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Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 – August 13, 1995), nicknamed "the Mick" and "the Commerce Comet", was an American professional baseball player who played his entire Major League Baseball (MLB) career (1951–1968) with the New York Yankees, primarily as a center fielder.
The "M&M Boys" were the duo of New York Yankees baseball players Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, who were teammates from 1960 to 1966. [a] They gained prominence during the 1961 season, when Maris and Mantle, batting third and cleanup (fourth) in the Yankee lineup respectively, both challenged Babe Ruth's 34-year-old single-season record of 60 ...
Mickey Mantle – The all-time home run leader among switch-hitters, a first-ballot Hall of Famer. Chipper Jones – Also a first-ballot Hall of Famer, and the most recent of only two switch-hitters with extended MLB careers (5,000 at-bats or more) to have a career batting average of .300 from each side of home plate.
It's been 20 years since baseball legend Mickey Mantle left us on Aug. 13, 1995. At 63, he died too soon, of liver cancer that spread throughout his body. But the on-field legacy he left behind is ...
Mickey Mantle hit for the cycle in 1957. Ken Boyer hit for the cycle in 1961 and 1964, as a member of the St. Louis Cardinals. Carl Yastrzemski hit for the cycle against the Detroit Tigers in 1965. The last natural cycle of the 1960s was hit by Billy Williams in 1966. Rod Carew was one of five players to hit for the cycle in 1970.
The 1968 season was notable for being Mickey Mantle's final season before he announced his retirement the following spring. The Yankees batted .214 as a team, the lowest total ever for a team in a full season in the live-ball era (as of 2023).
Future Hall-of-Famers Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle sat out Game 5, Berra with a stiff shoulder, Mantle still suffering from a hip abscess. But substitutes Héctor López and Johnny Blanchard more than made up for the absence of the two stars. Lopez drove in five runs with a triple, a home run and a sacrifice bunt, and Blanchard had three hits ...
The Tigers led 5–4 in the 9th when Mickey Mantle tied the game with his second homer of the day. Elston Howard won it with a three-run home run. Detroit entered the series 1 1 ⁄ 2 games behind the Yankees, but left trailing by 4 1 ⁄ 2 games. Mantle's home run was his 50th of the year, three short of Maris's 53 homers.