Mickey Mantle: The Definitive Story (MLB Baseball Sports Documentary)

Comments · 1.8K

• MR

  @MrSoxfan56 · 11 years ago

  I went to a game with my dad in 1961 at old Comiskey park in Chicago. Mantle and Maris were both chasing Babe Ruth's record of 61 home runs in a season. In batting practice Mantle hit 5 straight balls into the upper deck two almost went over the roof. In the first inning the Yankees loaded the bases with Mantle coming up. My dad said " the Sox have to walk him he hit all those balls in batting practice". I said "they are not going to walk in a run".  the Sox pitched to him and he hit a grand slam deep into the upper deck in right field. My dad bitched the rest of the game and all the way home how they should have walked him. I will never forget that day or the memory of seeing one of the greatest baseball players ever.Six years ago I had the privilege of talking to Bill "moose" Skowron who is on this tape. He was one of Mickey's closest friends on the Yankees and described Mickey the same as he is portrayed on this tape.He said one game Mantle went 0 for 4 and when he sat down next to Mickey after the game he was crying and Moose said "forget about today we play again tomorrow". Mickey said" yeah I know but I let 50,000 people down today". Do you think any players today do that?. I don't think so.

  710

• NM

  @NMEBandvideos · 7 years ago

  Baseball will never be like this again. What a golden age for baseball.

  177

• OF

  @officermahal5069 · 5 years ago

  The reason I learned to switch hit was Mickey.  I went to the railroad tracks, like he did.  Learned how to pivot without falling off the track.  A true hero.  Him, and Ted Williams.  The kind of people we will never see again.

  47

• RK

  @rkammarada · 7 years ago

  I was fortunate to be born in Manhattan and go to hundreds of N.Y. Yankee games. Every kid wanted to wear number 7 even on a tee shirt playing stick ball.  God Bless you Mickey rest in peace. You gave me so many fond memories watching you play center field.  I cried like a baby after watching this documentary.

  70

• SM

  @smallbizok · 6 years ago

  What a story.  I grew up in Oklahoma.  Mickey Mantle, Jim Shoulders, and OU Football brought Oklahoma out of the dust bowl and  put Oklahoma on the map.  Of the three, Mickey Mantle was my hero.  I would watch Yankee games on black and white TV, later in color during the Mantle-Maris  home run spree.  You just don't see athletes like that anymore.  $1100 signing bonus?  Parking meters are more than that in New York.

  23

• ST

  @stephennajemy3321 · 5 years ago

  as a red sox fan i am not ashamed to admit that in my youth Mickey Mantle was my hero.

  23

• IT

  @itmademesignup9508 · 3 years ago

  I frickin <b>hate</b> the Yankees, but whenever I play sports, I wear number 7 for Mickey Mantle. &nbsp;He was my Dads favorite player, so, respect.

  20

• MA

  @marewedlock2321 · 1 month ago

  The best baseball player to ever take the field, in my opinion.

  1

• GE

  @georgeovia · 7 years ago

  “It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about a game you’ve been playing all your life” Mickey Mantle

  20

• RO

  @ronaldharris7639 · 7 years ago

  Mantle did just fine,he played he partied and like all of us he had his regrets

  50

• MU

  @musicbydouggubner3121 · 4 years ago

  I&apos;m 11 years old. I never saw Mantle play, but now he&apos;s y favrote yankee. He will be missed

  20

• BR

  @brandonkohl6922 · 4 years ago

  No matter fame and fortune. Popular or unpopular. The good or the bad. We are all human and share in commonality the thing called life. We all share highs and lows. What Mickey did for the game of baseball was great, but his messages about how to truly live toward the end of his life i&apos;m sure helped more people than we will ever know. Keep swingin&apos; Mick. We love you!

  23