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To Find
out More
about Our Award-
Winning DVD:
Mickey Mantle:
The American
Dream Comes
To Life®
®Copyright 1998-2010
Official Mickey Mantle web site
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Mickey Mantle:
The American
Dream
Comes To Life®
The Award-Winning Videography™ Program
& Its Companion Volume
Official
Web Site & Catalog |
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Mickey with his friend, filmmaker
Lew Rothgeb, at Mickey Mantle's
Restaurant in New York City
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Welcome to themick.com
The web site dedicated to the award-winning documentary, Mickey Mantle:
The American Dream
Comes To Life®
featuring the legendary
Mickey Mantle.
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Welcome to our web
site,
themick.com.
We think you'll find that it has the most complete Mickey Mantle information on
the internet. Read on to learn more
about this unique and interesting site.
Scroll
down to read about our site, its contents, features and history, or
Click
Here to go directly to the
Table of
Contents with its
Quick
Links to our site's main features! |
Contents and Features
Among the features you'll find
are:
and much more!
Be sure to watch our site, as
the internet is a "living" entity, constantly growing and expanding. We
are continually updating and improving it with new information and features!
We are planning to add some video clips, among other features.
So sit back and Get To Know The Mick on
our web site. It's where Mickey Mantle truly
Comes
To Life®! |
Background and History
Our site traces its roots back
to 1989 with the release of the award-winning documentary Mickey
Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life®.
Produced by San Francisco filmmakers Lew
Rothgeb and Richard
Hall, in association with Baseball Legend Video,
the
program took nearly two years to complete. After intense research, Mickey
was chosen to become the first subject of their new
videography™
program format. The videography™
program was first truly autobiographical
program. There is no narrator, the interviewer
is never seen, and interviewer's questions aren't heard. It is truly a
"self-told" story, and Mickey was perfect for the format. An idol to a
generation of fans, Mickey's stories had become legendary. His on-field
heroics and off-field escapades offered a rich variety of material. So
much so that many of Mickey's stories went unreleased in the original hour-long
program.
The video became an immediate
and enduring success. A BILLBOARD
Magazine top-ten bestseller in both 1989 and 1990, Public Television began
broadcasting the program in 1994. It was shown on over 70 stations across
the country to several million people, and is a perennial favorite among
Mantle fans. A companion volume
was written to coincide with the Public Television broadcasts. A line of
merchandise bearing the program's logos and artwork was also created. It
includes a variety of clothing items such as jackets, T-shirts, and caps. This
merchandise is displayed in our Mickey Mantle: The
American Dream Comes To Life® Store.
In 1998 the first
Companion Photo Calendar - Fact Book was released.
It includes 13 monthly feature photos (suitable for framing) and over 100
more photos in the monthly calendar grids. It also contains hundreds of
facts, stats, quotes and events from throughout Mickey's life. Calendars
continued each year through 2001. While creating the
1998
Companion Photo Calendar - Fact Book we decided
to build a web site dedicated to the program and Mickey. Our goal was to provide information
about all aspects of Mickey's life and career, as well as a
Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life® Store where fans could purchase
a variety of Mickey merchandise. We wanted our site to reflect the vast
storehouse of information accumulated about Mickey during the program's
production, much of which is included on our
Deluxe Edition DVD. To that end we compiled a wide range of
material on a variety of topics. In fact, it has become the most complete
and comprehensive source of Mickey Mantle information anywhere. Everyone
who accesses our web page, from the youngster preparing his first school
report about the Mick to the most ardent fan, will find something they
are sure to enjoy. |
Contacting themick.com:
If you have questions or comments
about our web site, its features, or any of our products, please feel free
to contact us. Click
Here to send us an e-mail, or write to us at the following address:
BLV, 1253 Vallejo Street, San Francisco, CA 94109-2120. |
Table
of Contents:
Click on any of the links below to access to that feature/page.
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We highly recommend
Mickey's Videography™
Program:
Mickey Mantle:
The American Dream Comes
To Life®
The Deluxe
Lost Stories
Edition
(2 hours)
Now on DVD
with nearly 200 on-screen pages of bonus features!
"The best baseball program ever made!"
- USA Today, The Washington Post, The NY Daily News, Newsday, The Los
Angeles Times, The TODAY Show, ESPN, Larry King Live... |

Click Here for Details! |
We also
recommend the second Videography™
Program
in the Comes To Life®
Program Series:
John
Madden: The American Dream
Comes To Life®
(1
hour)
Now on DVD! The original program in its entirety -
not one frame has been omitted.
"60 delightful minutes
- A must!"
- USA Today, The Washington Post, The
Oakland Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Sacramento Bee, The TODAY Show, ESPN... |

Click Here for Details! |
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Early
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