I awoke every morning as a kid during baseball season looking in the newspaper for last night's Yankee box score. My aim was to keep up with Mickey Mantle. What an athlete!
Remember the "Yesterday's Homers" section. I always looked at that. You would see Mantle. Rocky Colavito, Harmon Killabrew, Willie May's, Hank Aaron. Stan Musial, etc. Great era!
In 1968 hen i was 9 years old my dad and his buddy took me to Anaheim Stadium to see the Angels play the Yankees. Mantle came to bat late in the game and I can remember my dads buddy saying this was the last chance for us to see Mickey hit a home run. We were seated on the third base side past 3rd base and I can still remember Mantle hitting a bomb that flew past us well over the left field fence deep into the bullpen.
in '61, I was glued to the tube watching the "M&M" boys hit 54 (by Mick) &61 Homers by Maris breaking Ruth's record on the last game of the season in Yankee Stadium to a "sparse" crowd! I collected the newspaper comparisons showing Mantle, Maris, and Ruth on each day and how many homers they had chasing "The Babe" that day in the seasons' history. BEST TIME TO BE A MLB FAN...NEVER FORGET THE EXCITEMENT! 1961...GREAT YEAR (UNLIKE the cheating"STEROID HOMERS" OF TWO other players chasing Maris's record in '98)
@@australiasfirstmate1556 Thanks for the note and bringing back so many memories. I grew up in northern New Jersey so seeing the Yanks at the stadium was a relatively frequent occurrence for me as a kid. Seeing Mickey, Maris, Whitey Ford, Al Downing, Ellie Howard, Bobby Richarson and the many others in from the stands was, looking back, a life's experience. I was at a game in the 60's when MM was on the disabled list. White Sox I think. They put him up to bat as a pinch hitter late in the game with I think two on base and were losing by a couple. You should have heard the crowd when he was announced. I couldn't have been more than 9 or 10 in the old stadium. He came up batting lefty and proceeded to put a homer in the right field upper deck, winning the game. I thought the stadium was going to fall down. We had box seats along first behind the Yankee dugout so it seemed I was next to him when he hit it. Remember it like it was yesterday. Hey thanks!!
With my Dad and brother at Yankee Stadium 1968 saw the Mick hit a bases loaded pinch hit single. Woulda been a double but he could barely run by then. Took him out right away for a pinch runner. The crowd went nuts. I was 9 years old. It feels like yesterday.
QUICK FACT: *The fastest pitcher in mantles era was clocked at 82.3 mph...and no one threw a consistent off-speed pitch.* ....Could you imagine how easy that would be, if you knew a 75-82mph fastball was coming every single pitch?? 🤦🤣🤣🤣 No wonder mantles numbers were so high!
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@@buttsexwithbabies2316 Then why didn't every hitter from that time have 500+ HRs if it's that easy?. Many players played in the 50s and 60s yet only a select few hit over 500 HRs.
My childhood hero! The centerpiece of the might Yankee teams of the 50s and early 60s. I saw him pinch hit a dramatic home run on August 4, 1963 at Yankee Stadium, his first plate appearance finds being injured a couple of months earlier. The standing ovation started when he came to the on deck circle and continued until he rounded the bases and went back into the dugout. It must’ve lasted about ten minutes. The entire stadium was standing and clapping and cheering the entire time. Mickey pulled the ball to left, over the 360 ft. sign, tied up the game and Yanks win it in extra innings. Possibly the longest ovation ever in Yankee Stadium.
Remembering the days when any family could afford to go to a professional sporting event. Still recall seeing Yankees at Dodger Stadium with Mantle and Maris.
Greatest switch hitter in baseball history. He was the GOAT. Legendary bomb home runs. Rod Dedeaux, the USC baseball coach said he measured out two shots that Mantle hit out of the field at USC during an exhibition game. Both homers were over 600 feet.
Frank Gifford talked about a 1952 'SC football practice where he's in the huddle... getting the play... and a baseball rolls into the huttle. YUP. You guessed it. Mantle had a home run that left the baseball field... and carried all the way to the football practice field. Gifford swore he was telling the truth. Marv Goux confirmed it. There will NEVER be another player with the talent... big game moxy... and charm... as MICKEY MANTLE.
After Mickey Mantle hit a homer out of Griffith Stadium in Washington, he also had a bunt double. Yes he bunted so hard that the ball hit the second base bag. Mantle who could run like a blur rounded first and ran into second. Mantle's grand slam home run into the center field upper deck in Ebbets field demolished the seat it landed on.
No one was ever better! That will upset all those "Mantle haters". I happened to be at Yankee Stadium in August 1964 with my dad and grandpa. It was Mel Stottlemyre's first MLB game. Through a family connection at the stadium, we got front row seats in right field, about 20 feet from the foul pole. Off White Sox pitcher Ray Herbert, Mantle hit a HR well beyond the 461-foot sign to straight away CF. I think it was the 2nd time he had done this. No one else had ever accomplished that feat. Later in the game, Mantle hit one right over our heads many, many rows behind us.
@@marcschneider4845 There were plenty of Mantle haters....by the mere fact he played for the Yankees, especially early in his career. He won many of them over by his on-field accomplishments/injuries. Still, with the false accusations that he rec'd preferential treatment with the transplant.....I guess there's no accounting for taste or ignorance. And "no"....Mays was not better, period.
@@jackel99 I wish the radio call was on UA-cam. Better yet, I wonder if WPIX-TV broadcast that game and has a tape. I'm guessing not, otherwise we'd have seen it by now.
That first swing and shot is unreal. Watching him uncoil and whip that bat through the zone is just poetic. The most talented ball player of the century before injuries derailed him. Never watched him play but he was my dad’s idol.
As a life-long Mantle guy, I had seen many of these clips before, but never the play when he dives back into first under Rocky Bridges tag. I’ve seen that play written up as the smartest, most instinctive base running play ever and it was really special to see it here. I appreciate the time and effort you put into compiling these clips. Whenever the subject of “if only he hadn’t gotten injured” comes up (Herb Score, Tony C., Bo Jackson, etc), Mickey is always my first thought.
Remember Dizzy to Pee Wee Reese on a Yankee game, "You can see the sawdust fallin' from the bottom of his bat!" It was more pain than ecstasy when he struck out, but I can't remember that now. Pure magic. Seeing him in the on deck circle was better than any pin-up imaginable.
Grew up watching "The Mick" and there will never be another ballplayer who will be as big a hero as he was. When Bobby Murcer took over for him, he carried the flag admirably.
im 74 l saw him play nobody hit home runs like Mickey Mantle nobody!he hit 18 home runs in world series play and all of them in the world series it will be a long time before somebody breaks that record,and he was one of the best bunters of all time Mantle showed up to play in the world series he could be a one man wrecking crew.
