I'm 75 now and Mickey wasn't so much a hero to me because growing up in Cape Cod, Ma. I was a diehard Red Sox fan from around the time Ted Williams' HOF career ended, and Yaz' HOF career started. Mickey, along with players like Mays, Koufax, Aaron, Ford etc, were players we respected, and loved it when we got their Topps baseball card.
He was mine. Late in crucial games, he seemed to rise to the occasion, with power... he was heroic. Everyone knew that he was doing that with a ruined knee... all those great seasons. Also, rooting for him with your dad... that left a deep imprint on a lot of us.
@@voltaire1778I saw him pinch hit a home run at Yankee Stadium on August 4, 1963, tied the game in 7th inning and Yanks win it in extra innings. Mickey had been out of action for two months due to broken bone in foot. The crowd went insane. Standing ovation started when he came out of the dugout and went to the on deck circle and it must’ve lasted for ten minutes. Nobody sat down or stopped cheering and he responded with a game tying home run against Baltimore in a tight pennant race. He was the hero. He was the man.
No showboating from the Mick was one of his best attributes. Many players, from this era, should watch how this great ballplayer conducted himself on the field.
more like limped around the bases, especially in 64. He was never the same after blowing out his knee in 51 and they did not have the ability to repair an ACL back then
Mantle was far from pure class. He even said himself that people should try not to be like him. I say this as somebody whose favorite player of all time is Mantle. He was our imperfect king
I was born and raised in the Bronx. Naturally I'm a huge Yankee and Mickey Mantle fan. Played a lot of ball growing up and Mickey was my baseball idol. I was fortunate enough to be at the stadium when the Yankees retired his number in June of 1969. I also met him in May of 1987 in Walden NY at a card show. I almost had the opportunity of bringing him to the card show but I missed the chance. I still was able to get him to autograph a baseball, a painting of The Mick by Robert Steven Simon and I took a polaroid photo of him as he signed my items. I was eight years old when I came home from school and watched him hit WS homerun #16. I fell in love with the Mick at that moment. And just think about this. He was a well known alcoholic who and I quote "What most people don't understand about the Mick is that he played his entire career on one leg". The quote was made by Hank Aaron when he was asked about Mickey when he died and what he thought of his career. The Mick tore his ACL in the 1951 WS. Just imagine what he might have done sober and without a torn ACL. As far as I'm concerned most of the players today like 99.9% of them could not carry The Micks jock!!!!!
I read about that freak injury. I read that the injury tore ALL THREE knee ligaments... ACL, MCL and ??? I don't know how he came back from that for 17 more seasons. I wonder if such a "Sword of Damacles" hanging over his head contributed to the drinking.
My dad took me to Yankee Stadium in the mid to late 50s to see the Mick. Batting righty, he lined a grand slam home run down the right field line. Needless to say, but what a thrill for a kid born in 1950. Mickey will always be my hero!
Truth be known, I was born in Chicago but grew up a Yankee fan because my mother and father were fans. I discovered that a lot of Americans became Yankee fans because of Mickey. He was the All-American hero to many people back then. I stopped following baseball around 2016 because I got sick and tired of the steroid controversy. The game will never be the same, but boy was it fun back then. Had a blast and happy to have met the many players back then in the 70's and 80's.
im 76 now grew up watching mickey mantle and to this day nobody hit homeruns like mantle no one,,,and after all those years he still holds record for most homeruns hit in world series play.
You're absolutely right - Mickey Mantle home runs were distinctive - it was like you could almost feel the incredible power he hit with. Lots of great ballplayers, lots of great home run hitters, but nobody like the Mick. 😁
An era of baseball that I sorely miss. Mantle, Mays, Aaron, Kaline, Killebrew, Robinson. They hit home runs, circled the bases with class, never disrespecting their opponents. Same goes for the NFL!!! Too many Divas, lacking sportsmanship and professionalism.
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Thank you so much for putting this together! Growing up Mickey was my hero. I actually called his home run off of Barney Schultz in the '64 World Series. My mom looked at me and said, how did you know that he was going to hit a home run? My 13 year old answer to her was, he's Mickey Mantle.
Great video. Mickey was my boyhood idol too. Browing up in N. Jersey in the '50 and '60's, I saw Mantle, Mays and Snider. Three of the greatest centerfielders of all time. To me back then, baseball was life. We shared the same birthday, although Mick was a few years before me. I can remember when he struck out in the '60 series and crying like a baby! I recommend a great book he wrote call "All My Octobers". Details of his world series exploits. To this day, he had one of the best lines of all time. "If I knew I was going to live this long, I'dve taken better care of myself". To this day, I have pictures of Mick on the walls of a spare bedroom in my home!
@@donhuber9131 Yes, Mickey noticed that his knuckleball was coming in flat when Barney was warming up. Mickey told Elston Howard in the on deck circle to go sit down. Elston thought he had lost his mind. Mickey hit the first pitch into the right field upper deck. It sounded like a cannon shot. Barney Schultz never looked. He just walked toward the St. Louis Cardinals dugout.
My father worked on the grounds crew at Municipal Stadium in Kansas City from 1960-63 and said "the Mick" was very easy going and always polite every time the Yankees came to town. Dad said he always had time to shoot the breeze with the guys and was never fat headed about anything.
On the other hand, right field, at least in the Babes' day, was rather short, and lefties could pull a strong fly ball, just over the fence, at 300 feet.
Saw him in his final season, 1968 playing the A's in Oakland. He got a standing ovation when he came to the plate. Drew a walk, another SO. He was hobbled then, so the A's didn't pay much attention to him. He somehow stole 2B...I swear he got a 5 min standing ovation. I'll never forget that moment.
He was my hero growing up in Havana an also 81 years old,used to to have his rookie card,but god knows what I did with it,nobody like him RIP,my all time hero.
I read more detail about Micky. Amazing story . What injuries he had. ACL his whole career and played with that .His power was unbelievable. Helping the Yankees win 7 World Series . What a player he was. It’s a shame he played in so my pain. Maybe that contributed to his alcoholism
Let's not forget the number of World Series home runs Mickey hit (18). He performed on the big stage. That's **World Series** home runs, not the newer "Post Season" HR stat. The Mick was the best!
