Born:(1931-10-20)October 20, 1931 Spavinaw, Oklahoma, U.S.
Died: August 13, 1995(1995-08-13) (aged 63) Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Batted: Switch
Threw: Right
MLB debut
April 17, 1951, for the New York Yankees
Last MLB appearance
September 28, 1968, for the New York Yankees
MLB statistics
Batting average
.298
Hits
2,415
Home runs
536
Runs batted in
1,509
Teams
New York Yankees (1951–1968)
Career highlights and awards
20× All-Star (1952–1965, 1967, 1968)
7× World Series champion (1951–1953, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1962)
3× AL MVP (1956, 1957, 1962)
Triple Crown (1956)
Gold Glove Award (1962)
AL batting champion (1956)
4× AL home run leader (1955, 1956, 1958, 1960)
AL RBI leader (1956)
New York Yankees No. 7 retired
Monument Park honoree
Major League Baseball All-Century Team
Member of the National
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction
1974
Vote
88.2% (first ballot)
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) 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 both sides of the plate. Mantle hit 536 career home runs while batting .300 or more ten times. Mantle is 16th all-time in home runs per at-bat and 17th in on-base percentage.
Mantle won the Triple Crown in 1956, when he led the major leagues in batting average (.353), home runs (52), and runs batted in (RBI) (130). He was an All-Star for 16 seasons, playing in 16 of the 20 All-Star Games that he was selected for. He also had a solid .984 fielding percentage when playing center field, winning a Gold Glove in that position. Mantle appeared in 12 World Series, winning seven championships, and holds World Series records for the most home runs (18), RBIs (40), extra-base hits (26), runs (42), walks (43), and total bases (123), and he has the highest World Series on-base and slugging percentages.
After retirement, Mantle worked as sports commentator for NBC for a few years and had a brief stint as first base and hitting coach for the Yankees in the 1970 season. Despite being one of the best paid athletes of his era, he was a poor businessman and suffered financial setbacks from business failures. His private life was plagued by tumult and tragedy. His marriage fell apart due to his alcoholism and infidelity, and three of his sons became alcoholics, two of them dying from it. Towards the end of his life, Mantle came to regret his hard lifestyle and the damage he had inflicted on his family. Before his final year, he was treated for alcoholism and became sober, afterwards warning others of the dangers of hard drinking. He died from liver cancer brought on by years of alcohol abuse in Dallas, Texas, aged 63.
Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 – August 13, 1995), nicknamed "the Mick" and "the Commerce Comet", was an American professional baseball player...
for an individual sports card is the US$12.6 million paid for a 1952 MickeyMantle baseball card (Topps; #311) on August 28, 2022, breaking all previous...
Merlyn Mantle (née Johnson; January 28, 1932 – August 10, 2009) was an American author and widow of New York Yankees outfielder MickeyMantle. Mantle was...
either." When he began treating MickeyMantle in late September 1961 for a case of the flu, Jacobson's injection into Mantle's hip caused a severe abscessing...
player MickeyMantle, who played for the New York Yankees. Mantle graduated with a BFA in Theatre from the University of Oklahoma. After college, Mantle went...
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in the sport's history, such as Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, MickeyMantle, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, and Reggie Jackson; more recent inductees...
Yankees had five: Yogi Berra (1951, 1954, 1955), Bobby Shantz (1952), MickeyMantle (1956, 1957, 1962), Roger Maris (1960, 1961), and Elston Howard (1963)...
MVP support. From 1949 to 1955, on a team filled with stars such as MickeyMantle and Joe DiMaggio, it was Berra who led the Yankees in RBI for seven...
last two umpires working only in the outfield throughout the Series. MickeyMantle, playing in his last Series, hit three home runs, raising his total...
season (on August 12, 2016) than any other player since 1913, with 45. MickeyMantle was second with 41.1, followed by Mel Ott, Jimmie Foxx, and Ted Williams...
1922 (2017), and The Predator (2018). Jane's television roles include MickeyMantle in the television film 61* (2001), and starring in the HBO series Hung...
more controversial decisions was to bar both Willie Mays (in 1979) and MickeyMantle (in 1983) from the sport due to their involvement in casino promotion...
Topps MickeyMantle card, graded as PSA 9 on a scale of 1 (worst) to 10 (best), sold for $2,880,000 in 2018. Another Topps 1952 MickeyMantle card, graded...
is a role model: Don't be like me", he said. He also established the MickeyMantle Foundation to raise awareness for organ donations. Soon, he was back...
was also known as "Slick", a nickname given to him, Billy Martin, and MickeyMantle by manager Casey Stengel, who called them Whiskey Slicks. Ford's guile...
catch, preserving the Yankees' two-run lead. Also, the home run hit by MickeyMantle during the 8th inning of Game 6 was significant because it was the first...
yet". Williams lost the batting title to MickeyMantle in 1956, batting .345 to Mantle's .353, with Mantle on his way to winning the Triple Crown. In...
following in the footsteps of MickeyMantle and Joe DiMaggio, and there were strong expectations that he would be "the next Mantle". Murcer became one of the...
runs batted in. "MickeyMantle Named Most Valuable Player". The Milwaukee Journal. November 15, 1956. p. 20. Retrieved July 4, 2012. Mantle, who won the triple...
4 due to rain Three batters into the game, the Yankees led 2–0 on a MickeyMantle home run. Brooklyn struck back with a Jackie Robinson homer in the second...
joined Babe Ruth (1920), Lou Gehrig (1927), Joe DiMaggio (1937) and MickeyMantle (1956) as the only Yankees to hit 40 home runs in a season at age 25...
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