I also grew up in the 50s and 60s, in those days eight teams in the AL and eight teams in the NL. No playoff games, no wildcards, very simply whichever team won the pennant went directly to the World Series. There were no mass communications or cable or certainly no Internet, so we only had The Game of the Week, sports casters Dizzy Dean and Pee-wee Reece. Fabulous sportscasters those two were! Damn near every kid in the nation wanted to be Mickey Mantle, we used to have fights as kids over who was going to “be” Mickey Mantle in our sandlot games. Mantle could hit the ball further than you could imagine, he was something over 200 pounds yet for the years he wasn’t badly injured he was the fastest player in the major leagues, lightning fast to first base! Old Yankee stadium was 463 feet to dead center, and it was thrilling to watch Mickey “on his horse“ and track down 440 foot flyballs, no one else could run like that guy. If Yankee stadium had had average dimensions, it is estimated Mantle might have had 800 - 1000 home runs in his career.
That’s awesome. I can relate because people probably don’t believe you when you tell them. I am currently riding a 5 game walk off winning streak dating back to opening day last year. Went 4 for 4 last season and am 1 for 1 so far. Would have rather seen what you saw though. If only that Judge shot went out in the 9th inning to tie the record at 61 I would feel differently. If you followed him last season you’ll know exactly which game and at bat I’m referring to.
Good argument that he's the best ever . Remember he started his career with a crippling leg injury , yet still stole bases with a high success rate , apparently still is the quickest to first base of anyone , Henderson included, at 5'11" incredibly hit the longest home runs of anyone , even the giants (Mcgwire, Canseco, Stanton , Judge , Pujols , Trout etc) of the past 20 years and has so many post season records. A fit Mantle would have 800 homers , probably the RBI record and who knows how many stolen bases . Not to mention his incredible switch hitting !!
My first real recollection of Mickey was in 1952 in the World Series against the Dodgers. He hit a grand slam home run against them. In 1960 I flew to New York to watch the Yankees in the Series against Pittsburgh. Mickey was fantastic in that series. To me He was unequalled. If he had two good legs he would have been the greatest player ever. I’ll never forget all the times I seen him play. Not many around like the “Mick” anymore.
The grand slam was hit in 1953. In a book I wrote, there is a picture of the flight path of the ball (an arrow drawing). In '52, Mantle hit home runs in games six and seven of the Fall Classic. Both games are here on YT, and are believe to be the oldest surviving World Series games preserved in kinescope.
3:50 “Fill’er up, ethyl. Check the oil, tires and thanks for the baseball.” 🤣🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 God bless you Mickey. Thanks for being such a great ball player. 🇺🇸#7❤️
there's so much that could be added...like after he broke his foot and was out for 48 games...In Baltimore, Ralph Houk put him in to pinch hit with a man on first and the Yankees down 3-2. Mick limps up to the plate to bat left handed and doesn't take a practice swing. First pitch he swings at he misses and collapses in front of home plate. Gets back up and on the next pitch belts a 450' homer to center field and was barely able to limp around the bases - he missed the next 28 games. Mel Allen was crying!
I remember that like yesterday. I always used to have arguments with this guy about Mantle vs May's and when he blasted that Homer after being out for 48 games I was jumping up and down in front of him rubbing it in. MICKEY WAS SO GREAT.
In August of 1965 Mick hit one over the centerfield wall at Yankee Stadium against the White Sox. Not only was the wall 461 feet away, it was about 12 feet high and topped by a screen maybe another 7 feet...don't know for sure, might have been higher. Picture in the paper showed a tiny looking Jim Landis looking up at a huge wall with a white dot (the ball) clearing it by about a foot. Not too many players ever did that.
August 1964,it was also Mel Stottlemyres first start.The center fielder was Gene Stephens.This game marked the last time Mantle homered lefty and righty in a game.
@@64yanks Yes, that's it. Yankees won 7-3, Stottlemyre got the win, too. Over 500 feet. Mantle actually thought he didn't get all of it. Remember the game later (early September?) where Mel went 5-5 at the dish?
From his 1st Homerun to his Last, Mickey never showed up the pitcher. Unlike today's players who jump, dance and act a fool for nothing. Mickey was class. A Baseball God.
Wait a minute!! No bat flips, no waving his arms around, no pointing to the sky? No kissing his fingers and then pointing to the sky?No pointing into the Yankees dugout, or the opponent dugout?!!?? What's wrong with Mickey??
No bat flip, no posing, no kisses to “God”, no slow trot around the bases. He and Williams ran as fast as they should. Never show up the pitcher. Pure class on the field
As a Brooklyn fan ,I was no fan of Mantle,but I can attest that he was one of the 5 best power /speed players I ever saw-especially so,in the post season against the Dodgers.In '68,when 7 was profoundly hobbled by injuries,he still had an obp of .385,despite his .237 batting average.
My father saw him play at least twice. 8/7/56 against Boston (got Casey Stengel's autograph after the game) and 6/2/57 (DH). In the double-header, he saw Mantle and Berra go back-to-back, and then Howard homered before the Yankee frame ended. After the game, my grandmother got a pretty good picture of Mickey exiting Yankee Stadium. We still have it! My father got his pic with Stengel, in addition to the autograph.
Mickey Mantle was the most talented player Ted Williams ever saw, and when he hit a home run there were no antics, he will run the bases with his head down. Even after playing his entire career with two bad knees, Mantle still is one of the best players of all time!
I just read a book with a lot of cool stats I didn't know about both those guys... More than just the stats-101 amazing baseball facts and much much more
This was back when ballparks had major league dimensions. No disrespect to Aaron Judge but if he played in the ORIGINAL Yankee Stadium he would’ve had 40 home runs this year!
His bat speed through the zone was ridiculous I see. The old black and white footage is what you really need to watch. Before he got his leg caught in the drainage pipe. And boy was he fast too. ❤️
Also, would anyone agree that The Mick would have probably had 100+ more HRs if he played in todays stadiums? Those places back then had some crazy dimensions
Tony Kubek was quoted as having said that if Mickey had played in Hank Aaron's ballparks (Milwaukee, Atlanta) all those years, he would have hit 1000 homers.
My dad took me to a spring tng game btw the Jacksonville( Fla) Suns and Yanks in 1956/7. The Suns won 4-1. Lone Yankee run was a screaming line drive homer by Mantle. Oh,by the way,a guy by the name of Hank Aarron played 2nd base for the Suns.
What a fantastic post!! In '57 the Braves had just won the series vs. NY and I cried all the way home from KINDERGARTEN! Up til then life was FAIR. DAMMIT.
A healthy Mickey Mantle, he would have been the greatest player of all time, Ted Williams had lost 5 yrs in the service he was the greatest hitter for ave 4.06. MANTLE TRIPLE CROWN WAS AMAZING.
QUICK FACT: *The fastest pitcher in mantles era was clocked at 82.3 mph...and no one threw a consistent off-speed pitch.* ....Could you imagine how easy that would be, if you knew a 75-82mph fastball was coming every single pitch?? 🤦🤣🤣🤣 No wonder mantles numbers were so high!
My dad played against Mickey before he was a pro. This took place in the four state area of Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Arkansas, which was a hotbed of good baseball in those days.
QUICK FACT: *The fastest pitcher in mantles era was clocked at 82.3 mph...and no one threw a consistent off-speed pitch.* ....Could you imagine how easy that would be, if you knew a 75-82mph fastball was coming every single pitch?? 🤦🤣🤣🤣 No wonder mantles numbers were so high!
