Mickey Mantle
- 20 × All-Star (1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1959, 1960, 1960, 1961, 1961, 1962, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968)
- 7 × World Series champion (1951, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1962)
- 3 × AL MVP (1956, 1957, 1962)
- Gold Glove Award ( 1962)
- Triple Crown 1956
- # 7 is not assigned when the Yankees
- Major League Baseball All- Century Team
Mickey Charles Mantle ( born October 20, in Spavinaw, Oklahoma, 1931; † August 13, 1995 in Dallas, Texas) also called The Commerce Comet or The Mick, was an American baseball player.
Life and career
He played 18 years for the New York Yankees, replacing none other than the legendary Joe DiMaggio in the position of center fielder (in the middle of the external field ). His career was marked by many injuries.
He was considered one of the most popular players of the 1950s and 1960s. In 1956, he won the Triple Crown Trophy ( most home runs, most RBIs and the highest batting average in a season ). Mantle also achieved in ten years each a batting average of at least 300 (ie 30 % ) and partly clear about what is a phenomenal achievement and clearly places him in this regard in the top of the eternal statistics. He is with his giant yield of homers and RBIs also still Hitter as one of the two or three best by far Switch ( batter who can hit left - and right-handed) of all time.
The name of Mickey Mantle is also associated with a number of the most daunting home-run strikes in the history of baseball. The most famous case is probably the basement, which on May 22, 1963 ( against the Kansas City Athletics - Oakland Athletics later ) would have flown almost the grandstand roof at Yankee Stadium. The ball crashed but only little deeper against a mounted under the roof edge narrow aperture. Baseball enthusiasts professionals have long debated how far the ball would fly, he would have passed through the roof. Since virtually all witnesses asserted that the ball had still been on the rise, it is now widely agreed that a flight distance of approximately 730 feet, which is almost 225 meters, would have been reached. In addition, there are a number of reputable informants - including opposing players - at least two cases attest, in which Mickey during training ( batting practice called ) actually hit balls from the Yankee Stadium addition. In addition, all viewers could see how Mantle repeatedly carried away balls on grandstand roofs, so several times in Tiger Stadium in Detroit.
Even as a youth he had suffered a leg injury in football game in high school, from which developed osteomyelitis. To amputation he probably came around only because has just been announced a new " wonder drug " called penicillin. However, the affected leg plagued him throughout his life again and again. He also appeared in 1951 in an attempt to catch a (by the way of the future "Hall of Famer " Willie Mays ) very much struck fly ball with his spikes so unhappy in the cover of a drainage gullies that his right leg twisted downright in itself what an injury to the knee remained, which also disabled him permanently.
Late in his career he fell more and more alcohol, which developed after his demise in 1969 for addiction, because of which he had to repeatedly go to the renowned Betty Ford Center for treatment. It was therefore in 1995 he transplanted a new liver, what his life span, however, no longer able to extend much because it had diagnosed with cancer in the intervention no longer curable stage, where he died shortly afterwards. Mickey Mantle's grave is located at the Sparkman - Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery in Dallas.
Mickey Mantle wore the jersey as a player with the jersey number 7 As with some others, deserved or famous players also have the New York Yankees this back number " retired " ( " retired " ), that is, there is no player of the Yankees accumulate more with this number back in regular operation.
Achievements
Others
- In New York City there are more than 20 years, the legendary Mickey Mantle Sports Bar On display are memorabilia from the life of Mickey Mantle and other famous athletes in the States.
- In the movie thriller French Connection II ( 1975) takes the main character, the drug cop Jimmy " Popeye " Doyle, played by Gene Hackman, direct reference to Mickey Mantle. Doyle (the character based on a real figure) did in his youth baseball players want to be on the same team and played like the young Mickey Mantle. When he had to realize that his playing skills below those of Mantle were far, he had joined the police. Doyle speaks during a brutal Drogenentziehungskur, during which he loses his temper, the actually insulting phrase " Mickey Mantle sucks! " Mantle, a fan of the actor Hackman has, the producers over personally given his agreement that this sentence may be spoken in the film.