To put Mantle’s greatness in perspective, at the time he retired, he was third on the all time home run list behind Ruth and Mays (who was still active through 1973). Aaron passed Mantle the following season. But, Mick put up those numbers in only 18 injury filled years and still managed his 9th and last grand slam and a 5 for 5 game in his final year. For everyone else’s stats, there were home runs, but there was not the greatness and the memories of a “Mickey Mantle Home Run.” No one else had that until Aaron Judge. And I think Mantle would have liked him.
Mick put up great numbers in 18 injury filled years that involved hard partying and drinking.. Imagine how well those numbers would have blossomed had he not been a hard drinking partier. Probably would have had well over 700 homers. .. and Aaron likely would have had 800 homers had he not had so many sleepless nights with the KKK constantly threatening him... He and Jackie Robinson's numbers would have had greater numbers with a good sleep every night!!
Mickey always said he did not want to show up the pitcher. He hit his HRs with class and acted like he had been there before and was just helping his teammates. A role model for a different generation. Too bad we somehow lost that. Thanks for creating this fantastic video of baseball history.
that's why 30-game winner, Denny McClain, had no problem serving up a gimme for Mantle's #535, passing Jimmie Foxx, which made him #3 on the All-Time Career HR list then.
I read that his goal was to be a good teammate. Playing with both legs wrapped, he led by example. No one else could think of Taking a day off from injury, seeing how much he played hurt.
Thanks for this. It was great. Born in 1954 the Mick was my idol. Remember the 3 homers he hit in 64 series especially the first pitch one off Barney Schultz
Then, like me, you remember the 9thinning, after Boyer and Linz solo homers ... Maris and Mantle were on deck when Richardson's pop out was the third out, IF ONLY!... Presume Gibson would'a been pulled had Richardson got on base. But who knows, things were different then. Never got a full explanation why Terry was left in to face McCovey in 1962!?
This is fantastic. Mickey Mantle was my 1st favorite Yankee hero. I became a Yankee fan in 1960 and cried the day that the Pirates beat the Yankees in the World Series. The next year I followed the Yankees on my transistor radio following the Home run race between Mantle and Maris. I wanted Mickey to win. He would have if he didn’t get hurt. GO YANKEES!!
Thank you for the video! Mickey was my first sports idol and I can remember as a 10 year old hiding a transistor radio under my pillow so I could listen to the Yankee games and hear each and every one of his at bats. My Dad let me borrow the family station wagon so I could go to Cooperstown and see him inducted into the Hall of Fame. This post brings back so many wonderful childhood memories and as I can see by the other comments, I am not alone!
Thanks for refreshing my memory! Ken Boyer also hit a grand slam in '64. It may have changed the outcome of the series. I think Boyer's was off of Al Downing. Both Boyer brothers played third base for their respective teams, which was also memorable!@@tonycsmith5655
@@donhuber9131 That was game 4 in NY. Al Downing was starting because Whitey Ford was injured in game One. Clete Boyer hit a homer in game 7, but the Yanks came up short. Even tho the Yankees lost it was a great World Series. A lot better than the 63 Series. Lol
In 1958, my Dad took me to my first NY Yankees game. He bought me a packet of 5x7 photos of all the players. The next morning, I taped them on my wall above my bed. They stayed there my entire childhood, AND all the players stayed on the team. I feel bad for sports loving children of today. Their favorite players leave all the time. As a sick child, Mickey Mantle's travails with injury were HUGELY inspiring and beneficial to my young ego, fraught with my own difficulties with health. Trading Mickey Mantle would have been devastating. He was my hero. His photo hangs on my office wall of inspiration.
Thank you for posting! Every time I see Mickey Mantle the kid comes out in me. It brings a smile and a tear to my face as the memories return. In his prime Mickey was the greatest ballplayer I ever saw. I'm not embarrassed to say I got goosebumps watching this.
Thanks for your time & effort in compiling this about Mantle. All his home runs were no doubters. No showboating around the bases, either. Good sportsmanship, unlike today's players.
Barry Bonds and Rickey Henderson are examples of non - team players . Neither Barry or Rickey would last a month in the NL in the 1960s as Gibson , Drysdale , Marichal , Bunning and Maloney would constantly knock them down after they saw their rotten attitude .@breadandcircuses8127
Great clips. Some of Mickey's homers were massive clouts 😲 To perform as well as he did with the innumerable injuries that plagued him practically his entire career is a testament to his resilience and sheer willpower. RIP 🙏
Great video he was my Idol growing up can only imagine how good he could have been if no injuries & no demons, so impresed by how many opposite field home runs he hit & how far he hit them, his last one against Gibson in 64 was very impressive!
Me too. One day in 1968 I was working after school at a place with his name sake Mantel Brook Farms in DeSoto ,Texas just south of Dallas. One day the boss drives up they get out of the car, and guess who was with him. At 17 I got to shake his hand and talk with him for a little while. Never forget that day.
Also my dad took me to Yankee Stadium as much as possible as a 9 year old boy. I remember the year 1961 when the MM Boys were chasing the Babe homerun record of 60 homeruns in a season. I witnessed in the stadium that day in a doubleheader the MM boys Mantle and Maris hitting home runs. It was a memory of a lifetime and a tribute to a great father too who took me ther.
Same here, from Waterbury Connecticut..watched the Yanks on WPIX channel 11 in New York..The M and M boys, 1961, I was 10..The 1960 World Series against Pittsburg still haunts me!!😅
Those shots to the opposite field Mickey hit vs. the Pirates in 1960, were hit at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh. The ballpark was like the Grand Canyon, and for any player to hit one out, was something special. For Micky Mantle to hit them to the opposite field was sure as hell a show of incredible power.
Several of those blasts, were well over the 400' mark! Jim Wynn, a much smaller dude, often hit 400'+ homers...even a few were over 500', and he only weighed like 175lbs!...of course, Mickey was the better hitter for average, and hit twice as many homers in his career. But the "Toy Cannon" was freaky-strong for his size. Mick was a much bigger guy.
always loved that Mickey said his biggest regret was losing the 1960 World Series, he felt so bad for Casey who was let go soon afterwards. It took a Good Man to admit that.
also: he rooted for Maris, always said Maris deserved to break Ruth's record. The enmity between Mantle & Maris during the HR chase was PURE PRESS FICTION
Thannks for your labor of love. Fantastic. The sight of Mantle batting in the tiny bandbox of Ebbetts Field must have been something. The opposite field power...the huge long HRs in Yankee Stadium and Forbes Field impressive !!!
