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The couple had four sons together: Mickey Jr. (1953–2000), David (born 1955), Billy (1957–1994; named for Billy Martin, Mantle's Yankee teammate and best friend), and Danny (born 1960). [ 99 ] In his autobiography, Mantle said that he had married Merlyn not out of love but because he was told to by his father who was, at the time ...
The 1957 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's 1957 season. ... Mickey Mantle came in to pinch-run for Coleman, ...
Martin helped bring rookie outfielder Mickey Mantle out of his shell, introducing him to New York nightlife. In the 1951 World Series, which the Yankees won in six games over the Giants, Martin did not bat, but was inserted as a pinch runner in Game Two with the Yankees leading by a run after losing Game One.
This nightclub achieved a degree of notoriety due to a May 16, 1957, incident involving members of the New York Yankees. On that evening, teammates Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Hank Bauer, Yogi Berra, Johnny Kucks, and Billy Martin, along with the wives of all but Martin, arrived at the nightclub to celebrate Martin's birthday. Sammy Davis Jr ...
5 Mickey Mantle (1955, 1957–1958, 1961–1962) 4 Miller Huggins (1905, 1907, 1910, 1914) 4 Eddie Mathews (1955, 1961–1963) 4 Ron Santo (1964, 1966–1968) 4 Harmon Killebrew (1966–1967, 1969, 1971) 4 Mike Schmidt (1979, 1981–1983) 4 Rickey Henderson (1982–1983, 1989, 1998) 4 Frank Thomas (1991–1992, 1994–1995) 4 Joey Votto (2011 ...
Six runs were scored in the final inning, three by each team, for an exciting ending as the American League eked out a 6-5 victory. The game's scoring began in the second inning with a Mickey Mantle single, Ted Williams walk and Vic Wertz base hit, followed by walks to Yogi Berra and Harvey Kuenn that put the AL on top, 2-0.
Mickey Mantle won the AL Triple Crown in 1956, five seasons after first joining the Yankees. Fan interest in attending games had begun declining throughout MLB in the late-1940s, and the Yankees faced a drop-off in their crowds after 1947, when they sold about 2.2 million tickets. By 1957, season attendance was down by over 700,000. [139]
NEW YORK — It’s a Yankee Doodle Dandy of a lawsuit. Former Bronx Bomber Joe Pepitone, in an upstate federal court complaint, claims legendary teammate Mickey Mantle used one of his loaned bats ...