[24][35], Mantle announced his retirement at the age of 37 on March 1, 1969. "[77] In response, DiMaggio's plaque was hung one inch higher than Mantle's. Over the course of time, however, Mantle (with a little help from his teammate Whitey Ford, a native of Queens) had learned to deal with the New York media and had gained the favor of the press. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. Applying thick wraps to both of his knees became a pre-game ritual, and by the end of his career simply swinging a bat caused him to fall to one knee in pain. Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Hidden Game Sports. 91 - Mickey Mantle was the ninety-first ballplayer from the state of Oklahoma. He called his father saying, "I don't think I can play baseball anymore." Count 'em . Use without license or authorization is expressly prohibited. In 1973, at the Old-Timers Game at Yankee Stadium, Mantle, batting right handed, faced old friend Whitey Ford. 52 - Mickey Mantle hit 52 home runs in 1956, a total that led every hitter from both leagues. 7th inning (53), Mantle was not entirely discreet about them, and at his retirement ceremony in 1969, he brought his mistress along with his wife. [72] He was 63 years old. Join our linker program. I see I raised a coward instead. In addition, compared to the other four center fielders on the All-Century team, he had the lowest career rate of grounding into double plays, and he had the highest World Series on-base percentage and World Series slugging percentage. 1. http://www.courtsidetweets.comMickey Mantle of the New York Yankees may have been on the other side of his career in 1965, but that didn't stop him from bein. Mickey Mantle (Photo By Malcolm Emmons-USA TODAY Sports) Home run total: 536. He said, "When I die, I wanted on my tombstone, 'A great teammate.' Mickey Mantle had a .298 average over his career. [66] The Yankees played the Indians that day and honored him with a tribute. [10] Mickey Mantle's salary for the 1951 season was $7,500. Career Stats Mickey Mantle hit 298 solo homers, 162 with a single runner on base, 67 with two men on base, and 9 grand slams. inDallas,TX, Buried: [30] In 1964, Mantle hit .303 with 35 home runs and 111 RBIs, and played center field in the All-Star game. [52] In 1983, he worked at the Claridge Resort and Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey as a greeter and community representative. Copyright 1999- Some defensive statistics Copyright Sports Info Solutions, 2010-2023. Little, Brown & Company. - Mantle, Mickey. On May 14, 1967, Mickey Mantle hit career home run number 500 and became the first switch-hitter to join the 500 Home Runs Club. Thirty, of the fifty-four, were hit on the road, which is also in the record books for most home runs in a single season hit on the road by a switch hitter. In the 1960 season, he hit what is still believed to be the longest home run in history. ", Mickey Mantle Rookie Card | 1951 Bowman Baseball Card (#253 | Checklist)Baseball Almanac Research Library. Mantle was hospitalized with an abscessed hip resulting from a flu shot that he had received late in the season, leaving Maris to break the record (he finished with 61). (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum) The hardest ball Mickey Mantle ever hit happened 50 years ago. April 17, 1951 [9], Mantle was born on October 20, 1931, in Spavinaw, Oklahoma, the son of Lovell (ne Richardson) Mantle (19041995)[10] and Elvin Charles "Mutt" Mantle (19121952). Like Mickey, Merlyn and three of their sons became alcoholics,[56] and Billy developed Hodgkin's disease, as had several previous men in Mantle's family. 20 - Mickey Mantle played in the majors for eighteen years, and was not sent to the Midsummer Classic in 1951, or 1966, yet he did appear in twenty All-Star Games! Mantle was interred in the Mantle Family Mausoleum, located in the St. Matthew Section of the Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery in Dallas. [82][87][88] This card is sometimes erroneously referred to as Mantle's rookie card, though Mantle had in fact appeared in the 1951 Bowman Baseball set.[89]. On top of all that, he set World Series records for home runs (18), runs (42), RBI (40), total bases (125) and bases on . His biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable), career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this comprehensive Mickey Mantle baseball stats page. 5th inning (44), Author. