146 - Mickey Mantle was walked 146 times in 1957, the most bases on balls awarded a switch-hitter during a single season in Major League history. [82] Topps unretired the #7 in 2006 to use exclusively for cards of Mantle in the current year's design. 1. However, as the team slumped overall, he was still the team leader in several departments, for example in base stealing (23), runs scored (104), on-base average /percentage (.399) and fielding (.995). [10], Mantle began his professional baseball career in Kansas with the semi-professional Baxter Springs Whiz Kids. Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. ESPN's SportsCentury series that ran in 1999 ranked him No. [33], Mantle hit .237 with 18 home runs and 54 RBI during his final season in 1968. [59][60], Mantle allegedly took his first drink of alcohol at age 19, when teammate Hank Bauer gave him a beer that he "chugged as if it were soda pop", according to baseball historian Frank Russo. [49], Although he was among the best-paid players of the pre-free-agency era, Mantle was a poor businessman and did not invest well. [10] However, Mantle struggled defensively at shortstop.[10]. From 1959 through 1962, two All-Star Games were played each of those years, and The Commerce Comet was sent to all eight of those Midsummer Classics! After its presentation by Joe DiMaggio, Mantle gave a similar plaque to DiMaggio, telling the crowd, "Joe DiMaggio's deserves to be higher." Mantle's overall performance in 1956 was so exceptional that he was bestowed the Hickok Belt (unanimously) as the top American professional athlete of the year. Shortly before his death, Mantle videotaped a message to be played on Old-Timers' Day, which he was too ill to attend. Although he was a feared power hitter from either side of the plate and hit more home runs batting left-handed than right, Mantle considered himself a better right-handed hitter. 91 - Mickey Mantle was the ninety-first ballplayer from the state of Oklahoma. The New York Yankees' list of all-time home run leaders reads like a who's who of baseball sluggers . Own This Day - https://thebaseballpage.comSeptember 10, 1960 - Mickey Mantle unloads a cannon shot clearing the RF roof in Detroit and landing in Brooks Lumb. (Age 36-344d) Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? Mickey Mantle had 2,415 hits over his career. Following a two-year stint in the minors for the Independence (KS) Yankees, Mantle was promoted to the big league club as a right fielder in 1951. . All Rights Reserved by Baseball Almanac, Inc.Hosted by Hosting 4 Less. After the 1966 season, Mantle was moved to first base, with Joe Pepitone taking his place in the outfield. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (KSWO) - On this day in Oklahoma History, Oklahoma native Mickey Mantle announced his retirement from baseball in 1969. Do you know who preceded him in 1952? In 1957, Mantle had a career high .521 OBP, the Major League record for highest on-base percentage by a switch hitter in a single season. He was of at least partial English ancestry; his great-grandfather George Mantle left Brierley Hill, in England's Black Country, in 1848. Mantle two times hit balls off the third-deck facade at Yankee Stadium, nearly becoming the only player to hit a fair ball out of the stadium during a game. [10] He was selected an "All-Star" for the first time and made the AL team, but did not play in the five-inning All-Star game that had Boston Red Sox Dom DiMaggio at center field. Where what happened yesterday is being preserved today. 6th inning (58), You're going to work in the mines, that's what we'll do. Among his many accomplishments are all-time World Series records for home runs (18), runs scored (42), and runs batted in (40).[21]. 1 - Mickey Mantle hit the first home run in the Astrodome on April 9, 1965, crushing a Turk Farrell fastball over the 406-feet sign in center field; however, that was actually an exhibition game, and did not spastically count. One Yankee, in 2018, collected two inside the parkers do you remember who it was? Mantle was one of the greatest offensive threats in baseball history and is considered to be one of the best baseball players of all time. One Yankee, in 2018, collected two inside the parkers do you remember who it was? "[19] Bill Dickey called Mantle "the greatest prospect I've seen in my time. The decision still didn't sit well with Mickey Mantle, even 25 years later. 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Mickey Mantle hit 536 home runs during his 18-year big league career, a record that does not include his home run on Aug. 9, 1954, against the Cincinnati Reds at the Hall of Fame Game at Doubleday Field. On May 14, 1967, Mantle became the sixth member of the 500 home run club. He was selected an All-Star as the starting center fielder, but for the first time he could not make the 25-man roster because of the foot injury. Mantle and former teammate Whitey Ford were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame together in 1974, Mantle's first year of eligibility, Ford's second.[81]. Aberback, Brian (September 7, 2017). copyright=new Date(); "[77] In response, DiMaggio's plaque was hung one inch higher than Mantle's. Copyright 1999- In the second game of the 1951 World Series, New York Giants rookie Willie Mays hit a fly ball to right-center field. The low batting average caused his lifetime average to dip below .300, which caused him anguish the next year as he worked with a statistician to review all of his at-bats since 1951, hoping to find enough uncounted hits to elevate his average to .2995, but his lifetime average remained .298. [82][87][88] This card is sometimes erroneously referred to as Mantle's rookie card, though Mantle had in fact appeared in the 1951 Bowman Baseball set.[89]. The 1952 Topps #311 is by far Mantle's most popular baseball card and one of the most recognizable in the entire hobby. [36] When he retired, Mantle was third on the all-time home-run list with 536,[34] and he was the Yankees' all-time leader in games played with 2,401, a record that would be broken by Derek Jeter on August 29, 2011.