Remember, there were no playoffs back then, 1st place was the only seed. Today there's like 20 post season games a player plays. No comparison. Micky is the WS home run king
Great video. Well done and thanks for posting. The years of Mantle & Maris playing together bring back great memories from my childhood. Both retired after the 68 season. I find it interesting that there was a 3 year gap between home run number 14 and number 15 for Mantle. I was not aware that he did not have a home run in the 61 or 62 World Series. I know he was injured towards the end of the 61 season but I don’t recall what his status was for the 62 World Series.
Thanks for the work in putting that together. I was 2 months old when Mickey hit his 1st World Series homer. I turned 8 in the summer of 1960 and by then was a Yankee fan, just in time to Hear them lose to the Pirates in game 7. I had a very cool 3rd grade teacher who was a baseball fan and would allow the class to listen to the World Series games at low volume on the radio I only got to see him play once at the old Cleveland Municipal Stadium in 1965 where in a July double header, he belted one over the left field wall in the 2nd game. Downing had started that game, but got knocked out pretty early and Yanks lost. But I got to see my guy homer so not all was lost. Besides. Stottlemyre had shut Cleveland out the 1st game which made it a good day. Thanks again for the video.
Here I am at the age of 76 and I am sending this video to my granddaughter so she can show my great-grandson who and what my baseball ⚾️ hero was all about. Never forgot his incredible power as a right-handed batter. Always a fan even as a boy from PA where most people just hated the Yankees. Those 60's teams were fantastic and Mickey was Marvel Comics superhero.
I remember once being 11 or 12 years and on a Saturday afternoon I was lucky to watch a Yankees baseball game on TV at home in OKlahoma. It’s my recollection that Mickey batting Left got two strikes. He stepped out of the batters box took a breath stepped back in and knocked the ball over the wall. Fast-forward three days later and I’m in the same situation as Mickey in a YMCA (Early 1960’s.) baseball league game. I stepped out of the box, took a deep breath, stepped back in. And knock a home run. Thanks for the memories.
Loved watching the videos it took me back to my Grandfather and Father watching baseball games together in mid 50s and 60s into the 70s lots of good memories. It was interesting to see the 50s videos every one dressed up to go to the game.
The Mick was my boyhood hero; he waved to me in Cleveland in 1963. I didn't realize until this video that his fifteenth to tie Babe Ruth's record was off Koufax, and his 18th and final World Series homer was off Gibson. In the first one, he ran the bases like he was legging out a triple. The guy was all class.
Thank you, I love this Video. Mickey Mantle was my childhood hero. Koufax and Gibson didn't give up too many World Series Homers. Mickey could hit anybody.
Loved watching this. I started watching Mick in '52, when I was 7. Loved watching opposite field shots on the roof. In this day and age with the tiny parks and the lack of dominant pitching, and current medical science, who knows what kind of numbers he would have put up.
I’m 74 now, and I remember seeing Mantle, Maris, and the rest at a game in 1963 against the Minnesota Twins at the old Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota. Mantle was the best player I ever saw .
Pure class. Living in Seattle late 80s and 90s got to see some amazing baseball and players but oh how I would have loved to see some of these games back then.
I grew up listening to this. I never enjoyed or had the opportunity to watch them. But I spent many hours listening to the broadcasts while working on the farm. We didn't get the television broadcasts. But I could hide my transistor radio and listen during school. Thank you for revival of the memories.
I became a Yankee fan in 3rd grade when The Mick was banging them in 1952. I lived in the NYC suburbs. Almost every postseason the Yankees, Dodgers and Giants were in the series and at it each throats. It was a great time for baseball and a great place to be living.
My Brother and I grew up idolizing Mr. Mantle and once met Mickey in 1969 as he was making his way into the Cotton Bowl for a Dallas Cowboy game right at dusk just before game started where I sold programs for the game Mick could avoid the crowds that way but he couldn't get by me without me knowing him and of he was very obliging I still have his autograph 😊
Regarding Mantle's final homer off Gibson. The closing frames of the video show Gibby walking off as though Johnny Keane had sent him to the showers. Gibson actually pitched a complete 7th game victory, although in truth the Yankees knocked the exhausted Gibson around in the final innings. This was the first series that I followed as a kid. One of Mantle's homers was back to back with Maris, very scary! Enjoyed watching our brilliant young outfielders, Brock, Flood and Shannon watch the home runs sail over the wall. If it looks like Mantle's home run off of ace reliever Barney Schultz was "slow pitch", it was because Schultz was a knuckleball specialist. He was usually quite effective. Usually...
Wat a class act. Lefty righty he crushed them all. My idol my whole life. I loved this guy. Ran with his head down. Never tried to show up anyone. Because of him, my my dad was was a mantle fan too. I was a switch hitter my entire life since 3 years old. N ow im 65, i dont play ball anymore, but im a golfer now, and play pretty good, lefty and righty. A rare feat, as golf is hard enuff from one side. Thank you mick
Thank you for putting this together. Big fan of Mantle though I never saw him play; crazy as it sounds I think he's underrated as far as all-time greats go. There was seemingly nothing he couldn't do on a baseball diamond. Also never saw all 18 of these in one place, nice job, subscribed.
Amazing clips here. TY for posting these. I attended Mickey Mantle Day June 8, 1969. It was Father's Day. Doubleheader vs Chicago White Sox. Pepitone HR wins game 1 3-1. Yankees swept. MM ceremony between games. Ran on the field after the 2nd game. Doesn't get any better for a 12 YO.
Ol' Mick back in the 50's stepping up there with no gloves, or elbow guards or shin guards, with his felt cap belting them out of the park off the best pitchers of the day.
The players today are in much better shape and care for their bodies better. Not sure if anyone was stronger than Mantle tho. Mantle did a lot of 12oz curls and was still better than most everyone today. Even with a torn up knee from that damn sprinkler, he played and ran like the wind. If he didn’t drink and the doctors then had today’s tech to fix his knee, there would probably be some unbreakable records. He was Mike Trout with Aaron Judge power and early Bonds speed and Tony Gwynn contact.
@breadandcircuses8127 He blamed some of those strike-outs on his being hung over!...and many powerful hitters try hard to swing for the fences. My favorite homer dude, Jimmy Wynn, has said that his dad raised him to take hard swings, every time!...it hurt his batting average, but helped his reputation as being the Toy Cannon he was called!