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? In response, Joltin Joe's plaque was hung one inch higher than Mantle's. Baseball scholars often ponder "what if" had he not been injured, and had been able to lead a healthy career. [12] Mantle spoke warmly of his father and said that he was the bravest man whom he had ever known. Center fielder Mickey Mantle played 18 seasons for the Yankees. He hit two more home runs in the series to set a new lifetime World Series record with 18. Some now call this his last home run at Yankee Stadium. . [8] Despite his accolades on the field, Mantle's private life was plagued with tumult and tragedy, including a well-publicized bout with alcoholism that led to his death from liver cancer. Canale, Larry. Mantle was also known for his incredible ability to avoid grounding into double plays. 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A school in Manhattan was renamed for Mantle on June 4, 2002. Dave Kingman has power. [14] In addition to his first love, baseball, Mantle was an all-around athlete at Commerce High School, playing basketball as well as football. Mantle's doctors insisted that the transplant was based solely on medical criteria, but acknowledged that the very short wait created the appearance of favoritism. Few of them are likely to be broken; it is unlikely that. Every Sports Reference Social Media Account, Site Last Updated: Wednesday, March 1, 1:07PM. The first, he often was not. var pfHeaderImgUrl = '';var pfHeaderTagline = '';var pfdisableClickToDel = 0;var pfHideImages = 0;var pfImageDisplayStyle = 'right';var pfDisablePDF = 0;var pfDisableEmail = 0;var pfDisablePrint = 0;var pfCustomCSS = 'https://www.baseball-almanac.com/css/print.css';var pfBtVersion='2';(function(){var js,pf;pf=document.createElement('script');pf.type='text/javascript';pf.src='//cdn.printfriendly.com/printfriendly.js';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(pf)})(); An inning-by-inning breakdown of every home run hit by Mickey Mantle: 1st inning (103), In 1956, Mantle had a career high .705 slugging average, the Major League record for highest slugging average by a switch hitter in a single season. The Mick,The Commerce Comet,Muscles are nicknames for Mickey Mantle. [10] Oklahoma Heritage Society: Oklahoma Hall of Fame. Mickey Mantle was born on Tuesday, October 20, 1931, in Spavinaw, Oklahoma. Although the Yankees had won the pennant in 1960, and were favored to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates in the World Series, . One of the 1952 cards (Topps; #311; SGC MT 9.5) sold for $12.6 million in August 2022. Mantle's cards, especially his 1952 Topps rookie card, are extremely popular and valuable among card collectors. His football playing nearly ended his athletic career. [79], In 1969, Mantle received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.[80]. [53], In 1992, Mantle wrote My Favorite Summer 1956 about his 1956 season.[54]. In 1958, The Mick hit an inside the park home run on May 9, 1958, another on May 20, 1958, and a third on June 5, 1958. [citation needed], Joe DiMaggio retired from baseball following the 1951 World Series. Not one Yankee player since Mantle, has hit three inside the park home runs in the same season! But he struggled with the Yankees and was sent down to their farm team in Kansas City, where he went 0 for 22 in a strong slump. He has the third highest career OPS+ among MLB players who played the majority of their career after 1950, behind only Barry Bonds and Mike Trout. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (KSWO) - On this day in Oklahoma History, Oklahoma native Mickey Mantle announced his retirement from baseball in 1969. Mantle homered off 224 different pitchers during his career, connected most often while batting third in the lineup, and drove in 859 total runs when he went deep! All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. Do you remember what player hit the first regular season / official home run (April 12, 1965) in the Astrodome? Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Mantle was reinstated on March 18, 1985 by Kuhn's successor Peter Ueberroth. Free shipping for many products! [citation needed] Another Mantle homer, hit right-handed off Chuck Stobbs at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. on April 17, 1953, was measured by Yankees traveling secretary Red Patterson (hence the term "tape-measure home run") to have traveled 565 feet (172m). "[66] Richardson read the poem at Mantle's funeral, which he described as being extremely difficult. You're not talking about ordinary power. Pride of October: What It Was to Be Young and a Yankee. Mantle hit some of the longest home runs in Major League history. (Voted by BBWAA on 322/365 ballots) The next was arguably his first great year, as he concluded with 37 home runs and a .306 batting average. 10,775th in major league history) 4th inning (69), Some would argue it has even overtaken the T206 Honus Wagner as the face of the baseball card world. Shortly before his death, Mantle videotaped a message to be played on Old-Timers' Day, which he was too ill to attend. 