee Stadium died in 1973".

@TheLocalLt

4 жыл бұрын

Rex Regum it was still 100x better after the renovations than the new mausoleum

@bowlersinger

3 жыл бұрын

I was at Opening Day, 1976. Yanks beat Twins 11-4. The Twins' Dan Ford hit the first HR off Rudy May. No Yankee HRs that day!

@richardmiola2287

3 жыл бұрын

My first game at Yankee Stadium was on my13th birthday in 1970. I fell in love with that stadium. I went to the last game played at classic Yankee Stadium on 9/30/73; I felt as if a family member passed away. This edifice that is called Yankee Stadium is nothing but a money maker for the team.

@dennisznaniecke490

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed

Could you imagine if He was healthy his whole career?

Wow! He hit 500 homers in 1967!

@carlbaumeister3439

3 жыл бұрын

Ha!

He signed his first contract for $100,000. Can you imagine today?

What could have been had he stayed healthy.. it’s painful watching him round the bases, it literally looks painful. What a legend

Could you imagine Mick flipping his bat Pounding his chest and walking slowly towards first making a spectacle of himself instead of putting his head down running the bases with all modesty

sounds like jerry coleman was the announcer

You wonder with that short left field fence why Mantle did not hit a ton more home runs. At the foul line a pop fly goes over the fence. Maris got his 60 home runs because of that short left field fence. Of course, Mantle switch hit. So that was half his at bats as a rightie. Maris a Leftie.

Back in the time the 500 club meant something. Ruth, Mays, and Mantle were the only members this day.

@iamhungey12345

2 жыл бұрын

You forgot Jimmy Foxx.

HOF Brooks Robinson at 3rd base for the Orioles in this vid

Left center field in the original Yankee Stadium was, by design, unforgiving for right-handed hitters. If Mantle had played in today's Yankee Stadium (or even in the rebuilt Yankee Stadium), he would have hit 700 home runs - and DiMaggio would have hit 500 despite losing three years of his playing career to WWII.

Mantle was great !

The Mick.. The Legend!

Mick ran it out like he always did. Never showed up the pitcher.

500 never saw this before 😁💥🇨🇦🇺🇸

That pitch looked like batting practice. Not to take anything away from the Mick. Sad that his knee injury happened when he gave way to an outfield fly to his team mate Joe Dimaggio and Mick twisted his knee on a sprinkler thing

The real monster

Dude was in pain, virtually every day of his adult life. He very likely played the majority of his career on a torn ACL, which is just crazy.

Look at him-he could barely make it around the bases. He would’ve been the best player in history by a mile if he took care of himself (he still is IMO)

How about that? How about that!

@SmokinGun55

3 жыл бұрын

The great Jerry Coleman, a one time Yankee second baseman, did the call.