Mike Literas summed it well for me... Mike Trout is today's Mickey Mantle, but Mike takes care of himself and you never read of him having any bad vices. Too bad Mike Trout doesn't play for either LA, SF, St Louis or New York! He would have been in several WS by now.
ChazQ, this was great. Fabulous job with this! Thank goodness for old clips. I am a Yankees fan but all of Mantles World Series Homeruns I was not even born yet! LOL. Thanks for upload.
Thanks for posting this. I just finished David Halberstam's "October 1964". A great read, and Mickey's last hurrah. A banged up Mantle hit the final 3 of his record 18 WS Hr's that series.
When 'The Mick' hit 'em, they STAYED hit!! I'm old enough to have seen Mantle back in the day, and BOY! was he something special. I remember Mickey stating that he put his head down and rounded the bases without showing any 'jubilation', because he figured the pitcher felt bad enough as it was after giving up a home run.
He drank, no doubt, but he was a pro on teams of pros. Drinking didn't drag his game down, his diseased legs and the terrible injury to his knee in the 1951 WS impeded his greatness.
I can remember putting his cards, even rookie cards, on my bicycle spokes to make it sound cool. I wished I had known then how valuable that they would come to be. Crazy when I think about it today. Your bicycle was junk if you had anyone but Micky on at least one wheel.
In saw him on TV when he and Maris were battling for home run leaders and sometimes at the World Series they would have a TV in my Junior High school Auditorium
It's amazing how many guys 65 to 80 and older all say Mickey Mantle was their Childhood Hero.
I'm 75 now and Mickey wasn't so much a hero to me because growing up in Cape Cod, Ma. I was a diehard Red Sox fan from around the time Ted Williams' HOF career ended, and Yaz' HOF career started. Mickey, along with players like Mays, Koufax, Aaron, Ford etc, were players we respected, and loved it when we got their Topps baseball card.
Yes he was.....ripped through packs of topps for the Mantle.......he wasn't easy to get ! Even then, never saw a Mantle in bicycle spokes!
He was mine. Late in crucial games, he seemed to rise to the occasion, with power... he was heroic. Everyone knew that he was doing that with a ruined knee... all those great seasons. Also, rooting for him with your dad... that left a deep imprint on a lot of us.
@@voltaire1778I saw him pinch hit a home run at Yankee Stadium on August 4, 1963, tied the game in 7th inning and Yanks win it in extra innings. Mickey had been out of action for two months due to broken bone in foot. The crowd went insane. Standing ovation started when he came out of the dugout and went to the on deck circle and it must’ve lasted for ten minutes. Nobody sat down or stopped cheering and he responded with a game tying home run against Baltimore in a tight pennant race. He was the hero. He was the man.
Mine
Mantle crushed the yarn out the ball and then put his head down and sprinted around the bases. Pure class.
I agree
No showboating from the Mick was one of his best attributes. Many players, from this era, should watch how this great ballplayer conducted himself on the field.
Oh god forbid players show emotion or excitement
more like limped around the bases, especially in 64. He was never the same after blowing out his knee in 51 and they did not have the ability to repair an ACL back then
Mantle was far from pure class. He even said himself that people should try not to be like him. I say this as somebody whose favorite player of all time is Mantle. He was our imperfect king
Off Koufax and Gibson...very cool.
There will never be another Mantle again….RIP and thank you Mick…
The world will never dye of gram slam hits/ home runs / and gram slams /also every thing possible in runs
Sir master Guadalupe Alvarado jr / in,the 1968 "eanttsbes he's !!!?!??!ECT:,
That's right
I was born and raised in the Bronx. Naturally I'm a huge Yankee and Mickey Mantle fan. Played a lot of ball growing up and Mickey was my baseball idol. I was fortunate enough to be at the stadium when the Yankees retired his number in June of 1969. I also met him in May of 1987 in Walden NY at a card show. I almost had the opportunity of bringing him to the card show but I missed the chance. I still was able to get him to autograph a baseball, a painting of The Mick by Robert Steven Simon and I took a polaroid photo of him as he signed my items. I was eight years old when I came home from school and watched him hit WS homerun #16. I fell in love with the Mick at that moment. And just think about this. He was a well known alcoholic who and I quote "What most people don't understand about the Mick is that he played his entire career on one leg". The quote was made by Hank Aaron when he was asked about Mickey when he died and what he thought of his career. The Mick tore his ACL in the 1951 WS. Just imagine what he might have done sober and without a torn ACL. As far as I'm concerned most of the players today like 99.9% of them could not carry The Micks jock!!!!!
I read about that freak injury. I read that the injury tore ALL THREE knee ligaments... ACL, MCL and ??? I don't know how he came back from that for 17 more seasons. I wonder if such a "Sword of Damacles" hanging over his head contributed to the drinking.
My dad took me to Yankee Stadium in the mid to late 50s to see the Mick. Batting righty, he lined a grand slam home run down the right field line. Needless to say, but what a thrill for a kid born in 1950. Mickey will always be my hero!
Truth be known, I was born in Chicago but grew up a Yankee fan because my mother and father were fans. I discovered that a lot of Americans became Yankee fans because of Mickey. He was the All-American hero to many people back then.
I stopped following baseball around 2016 because I got sick and tired of the steroid controversy. The game will never be the same, but boy was it fun back then. Had a blast and happy to have met the many players back then in the 70's and 80's.
Same here. Born in ‘50. Mickey will always be my idol.
Born in 1951, saw that same thing, dad takes us to Yankee Stadium in 1964, saw Mantle hit one dead centerfield..going, going…Gone! Mel Allen..
Mel Allen and Red Barber's voices brings me back to those great times. Thanx for the WS HR's.
im 76 now grew up watching mickey mantle and to this day nobody hit homeruns like mantle no one,,,and after all those years he still holds record for most homeruns hit in world series play.
You're right. He was the best...a true class act. Rest in peace, Mickey. I miss you.
He hold some more records.
YES SIR, I'M 79 AND I KNOW JUST WHAT YOU'RE TALKIN' ABOUT.........
You're absolutely right - Mickey Mantle home runs were distinctive - it was like you could almost feel the incredible power he hit with. Lots of great ballplayers, lots of great home run hitters, but nobody like the Mick. 😁
An era of baseball that I sorely miss. Mantle, Mays, Aaron, Kaline, Killebrew, Robinson. They hit home runs, circled the bases with class, never disrespecting their opponents. Same goes for the NFL!!! Too many Divas, lacking sportsmanship and professionalism.
