Dallas, TX – 11/20/09:
Danny and David Mantle and their families attended Billy Crystal’s show ‘700 Sundays’.
Below are some photos from their backstage gathering with the host himself.
David, Billy and Danny
Billy with Will, Chloe and Marilyn
Billy with the Mantle families
Billy with Wade & Laurie Phillips
Mickey was a hero to millions of baseball fans myself included.
His legend will live forever.
Mickey Mantle was my baseball idol as a young boy playing Little League baseball in Peoria Ill, I was even the owner of a Rawlings Mickey Mantle Triple Crown autograph fielders glove when I played back in the late 1950’s and 1960’s.
Of course I was a big Yankees fan as well as they seemed to be on the Game of the Week almost every Saturday .
I remember how reluctant I was to stop using my Rawlings glove as it was wearing out for virtually being used everyday in the spring and summer. The new six fingered glove had no style or the character of my Mantle glove.
Rest in peace Mick!
I was living in the Bronx as a young YANKEES fan .Mickey had been out hurt what seemed like forever to me..I do not remember the year it may have been early in the nineteen sixties.There was no.7 in the on deck circle the stadium went wild. The MICK hit a homer first at bat after along injury.I will never forget that day.Many years later.My son and I went to a autograph signing show we saw the MICK up close.
I was eight years old when Mickey was on Home Run Derby against Hank Aaron. My dad gave me a hard time that Hank was going to out homer my idol. When it was over I headed to my room in tears as his prediction came true.
if you are going to pick a hero in life, why not “the mick”?? I still to this day think about him and his exploits on and off the playing field. We laughed, sympathized, cheered him (and the Yankees) on . We worried about the many injuries and so on. We rooted for the assured excitement of his next at bat or exceptional play in the field. He was the best player I ever saw (in person). A true American idol.
Mickey Mantle was and still is my baseball hero. Growing up in the 1960’s it was the courage and humble talent of Mickey Mantle that shaped much of who I am today. I’m am honored to be running the 2019 Boston Marathon for the American Liver Foundation (Liver Life Challenge) to promote liver health awareness and raise funds for liver research and education. Equally important in this endeavor will be to honor my Mom (also born in 1931 – just like Mick), Mickey Mantle and Walter Payton. Mom lost her race in life to liver cancer, and Walter Payton lost his life to a liver related illness. Thank you, Mick!