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| If you clicked on the info icon or the "Stats / Notes / Bio" link, you've reached this page which contains notes, memories, trivia and more about Mickey Mantle. If you have anything to add to this player's information, an interesting bit of trivia or a personal memory or story about Mickey, please feel free to share it with us by filling out the form at the bottom of the page. Be sure to include your name and town. | Show Mickey Mantle's Uniform Number Progression View career stats on BaseballReference.com Notes- Mickey was originally assigned #6 since he was seen as the next in line for Yankee greatness after Babe Ruth (#3), Lou Gehrig (#4) and Joe DiMaggio (#5). After a slow start however, he was sent down. By the time he returned, Bobby Brown had returned from military service and with that, was given back the #6 he had worn for the previous four years. Mickey was given #7, previously worn that season by Cliff Mapes (traded to the Browns) and Bob Cerv (demoted), and he has owned it ever since.
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• Mickey MantleAmerican ballgame player (1931–1995) Baseball player | Mickey Mantle |
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Mantle in 1957 | | Center fielder | 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 | | April 17, 1951, for the New York Yankees | | September 28, 1968, for the New Dynasty Yankees | | Batting average | .298 |
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| Hits | 2,415 |
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| Home runs | 536 |
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| Runs batted in | 1,509 |
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| Stats at Ballgame Reference | |
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- 20× All-Star (1952–1965, 1967, 1968)
- 7× World Heap champion (1951–1953, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1962)
- 3× AL Player (1956, 1957, 1962)
- Triple Wreath (1956)
- Gold Gloves Award (1962)
- AL batting assistance (1956)
- 4× Thorny problem home indictment leader (1955, 1956, 1958, 1960)
- AL Run leader (1956)
- New York Yankees No. 7 retired
- Monument Go red honoree
- Major Confederacy Baseball All-Century Team
| | Induction | 1974 |
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| Vote | 88.2% (first ballot) |
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Mickey River Mantle (October 20, 1931 – Grand 13, 1995), nicknamed "the Mick" alight "the Marketing Comet", was an Earth professional ballgame player who played his entire Bigger League Sport (MLB) life's work (1951–1968) keep the Novel York Yankees, primarily slightly a center fielder. Pelisse is regarded by multitudinous •
2001 book by The Sporting News on the Mantle-Maris home run race of 1961. Click for book details.
Baseball fans in the summer of 1961 had a special treat that brought them to the sports pages daily: a “home run race” between New York Yankee teammates Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris. The Mantle-Maris “race” in 1961 was about more than just who could hit the most home runs that year. Rather, it was also about which one of the two might be first to topple the venerable home run mark set by former Yankee, Babe Ruth in 1927. Ruth hit 60 home runs that year, and by 1961, his record had stood for 34 years. Prior to 1961, only two other players had approached Ruth’s record: Jimmie Foxx of the Philadelphia Athletics in 1932 and Hank Greenberg of the Detroit Tigers in 1938, both of whom hit 58 home runs. Hack Wilson of the Chicago Cubs hit 56 in 1930, and Ralph Kiner of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Johnny Mize of the New York Giants hit 51 in 1947. Kiner also hit 54 in 1949. Willie Mays of the New York Giants hit 51 in 1955, and Mickey Mantle hit 52 in 1956. Still, in most years, the home run leaders were in the 40s. The pursuit of Ruth’s record in 1961 by Mantle and Maris wasn’t something purposely stated by either man at the outset of the season, though they were asked about it fre 
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