Why do you say modern day athletes behave like Divas?
BECAUSE THEY DO@@TiagoGomez-hb9te
Ernie Banks
@@MichaelDuignan-p2c What do you mean?
@@TiagoGomez-hb9te Because they do.
So impressed by the opposite field power! About half of those were oppo. One over the RF roof while batting right handed!!!
Thanks Mick you'll always be my hero
Mickey was larger than life. He came clean when he was dying and gained great respect with his final messages about life. R I P. Mick.
Exactly
@@chazq6242 I THINK BOBBY RICHARDSON HAS A LOT TO DO WITH THAT...............MICK CAN REST IN PEACE NOW, HE PUT HIS FAITH IF JESUS CHRIST........
Sandy Koufax and Bob Gibson gave up 2 of those homers. Mickey is the GOAT
Those are the two pitchers that stand out with me... A WS homerun off of Koufax and Gibson! You have to be super great to do that!
Totally, I noticed that too, two of of the best pitchers in any era and he got them both. He is the World Series MVP of all time!
@@michaelluna1968 Bob Uecker hit a homer of Sandy Koufax
Imagine sending BOB GIBSON to the showers.
I am 69 years old and Mickey Mantle is still my favorite baseball player of all time!!! Thanks for this video!!! Thanks for the memories!!!
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Thank you so much for putting this together! Growing up Mickey was my hero. I actually called his home run off of Barney Schultz in the '64 World Series. My mom looked at me and said, how did you know that he was going to hit a home run? My 13 year old answer to her was, he's Mickey Mantle.
Great video. Mickey was my boyhood idol too. Browing up in N. Jersey in the '50 and '60's, I saw Mantle, Mays and Snider. Three of the greatest centerfielders of all time. To me back then, baseball was life. We shared the same birthday, although Mick was a few years before me. I can remember when he struck out in the '60 series and crying like a baby! I recommend a great book he wrote call "All My Octobers". Details of his world series exploits. To this day, he had one of the best lines of all time. "If I knew I was going to live this long, I'dve taken better care of myself". To this day, I have pictures of Mick on the walls of a spare bedroom in my home!
Barney was our ace reliever in 1964. He was a knuckleball specialist. But when his knuckleball failed to knuckle, well, Mantle showed what happened.
@@donhuber9131 Yes, Mickey noticed that his knuckleball was coming in flat when Barney was warming up. Mickey told Elston Howard in the on deck circle to go sit down. Elston thought he had lost his mind. Mickey hit the first pitch into the right field upper deck. It sounded like a cannon shot. Barney Schultz never looked. He just walked toward the St. Louis Cardinals dugout.
I love it...even though a Cardinal kid!@@billbayes3261
My dad named me after Mantle.
My father worked on the grounds crew at Municipal Stadium in Kansas City from 1960-63 and said "the Mick" was very easy going and always polite every time the Yankees came to town. Dad said he always had time to shoot the breeze with the guys and was never fat headed about anything.
Seeing Mantle clear the 407 foot sign in right-center, reminds me how massive the old Yankee Stadium was.
True
Just incredible watching him swing so effortlessly and producing towering HR’s.
On the other hand, right field, at least in the Babes' day, was rather short, and lefties could pull a strong fly ball, just over the fence, at 300 feet.
Did you see I think it was #13 or 14 the sign read 436, and he hit it over,nobody like the Mickey,RIP,this great man.
Left center used to be 457 feet, but was "shortened" to 430 feet by 1975. It ended up being 399 feet, which was honestly a joke.
Saw him in his final season, 1968 playing the A's in Oakland. He got a standing ovation when he came to the plate. Drew a walk, another SO. He was hobbled then, so the A's didn't pay much attention to him. He somehow stole 2B...I swear he got a 5 min standing ovation. I'll never forget that moment.
Even Mick's swings and misses were impressive!!
He once knocked down the right field stands on a swing and a miss!
Mickey Mantle was my hero growing up.I’m 81 and he is still my hero.I learned to switch hit from one of my older brothers because of him.RIP Mickey.
Same here, I'm 73.
Exactly
My hero…was, is,and will always be “The Mick”..
He was my hero growing up in Havana an also 81 years old,used to to have his rookie card,but god knows what I did with it,nobody like him RIP,my all time hero.
Thank you everyone.The Mick had many many fans even if you were not a Yankee fan.
The opposite field power Mantle had was unbelievable. Notice after each home run no bat flips , no pointing , no chest pounding. Nice .
I love Mickey ❤
I agree class act if anything humble about it no over the top childish show off stuff
Just run the bases, no showing up the pitcher.
That’s because the pictures would hit him otherwise.
@@MrRufusRToyotapictures? Pitchers?
Head low, elbows high. Loved his home run trot. I was there for Game 3 of the 64 WS.
Wow!
I read more detail about Micky. Amazing story . What injuries he had. ACL his whole career and played with that .His power was unbelievable.
Helping the Yankees win 7 World Series .
What a player he was. It’s a shame he played in so my pain. Maybe that contributed to his alcoholism
Mickey hit a lot of WS homers in big spots. The opposite-field power was incredible.
Let's not forget the number of World Series home runs Mickey hit (18). He performed on the big stage. That's **World Series** home runs, not the newer "Post Season" HR stat. The Mick was the best!
@@mikem597 Well, in al fairness, when he played, there were no playoffs, just the World Series to the first place in each league.
@@johnharrington1800 "world Series" stats should be separate from "Post Season" stats.
And he struck out a lot
Man, the crack of the bat on those radio broadcasts is haunting...
You could see the dust fly off the ball vs Koufax
He hit many off some outstanding pitchers!!
YEAH THAT WAS A GREAT ONE AGAINST BOB GIBSON
Such a clean sharp swing what bat speed....man we miss you Mick!
To put Mantle’s greatness in perspective, at the time he retired, he was third on the all time home run list behind Ruth and Mays (who was still active through 1973). Aaron passed Mantle the following season. But, Mick put up those numbers in only 18 injury filled years and still managed his 9th and last grand slam and a 5 for 5 game in his final year. For everyone else’s stats, there were home runs, but there was not the greatness and the memories of a “Mickey Mantle Home Run.” No one else had that until Aaron Judge. And I think Mantle would have liked him.
