a privately run / non-commercial site in need of financial assistance. In 1963, he batted .314 in 65 games. A history of the Sports Reference Sponsorship System. [50], After the failure of Mickey Mantle's Country Cookin' restaurants in the early 1970s, the popular Mickey Mantle's Restaurant & Sports Bar opened in New York at 42 Central Park South (59th Street) in 1988. 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. Mickey Mantle hit 298 solo homers, 162 with a single runner on base, 67 with two men on base, and 9 grand slams. 19-year-old Mickey Mantle had just hit the longest home run in baseball history! 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. After its presentation by Joe DiMaggio, Mantle gave a similar plaque to DiMaggio, telling the crowd, "Joe DiMaggio's deserves to be higher." Mantle reached base more times than he made outs (319 to 312), one of two seasons in which he achieved the feat. Join Baseball Almanac as we take a look at some additional numbers of interest as they relate to the most prolific switch hitter in baseball history: .421 - Mickey Mantle finished his career with a .421 on-base percentage, the Major League record for highest on-base percentage by a switch hitter in a career. 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. He also had an excellent .984 fielding percentage when playing center field. [New York Yankees Records], Mickey Mantle | National Baseball Hall of Fame Plaque | Class of 1974 (HOF). I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. [10], Mantle was called up to the Yankees after 40 games with Kansas City, this time wearing uniform #7. MLB held two All-Star Games from 1959 through 1962. Although he was a feared power hitter from either side of the plate and hit more home runs batting left-handed than right, Mantle considered himself a better right-handed hitter. In January 1959, the New York Times reported Mantle sought a contract raise to 85,000 dollars but he settled for 70,000. "[47][63], Mantle's wife and sons all completed treatment for alcoholism and told him that he needed to do the same. After the 1966 season, Mantle was moved to first base, with Joe Pepitone taking his place in the outfield. 7 - Mickey Mantle wore #6 when he made his big league debut with the Bronx Bombers, changed to #7, and on Mickey Mantle Day, at Yankee Stadium, June 8, 1969, The Mick's #7 was retired and he was a given a bronze plaque to be hung on the center field wall near the monuments to Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Miller Huggins. And that has driven up prices making . SUMMARY Career 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. You can come back to Oklahoma and work the mines with me. Author. How is that possible? [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. copyright=new Date(); All Rights Reserved by Baseball Almanac, Inc.Hosted by Hosting 4 Less. Do you have a blog? Do you remember what player hit the first regular season / official home run ( April 12, 1965) in the Astrodome? Where what happened yesterday is being preserved today. During the final years of his life, Mantle purchased a condominium on Lake Oconee near Greensboro, Georgia, near Greer Johnson's home, and frequently stayed there for months at a time. 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), [79], In 1969, Mantle received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.[80]. Mantle was invited to the Yankees instructional camp before the 1951 season. Author. ", Mickey Mantle Rookie Card | 1951 Bowman Baseball Card (#253 | Checklist)Baseball Almanac Research Library. [29] On June 5, he tried to prevent a home run by Brooks Robinson in Baltimore when his shoe spikes were caught in the center field chain-link fence as he leaped against the fence for the ball and was coming down. Described by him as his "favorite summer", his major league-leading .353 batting average, 52 home runs, and 130 runs batted in brought home both the Triple Crown and first of three Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Awards. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Two Armed Forces physicals were ordered, including a highly publicized exam on November 4, 1952, which was brought on by his All-Star selection, that ended in a final rejection. Asked what he was doing, Mantle's father told him, "Your're going home. extra innings (14). 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. Mickey Mantle was 19 years young when he played his first game for the New York Yankees. Mickey Mantle was born on Tuesday, October 20, 1931, in Spavinaw, Oklahoma. In spite of short foul pole dimension of 296 feet (90m) to left and 301 feet (92m) to right in original Yankee Stadium, Mantle gained no advantage there as his stroke both left and right-handed drove balls there to power alleys of 344' to 407' and 402' to 457' feet (139m) from the plate. 