@@buttsexwithbabies2316 82.3? Where did you get such an exact number? The speed gun hadn't been invented yet. Bob Feller pitched for the Tribe until 1954, and he was clocked at 100mph by the best means available at the time. I'm sure quite a few other were easily besting 90mph with ease. A couple that I can think of were Don Drysdale and Bob Gibson, and Koufax probably too, all in various World Series.
That’s saying a lot when you consider Bo Jackson, Deon Sanders, and Ichiro Suzuki played after him. I agree that he would beat them all to first base before his knee injury.
@@stephenfricke9298 He was a nice guy. (The Mick), Yogi was nice enough, but he smelled! My father asked what I thought about meeting them and that was what I told him. I was 7 years old.
I remember, I guess it might have been 1961, Mick hit a ball and took off for first base. Half way down the line going at full speed Mick collapsed in a cloud of chalk and dust. When his teammates helped him off the field I saw blood coming through his uniform at his right hip.
I remember that. He hit a grounder to short and was trying to beat it out because it would have been the last out of the game and he tore a muscle in his leg.
Ty Cobb came to Yankee Stadium just to watch Mickey bunt. Cobb said Mantle could bunt over .300 because the infielders played him on the outfield grass he hit the ball so hard. Mick not only drag-bunted. He liked to pop the ball over the pitcher's head because the infielder's played so far back. He tried it off Don Drysdale in the 1963 world series, but 6'6" Drysdale was able to jump up and catch it.
Did I miss something? Where were his incredible plays in the field. His powerful and accurate throws? In general, folks forget. Not Yankee fans from the 50s, though.
There was only one that I recall and I was looking because I remember he made some great catches. He ran so fast that it was rare for a ball to get past him. No silly diving catches like today.
The biggest catch I remember is his catch in left-center to save Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series. He had to back-hand it, which made it extremely tough. May have saved the game, as it was 2-0.
You can talk about Bonds, Ruth, Aaron, Trout etc… Mickey Mantle was the greatest baseball player of all time. Everyone forgets that he got hurt his rookie year. There was never a fully healthy Mick after ‘51, yet he was still the best.
There is no greater Mantle fan than myself. Everything was Mickey Mantle when I was growing up and still today my favorite athlete. Favorite celebrity too. But the greatest baseball player of all time? I don't think so. Without the injuries we would have seen much more, but we have to go by what he did. Which was incredible, but so many strikeouts. Mays was a better fielder, Williams a better hitter, Berra a greater clutch hitter, and many have been better baserunners. He was an incredible package, five tools, and probably in the top ten of all time, but not the GOAT. Unfortunately. And a don't say this lightly, as Mantle has meant so much to me.
@@Maya-bu2rf He set the major league record for career strikeouts at the time. There's no changing that. Of course the record has been broken since by a number of players, particularly in the new baseball atmosphere. Compared to Mays, Aaron, Ted Williams, Berra and other players of his day, he struck out a lot.
@@howie9751 ☰   Mickey Mantle's Strikeouts Are No Longer Criticized by Baseball "Experts" HAROLD FRIEND SEPTEMBER 03, 2011 Mickey Mantle was criticized severely for striking out so much during his career, but in the 1950s and 1960s, the "experts" didn't know that a strikeout was merely an out. Players of Mantle's era considered striking out an embarrassment. After striking out, many players would hang their heads as they returned to the dugout. Mantle struck out an average of 115 times over a 162-game season, which was more frequently than Willie Mays (83), Hank Aaron (68), Ralph Kiner (82), Roger Maris (81), Frank Robinson (88), Harmon Killebrew (113) and Ernie Banks (79). What made Mantle great was that in his career he walked (1,733) more times than he struck out (1,710). Among the above players, only Ralph Kiner and Hank Aaron walked more than they struck out. Modern "experts" have concluded that it is relatively unimportant how often productive hitters strike out. In 2011, American League MVP contenders Curtis Granderson and Adrian Gonzalez have struck out 147 and 112 times, respectively, in 135 games each. Mark Reynolds has 31 home runs to go with his 166 strikeouts, while Ryan Howard has 30 home runs and 153 strikeouts. Mike Stanton has hit 31 home runs with 146 strikeouts. Mickey Mantle no longer holds any New York Yankees single-season strikeout records. In 2000, Jorge Posada struck out 151 times, the most by any Yankees switch-hitter. Alfonso Soriano's 157 strikeouts in 2002 is the most by any Yankees right-handed hitter. Reggie Jackson struck out 133 times in 1978, which was the most by any Yankees left-handed hitter until Granderson this season. Granderson has already broken Reggie's record in only 135 games, and he will add to his dubious distinction. The most times Mantle ever struck out in a season was 126 in 1959. He followed that with 125 in 1960. Mantle often said that the injury he suffered in the 1957 World Series, when Milwaukee Braves second baseman Red Schoendienst fell on his right shoulder, ruined his swing from the left side of the plate, which accounts in part for so many strikeouts. But from 1955-58, again in 1961-62 and for the last time in 1968, Mickey walked many more times than he struck out, averaging 122 walks and 97 strikeouts a season. In 1957, which might have been more productive than his Triple Crown season of 1956, Mantle walked 146 times with only 75 strikeouts. This may be more significant that anyone ever realized. Mantle's knowledge of the strike zone had never been as good as it became in 1957, but it was in that year's World Series that his right shoulder was injured. How much more would he have produced with a healthy right shoulder? The major difference between today's free-swinging sluggers and Mantle is that among the 11 batters who have hit at least 30 home runs this year, only Jose Bautista (109 BB and 92 K), the great Albert Pujols (54 BB, 51 K) and Prince Fielder (89 BB and 88 K) have more walks than strikeouts. Mickey Mantle has become better as the years have passed. A major reason is that his strikeouts are no longer considered much of a negative. Some great players who followed Mantle have made his career 1,710 strikeouts seem less extreme. Reggie Jackson struck out 2,597 times for the all-time record. Jim Thome, who is still active, has 2,473 strikeouts. In seventh place, with a chance to break Jackson's record, is Alex Rodriguez, who has struck out 1,904 times. How often has A-Rod been criticized for striking out too much? Read 0 Comments Download the app for commentsGet the B/R app to join the conversation Install the App Related Articles Predicting Each Team's Trade Deadline Approach about 10 hours ago  2011 MLB Re-Draft 📝 about 10 hours ago Yankees-Red Sox Postponed 1 day ago Reevaluating All 30 MLB Teams ✍️ 2 days ago
Mickey was my favorite player of all time growing up a Yankee Fan and will never forget the M&M Boys and the World Series Wins and the huge disappointment of the '60 WS loss against Pirates
You couldn't take your eyes off Mickey when he played! He had this magnificent powerful swing from both sides, he ran like no one else with his arms moving up & down like pistons, he was graceful even kneeling in the on deck circle, he was graceful in the field, he dug in at the plate like no one else, and was the fastest runner who ever played the game. AND, he was a great drag bunter! Just magnificent!
Had the 1st baseman not stepped on the bag, then Mantle would have been forced at 2nd.Would have left the same situation except that now Mantle wouldn't have been on the bases.
As a kid ,I drew the number 7 on the back of my pajamas ! Nobody since and very few (if any) before him were better then the Mick ! Among the top 10 in baseball for sure !