Mick put up great numbers in 18 injury filled years that involved hard partying and drinking.. Imagine how well those numbers would have blossomed had he not been a hard drinking partier. Probably would have had well over 700 homers. .. and Aaron likely would have had 800 homers had he not had so many sleepless nights with the KKK constantly threatening him... He and Jackie Robinson's numbers would have had greater numbers with a good sleep every night!!
Mickey always said he did not want to show up the pitcher. He hit his HRs with class and acted like he had been there before and was just helping his teammates. A role model for a different generation. Too bad we somehow lost that. Thanks for creating this fantastic video of baseball history.
AMEN
@@yardlimit8695 Why do you say this?
Reggie Jackson was the same way
that's why 30-game winner, Denny McClain, had no problem serving up a gimme for Mantle's #535, passing Jimmie Foxx, which made him #3 on the All-Time Career HR list then.
Tremendous power to the opposite field. A player's player and all around superstar.
I read that his goal was to be a good teammate. Playing with both legs wrapped, he led by example. No one else could think of Taking a day off from injury, seeing how much he played hurt.
Thanks for this. It was great. Born in 1954 the Mick was my idol. Remember the 3 homers he hit in 64 series especially the first pitch one off Barney Schultz
Then, like me, you remember the 9thinning, after Boyer and Linz solo homers ... Maris and Mantle were on deck when Richardson's pop out was the third out, IF ONLY!... Presume Gibson would'a been pulled had Richardson got on base. But who knows, things were different then. Never got a full explanation why Terry was left in to face McCovey in 1962!?
The fact that he hit homers off of Koufax and Gibson when he was already on the decline, just tells you how special Mantle was.
Classy guy. A true hero.
This is fantastic. Mickey Mantle was my 1st favorite Yankee hero. I became a Yankee fan in 1960 and cried the day that the Pirates beat the Yankees in the World Series. The next year I followed the Yankees on my transistor radio following the Home run race between Mantle and Maris. I wanted Mickey to win. He would have if he didn’t get hurt. GO YANKEES!!
I was always a Yankees hater, but always had the utmost respect for Mantle.It's cool seeing these home runs by The Mick.
I am from NY and the Yankees, and Mickey, were the best part of my growing up!
Thank you for the video! Mickey was my first sports idol and I can remember as a 10 year old hiding a transistor radio under my pillow so I could listen to the Yankee games and hear each and every one of his at bats. My Dad let me borrow the family station wagon so I could go to Cooperstown and see him inducted into the Hall of Fame. This post brings back so many wonderful childhood memories and as I can see by the other comments, I am not alone!
Thanks for this. I was lucky enough to see Micky hit 2 in one game in 1961. Roger hit one that day. What a great memory !
Cool!
Mantle and Maris hit back to back homers in the '64 series against the Cardinals. That was frightening.
@@donhuber9131 That was game 6, and Joe Pepitone hit a Grand Slam in the same game.
Thanks for refreshing my memory! Ken Boyer also hit a grand slam in '64. It may have changed the outcome of the series. I think Boyer's was off of Al Downing. Both Boyer brothers played third base for their respective teams, which was also memorable!@@tonycsmith5655
@@donhuber9131 That was game 4 in NY. Al Downing was starting because Whitey Ford was injured in game One. Clete Boyer hit a homer in game 7, but the Yanks came up short. Even tho the Yankees lost it was a great World Series. A lot better than the 63 Series. Lol
In 1958, my Dad took me to my first NY Yankees game. He bought me a packet of 5x7 photos of all the players. The next morning, I taped them on my wall above my bed. They stayed there my entire childhood, AND all the players stayed on the team.
I feel bad for sports loving children of today. Their favorite players leave all the time.
As a sick child, Mickey Mantle's travails with injury were HUGELY inspiring and beneficial to my young ego, fraught with my own difficulties with health. Trading Mickey Mantle would have been devastating.
He was my hero. His photo hangs on my office wall of inspiration.
My dad took me to Yankee Stadium for the first time in 1958 too. I still those photos and a ball. Priced possessions
Thank you for posting! Every time I see Mickey Mantle the kid comes out in me. It brings a smile and a tear to my face as the memories return. In his prime Mickey was the greatest ballplayer I ever saw. I'm not embarrassed to say I got goosebumps watching this.
Thanks for your time & effort in compiling this about Mantle. All his home runs were no doubters. No showboating around the bases, either. Good sportsmanship, unlike today's players.
@breadandcircuses8127 What a sad little comment
Barry Bonds and Rickey Henderson were showboats who only cared about themselves .
They were selfish non - team players .@@Garrett1240
Barry Bonds and Rickey Henderson are examples of non - team players .
Neither Barry or Rickey would last a month in the NL in the 1960s as Gibson , Drysdale , Marichal , Bunning and Maloney would constantly knock them down after they saw their rotten attitude .@breadandcircuses8127
You are right .
Pete Rose , Clemente , Mays and Mantle were true team players , unlike the selfish Barry Bonds and Rickey Henderson .
@@RobertStambaugh-l5r Any other black players you forgot to mention?
Great clips. Some of Mickey's homers were massive clouts 😲
To perform as well as he did with the innumerable injuries that plagued him practically his entire career is a testament to his resilience and sheer willpower. RIP 🙏
Agree!
I did not know Micky was played with injuries.
Remarkable what he did despite that
Let's not forget that he was one of the most talented players to ever play in the Mayor Leagues.
@@TheSports50 When he lost the hr race to Maris I believe he had a suppurating infection the size of s baseball on one leg
Yes. I read about his health issues. Amazing athlete to deal with medical issues and perform the way he did
Mickey was my idol growing up in the Bronx NY.RIP Mickey,because of you I became a switch hitter.Still my Idol.
Great video he was my Idol growing up can only imagine how good he could have been if no injuries & no demons, so impresed by how many opposite field home runs he hit & how far he hit them, his last one against Gibson in 64 was very impressive!
Me too. One day in 1968 I was working after school at a place with his name sake Mantel Brook Farms in DeSoto ,Texas just south of Dallas. One day the boss drives up they get out of the car, and guess who was with him. At 17 I got to shake his hand and talk with him for a little while. Never forget that day.
