Mickey Mantle

Also known as Mickey Charles Mantle

American baseball player (1931–1995)

Person · Open Library

Born: 1931
Works: 15

Top works

Grand Slam
Mickey Mantle, the American dream comes to life
Mickey Mantle, the American dream comes to life
Letters to Mickey
The Mick/2-Audio Cassettes/20161

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Film & TV

Acting · Spavinaw, Oklahoma, USA

Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 – August 13, 1995), nicknamed "the Mick" and "the Commerce Comet", was an American professional baseball player. Mantle played his entire Major League Baseball (MLB) career (1951–1968) with the New York Yankees, primarily as a center fielder. Mantle is regarded by many as being one of the best players and sluggers of all time. He was an American League (AL)…

Known for

MLB Vintage World Series Films: New York Yankees — Self (archive footage)2006
Mantle — Self (archive footage)2005
Baseball — Self1994
Super Stars of Sports: Baseball — Self (archive footage)1991
The Best of ABC's Wide World of Sports: The 60's — Self1990
Billy Martin: The Man, the Myth, the Manager — Self1990
Richard Lewis: I'm Doomed — Self1990
Feeling Good With Arthritis — Self1989
The Billy Martin Celebrity Roast — Self1989
Grand Slam! — Self1988

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1931
Active to: 1995

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 94
Total plays: 182

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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· 2006 · cited 2,596x
THE IMPACT OF CONFOUNDER SELECTION CRITERIA ON EFFECT ESTIMATION
· 1989 · cited 2,123x
Flexural rigidity of microtubules and actin filaments measured from thermal fluctuations in shape.
· 1993 · cited 1,648x
Understanding and Addressing Sources of Anxiety Among Health Care Professionals During the COVID-19 Pandemic
· 2020 · cited 1,444x
Estimation of Error Rates in Discriminant Analysis
· 1968 · cited 1,200x

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Quotes

“When you reach the major leagues, it's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.”
“He was like a father to me, and I mean that. My dad died after I had been with the Yankees a year and I guess Casey felt it was up to him to bring me up right. He kept me when I wasn't ready for the big leagues. He had confidence in me. He taught me to think, to play hard from the first pitch to the last.”
“I figured that once I got past 40, that was all behind me. If I knew that I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.”
“That horse had better win. I saw George get on the plane with an automatic.”
“Later on they tend to get longer than they really were.”
“No one hit the ball harder than Frank Howard. He was the strongest I ever saw. I saw him hit a line drive off Whitey Ford at the stadium that Whitey actually jumped for, it was hit that low. It ended up hitting the speakers behind the monuments in dead center. I told Whitey later that it was lucky he didn't catch it because it would have drug him to death."”

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Key facts

Batting average: .298
Hits: 2,415
Runs batted in: 1,509
Vote: 88.2% (first ballot)

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Sports profile

Sport: Baseball
Team: _Retired Baseball
Position: Center Fielder
Nationality: United States

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Wikidata facts

Mass: 90
Image: 1954 Bowman Mickey Mantle.jpg
Height: 181

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Commons category: Mickey Mantle
date of birth: 1931-10-20
date of death: 1995-08-13
number of at bats: 8102
number of hits: 2415
bases on balls: 1733
runs batted in: 1509
stolen bases: 153
doubles hit: 344
triples hit: 72
name in native language: Mickey Mantle

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Article

Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 – August 13, 1995), nicknamed "the Mick" and "the Commerce Comet", was an American professional baseball player who played his entire Major League Baseball (MLB) career (1951–1968) with the New York Yankees, primarily as a center fielder. Mantle is regarded by many as one of the best players and sluggers of all time. He was an American League (AL) Most Valuable Player three times and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974.

Born in Spavinaw, Oklahoma, Mantle was raised by his father to become a baseball player and was trained early on to become a switch hitter. Despite a career plagued with injuries, beginning with his knee injury in the 1951 World Series, he became one of the greatest offensive threats in baseball history, and was able to hit for both average and power. He is the only player to hit 150 home runs from each side of the plate. Mantle hit 536 career home runs while batting .300 or more ten times; he is 16th all-time in home runs per at-bat and 17th in on-base percentage.