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. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball." - Mantle, Mickey. During Game 5 of the 1956 World SeriesDon Larsen's perfect game against the Brooklyn DodgersMantle kept the perfect game alive by making a running catch of a deep fly ball off the bat of Gil Hodges, and provided the first of the two runs the Yankees would score with a fourth-inning home run off Brooklyn starter Sal Maglie. Javascript is required for the selection of a player. The second, he always will be. Mantle served as a part-time color commentator on NBC's baseball coverage in 1969, teaming with Curt Gowdy and Tony Kubek to call some Game of the Week telecasts as well as that year's All-Star Game. Mantle won the Triple Crown in 1956, when he led the major leagues in batting average (.353), home runs (52), and runs batted in (RBI) (130). [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. He broke his foot and did not play again until August 4, when he hit a pinch-hit home run against the Baltimore Orioles at Yankee Stadium. "This is a role model: Don't be like me," a frail Mantle said. [79], In 1969, Mantle received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.[80]. Do you know who it is? The couple's four sons were Mickey Jr. (19532000), David (born 1955), Billy (19571994), whom Mickey named for Billy Martin, his best friend among his Yankee teammates, and Danny (born 1960). Nevertheless, Mantle accepted the position because he felt the rule was "stupid." His knee twisted awkwardly and he instantly fell. Mickey Mantle weighed 195 lbs (88 kg) when playing. On May 14, 1967, Mantle became the sixth member of the 500 home run club. No player, except Mantle himself, was featured in a regular set on card number seven until the release of the 2017 Topps Baseball Card set. 376 - Mickey Mantle had a league leading 376 total bases in 1956, setting the American League (and Major League) record for most total bases in a season by a switch hitter. You can work back down there." July 22, 1955, County Stadium, Milwaukee - Pitcher Robin Roberts 2. 20 - Mickey Mantle played in the majors for eighteen years, and was not sent to the Midsummer Classic in 1951, or 1966, yet he did appear in twenty All-Star Games! 7 - Mickey Mantle wore #6 when he made his big league debut with the Bronx Bombers, changed to #7, and on Mickey Mantle Day, at Yankee Stadium, June 8, 1969, The Mick's #7 was retired and he was a given a bronze plaque to be hung on the center field wall near the monuments to Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Miller Huggins. Willie Mays had power. This was the first of numerous injuries that plagued his 18-year career with the Yankees. The Daily News reported it as a 502-foot homer. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. Mickey Mantle Memories and Memorabilia. Mantle was the uncle of actor and musician Kelly Mantle. "[47][63], Mantle's wife and sons all completed treatment for alcoholism and told him that he needed to do the same. Do you remember what player hit the first regular season / official home run (April 12, 1965) in the Astrodome? Mantle desired to be remembered as a stellar teammate. 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[74], Mantle was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1964. Babe Ruth (AP Photo) . With 37 homers, he was now a home run hitter, not just an all-around player with tremendous power. Maris hit 26. [84] That same year, Mantle was one of 100 nominees for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team, and was chosen by fan balloting as one of the team's outfielders. During the 1961 season, Mantle and teammate Roger Maris, known as the M&M Boys, chased Babe Ruth's 1927 single-season home run record. He played the rest of his career with a torn ACL. document.write(update); Kuhn warned Mantle before he accepted the position that he would be placed on the list if he took the job. Part of the Baseball Almanac Family, Last-Modified: December 4, 2022 5:28 AM EST, record for highest on-base percentage by a switch hitter in a career, record for highest on-base percentage by a switch hitter in a single season, record for highest slugging average by a switch hitter in a career, record for highest slugging average by a switch hitter in a single season, most home runs in a single season by a switch-hitter, most home runs in a single season hit on the road by a switch hitter, most bases on balls awarded a switch-hitter during a single season, record for most bases on balls by a switch hitter, most total bases in a season by a switch hitter, Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park, Dallas, Texas. "[66] Costas continued: "In the last year of his life, Mickey Mantle, always so hard on himself, finally came to accept and appreciate the distinction between a role model and a hero. Do you remember who it was? [50], After the failure of Mickey Mantle's Country Cookin' restaurants in the early 1970s, the popular Mickey Mantle's Restaurant & Sports Bar opened in New York at 42 Central Park South (59th Street) in 1988. 