I’m 70 I can remember watching him play on tv . He was my favorite 😊😊
Also my dad took me to Yankee Stadium as much as possible as a 9 year old boy. I remember the year 1961 when the MM Boys were chasing the Babe homerun record of 60 homeruns in a season. I witnessed in the stadium that day in a doubleheader the MM boys Mantle and Maris hitting home runs. It was a memory of a lifetime and a tribute to a great father too who took me ther.
Same here, from Waterbury Connecticut..watched the Yanks on WPIX channel 11 in New York..The M and M boys, 1961, I was 10..The 1960 World Series against Pittsburg still haunts me!!😅
Those shots to the opposite field Mickey hit vs. the Pirates in 1960, were hit at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh. The ballpark was like the Grand Canyon, and for any player to hit one out, was something special. For Micky Mantle to hit them to the opposite field was sure as hell a show of incredible power.
Several of those blasts, were well over the 400' mark! Jim Wynn, a much smaller dude, often hit 400'+ homers...even a few were over 500', and he only weighed like 175lbs!...of course, Mickey was the better hitter for average, and hit twice as many homers in his career. But the "Toy Cannon" was freaky-strong for his size. Mick was a much bigger guy.
@@curbozerboomer1773 So true! They didn't nickname Jim Wynn 'The Toy Cannon' for nothing. He was a miniature Dick Allen.
always loved that Mickey said his biggest regret was losing the 1960 World Series, he felt so bad for Casey who was let go soon afterwards. It took a Good Man to admit that.
also: he rooted for Maris, always said Maris deserved to break Ruth's record. The enmity between Mantle & Maris during the HR chase was PURE PRESS FICTION
@@37center Yogi Berra said Mickey broke down and cried in the dugout after their loss to the Pirates in 1960.
Thannks for your labor of love. Fantastic. The sight of Mantle batting in the tiny bandbox of Ebbetts Field must have been something. The opposite field power...the huge long HRs in Yankee Stadium and Forbes Field impressive !!!
Remember, there were no playoffs back then, 1st place was the only seed. Today there's like 20 post season games a player plays. No comparison. Micky is the WS home run king
Great video. Well done and thanks for posting. The years of Mantle & Maris playing together bring back great memories from my childhood. Both retired after the 68 season. I find it interesting that there was a 3 year gap between home run number 14 and number 15 for Mantle. I was not aware that he did not have a home run in the 61 or 62 World Series. I know he was injured towards the end of the 61 season but I don’t recall what his status was for the 62 World Series.
Mic was hurt for the 621 series only went 1-6 in 62 he played all 7 games but only had 3 hits
Thanks for the work in putting that together. I was 2 months old when Mickey hit his 1st World Series homer. I turned 8 in the summer of 1960 and by then was a Yankee fan, just in time to Hear them lose to the Pirates in game 7. I had a very cool 3rd grade teacher who was a baseball fan and would allow the class to listen to the World Series games at low volume on the radio I only got to see him play once at the old Cleveland Municipal Stadium in 1965 where in a July double header, he belted one over the left field wall in the 2nd game. Downing had started that game, but got knocked out pretty early and Yanks lost. But I got to see my guy homer so not all was lost. Besides. Stottlemyre had shut Cleveland out the 1st game which made it a good day. Thanks again for the video.
I so enjoyed this!
Thank you for your labor of love!
Mickey will always be the greatest player I ever saw!
Several opposite field HRs. The Mick not only had great power, he was a highly skillful batter as well. One of the best of all time.
Most people overlook that Mantle had a .329 batting avg right-handed
Eighteen WS HR’s. Insane. Superhuman.
I saw mick for the first time on opening day 1960.isaw him hit a hr into the upper deck.as a 10 year old i was amazed
My childhood hero!
That follow through swing is like no other. I love watching his bat.
Here I am at the age of 76 and I am sending this video to my granddaughter so she can show my great-grandson who and what my baseball ⚾️ hero was all about. Never forgot his incredible power as a right-handed batter. Always a fan even as a boy from PA where most people just hated the Yankees. Those 60's teams were fantastic and Mickey was Marvel Comics superhero.
I remember once being 11 or 12 years and on a Saturday afternoon I was lucky to watch a Yankees baseball game on TV at home in OKlahoma. It’s my recollection that Mickey batting Left got two strikes. He stepped out of the batters box took a breath stepped back in and knocked the ball over the wall. Fast-forward three days later and I’m in the same situation as Mickey in a YMCA (Early 1960’s.) baseball league game. I stepped out of the box, took a deep breath, stepped back in. And knock a home run. Thanks for the memories.
Mick's inspiration :)
Haha, thought you were going to say struck out
Loved watching the videos it took me back to my Grandfather and Father watching baseball games together in mid 50s and 60s into the 70s lots of good memories. It was interesting to see the 50s videos every one dressed up to go to the game.
The Mick was my boyhood hero; he waved to me in Cleveland in 1963. I didn't realize until this video that his fifteenth to tie Babe Ruth's record was off Koufax, and his 18th and final World Series homer was off Gibson. In the first one, he ran the bases like he was legging out a triple. The guy was all class.
Thank you, I love this Video. Mickey Mantle was my childhood hero. Koufax and Gibson didn't give up too many World Series Homers. Mickey could hit anybody.
I loved those days. I was born in 1953 and have been a Yankee’s fan all my life. Would trade some things to go back for a few days.
Loved watching this. I started watching Mick in
'52, when I was 7. Loved watching opposite field shots on the roof. In this day and age with the tiny parks and the lack of dominant pitching, and current medical science, who knows what kind of numbers he would have put up.
18 WS HR will never be topped
I have a dozen autographed classic images of Mickey Mantle as well as one of his bats....Priceless to me
Knocking Gibson out of a WS game would be a lifetime achievement in itself for almost anyone 😊
Fabulous example of the plate coverage that Mantle had ! Drove the ball ( right- handed) to right and right center !
I'm 75 and Mickey is still my hero!
I’m 74 now, and I remember seeing Mantle, Maris, and the rest at a game in 1963 against the Minnesota Twins at the old Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota. Mantle was the best player I ever saw .
Twins had some players. Killer Killebrew, Oliva, Allison, etc.
Pure class. Living in Seattle late 80s and 90s got to see some amazing baseball and players but oh how I would have loved to see some of these games back then.
I grew up listening to this. I never enjoyed or had the opportunity to watch them. But I spent many hours listening to the broadcasts while working on the farm. We didn't get the television broadcasts. But I could hide my transistor radio and listen during school. Thank you for revival of the memories.