Mantle didn't have the most home runs or the longest career wise, bad knees and all, but when the chips were on the line in post season, he hit 18 world series home runs. How many did you hit 'Mr. October'/ Reggie Jackson?..Robert at 67.
QUICK FACT: *The fastest pitcher in mantles era was clocked at 82.3 mph...and no one threw a consistent off-speed pitch.* ....Could you imagine how easy that would be, if you knew a 75-82mph fastball was coming every single pitch?? 🤦🤣🤣🤣 No wonder mantles numbers were so high!
Greatest switch hitter of all time can very safely be said. After Mickey, perhaps Chipper Jones, Eddie Murray and Time Raines. Pete Rose the accumulator maybe 5th.
Seeing these highlights with Mel Allen is Godly! My father used to hip me to Mel and his tagline;"how about that", being I was raised on Bill White and Scooter. Taking nothing away from them, as they were great as well. But Mel was the golden age of Yankee-ness.
@@Maya-bu2rf "That ones outta here, ow, he got it on the warning track, holy cow white, I thought that was outta here for sure...ya know I gotta get my prescription checked."
A fantastic video! Much appreciated, it's nice to see some different (and new to me) hilights of The Mick rather than the usual 5 or 6 one sees in most videos about him. It's a shame his life took him down the path it did. He accomplished so much with two bad legs and hung over most of the time. If he had taken care of himself and stayed off the sauce, it's amazing to think what he might have done.
Mickey Mantle hit 536 HR's most in Center field at Yankee Stadium which was the biggest stadiums and Center field was 464 ft. No ball park is that big nowadays short fences and a lively baseball now.he hit a lot of out in Center field that would be homers today.
Mantle and Ruth are no where near the best all around players. No where close. It’s 2021. Bonds’ first9 years in Pittsburgh alone make him the goat by far. After tha, we’re talking Griffey, Ichiro, Ohtani, Trout etc
I awoke every morning as a kid during baseball season looking in the newspaper for last night's Yankee box score. My aim was to keep up with Mickey Mantle. What an athlete!
Remember the "Yesterday's Homers" section. I always looked at that. You would see Mantle. Rocky Colavito, Harmon Killabrew, Willie May's, Hank Aaron. Stan Musial, etc. Great era!
me too!
In 1968 hen i was 9 years old my dad and his buddy took me to Anaheim Stadium to see the Angels play the Yankees. Mantle came to bat late in the game and I can remember my dads buddy saying this was the last chance for us to see Mickey hit a home run. We were seated on the third base side past 3rd base and I can still remember Mantle hitting a bomb that flew past us well over the left field fence deep into the bullpen.
Everybody loved "The Mick". He was and still is my favorite player of all time. So glad I got to see him play in the sixties when I was a kid.
in '61, I was glued to the tube watching the "M&M" boys hit 54 (by Mick) &61 Homers by Maris breaking Ruth's record on the last game of the season in Yankee Stadium to a "sparse" crowd! I collected the newspaper comparisons showing Mantle, Maris, and Ruth on each day and how many homers they had chasing "The Babe" that day in the seasons' history. BEST TIME TO BE A MLB FAN...NEVER FORGET THE EXCITEMENT! 1961...GREAT YEAR (UNLIKE the cheating"STEROID HOMERS" OF TWO other players chasing Maris's record in '98)
@@australiasfirstmate1556 Thanks for the note and bringing back so many memories. I grew up in northern New Jersey so seeing the Yanks at the stadium was a relatively frequent occurrence for me as a kid. Seeing Mickey, Maris, Whitey Ford, Al Downing, Ellie Howard, Bobby Richarson and the many others in from the stands was, looking back, a life's experience.
I was at a game in the 60's when MM was on the disabled list. White Sox I think. They put him up to bat as a pinch hitter late in the game with I think two on base and were losing by a couple. You should have heard the crowd when he was announced. I couldn't have been more than 9 or 10 in the old stadium. He came up batting lefty and proceeded to put a homer in the right field upper deck, winning the game. I thought the stadium was going to fall down. We had box seats along first behind the Yankee dugout so it seemed I was next to him when he hit it. Remember it like it was yesterday.
Hey thanks!!
Showed my 3 year old son Mickey these highlights today.
"His name is Mickey too?"
"What a coincidence, eh kid?"
BLESS YOU! What a great father.
Mickey was the greatest ever... period
The “magnificent Mickey” perfect description by Mel Allen, the greatest baseball player EVER.
With my Dad and brother at Yankee Stadium 1968 saw the Mick hit a bases loaded pinch hit single. Woulda been a double but he could barely run by then. Took him out right away for a pinch runner. The crowd went nuts. I was 9 years old. It feels like yesterday.
QUICK FACT: *The fastest pitcher in mantles era was clocked at 82.3 mph...and no one threw a consistent off-speed pitch.*
....Could you imagine how easy that would be, if you knew a 75-82mph fastball was coming every single pitch?? 🤦🤣🤣🤣 No wonder mantles numbers were so high!
@@buttsexwithbabies2316 I'm sorry to contradict you but Bob Feller, Bob Gibson, and Sandy Koufax all threw in the high 90's.
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@@buttsexwithbabies2316 Then why didn't every hitter from that time have 500+ HRs if it's that easy?. Many players played in the 50s and 60s yet only a select few hit over 500 HRs.
My childhood hero! The centerpiece of the might Yankee teams of the 50s and early 60s. I saw him pinch hit a dramatic home run on August 4, 1963 at Yankee Stadium, his first plate appearance finds being injured a couple of months earlier. The standing ovation started when he came to the on deck circle and continued until he rounded the bases and went back into the dugout. It must’ve lasted about ten minutes. The entire stadium was standing and clapping and cheering the entire time. Mickey pulled the ball to left, over the 360 ft. sign, tied up the game and Yanks win it in extra innings. Possibly the longest ovation ever in Yankee Stadium.
Remembering the days when any family could afford to go to a professional sporting event. Still recall seeing Yankees at Dodger Stadium with Mantle and Maris.
Mickey was the best player I ever saw.
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Arguably the best player in the majors. In its biggest market. Playing on an ultimate power house winner. Mickey Mantle. The Perfect Storm.
He also struck out a lot.
Greatest switch hitter in baseball history. He was the GOAT. Legendary bomb home runs. Rod Dedeaux, the USC baseball coach said he measured out two shots that Mantle hit out of the field at USC during an exhibition game. Both homers were over 600 feet.
Frank Gifford talked about a 1952 'SC football practice where he's in the huddle... getting the play... and a baseball rolls into the huttle. YUP. You guessed it. Mantle had a home run that left the baseball field... and carried all the way to the football practice field. Gifford swore he was telling the truth. Marv Goux confirmed it. There will NEVER be another player with the talent... big game moxy... and charm... as MICKEY MANTLE.
Damn
I was born in 1989, and Mickey Mantle is still the greatest player of all time.
@JustE77248 If he had played as long and as healthy as the other two he would easily have beaten them.
Hell yeah!
After Mickey Mantle hit a homer out of Griffith Stadium in Washington, he also had a bunt double. Yes he bunted so hard that the ball hit the second base bag. Mantle who could run like a blur rounded first and ran into second. Mantle's grand slam home run into the center field upper deck in Ebbets field demolished the seat it landed on.