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. How many teams has Willie Mays played for? In his first complete World Series (1952), Mantle was the Yankees hitting star, with an on-base percentage above .400 and a slugging percentage above .600. Mantle's career total, 1733 walks, are also still a Major League record for most bases on balls by a switch hitter. . A history of the Sports Reference Sponsorship System. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Mickey Mantle 2006 Topps Multi-Year Issue Home Run History #MHR293 New York at the best online prices at eBay! [43][44], As a 19-year-old rookie playing right field in his first World Series, Mantle tore the cartilage in his right knee on a fly ball hit by Willie Mays. [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]. After its presentation by Joe DiMaggio, Mantle gave a similar plaque to DiMaggio, telling the crowd, "Joe DiMaggio's deserves to be higher." [Mickey Mantle Quotes], Mickey Mantle Career Home Runs | Research by Baseball Almanac. Madden, Bill. Join Baseball Almanac as we take a look at some additional numbers of interest as they relate to the most prolific switch hitter in baseball history: .421 - Mickey Mantle finished his career with a .421 on-base percentage, the Major League record for highest on-base percentage by a switch hitter in a career. It was that year, also, he was timed running from home plate to first base in 3.1 seconds, considered outstanding for a heavy hitter. 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. . "[20] Mantle immediately broke out of his slump, and went on to hit .361 with 11 homers and 50 RBIs during his stay in Kansas City. Plagued by leg and knee pain for the majority of his career, the 37-year-old Yankee icon wasn't getting any younger in the spring of 1969. . He was selected an AL All-Star again, but as a reserve player, and he did not make the 28-player team for the second and last time because of an injury. Total: Left-handed - 1 / Right-handed - 1. Did you know that Mickey Mantle once said, "Hitting the ball was easy. No man. When was Mickey Mantle's last at bat? Author. All Rights Reserved by Baseball Almanac, Inc.Hosted by Hosting 4 Less. Music! [citation needed], Early in 1995, doctors discovered that Mantle's liver had been severely damaged by both alcohol-induced cirrhosis and hepatitis C. They also discovered that he had an inoperable liver cancer known as undifferentiated hepatocellular carcinoma, which further necessitated a liver transplant. You're not talking about ordinary power. He is bringing that magic and mystique back to the team, and was a natural fit for card number seven." 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. The ball went over the center field fence, which was 460 feet from home plate. Let's take a look back. You can work back down there." Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1974, Mantle was the third player from Oklahoma sent to Cooperstown! That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball." Author. It's also available for football, basketball and hockey. [58] Excerpts from the book have been published in Sports Illustrated. He slugged 536 home runs with a .298 batting average and 1,509 RBI in his . [78] When Yankee Stadium was reopened in 1976 following its renovation, the plaques and monuments were moved to a newly created Monument Park behind the left-center field fence,[78] which has since been replaced by a new Monument Park at the current Yankee Stadium, which opened in 2009. After fouling off a few pitches, he hit a towering home run over the 402-foot sign by the bullpen. On May 14, 1967, Mickey Mantle hit career home run number 500 and became the first switch-hitter to join the 500 Home Runs Club. On May 22, 1963, Mickey Mantle of the Yankees hit perhaps his most impressive home run. July 10, 1956, Griffith Stadium, Washington - Pitcher Warren Spahn. [47] Joe Collins, who played with him from 1951 through 1957, recalled that "Mickey was the type of guy who cared about you as a person. Mantle had a .298 batting average with 2,415 hits, 536 home runs, 1,509 runs batted in, and 1,676 runs scored. Greenwade returned in 1949, after Mantle's high school graduation, to sign Mantle to a minor league contract. [citation needed] He outlived all the men in his family by several years. [83] In 2018, the #7 card was issued to Yankees outfielder Clint Frazier. vs. BOS 1 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB. [66] Doctors observed that it was among the most aggressive cancers that they had ever treated, attributing the antirejection drugs administered to Mantle for his liver transplant with helping the cancer spread so quickly. [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. (Another story says, he was badly injured playing touch football, at home, in the late summer of that year). (His batting average closed 61 points lower than the previous year). Mantle, playing right field, raced for the ball together with center fielder Joe DiMaggio, who called for the ball (and made the catch). In one interview, Mantle stated that the people of Greensboro had "gone out of their way to make me feel welcome, and I've found something there I haven't enjoyed since I was a kid.". 