I became a Yankee fan in 3rd grade when The Mick was banging them in 1952. I lived in the NYC suburbs. Almost every postseason the Yankees, Dodgers and Giants were in the series and at it each throats. It was a great time for baseball and a great place to be living.
Thanks for uploading these!!! Mantle was amazing
Glad you enjoyed!
The first thing we watched on our new 1954 Hoffman, was a Yankees game...I saw the Mick blast one, and I was hooked from then on...
thank you for putting this collectio of World Series home runs by Mickey Mantle together. He was one of kind.
My Brother and I grew up idolizing Mr. Mantle
and once met Mickey in
1969 as he was making his way into the Cotton Bowl for a Dallas Cowboy game right at dusk just before game started where I sold programs for the game
Mick could avoid the crowds that way but he couldn't get by me without me knowing him and of he was very obliging I still have his autograph 😊
Opposite field against Bob Gibson? YIKES!!!
Regarding Mantle's final homer off Gibson. The closing frames of the video show Gibby walking off as though Johnny Keane had sent him to the showers. Gibson actually pitched a complete 7th game victory, although in truth the Yankees knocked the exhausted Gibson around in the final innings.
This was the first series that I followed as a kid. One of Mantle's homers was back to back with Maris, very scary! Enjoyed watching our brilliant young outfielders, Brock, Flood and Shannon watch the home runs sail over the wall.
If it looks like Mantle's home run off of ace reliever Barney Schultz was "slow pitch", it was because Schultz was a knuckleball specialist. He was usually quite effective. Usually...
Wat a class act. Lefty righty he crushed them all. My idol my whole life. I loved this guy. Ran with his head down. Never tried to show up anyone. Because of him, my my dad was was a mantle fan too. I was a switch hitter my entire life since 3 years old. N ow im 65, i dont play ball anymore, but im a golfer now, and play pretty good, lefty and righty. A rare feat, as golf is hard enuff from one side. Thank you mick
Gold seems to be the easiest game around.. Little white ball on the grass you hit. Doesn't sound difficult at all ..
Been a Yankee fan as long as I can remember, I'm 70 now. Brought back many memories. Thank you.
Thank you for putting this together. Big fan of Mantle though I never saw him play; crazy as it sounds I think he's underrated as far as all-time greats go. There was seemingly nothing he couldn't do on a baseball diamond. Also never saw all 18 of these in one place, nice job, subscribed.
Amazing clips here. TY for posting these. I attended Mickey Mantle Day June 8, 1969. It was Father's Day. Doubleheader vs Chicago White Sox. Pepitone HR wins game 1 3-1. Yankees swept. MM ceremony between games. Ran on the field after the 2nd game. Doesn't get any better for a 12 YO.
Awesome memories
Pepitone hit a grand slam in the '64 series against my Cardinals.
Thank you very much for putting this together. No pointing to heaven. No 60 second HR trot. Mick will always be the GOAT !!
The Mick.....The One And Only!
Ol' Mick back in the 50's stepping up there with no gloves, or elbow guards or shin guards, with his felt cap belting them out of the park off the best pitchers of the day.
Yep! Although a Cardinal kid, I admired Norm Cash of the Tigers playing mind games with Gibson in '68 by not wearing a batting helmet as well.
Imagine him in today's stadiums with modern baseballs....
And tiny strike zones.
Center Field at Yankee Stadium was 461, with a 20 foot wall. Today it's 400 Feet.
Great job putting this together. Really enjoyed it! Love baseball history and that is one record that will probably never be broken.
heard about him and everytime i see highlights he's rounding the bases!
The players today are in much better shape and care for their bodies better. Not sure if anyone was stronger than Mantle tho. Mantle did a lot of 12oz curls and was still better than most everyone today. Even with a torn up knee from that damn sprinkler, he played and ran like the wind. If he didn’t drink and the doctors then had today’s tech to fix his knee, there would probably be some unbreakable records. He was Mike Trout with Aaron Judge power and early Bonds speed and Tony Gwynn contact.
He did. Didn't ground into many double plays though.@breadandcircuses8127
@breadandcircuses8127 He blamed some of those strike-outs on his being hung over!...and many powerful hitters try hard to swing for the fences. My favorite homer dude, Jimmy Wynn, has said that his dad raised him to take hard swings, every time!...it hurt his batting average, but helped his reputation as being the Toy Cannon he was called!
Mike Literas summed it well for me... Mike Trout is today's Mickey Mantle, but Mike takes care of himself and you never read of him having any bad vices. Too bad Mike Trout doesn't play for either LA, SF, St Louis or New York! He would have been in several WS by now.
ChazQ, this was great. Fabulous job with this! Thank goodness for old clips. I am a Yankees fan but all of Mantles World Series Homeruns I was not even born yet! LOL. Thanks for upload.
You’re welcome
Thanks for posting this. I just finished David Halberstam's "October 1964". A great read, and Mickey's last hurrah. A banged up Mantle hit the final 3 of his record 18 WS Hr's that series.
garbage book, garbage writer.
When 'The Mick' hit 'em, they STAYED hit!! I'm old enough to have seen Mantle back in the day, and BOY! was he something special. I remember Mickey stating that he put his head down and rounded the bases without showing any 'jubilation', because he figured the pitcher felt bad enough as it was after giving up a home run.
I watched him as a kid . To me he was from a different planet. My favorite Yankee
Imagine what he could have accompilshed had he not been a drinker
Or gotten hurt in the '51 World Series.
He drank, no doubt, but he was a pro on teams of pros. Drinking didn't drag his game down, his diseased legs and the terrible injury to his knee in the 1951 WS impeded his greatness.
Mickey feasted on the Dodgers for the 1st 8 WS homeruns! Incredible!!
I can remember putting his cards, even rookie cards, on my bicycle spokes to make it sound cool. I wished I had known then how valuable that they would come to be. Crazy when I think about it today. Your bicycle was junk if you had anyone but Micky on at least one wheel.
In saw him on TV when he and Maris were battling for home run leaders and sometimes at the World Series they would have a TV in my Junior High school Auditorium
Awesome thanks for sharing,my favorite player of all time hitting his Last world series home run against my favorite pitcher of all time Bob Gibson
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A grand slam homerun in the World Series, and the announcer sounds like he's watching a guy wander outside in this pajamas to get the Sunday paper!
I noticed that too!
Excellent presentation 👍🙏