The fact he could hit from both sides of the plate makes him that much more of a good argument for the greatest player of all time.
He was amphibious
If he had only taken care of himself. Near his death, he had such remorse about not treating his gifts with more respect...
A 6 tool player.
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And ambiguous?
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And ambivalent?
A Baseball God!!! The Pure Natural !!! Thanks Mick!!! ❤️
His natural power to all fields from both sides of the plate is one-of-a-kind
No one was ever better! That will upset all those "Mantle haters". I happened to be at Yankee Stadium in August 1964 with my dad and grandpa. It was Mel Stottlemyre's first MLB game. Through a family connection at the stadium, we got front row seats in right field, about 20 feet from the foul pole. Off White Sox pitcher Ray Herbert, Mantle hit a HR well beyond the 461-foot sign to straight away CF. I think it was the 2nd time he had done this. No one else had ever accomplished that feat. Later in the game, Mantle hit one right over our heads many, many rows behind us.
How many "Mantle haters" are there? None that I know. But a lot of people think Willie Mays was better. That's not "hating" Mantle.
@@marcschneider4845 There were plenty of Mantle haters....by the mere fact he played for the Yankees, especially early in his career. He won many of them over by his on-field accomplishments/injuries. Still, with the false accusations that he rec'd preferential treatment with the transplant.....I guess there's no accounting for taste or ignorance. And "no"....Mays was not better, period.
@@marcschneider4845 Willie was great, but he did play longer and healthier than the Mick. He's my second fav
I was listening to that game on the radio. I remember the announcer saying, "It's a home run to deep center, but where is it going to land?"
@@jackel99 I wish the radio call was on UA-cam. Better yet, I wonder if WPIX-TV broadcast that game and has a tape. I'm guessing not, otherwise we'd have seen it by now.
That first swing and shot is unreal. Watching him uncoil and whip that bat through the zone is just poetic. The most talented ball player of the century before injuries derailed him. Never watched him play but he was my dad’s idol.
I love the love you have for him knowing he’s your fathers idol.
I find it impressive not only was he a switch hitter but he often hit for tremendous power the other way
@@metaphoria3 chopping wood from both sides.
He was many people's hero. I adored him growing up as an avid Yankee fan.
I just watched that swing at 0.25 speed and it still looks like a blur.
As a life-long Mantle guy, I had seen many of these clips before, but never the play when he dives back into first under Rocky Bridges tag. I’ve seen that play written up as the smartest, most instinctive base running play ever and it was really special to see it here. I appreciate the time and effort you put into compiling these clips. Whenever the subject of “if only he hadn’t gotten injured” comes up (Herb Score, Tony C., Bo Jackson, etc), Mickey is always my first thought.
It was Rocky Nelson, not Bridges.
Another memorable moment about Mickey avoiding getting doubled up was that Mel Allen uttered his famous “How about that?” line.
@@thomaswolf723 you mean Ricky Nelson.
@@thomaswolf723
Not Rocky Balboa?
Or Rocky the Flying Squirrel?
Remember Dizzy to Pee Wee Reese on a Yankee game, "You can see the sawdust fallin' from the bottom of his bat!" It was more pain than ecstasy when he struck out, but I can't remember that now. Pure magic. Seeing him in the on deck circle was better than any pin-up imaginable.
No batting helmet. No gloves, no body armor.
Just a bat.
And no arrogant bat flips!!
@@johnvan6803 - No chest pumping, crossing themselves or 30 second handshake. Those were amazing times.
@mikea5205 u mean boring!...n btw he definitely wore a helmet in the later days
@@wisethabrain1100 your name should be where's the brain
@michaelangelos5117 2:30 the man is CLEARLY wearing a helmet! And u change ya because Micheal Angelo is party dude and your boring dude
Grew up watching "The Mick" and there will never be another ballplayer who will be as big a hero as he was. When Bobby Murcer took over for him, he carried the flag admirably.
Agreed
Great post. I agree completely, Bobby Murcer did carry the flag.
im 74 l saw him play nobody hit home runs like Mickey Mantle nobody!he hit 18 home runs in world series play and all of them in the world series it will be a long time before somebody
breaks that record,and he was one of the best bunters of all time Mantle showed up to play in the world series he could be a one man wrecking crew.
I'm 73 and copy you 100%. So many of us! I love it.
The Mick was my Idol ............. simple as THAT!!! Thank you for such an incredible Video Compilation, Dominick!!!
He played in a garbage pitching era
@@buttsexwithbabies2316 And the 60s had one of the lowest ERA of all time btw so you don't know what you're talking about
I also grew up in the 50s and 60s, in those days eight teams in the AL and eight teams in the NL. No playoff games, no wildcards, very simply whichever team won the pennant went directly to the World Series. There were no mass communications or cable or certainly no Internet, so we only had The Game of the Week, sports casters Dizzy Dean and Pee-wee Reece. Fabulous sportscasters those two were! Damn near every kid in the nation wanted to be Mickey Mantle, we used to have fights as kids over who was going to “be” Mickey Mantle in our sandlot games.
Mantle could hit the ball further than you could imagine, he was something over 200 pounds yet for the years he wasn’t badly injured he was the fastest player in the major leagues, lightning fast to first base! Old Yankee stadium was 463 feet to dead center, and it was thrilling to watch Mickey “on his horse“ and track down 440 foot flyballs, no one else could run like that guy. If Yankee stadium had had average dimensions, it is estimated Mantle might have had 800 - 1000 home runs in his career.
My first three Yankee games as a child The Mick hit walk-off homeruns in the 9th to win each game!!!!!!! So great! How lucky was I????!!!!!!
That’s awesome. I can relate because people probably don’t believe you when you tell them. I am currently riding a 5 game walk off winning streak dating back to opening day last year. Went 4 for 4 last season and am 1 for 1 so far. Would have rather seen what you saw though. If only that Judge shot went out in the 9th inning to tie the record at 61 I would feel differently. If you followed him last season you’ll know exactly which game and at bat I’m referring to.
Man, that's when baseball was fun. Loved those days...
More like when it was still partly a game and more fun. Great players back then
This guy hit monster home runs and beat out drag hunts how many did that then and how many can do it now
I grew up in the late 50's and early 60's, in my world NO one was better than Mickey Mantle and no one ever will.
Ditto! Amen.
Greatest switch hitter ever
I wished I could have seen in person!
@@brianwilson415 I would have loved it!
Go to Ebbets Field in the Polo Grounds that would have been great!
I grew up in the 1790s and NO one was a better dueler than Richard Bartholomew the Third
Mantle homers off Koufax. I would love that ball. Legends.
Good argument that he's the best ever . Remember he started his career with a crippling leg injury , yet still stole bases with a high success rate , apparently still is the quickest to first base of anyone , Henderson included, at 5'11" incredibly hit the longest home runs of anyone , even the giants (Mcgwire, Canseco, Stanton , Judge , Pujols , Trout etc) of the past 20 years and has so many post season records. A fit Mantle would have 800 homers , probably the RBI record and who knows how many stolen bases . Not to mention his incredible switch hitting !!
And he could catch anything! Golden Glove
Tape measure power. Blinding speed (3.1 to 1B from the left side). No one ever had such a combination. His health and habits betrayed him.