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. And, in the end, people got it. One of the 1952 cards (Topps; #311; SGC MT 9.5) sold for $12.6 million in August 2022. Mantle was selected an All-Star every season during his 18-year career except 1951 and 1966, and did not play in the 1952, 1963, and 1965 seasons. [Answer] Or 1967? 10,775th in major league history) 1959 is said to be his only "off season" in his prime, and historians point to 75 runs batted in as particularly low for him. [citation needed] Another Mantle homer, hit right-handed off Chuck Stobbs at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. on April 17, 1953, was measured by Yankees traveling secretary Red Patterson (hence the term "tape-measure home run") to have traveled 565 feet (172m). Although the Yankees had won the pennant in 1960, and were favored to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates in the World Series, . us, Died: You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. Many thanks to him. "During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. Mickey Mantle had 2,415 hits over his career. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. Mickey Mantle still to this day holds the following World Series Hitting Records: Most Bases on Balls in World Series History (43), Most Extra Base Hits in World Series History (26), Most Home Runs in World Series History (18), Most RBI in World Series History (40), Most Runs Scored in World Series History (42) and Most Total Bases in World Series History (123)! [46] Over the next decade, Mantle experienced increasing difficulty hitting from his left side. A statue of Mantle is located at Mickey Mantle Plaza at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, the home stadium of the Triple-A Oklahoma City Dodgers, 2 South Mickey Mantle Drive in Oklahoma City. 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)})(); An inning-by-inning breakdown of every home run hit by Mickey Mantle: 1st inning (103), [62][47] His father died of Hodgkin's disease at age 40 in 1952, and his grandfather also died young of the same disease. He admitted that he had often been cruel and hurtful to family, friends, and fans because of his alcoholism, and sought to make amends. Krause Publications. "He's the greatest prospect I've seen in my time, and I go back quite a ways. Other times, he would leave fake snakes, bugs, or frogs around for Phil Rizzuto to find. "[77] In response, DiMaggio's plaque was hung one inch higher than Mantle's. 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]. Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 August 13, 1995), nicknamed "the Commerce Comet" and "the Mick",[1] was an American professional baseball player. a privately run / non-commercial site in need of financial assistance. Mantle was a prized guest at baseball-card shows, commanding fees far in excess of those of any other player for his appearances and autographs. Despite missing 41 games, he was selected as MVP for the third time, beating out teammate Bobby Richardson in the voting. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. 1 September 2000. The Mickey Mantle All-Star stats seen below include his All-Star year-by-year hitting stats, All-Star fielding stats, and All-Star pitching stats (where applicable). [82] Topps unretired the #7 in 2006 to use exclusively for cards of Mantle in the current year's design. Too easy? A quote there says, "No man in the history of baseball had as much power as Mickey Mantle. In addition, compared to the other four center fielders on the All-Century team, he had the lowest career rate of grounding into double plays, and he had the highest World Series on-base percentage and World Series slugging percentage. 2006 Topps Mickey Mantle Home Run History Mickey Mantle RC New York Yankees. [10] Mickey Mantle's salary for the 1951 season was $7,500. 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! 7 - Mickey Mantle wore #6 when he made his big league debut with the Bronx Bombers, changed to #7, and on Mickey Mantle Day, at Yankee Stadium, June 8, 1969, The Mick's #7 was retired and he was a given a bronze plaque to be hung on the center field wall near the monuments to Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Miller Huggins. [New York Yankees Records], Mickey Mantle | National Baseball Hall of Fame Plaque | Class of 1974 (HOF). [citation needed], On January 16, 1961, Mantle became the highest-paid player in baseball by signing a $75,000 (equivalent to $680,000 in 2021) contract. Mickey Mantle had 536 home runs over his career. Mantle's monument now stands at the current Monument Park. Author. [citation needed], Joe DiMaggio retired from baseball following the 1951 World Series. 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