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. Do you remember what player hit the first regular season / official home run (April 12, 1965) in the Astrodome? .557 - Mickey Mantle finished his career with a .557 slugging average, the Major League record for highest slugging average by a switch hitter in a career. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1974, Mantle was the third player from Oklahoma sent to Cooperstown! [citation needed], Early in 1995, doctors discovered that Mantle's liver had been severely damaged by both alcohol-induced cirrhosis and hepatitis C. They also discovered that he had an inoperable liver cancer known as undifferentiated hepatocellular carcinoma, which further necessitated a liver transplant. The decision still didn't sit well with Mickey Mantle, even 25 years later. [62][47] His father died of Hodgkin's disease at age 40 in 1952, and his grandfather also died young of the same disease. document.write(update); [Mickey Mantle Quotes], Mickey 'The Commerce Comet' Mantle Autograph on a 1983 Donruss Hall of Fame Heroes Baseball Card (#43), Mickey Mantle Miscellaneous Items of Interest. He is in 10th place in number of bases-empty bunt singles for his career, with 80 in only 148 at-bats. If you find this type of "free" data useful please consider [10] Stengel, speaking to SPORT, stated "He's got more natural power from both sides than anybody I ever saw. Mantle played center field full-time for the Yankees until 1965, when he was moved to left field. On September 10, 1960, he hit a ball left-handed that cleared the right-field roof at Tiger Stadium in Detroit and, based on where it was found, was estimated years later by historian Mark Gallagher to have traveled 643 feet (196m). Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Mantle made an appearance in the music video for "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard" by Paul Simon in 1988. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. [26] Mantle made the AL All-Star team as a reserve player in 1959, as his numbers had tailed off from previous seasons, he was used as a pinch runner for Baltimore Orioles catcher Gus Triandos and replacement right fielder for Cleveland Indians Rocky Colavito in the first game with Detroit Tigers Al Kaline playing the center field position. Willie Mays had power. [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. Mantle had his breakout season in 1956 after showing progressive improvement each of his first five years. July 10, 1956, Griffith Stadium, Washington - Pitcher Warren Spahn. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. And, in the end, people got it. [71] Richardson recited the same poem (God's Hall of Fame), which was written by a baseball fan, at Roger Maris's funeral. Mickey Mantle Positions: Centerfielder and First Baseman Bats: Both Throws: Right 5-11 , 195lb (180cm, 88kg) Born: October 20, 1931 in Spavinaw, OK us More bio, uniform, draft, salary info Hall of Fame 3x MVP Triple Crown 20x All-Star 7x World Series Gold Glove Batting Title ML PoY 6 7 Become a Stathead & surf this site ad-free. The low batting average caused his lifetime average to dip below .300, which caused him anguish the next year as he worked with a statistician to review all of his at-bats since 1951, hoping to find enough uncounted hits to elevate his average to .2995, but his lifetime average remained .298. The distance: 656 feet to the point where it first landed! [32] In 1966, his batting average increased to .288 with 23 home runs and 56 RBI in 333 at-bats, in large part because of very strong June and July, when he returned to his 1964 form until he was sidelined with another injury. vs. BOS 1 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB. "He's the greatest prospect I've seen in my time, and I go back quite a ways. [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). The doctor bluntly told Mantle that the damage to his system was so severe that "your next drink could be your last." Data Provided By 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. [47] In 1980, Mantle separated from his wife, and while the two lived apart for the rest of Mantle's life, they never filed for divorce. 4th inning (69), Six decades after Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle dueled for Babe Ruth's hallowed single-season home run record, the legacies of that 1961 season endure and its scars remain. 37 in its "50 Greatest Athletes" series. With Joe D.'s . 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. How many home runs did Willie Mays have? [66] The Yankees played the Indians that day and honored him with a tribute. After fouling off a few pitches, he hit a towering home run over the 402-foot sign by the bullpen. 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. Then when you're talking about Mickey Mantle it's an altogether different level. Willie Mays had power. Krause Publications. "Jack Antonoff's Shadow of the City Festival Showcases N.J. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball." I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. Willie Mays had 660 home runs over his career. His original Yankee Stadium Monument Park plaque is displayed at the front entrance. He is bringing that magic and mystique back to the team, and was a natural fit for card number seven." 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. The following year, Mantle moved to center field. 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. Looking back years later, he said, "That was the turning point of my life. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (KSWO) - On this day in Oklahoma History, Oklahoma native Mickey Mantle announced his retirement from baseball in 1969. Let's take a look back. Mickey Mantle It became clear in May and June of that season that Maris and Mantle would wind up on the road to beating Babe Ruth's record of 60 home runs in a single season. He broke his foot and did not play again until August 4, when he hit a pinch-hit home run against the Baltimore Orioles at Yankee Stadium. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball." Mantle became a Christian when his former teammate Bobby Richardson, a Baptist, shared his faith with him. He always had that country boy attitude that made you feel at ease. (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum) Krause Publications. 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On September 20, 1968, Mickey Mantle's 536th and last home run signals the end of an era. [10] In 1948, Yankees scout Tom Greenwade came to Baxter Springs to watch Mantle's teammate, third baseman Willard "Billy" Johnson. 2nd inning (20), Some would argue it has even overtaken the T206 Honus Wagner as the face of the baseball card world. Mantle was interred in the Mantle Family Mausoleum, located in the St. Matthew Section of the Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery in Dallas. Running around the bases was the hard part?" On May 22, 1963, Mickey Mantle of the Yankees hit perhaps his most impressive home run. You can work back down there." He won the MVP award three times, finished second three times, and finished within nine votes of winning five times. He spent his final two seasons at first base. [65] He said that he was telling the same old stories, and realizing how many of them involved being drunk, including at least one drunk-driving accident, he decided they were not funny any more. [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. He was selected an All-Star for the eleventh consecutive season and played in the first game,[3] but because of a recurrence of an old injury, he did not play in the second game. In 1960 Mantle started in both All-Star games, getting two walks in the first and a single in the second game. You're going to work in the mines, that's what we'll do. [Mickey Mantle Quotes] [citation needed] The 1958 season started slowly for Mantle; the first half saw him at the .274 mark, as a shoulder injury from a collision with Braves' Red Schoendienst in the 1957 World Series left him with permanent struggles in his uppercut from the left side. The next closest switch hitter had a career WAR of 85.3. Prior year, August 1960: Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle await . [10] However, Mantle struggled defensively at shortstop.[10]. copyright=new Date(); Return to Home Run Index: Mickey Mantle's All-Star Game Home Runs (2) 1. A quote there says, "No man in the history of baseball had as much power as Mickey Mantle. [43][44], As a 19-year-old rookie playing right field in his first World Series, Mantle tore the cartilage in his right knee on a fly ball hit by Willie Mays. Mantle hit some of the longest home runs in Major League history. Babe Ruth (AP Photo) . He had the highest stolen-base percentage in history at the time of his retirement. All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. [73], After Mantle's death, his family pursued a federal lawsuit against Greer Johnson, his agent and live-in aide during the last decade of his life, to prohibit her from auctioning many of Mantle's personal items, including a lock of hair, a neck brace, and expired credit cards. Who did Topps select? Mantle was not entirely discreet about them, and at his retirement ceremony in 1969, he brought his mistress along with his wife. [59][60], Mantle allegedly took his first drink of alcohol at age 19, when teammate Hank Bauer gave him a beer that he "chugged as if it were soda pop", according to baseball historian Frank Russo. The Yankees defeat the Kansas City Athletics 7-4 in a game that lasts only 95 minutes because of rain delays. Do you know who said this quote about Mickey Mantle? [75], On Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium, June 8, 1969, Mantle's number 7 was retired and he was a awarded a bronze plaque to be hung on the center field wall near the monuments to Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Miller Huggins. Do you remember who it was? Mantle was a prized guest at baseball-card shows, commanding fees far in excess of those of any other player for his appearances and autographs. [Answer], 2017 - Mickey Mantle passed away in 1995, prompting Topps Baseball Cards to "retire" #7 in their base card sets (excluding inserts). 