My first real recollection of Mickey was in 1952 in the World Series against the Dodgers. He hit a grand slam home run against them. In 1960 I flew to New York to watch the Yankees in the Series against Pittsburgh. Mickey was fantastic in that series. To me He was unequalled. If he had two good legs he would have been the greatest player ever. I’ll never forget all the times I seen him play. Not many around like the “Mick” anymore.
The grand slam was hit in 1953. In a book I wrote, there is a picture of the flight path of the ball (an arrow drawing). In '52, Mantle hit home runs in games six and seven of the Fall Classic. Both games are here on YT, and are believe to be the oldest surviving World Series games preserved in kinescope.
1:02 Berra, Clemente, and Mantle all mentioned casually by the announcer. So many legends there.
No kidding. I about fell off my stool when I heard that!
3:50 “Fill’er up, ethyl. Check the oil, tires and thanks for the baseball.” 🤣🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
God bless you Mickey. Thanks for being such a great ball player. 🇺🇸#7❤️
Watching the Mick was my favorite hobby. No one could equal him. He was and still is my all time hero
there's so much that could be added...like after he broke his foot and was out for 48 games...In Baltimore, Ralph Houk put him in to pinch hit with a man on first and the Yankees down 3-2. Mick limps up to the plate to bat left handed and doesn't take a practice swing. First pitch he swings at he misses and collapses in front of home plate. Gets back up and on the next pitch belts a 450' homer to center field and was barely able to limp around the bases - he missed the next 28 games. Mel Allen was crying!
I remember that like yesterday. I always used to have arguments with this guy about Mantle vs May's and when he blasted that Homer after being out for 48 games I was jumping up and down in front of him rubbing it in. MICKEY WAS SO GREAT.
Thanks for some wonderful memories ⚾
Nobody went to get a hotdog when he was coming up to bat
In August of 1965 Mick hit one over the centerfield wall at Yankee Stadium against the White Sox. Not only was the wall 461 feet away, it was about 12 feet high and topped by a screen maybe another 7 feet...don't know for sure, might have been higher. Picture in the paper showed a tiny looking Jim Landis looking up at a huge wall with a white dot (the ball) clearing it by about a foot. Not too many players ever did that.
I remember that shot, dead center over the monuments (which were actually on the playing field!!)
August 1964,it was also Mel Stottlemyres first start.The center fielder was Gene Stephens.This game marked the last time Mantle homered lefty and righty in a game.
@@64yanks Yes, that's it. Yankees won 7-3, Stottlemyre got the win, too. Over 500 feet. Mantle actually thought he didn't get all of it. Remember the game later (early September?) where Mel went 5-5 at the dish?
August 1964
@@scottmorissey8915 yes, he pitched a 2 hit shutout against the Senators
From his 1st Homerun to his Last, Mickey never showed up the pitcher. Unlike today's players who jump, dance and act a fool for nothing. Mickey was class. A Baseball God.
@@ggeorge4144 Exactly. It's an embarrassment
I live on Long Island. I wasn't a super crazy Yankee fan, but I did enjoy watching Mickey Mantle, especially during the World Series.
Wait a minute!! No bat flips, no waving his arms around, no pointing to the sky? No kissing his fingers and then pointing to the sky?No pointing into the Yankees dugout, or the opponent dugout?!!?? What's wrong with Mickey??
No bat flip, no posing, no kisses to “God”, no slow trot around the bases. He and Williams ran as fast as they should. Never show up the pitcher. Pure class on the field
I love all those Mantle cheering fans when he hits a HR in a visiting ballpark. This was well edited.
FABULOUS! This is what I was looking for!
Mickey Mantle and Joe Namath, my dad’s two favorite childhood athletes
If you combined the two you wouldn't get one whole knee.
As a Brooklyn fan ,I was no fan of Mantle,but I can attest that he was one of the 5 best power /speed players I ever saw-especially so,in the post season against the Dodgers.In '68,when 7 was profoundly hobbled by injuries,he still had an obp of .385,despite his .237 batting average.
18 World Series HR's but all you hear about during the "Post Season" is Manny Ramirez's 29.
My father saw him play at least twice. 8/7/56 against Boston (got Casey Stengel's autograph after the game) and 6/2/57 (DH). In the double-header, he saw Mantle and Berra go back-to-back, and then Howard homered before the Yankee frame ended. After the game, my grandmother got a pretty good picture of Mickey exiting Yankee Stadium. We still have it! My father got his pic with Stengel, in addition to the autograph.
Mickey Mantle was the most talented player Ted Williams ever saw, and when he hit a home run there were no antics, he will run the bases with his head down. Even after playing his entire career with two bad knees, Mantle still is one of the best players of all time!
I just read a book with a lot of cool stats I didn't know about both those guys...
More than just the stats-101 amazing baseball facts and much much more
Legendary home run clouts
This was back when ballparks had major league dimensions. No disrespect to Aaron Judge but if he played in the ORIGINAL Yankee Stadium he would’ve had 40 home runs this year!
If we were able to see one of his whole at bats, you would never see him get out of the batters box between pitches.
Maggies slingshot! Example served..
Mantle was the best Yankees player ever! Ruth, DiMaggio, Berra, Jeter, Williams, and Rivera all come very close. #GoYankees
Hear that crack of his bat? Pure power…. Perfect music….. Thanks Mick !!! ❤️ .
His bat speed through the zone was ridiculous I see. The old black and white footage is what you really need to watch. Before he got his leg caught in the drainage pipe. And boy was he fast too. ❤️
@@yankees29 Thanks, man.
Mickey my childhood hero!
Me too!
me too
Also, would anyone agree that The Mick would have probably had 100+ more HRs if he played in todays stadiums? Those places back then had some crazy dimensions
Tony Kubek was quoted as having said that if Mickey had played in Hank Aaron's ballparks (Milwaukee, Atlanta) all those years, he would have hit 1000 homers.
@@AndersonDE7 I liked Kubek, but he said a lot of crap. 1,000 HR's? C'mon.
Your right Davey Johnson who hit maybe 15 hrs a few times went to Atlanta in a trade hit i believe 45 in one year.
My dad took me to a spring tng game btw the Jacksonville( Fla) Suns and Yanks in 1956/7. The Suns won 4-1. Lone Yankee run was a screaming line drive homer by Mantle. Oh,by the way,a guy by the name of Hank Aarron played 2nd base for the Suns.
What a fantastic post!! In '57 the Braves had just won the series vs. NY and I cried all the way home from KINDERGARTEN! Up til then life was FAIR. DAMMIT.
The best player in MLB History
I grew up a Cubs fan but my favorite non Cub player was Mickey Mantle
The Mick is one of the Greatest hitters ever!!!
A healthy Mickey Mantle, he would have been the greatest player of all time, Ted Williams had lost 5 yrs in the service he was the greatest hitter for ave 4.06. MANTLE TRIPLE CROWN WAS AMAZING.
QUICK FACT: *The fastest pitcher in mantles era was clocked at 82.3 mph...and no one threw a consistent off-speed pitch.*
....Could you imagine how easy that would be, if you knew a 75-82mph fastball was coming every single pitch?? 🤦🤣🤣🤣 No wonder mantles numbers were so high!
