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Mickey Mantle

American baseball player (1931–1995)

Baseball player

Mickey Mantle
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 York Yankees
Batting average	.298
Hits	2,415
Home runs	536
Runs batted in	1,509
Stats at Baseball Reference
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
Induction	1974
Vote	88.2% (first ballot)

Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 – August 13, 1995), nicknamed "the Mick" and "the Commerce Comet",

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Mickey Mantle Biography

Mickey Mantle was born on October 20, 1931, in Spavinaw, Oklahoma. When he was four, his family moved to Commerce, Oklahoma, where he spent the rest of his childhood. His dad taught him how to play baseball and how to be switch hitter (bat right handed and left handed). Mickey was an outstanding athlete from an early age. He played baseball, basketball and football in high school. A high-school football injury to his leg resulted in an infection that nearly necessitated its amputation. Although the infection eventually subsided, he would suffer from its effects for the rest of this life.

Mickey was signed by the New York Yankees at age 18. He was so talented that he almost immediately was called up from the minor leagues to the Yankees. Yankees management believed he would be the next great Yankees star and gave him the number "6" (Babe Ruth was 3, Lou Gehrig was 4, and Joe Dimaggio was 5). The pressure on the 20 year-old kid from Oklahoma was intense. Mickey played poorly in his first stint in the major leagues and was sent back to the minors. It was a

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Mickey Charles Mantle

“I was born and bred to be a big-league baseball player.”

Mickey Mantle

Biography

Mickey Charles Mantle was born in Spavinaw, Oklahoma, the eldest of five children of Elvin and Lovell Mantle. Mantle’s “big chance” came in 1950 when Casey Stengle invited him to the Yankee farm school in Phoenix, Arizona. On his first time to face a Yankee pitcher, Mickey, hitting right-handed, slammed a home run over the right field fence. On his next time at bat he left-handed a homer into left field. Stengle was quoted as saying, “I believe that Mantle is our biggest prize and that he’s the No. 1 kid ball player in the professional game.” Mickey Mantle was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in January of 1974.

Fun fact

Mickey Mantle was voted the most popular Yankee of all time and held the record for the most games played in a Yankees uniform—2,401. His portrait by famous western artist Kenneth Wyatt was unveiled in 1997 and hangs in Oklahoma’s State Capitol building.

Oklahoma connections

Mantle was born in Spavinaw, Oklahoma, on October 20, 193