[37]. The Cardinals won the World Series in seven games. Please reorganize this content to explain the subject's impact on popular culture. Roy Clark sang and played "Yesterday, When I Was Young". The osteomyelitic condition of Mantle's left leg had exempted him from being drafted for military service since he was 18 in 1949,[22][23] but his emergence as a star center fielder in the major leagues during the Korean War in 1952 led baseball fans to question his 4-F deferment. Mickey Mantle Positions: Centerfielder and First Baseman Bats: Both Throws: Right 5-11 , 195lb (180cm, 88kg) Born: October 20, 1931 in Spavinaw, OK us More bio, uniform, draft, salary info Hall of Fame 3x MVP Triple Crown 20x All-Star 7x World Series Gold Glove Batting Title ML PoY 6 7 Become a Stathead & surf this site ad-free. Music! 15 hours. The first, he often was not. Mickey Charles Mantle Nickname: The Commerce Comet Born: 10/20/1931 in Spavinaw, OK High School: Commerce, Commerce, OK Debut: 4/17/1951 Hall of Fame: 1974 Died: 8/13/1995 Relationship (s): cousin of Ryan Mantle Follow mlb Stats Career Game Logs Splits Batter vs. Pitcher MLB Minors Batting Fielding Regular Season Career Stats Advanced Career Stats [10] Mantle hit .313 for the Independence Yankees. [40] His 372 to-164 home run disparity was due to Mantle having batted left-handed much more often, as the large majority of pitchers are right-handed. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. Little, Brown & Company. var pfHeaderImgUrl = '';var pfHeaderTagline = '';var pfdisableClickToDel = 0;var pfHideImages = 0;var pfImageDisplayStyle = 'right';var pfDisablePDF = 0;var pfDisableEmail = 0;var pfDisablePrint = 0;var pfCustomCSS = 'https://www.baseball-almanac.com/css/print.css';var pfBtVersion='2';(function(){var js,pf;pf=document.createElement('script');pf.type='text/javascript';pf.src='//cdn.printfriendly.com/printfriendly.js';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(pf)})(); Mickey Charles Mantle was a Major League Baseball player who spent his entire 18-year career playing for the New York Yankees (1951-1968). Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Hidden Game Sports. Longest Home Runs The following information regarding Mickey's longest home runs was provided by Bruce Orser. [a] He was an American League (AL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) three times and a Gold Glove winner once. Mickey Mantle was born on Tuesday, October 20, 1931, in Spavinaw, Oklahoma. [6] He hit 536 career home runs, batted .300 or more ten times, and is the career leader (tied with Jim Thome) in walk-off home runs, with 13: 12 in the regular season and one in the postseason. His biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable), career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this comprehensive Mickey Mantle baseball stats page. Do you have a sports website? Although his batting average was his lowest since his rookie year, his league-leading 40 home runs and 94 runs batted in, saw him come in a close second to Roger Maris's MVP award. The team played the rest of the season with black mourning bands topped by a number 7 on their left sleeves. [48] In 1972 he served as a part-time television commentator for the Montreal Expos. [31] Mantle hit .255 with 19 home runs and 46 RBI in 361 plate appearances. Maris hit 26. He is in 10th place in number of bases-empty bunt singles for his career, with 80 in only 148 at-bats. Oklahoma Heritage Society: Oklahoma Hall of Fame. He hit two more home runs in the series to set a new lifetime World Series record with 18. The season was bad for the Yankees, too, as they finished third. Mantle's doctors insisted that the transplant was based solely on medical criteria, but acknowledged that the very short wait created the appearance of favoritism. "During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. It also was perhaps his only "called shot", as he told on-deck hitter Elston Howard, "he might as well return to the dugout this game is over!" A quote there says, "No man in the history of baseball had as much power as Mickey Mantle. In 1958, The Mick hit an inside the park home run on May 9, 1958, another on May 20, 1958, and a third on June 5, 1958. However, even "Muscles" once had a brief slump early in his career which was described in Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes (Fadiman, Clifton. All rights reserved. Free shipping. 54 - Mickey Mantle hit 54 home runs in 1961, the Major League record for most home runs in a single season by a switch-hitter. And, in the end, people got it. At the time, Mantle did not know that most of the men in his family had inhaled lead and zinc dust in the mines, which can cause Hodgkin's disease and other cancers. He later wrote a book (My Favorite Summer 1956) about his best year in baseball. Some would argue it has even overtaken the T206 Honus Wagner as the face of the baseball card world. Mantle desired to be remembered as a stellar teammate. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball." - Mantle, Mickey. On September 10, 1960, he hit a ball left-handed that cleared the right-field roof at Tiger Stadium in Detroit and, based on where it was found, was estimated years later by historian Mark Gallagher to have traveled 643 feet (196m). On August 25, 1996, about a year after his death, Mantle's Monument Park plaque was replaced with a monument bearing the words "A great teammate" and keeping a phrase that had been included on the original plaque: "A magnificent Yankee who left a legacy of unequaled courage." That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball." Mantle was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1974. . [51], Mantle worked as a customer-relations representative for the Dallas Reserve Life Insurance Company. Do you know who said this quote about Mickey Mantle? [86], In August 2022, a 1952 Topps baseball card (Topps; 1952; #311; SGC MT 9.5) in mint condition sold for $12.6 million, a record for sports memorabilia at the time. Become a Stathead & surf this site ad-free. 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