Safe to say, he wouldn’t even make today’s MLB.... he’s never seen a pitch above 83.....could you imagine him trying to hit 95-100 daily?? 🤦🤣🤦🤣🤦🤣
Before Ryne Duren was sent to the Yankees, Msntle had to fa e his 101 mlh fastball. Maybe that's why the Yanks got him for short relief.
@@buttsexwithbabies2316 Look Silly Putty Bob Feller threw 100 plus others (herb Score}
My dad played against Mickey before he was a pro.
This took place in the four state area of Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Arkansas, which was a hotbed of good baseball in those days.
Ultra talented all around player who made it look easy. One of the game"s true icons.
QUICK FACT: *The fastest pitcher in mantles era was clocked at 82.3 mph...and no one threw a consistent off-speed pitch.*
....Could you imagine how easy that would be, if you knew a 75-82mph fastball was coming every single pitch?? 🤦🤣🤣🤣 No wonder mantles numbers were so high!
Facts, dude was unbelievable
@@buttsexwithbabies2316 82.3? Where did you get such an exact number? The speed gun hadn't been invented yet. Bob Feller pitched for the Tribe until 1954, and he was clocked at 100mph by the best means available at the time. I'm sure quite a few other were easily besting 90mph with ease. A couple that I can think of were Don Drysdale and Bob Gibson, and Koufax probably too, all in various World Series.
BS. Sandy and Gibson were throwing well into the 90s
Mantle was one of a few players with the 5 player tools very well developed
The Mighty Mick. The Greatest of All Time
Even today arguably the fastest player that ever played the game.
A guy i knew swore up and down ichiro was faster. Ichiro was faster to 1st if you compare it to when mantle was in his homerun trot. haha
That’s saying a lot when you consider Bo Jackson, Deon Sanders, and Ichiro Suzuki played after him. I agree that he would beat them all to first base before his knee injury.
@@andrewatterberry2628 what about trea turners 3 seconds to first?
Top three. He was my hero. Never met him but met Yogi twice. Outstanding guy. I brought his dog home in 1977 and he bought me a beer in 1980. Wow
@@stephenfricke9298 He was a nice guy. (The Mick), Yogi was nice enough, but he smelled! My father asked what I thought about meeting them and that was what I told him. I was 7 years old.
I remember, I guess it might have been 1961, Mick hit a ball and took off for first base. Half way down the line going at full speed Mick collapsed in a cloud of chalk and dust. When his teammates helped him off the field I saw blood coming through his uniform at his right hip.
Was that when the quack Dr shot him up with that crap and he had a big abscess on his hip for a while? Same Dr that shot up JFK with Meth.
You are correct. That was late 1961 when that infection on his hip ended him into the hospital. Raw infection.
@@rstefanie2622 I often wonder what could have been had he not been injured
@@rstefanie2622 damn what exactly happened?
I remember that. He hit a grounder to short and was trying to beat it out because it would have been the last out of the game and he tore a muscle in his leg.
Mickey swung HARD at the pitches, and he used a big bat. Swinging up into the ball, he had that slugger's trajectory. He was just a natural athlete.
The only true power hitting switch hitter in the history of the game. Love seeing him bunt for base hits too. Complete, all around player.
He was the most complete player in history. The only 5 tool player who could switch hit
Dimaggio lost his three best years to military service and Mantle was slowed by injuries but two great Yankees
Ty Cobb came to Yankee Stadium just to watch Mickey bunt. Cobb said Mantle could bunt over .300 because the infielders played him on the outfield grass he hit the ball so hard. Mick not only drag-bunted. He liked to pop the ball over the pitcher's head because the infielder's played so far back. He tried it off Don Drysdale in the 1963 world series, but 6'6" Drysdale was able to jump up and catch it.
Great memory.
There are quite a few hitters today who can hit a ball 500 feet, but back in Mantle's time, he was unique. Maybe 2 or 3 other guys, but that's it.
And keep this in mind: The stadiums that Mantle played in during his career were much larger than the bandboxes of today.
I’m not so sure there are even more than a handful of guys today that can hit a ball 500 feet.
Some of his never came down!
Mickey Mantle is a myth his 1952 topps rated 10, sold for $12.6 million dollars
Did I miss something? Where were his incredible plays in the field. His powerful and accurate throws? In general, folks forget. Not Yankee fans from the 50s, though.
There was only one that I recall and I was looking because I remember he made some great catches. He ran so fast that it was rare for a ball to get past him. No silly diving catches like today.
The biggest catch I remember is his catch in left-center to save Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series. He had to back-hand it, which made it extremely tough. May have saved the game, as it was 2-0.
I was playing little league during this era, I wore number 7 cause he was my favorite player
You can talk about Bonds, Ruth, Aaron, Trout etc… Mickey Mantle was the greatest baseball player of all time.
Everyone forgets that he got hurt his rookie year. There was never a fully healthy Mick after ‘51, yet he was still the best.
There is no greater Mantle fan than myself. Everything was Mickey Mantle when I was growing up and still today my favorite athlete. Favorite celebrity too. But the greatest baseball player of all time? I don't think so. Without the injuries we would have seen much more, but we have to go by what he did. Which was incredible, but so many strikeouts. Mays was a better fielder, Williams a better hitter, Berra a greater clutch hitter, and many have been better baserunners. He was an incredible package, five tools, and probably in the top ten of all time, but not the GOAT. Unfortunately. And a don't say this lightly, as Mantle has meant so much to me.
@@howie9751 newer stats show he did not strike out as often as a lot of other hitters
@@Maya-bu2rf He set the major league record for career strikeouts at the time. There's no changing that. Of course the record has been broken since by a number of players, particularly in the new baseball atmosphere. Compared to Mays, Aaron, Ted Williams, Berra and other players of his day, he struck out a lot.
@@howie9751
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Mickey Mantle's Strikeouts Are No Longer Criticized by Baseball "Experts"
HAROLD FRIEND
SEPTEMBER 03, 2011
Mickey Mantle was criticized severely for striking out so much during his career, but in the 1950s and 1960s, the "experts" didn't know that a strikeout was merely an out.
Players of Mantle's era considered striking out an embarrassment. After striking out, many players would hang their heads as they returned to the dugout.
Mantle struck out an average of 115 times over a 162-game season, which was more frequently than Willie Mays (83), Hank Aaron (68), Ralph Kiner (82), Roger Maris (81), Frank Robinson (88), Harmon Killebrew (113) and Ernie Banks (79).
What made Mantle great was that in his career he walked (1,733) more times than he struck out (1,710).
Among the above players, only Ralph Kiner and Hank Aaron walked more than they struck out.
Modern "experts" have concluded that it is relatively unimportant how often productive hitters strike out.
In 2011, American League MVP contenders Curtis Granderson and Adrian Gonzalez have struck out 147 and 112 times, respectively, in 135 games each.
Mark Reynolds has 31 home runs to go with his 166 strikeouts, while Ryan Howard has 30 home runs and 153 strikeouts. Mike Stanton has hit 31 home runs with 146 strikeouts.
Mickey Mantle no longer holds any New York Yankees single-season strikeout records.
