Home Run Derby: Mickey Mantle versus Willie Mays – IOTW Report

Home Run Derby: Mickey Mantle versus Willie Mays

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  1. Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Sandy Koufax, Harmon Killebrew etc. were my baseball heroes when I was a kid back in the 60’s. And from the Negro Leagues Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige and Buck O’Neill. And yep no steroids, Harmon Killebrew had the largest biceps I can ever remember and they came from growing up as a farm boy.

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  2. “During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.” M. Mantle

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  3. geoff the aardvark,

    When the Mall of America was built on the grounds where the old Metropolitan Stadium was located, they installed the bleacher seat that Harman Killebrew hit with his 520 ft home run ball. The center of the mall has an amusement park and on the site of the home plate is a plaque on the floor. You stand on it and look up on the opposite wall and there, bolted up on the wall, is a red seat. It’s pretty cool.

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  4. why all the hate for Mantle?
    yes, he partied, he boozed, he wrecked his health … but he was the best player of his generation

    he had bad wheels … actually broke a foot while chasing a fly ball & tripping over a sprinkler head in Yankee Stadium … Mays was probably a better fielder, but Mantle was no slouch in the outfield. he was, more often then not, on the winning team … the epitome of the best players

    we celebrate the immortals of Baseball in the first class of the Baseball Hall of Fame …. Ruth, Wagner, Cobb, Matthewson, Johnson … I’d include, in the second group …. Gehrig, Young, DiMaggio, Foxx, Mays & Mantle

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  5. WDS July 20, 2018 at 8:06 am

    I do. What a great year for baseball. The kids in my neighborhood were divided, some for Maris, some for Mantle. The media called them the “M & M” boys. They even appeared on Ed Sullivan, both sporting crew-cuts, and were very gracious.

    Now, my viewing of all sports is very limited. The tats, bad ‘tudes, players becoming celebrities, zillion dollar salaries, has ruined it all for me.

    With baseball, I don’t even like how they do not wear high socks like they used to. Team names like Red Sox and White Sox mean nothing if you can’t actually see the socks. Now, they let the bottom of their pants scrape the ground.

    Baseball used to maintain great traditions. Now they are going away.

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