Category: Mickey Mantle

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Mickey Mantle thrown under the bus again by a “tell-all” author for a buck

Mickey Mantle has been dead for a quarter-century. There isn’t a baseball fan alive who isn’t familiar with his lifestyle off the field. Repeat after…

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Mickey Mantle and Bobby Richardson: A Most Unusual Friendship

Mickey Mantle and Bobby Richardson were teammates on those great Yankee teams of the early 1960s. It could have ended there, but somehow the bond…

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Mickey Mantle - The Mick
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Mickey Mantle: Lost boy, Womanizer, Hall of Famer, Alcoholic And More

Mickey Mantle wore life on his sleeve. He hid nothing from us, the good, bad, and the ugly. He had a reason to be so…

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Mickey Mantle: On why “The Mick” will always be my most special Yankee

Mickey Mantle as with many Yankees fans was a boyhood idol. Today, he is simultaneously my hero and anti-hero. How can that be? Let me…

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