2006 Topps Mickey Mantle Home Run History Mickey Mantle RC New York Yankees. Part of the Baseball Almanac Family, Last-Modified: December 4, 2022 5:28 AM EST. He homered for the third Yankee run in a 32 Game 6 win and he knocked in the winning runs in the 42 Game 7 win, with a homer in the sixth inning and an RBI single in the seventh inning. Mantle homered off 224 different pitchers during his career, connected most often while batting third in the lineup, and drove in 859 total runs when he went deep! Mays's fly was hit to shallow center, and as Mantle came over to back up DiMaggio, Mantle's spikes caught a drainage cover in the outfield grass. "During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. September 28, 1968 Mickey Mantle played for 1 team, the New York Yankees. During the game, Mantle hit three home runs. In 1963, he batted .314 in 65 games. You're not talking about ordinary power. [Answer]. A statue of Mantle is located at Mickey Mantle Plaza at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, the home stadium of the Triple-A Oklahoma City Dodgers, 2 South Mickey Mantle Drive in Oklahoma City. [49], Although he was among the best-paid players of the pre-free-agency era, Mantle was a poor businessman and did not invest well. [70], During Mantle's final days he made peace with his estranged wife Merlyn and repeated a request that he expressed decades earlier for Richardson to read a poem at his funeral. [71] Richardson recited the same poem (God's Hall of Fame), which was written by a baseball fan, at Roger Maris's funeral. Did you know that Mickey Mantle appeared in 74 games at home, had 230 at-bats, drove in 59 runs, scored 63 times, had 76 hits (8 doubles / 6 triples / 24 home runs), walked 66 times (6 intentional), struck out 44 times, was hit by a pitcher 0 times, sacrificed 3 times (1 hits & 2 flies), and finished at home with a .330 batting average, .476 on [citation needed] He outlived all the men in his family by several years. [82] Topps unretired the #7 in 2006 to use exclusively for cards of Mantle in the current year's design. Mantle received the transplant at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas on June 8, 1995. Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1974, Mantle was the third player from Oklahoma sent to Cooperstown! Also helping Mantle decide to enter the clinic was sportscaster Pat Summerall, who had played for the New York Giants football team at Yankee Stadium, by then a recovering alcoholic and a member of Mantle's Dallas-area country club. 2007 Topps #MHR293 Mickey Mantle . His biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable), career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this comprehensive Mickey Mantle baseball stats page. Mantle served as a part-time color commentator on NBC's baseball coverage in 1969, teaming with Curt Gowdy and Tony Kubek to call some Game of the Week telecasts as well as that year's All-Star Game. Mantle's overall performance in 1956 was so exceptional that he was bestowed the Hickok Belt (unanimously) as the top American professional athlete of the year. Kuhn warned Mantle before he accepted the position that he would be placed on the list if he took the job. In his first complete World Series (1952), Mantle was the Yankees hitting star, with an on-base percentage above .400 and a slugging percentage above .600. [Answer], 2017 - Mickey Mantle passed away in 1995, prompting Topps Baseball Cards to "retire" #7 in their base card sets (excluding inserts). In 2017, Topps began including #7 cards in its main sets again, with Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez the first player other than Mickey Mantle to appear in the #7 slot since 1995. You can work back down there." [27] DiMaggio, Hank Greenberg, and Ted Williams, who had just retired, had been paid over $100,000 in a season, and Ruth had a peak salary of $80,000. On December 23, 1951, Mantle married Merlyn Johnson (19322009) in Picher, Oklahoma; they had four sons. [55] In an autobiography, Mantle said that he had married Merlyn not out of love, but because he was told to by his domineering father. Mickey Mantle hit 536 home runs during his 18-year big league career, a record that does not include his home run on Aug. 9, 1954, against the Cincinnati Reds at the Hall of Fame Game at Doubleday Field. Joe DiMaggio was playing center field. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. vs. BOS 4 AB, 1 H, 0 HR, 1 RBI, 0 SB, Last Game: A quote there says, "No man in the history of baseball had as much power as Mickey Mantle. A quote there says, "No man in the history of baseball had as much power as Mickey Mantle. The next day his father appearead unannounced in Mantle's hotel room and started packing a suitcase, jamming Mantle's clothes into it. Mantle is 16th all-time in home runs per at-bats. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. [10] During a slump, Mantle called his father to tell him he wanted to quit baseball. He later wrote a book (My Favorite Summer 1956) about his best year in baseball. 12 - Mickey Mantle is often associated with home runs, but on July 23, 1957, he showed his ability to hit singles, doubles, triples and home runs, completing the twelfth cycle in franchise history for the New York Yankees. However, even "Muscles" once had a brief slump early in his career which was described in Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes (Fadiman, Clifton. Mantle let others run the business but made frequent appearances. The second, he always will be. As a muscular, 5-11,' 195-pound baseball player, Mickey Mantle packed amazing power into his swings, and during his career would hit some memorable 500-foot-plus home run shots. The Mickey Mantle All-Star stats seen below include his All-Star year-by-year hitting stats, All-Star fielding stats, and All-Star pitching stats (where applicable). For the second consecutive year, he narrowly missed winning his third MVP award, finishing four points behind repeat winner Maris. Did you know that Mickey Mantle once said, "Hitting the ball was easy. [31] Mantle hit .255 with 19 home runs and 46 RBI in 361 plate appearances. Deducting for bounces,[5] there is no doubt that both landed well over 500 feet (152m) from home plate. Shocked, Mantle bounced back out of his slump, hitting .360 for Kansas City and returning to the Yankees. Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 August 13, 1995), nicknamed "the Commerce Comet" and "the Mick",[1] was an American professional baseball player. Positions: The Yankees and Mantle were slowed by injuries during the 1965 season, and they finished in sixth place, 25 games behind the Minnesota Twins. All Rights Reserved by Baseball Almanac, Inc.Hosted by Hosting 4 Less. "[47][63], Mantle's wife and sons all completed treatment for alcoholism and told him that he needed to do the same. He returned to the center field position on September 2. The New York press was harsh in its treatment of Mantle in his early years with the team, emphasizing that he struck out frequently, was injury-prone, was a rube from Oklahoma, and was perceived as inferior to his predecessor in center field, Joe DiMaggio. Witnesses say it looked "like he had been shot." 146 - Mickey Mantle was walked 146 times in 1957, the most bases on balls awarded a switch-hitter during a single season in Major League history. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball." - Mantle, Mickey. [42], Mantle's career was plagued with injuries. Having reached that pinnacle in his 13th season, he never asked for another raise.[28]. Talent". [Answer] Or 1967? Mantle was one of the best players and sluggers of all time, and is regarded by many as the greatest switch hitter in baseball history. View Mickey Mantle's Page at the Baseball Hall of Fame (plaque, photos, videos). One Yankee, in 2018, collected two inside the parkers do you remember who it was? The next day his father appearead unannounced in Mantle's hotel room and started packing a suitcase, jamming Mantle's clothes into it. Mickey Mantle was born on October 20, 1931. Mantle appeared in 12 World Series including seven championships, and he holds World Series records for the most home runs (18), RBIs (40), extra-base hits (26), runs (42), walks (43), and total bases (123). "During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. Then when you're talking about Mickey Mantle it's an altogether different level. Mantle won his second consecutive MVP in 1957[25] behind league leads in runs and walks, a career-high .365 batting average (second to Ted Williams's .388), and hitting into a league-low five double plays. Mantle was one of the greatest offensive threats in baseball history and is considered to be one of the best baseball players of all time. But he struggled with the Yankees and was sent down to their farm team in Kansas City, where he went 0 for 22 in a strong slump. No man. Return to Home Run Index: Mickey Mantle's All-Star Game Home Runs (2) 1. 376 - Mickey Mantle had a league leading 376 total bases in 1956, setting the American League (and Major League) record for most total bases in a season by a switch hitter. Mickey Mantle's Career Home Runs Year by Year List plus World Series and All-Star Game (Excerpted from the award-winning DVD, Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life - The Deluxe Lost Stories Edition. 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