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. He won 3 MVP Awards and was selected to play in 20 All-Star Games. His rationale was that the men in his family had all died young, so he expected to die young as well. the official stats partner of the NBA, NHL and MLB. Frank Robinson tied them next, but all four were passed in 2012, when a player became the first with thirteen walk-offs. 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. [34] He was selected an AL All-Star and pinch-hit at the All-Star Game on July 11. As a teammate, he never complained about his injuries and always tried to lead by example. No man. Proud sponsor of this page. Then when you're talking about Mickey Mantle it's an altogether different level. Did you know that when Mick, his nickname, made his big league debut on April 17, 1951, he became the first Commerce High School (Commerce, Oklahoma) graduate to play in the majors? The New York Yankees' list of all-time home run leaders reads like a who's who of baseball sluggers . (His batting average closed 61 points lower than the previous year). I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. Once, he put a live snake in Marshall Bridges's uniform, and another time he released a live mongoose into the visitors clubhouse at Tiger Stadium.[47]. All Rights Reserved by Baseball Almanac, Inc.Hosted by Hosting 4 Less. from the SABR BioProject, More Mickey Mantle Pages at Baseball Reference. Mickey Mantle's Career Home Runs The Complete Year-by-Year Guide, plus World Series, All-Star and Special Home Runs Including Date, Lefty or Righty, Location, Team and Pitcher (Excerpted from the award-winning DVD, Mickey Mantle: T he American Dream Comes To Life - The Deluxe Lost Stories Edition. While his drinking became public knowledge during his lifetime, the press kept quiet about his many marital infidelities. Madden, Bill. Mantle, playing right field, raced for the ball together with center fielder Joe DiMaggio, who called for the ball (and made the catch). Some defensive statistics Copyright Sports Info Solutions, 2010-2023. Mutt drove to Independence, Kansas, and convinced Mantle to keep playing. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. [66][67][68] In July, he had recovered enough to deliver a press conference at Baylor, and addressed fans that had looked to him as a role model. Mantle had another "off year"indeed, the first week of June saw his batting average drop to .228but by mid-August, he was back in his prime, leading the team to another World Series. He is the only player in history to hit 150 home runs from both sides of the plate. But Mickey wasn't finished. Copyright 1999- You can work back down there." 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. 91 - Mickey Mantle was the ninety-first ballplayer from the state of Oklahoma. Separates the men from the boys." "No boy ever loved his father more," he said. Mickey Jr. later died of liver cancer on December 20, 2000 at age 47. 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His .353 batting average and 130 RBIs also led both leagues and The Mick became the second Bronx Bomber to win the Triple Crown (Lou Gehrig won it first in 1934), the first and only switch-hitter to win a Triple Crown, and he won the first of three Most Valuable Player Awards this one was unanimous, the first time any Bronx Bomber won it unanimously (and still the only instance by a Yankee). His job mostly involved representing the Claridge in golf tournaments and at other charity events, but Mantle was suspended from baseball by Commissioner Bowie Kuhn because any affiliation with gambling was viewed as grounds for placement on the "permanently ineligible" list. Click Here to learn more about it. 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. 1 - Mickey Mantle hit the first home run in the Astrodome on April 9, 1965, crushing a Turk Farrell fastball over the 406-feet sign in center field; however, that was actually an exhibition game, and did not spastically count. 1969 Topps #500 Mickey Mantle Last Name in Yellow PSA 6 EX-MT $875.00 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle #311 PSA 2 STUNNING EYE APPEAL INCREDIBLE CENTERING $84,999.99 1969 Topps #500 Mickey Mantle UER VGEX X2696604 $234.00 1952 Topps # 408 Mickey Mantle - New York Yankees $7.00 1961 Topps #300 Mickey Mantle PSA 6 EX-MT $1,299.99 He was carried off the field on a stretcher and watched the rest of the World Series on TV from a hospital bed. Mantle's original plaque, along with DiMaggio's, are now on display at the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center, with the DiMaggio plaque still hung higher than Mantle's. 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