Mickey Mantle
Mickey Mantle
Mickey Charles Mantle, nicknamed "The Commerce Comet" and "The Mick", was an American professional baseball player. Mantle played his entire Major League Baseballcareer with the New York Yankees as a center fielder and first baseman, from 1951 through 1968. Mantle was one of the best players and sluggers, and is regarded by many as the greatest switch hitter in baseball history. Mantle was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974 and was elected to the Major...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth20 October 1931
CitySpavinaw, OK
CountryUnited States of America
Of course, I didn't tell you about all the times I said I was going to hit one and it didn't happen.
There are two kinds of people. There are leaders and there are followers. And I'm a follower.
You hit .350 you're a leader. You hit .250 and you're not.
I wanted to throw my glass at the TV.
I never saw him fight. I never saw Billy fight.
I never got to see the '27 Yankees. Everyone says that was the greatest team ever. But I think it would've been a great series if we'd have had the chance to play them.
I don't know why Roger (Maris) isn't in the hall of fame. To me, he was as good as there ever was.
It's what you're worth.
To get a better piece of chicken, you'd have to be a rooster.
I don't care what the situation was, how high the stakes were - the bases could be loaded and the pennant riding on every pitch, it never bothered Whitey. He pitched his game. Cool. Craft. Nerves of steel.
I never understood how someone who was dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world, but now I understand.
I had it all and blew it.
I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.
If the World Series was on the line and I could pick one pitcher to pitch the game, I'd choose Whitey Ford every time.