Enshrined in Cooperstown
On January 16, 1974, Mickey Mantle became just the seventh player to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility. Mickey's buddy, Whitey Ford, also was elected making this [...]
Gift of a Tiger
On September 19, the Yankees were in Detroit playing the first place Tigers in the third game of a three game series. The Tigers had won the first two games which clinched first place in [...]
500th Home Run
May 14th was Mother's Day and this token was given to all mothers at the ball game. It was Sunday, Mother's Day, May 14th, 1967. The Yankees were playing the Baltimore Orioles. Stu [...]
Mickey Mantle Day
In June of 1965, Yankees management feared that Mickey was at the end of his playing days so they announced that September 18 would be "Mickey Mantle Day" at Yankee Stadium. At that time, only [...]
1st Indoor Home Run
The date was April 9, 1965. The place was the Houston Astrodome (the proclaimed Eighth Wonder of the World). 47,876 excited fans jammed into the Astrodome to watch the fist indoor major league baseball game [...]
Walk-Off the Facade
On May 22, 1963 is was looking like another Yankees romp over the Kansas City Athletics as they led by the score of 7-0 going into the eight inning. The A's put up six unanswered [...]
1 Arm, 2 Homers, 3 Game Sweep
As the 2nd place Detroit Tigers came to Yankee Stadium on September 1st, the Yankees held a slim 1 1/2 game lead over them. The Yankees won the first two games of the three game [...]
A Perfect Day
The 1956 World Series pitted the New York Yankees against the Brooklyn Dodgers. The Dodgers won the first two games and the Yankees won the next two. Game 5 was played at Yankee Stadium and [...]
Birth of the Tape Measure Home Run
Only five days after Mickey Mantle Jr. was born, the Yankees were in Washington to play the Senators. Only 4,206 fans were in the stands that historic day as Chuck Stobbs was on the mound [...]
This photo has Mickey batting left handed even though we all know that he this homer right handed.
I e-mailed this website many years ago and told them the picture they used was incorrect, as Mickey hit the ball right-handed ……… they said they used the picture because it was the best one they had at the time and they knew it was incorrect …. no idea why they have not corrected the picture
Unfortunately, there is no known photo of that actual home run swing of Mickey’s. I wish there were… We would definitely use it.
I got to see Roy and Ray Mantle play for the McAlester Rockets in the early 1950s. I was about 10 years old. Mickey Mantle was always my Hero. I was a switch hitter in High School and after High School because of Mickey.
Even though it’s not the actual home run, it’s still a great pic because it shows the bohemian guy in left.
I met Mickey in Dallas years ago after he had long retired. I said to him “I saw you play a lot of games,” to which he replied “It was a lot of fun.” That was the perfect response! It was great to hear baseball was a lot of fun for him.
I was a boy of 11 in the spring of 1951, living in northern New Jersey, when I contacted scarlet fever, and had to stay in bed for three weeks. Every day, I would listen to Mel Allen broadcast the pre-season games from Florida on the radio, and rave about this 19 year old boy who was hitting home runs from both sides of the plate. The Yankees were already the best team in baseball, and looking for someone to take the place of the soon to retire Joe Dimaggio, the great Yankee Clipper.
I became an avid fan and followed the career of Mantle for the next 15 years as the Yankees won one pennant and World Series after another. It was a magical time back then for the sports fans of New York, a time never matched since. In retrospect, it seems that all those victories were inevitable, but at the time, we cared passionately about every game, unsure whether the Yankees would triumph again. I’m now 77 years old, and know how lucky I was to be there when Mickey Mantle and the Yankees were our team. I agree with many others that if Mickey had not suffered those knee injuries, he would have ended his career as the greatest baseball player of all time.
I was born in 51 in new jersey and a Yankees fan as soon as I could see. It didn’t take me that long to select MM as my hero maybe 56 0r 57. The greatest thing I remember is how good I felt after the Mick pulled the game out with a clutch single ,or double or homer.(and this happened all the time ) My friends and I cried tears of joy! After the televised broadcast with mel and red all my buddies would head to the baseball fields to play homerun derby and of course all emulated the mick. His stance , his grip of the bat(opening and closing the fingers), his practice swings at the plate , his home run trot, his helicopter blade fan type swing. Nobody else had that swing! When that connected and often it did Goodbye! I m just one little person in the Tri state area where there were millions of people of all ages who were effected by the Mick in the same way. This is the impact he had which he maybe didn’t realize how much of an impact he had on people here. We had this joy year after year after year that grew into Love for this hero