In 2000, Jorge Posada struck out 151 times, the most by any Yankees switch-hitter. Alfonso Soriano's 157 strikeouts in 2002 is the most by any Yankees right-handed hitter.
Reggie Jackson struck out 133 times in 1978, which was the most by any Yankees left-handed hitter until Granderson this season. Granderson has already broken Reggie's record in only 135 games, and he will add to his dubious distinction.
The most times Mantle ever struck out in a season was 126 in 1959. He followed that with 125 in 1960.
Mantle often said that the injury he suffered in the 1957 World Series, when Milwaukee Braves second baseman Red Schoendienst fell on his right shoulder, ruined his swing from the left side of the plate, which accounts in part for so many strikeouts.
But from 1955-58, again in 1961-62 and for the last time in 1968, Mickey walked many more times than he struck out, averaging 122 walks and 97 strikeouts a season.
In 1957, which might have been more productive than his Triple Crown season of 1956, Mantle walked 146 times with only 75 strikeouts. This may be more significant that anyone ever realized.
Mantle's knowledge of the strike zone had never been as good as it became in 1957, but it was in that year's World Series that his right shoulder was injured. How much more would he have produced with a healthy right shoulder?
The major difference between today's free-swinging sluggers and Mantle is that among the 11 batters who have hit at least 30 home runs this year, only Jose Bautista (109 BB and 92 K), the great Albert Pujols (54 BB, 51 K) and Prince Fielder (89 BB and 88 K) have more walks than strikeouts.
Mickey Mantle has become better as the years have passed. A major reason is that his strikeouts are no longer considered much of a negative.
Some great players who followed Mantle have made his career 1,710 strikeouts seem less extreme.
Reggie Jackson struck out 2,597 times for the all-time record. Jim Thome, who is still active, has 2,473 strikeouts.
In seventh place, with a chance to break Jackson's record, is Alex Rodriguez, who has struck out 1,904 times.
How often has A-Rod been criticized for striking out too much?
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He hit #500 on May 14 , 1967 against Baltimore
Didn't he hit it against Detroit? I thought Denny McClain was the pitcher?
He hit his 500th home run off Baltimore relief pitcher Stu Miller, on May 14th 1967
Mickey was my favorite player of all time growing up a Yankee Fan and will never forget the M&M Boys and the World Series Wins and the huge disappointment of the '60 WS loss against Pirates
Mick said he cried all the way on the plane ride home.
Mantle is one of a few old school guys that if you dropped him in 2022, he’d still be unreal
Yes. And in this era of analytics with his lifetime OBP of .421, he'd be the best player in the game.
He's not one of the few all the greats of the 50s and 60s could play today
@@davidbarton1806 there’s “could play” and then there’s Mantle. Guy was basically switch hitting mike trout
@@jloo6822 mantle is the greatest switch hitter of all time and a better player than trout any did that half in the bag
You couldn't take your eyes off Mickey when he played! He had this magnificent powerful swing from both sides, he ran like no one else with his arms moving up & down like pistons, he was graceful even kneeling in the on deck circle, he was graceful in the field, he dug in at the plate like no one else, and was the fastest runner who ever played the game. AND, he was a great drag bunter! Just magnificent!
Great reference video of Mantle, thanks!
Mantle's post season hr record will stand because teams do go to the world series like the Yankees did 12 world series
My favorite Mick play of all was that baserunning play in the '60 World Series (at 7:24). One of the most brilliant instinctive/genius plays ever.
Had the 1st baseman not stepped on the bag, then Mantle would have been forced at 2nd.Would have left the same situation except that now Mantle wouldn't have been on the bases.
@@tomloft2000
I believe that would've made Mazeroski's HR unnecessary. Not sure though.
As a kid ,I drew the number 7 on the back of my pajamas !
Nobody since and very few (if any) before him were better then the Mick ! Among the top 10 in baseball for sure !
Harry Carey was heard in some of those highlights, another legend
Mantle didn't have the most home runs or the longest career wise, bad knees and all, but when the chips were on the line in post season, he hit 18 world series home runs. How many did you hit 'Mr. October'/ Reggie Jackson?..Robert at 67.
Watching Mantle drag bunt is a thing of beauty.
Mickey is one of the best 👌 👍 😍; any questions, Aaron Boone??
Thank you Dominic for posting this gem. New sub here. So much WS footage into 1 video. Well done sir.
Thanks
The Greatest Switch hitter of all times⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️
QUICK FACT: *The fastest pitcher in mantles era was clocked at 82.3 mph...and no one threw a consistent off-speed pitch.*
....Could you imagine how easy that would be, if you knew a 75-82mph fastball was coming every single pitch?? 🤦🤣🤣🤣 No wonder mantles numbers were so high!
*ANY SWITCH-HITTER AFTER 1990 IS BETTER....MANTLE NEVER FACED A PITCH ABOVE 82 MPH...*
Sandy Kaufax threw 100+ and had a 12-6 breaking ball. So try again
@@buttsexwithbabies2316 Did you never hear of Walter Johnson?
Greatest switch hitter of all time can very safely be said. After Mickey, perhaps Chipper Jones, Eddie Murray and Time Raines. Pete Rose the accumulator maybe 5th.
Well put!
Seeing these highlights with Mel Allen is Godly! My father used to hip me to Mel and his tagline;"how about that", being I was raised on Bill White and Scooter. Taking nothing away from them, as they were great as well. But Mel was the golden age of Yankee-ness.
I remember Peewee Reese and Dizzy Dean calling the games. The Scooter was funnier but later
@@Maya-bu2rf "That ones outta here, ow, he got it on the warning track, holy cow white, I thought that was outta here for sure...ya know I gotta get my prescription checked."
A fantastic video! Much appreciated, it's nice to see some different (and new to me) hilights of The Mick rather than the usual 5 or 6 one sees in most videos about him. It's a shame his life took him down the path it did. He accomplished so much with two bad legs and hung over most of the time. If he had taken care of himself and stayed off the sauce, it's amazing to think what he might have done.
He lived the life of a New York idol. Who the hell cares now. An honest baseball hero in an era of classy heroes.
He had a powerful long swing
Mickey Mantle hit 536 HR's most in Center field at Yankee Stadium which was the biggest stadiums and Center field was 464 ft. No ball park is that big nowadays short fences and a lively baseball now.he hit a lot of out in Center field that would be homers today.
Yes, and they always walked Mantle a lot, so he didn't get as many chances ti hit a lot more homers!
I got to see him live in the old Yankee Stadium several times. He was amazing even in the outfield.
Mantle may have had the greatest natural all-around talent of any player in baseball history, rivaled only by Ruth.
babe ruth doesn’t rival mickey as an all around player example mickey was fast ruth was not
Mantle was definitely faster than Ruth, but what was Mantle's ERA, and how many consecutive scoreless innings did he pitch in the World Series?
Mantle and Ruth are no where near the best all around players. No where close. It’s 2021. Bonds’ first9 years in Pittsburgh alone make him the goat by far. After tha, we’re talking Griffey, Ichiro, Ohtani, Trout etc
@@Stacey_-bf2mb heavily disagree
@@hakaii__1816 please elaborate
If only Mantle had taken better care of himself, or not been injured in the second game of the '51 Series. But then again, we'll never know.
I don't care. That was his story.
The old Mick