MICKEY MANTLE - An Artistic Tribute to the Great Baseball Player

SOME MICKEY MANTLE TRIVIA

He hit the longest home run ever: Over 600 Feet! Another long home run went on for thousands of feet...because it stayed on top of a train
His first game of his career and with the Yankees was against the Boston Red Sox
He has 536 home-runs in his MLB career
Mickey's jersey # 7 was retired by the New York Yankees
He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974
He retired March 1, 1969
Mickey's father taught Mickey to be a switch-hitter
Mickey played his entire career for the New York Yankees. His position was right field
Mickey was named after Mickey Cochrane, who was a catcher for the Detroit Tigers
He played on 12 pennant winners and 7 World Championship clubs.
He still holds the records for most World Series home runs (18), RBIs (40), runs (42), walks (43), extra-base hits (26), and total bases (123).
He was kicked in the shin during a football game in his youth and developed osteomyelitis, a disease that could have cost him his leg. . To save his life and his leg he was given a new medicine at the time, penicillin, which saved his leg from amputation. This condition exempted him from the military and he never served in the Korean War as a result
He played shortstop in the minor leagues, moved to right field when he went to "the show", then he moved to center field from 1952 to 1967, then he moved to first base
His major league debut was April 17, 1951 for the New York Yankees
One of his nicknames was "The Commerce Comet"
He won the American League Triple Crown in 1956
He is the last man to have won the Major League Triple Crown as of 2006.
He has a song, sung by Teresa Brewer, written about him called "I love Mickey"
In 1961 he became the highest-paid baseball player at the time, with a contract of $75,000
His final game was played September 28, 1968 for the New York Yankees
In 1997 Topps Baseball Card company retired the card #7 in its' base sets in tribute to Mantle
Mickey was born October 20th, 1931 in Spavinaw, Oklahoma and passed away on August 13th, 1995