Mickey Mantle
Baseball Player
Born: 20 October 1931
Died: 13 August 1995(cancer)
Birthplace: Spavinaw, Oklahoma
Best known as: New York Yankee slugger
Mickey Mantle was the New York Yankees' most beloved slugger
since Babe Ruth.
He played his first game for the Yankees in 1951,
the same year Joe DiMaggio retired;
Mantle went on to replace DiMaggio in center field.
Mantle was famous for his home run power both right- and left-handed;
he hit 536 home runs in his career.
Mantle was voted
the American League's Most Valuable Player in 1956, 1957 and 1962,
and won seven
World Series championships with the Yankees
before he retired on March 1, 1969.
As great as he was,
Mantle might have been greater
without the leg problems that dogged him throughout his career;
he tore up his right knee in 1951
when he caught his spikes on a drain cover in a World Series game.
A famously hard drinker,
Mantle went to the Betty Ford Clinic for alcohol treatment in 1994
and received a liver transplant in 1995,
shortly before his death.
Extra credit: Mantle wore #7...
His restaurant, Mickey Mantle's,
is located at 42 Central Park South in Manhattan...
Mantle was voted into baseball's Hall of Fame in 1974...
In 1961 Mantle hit 54 home runs.
Source:InfoPlease.com
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