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Mickey Mantle:
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Answers to Questions 101-110 (Excerpted from the award-winning DVD, Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life®- The Lost Stories Special Edition. Click Here to learn more about it. Click Here to see an outline of the contents of the DVD.) |
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"Bullet Bob" Turley had an uncanny knack of reading a pitcher and knowing what pitch he was about to throw. |
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Senator Estes Kefauver (Democrat, Tennessee) called Mickey to testify before his Senate anti-trust committee along with Casey Stengel, Yankees' owner Del Webb, Stan Musial and Ted Williams. |
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Yogi Berra's son, Timmy, after Mickey had a particularly bad game, striking out a couple of times and dropping a pop fly to let in the winning run. |
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After dining one night at Danny's Hideaway; a favorite restaurant of the players in New York, a group of Yankees players and their wives went to the show at the Copacabana nightclub. Two bowling teams celebrating winning their league championships were there, drinking heavily, and they began shouting racial slurs at Sammy Davis, the performer. The Yankees took offense, and Hank Bauer asked them to knock it off, that it was inappropriate and that they were embarrassing their wives. The bowlers told them they weren't afraid of the Yankees, no matter how great they might be on the field, and that if they didn't like it they could settle it outside. Both groups got up to go to the cloakroom, and a fight broke out. The next day it was headline news in the New York newspapers. |
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May 16, 1957. |
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Billy Martin's birthday party. |
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Billy Martin was traded by the Yankees to the Kansas City Athletics. Hank Bauer was sued by one of the bowlers and was found not guilty. |
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Billy Martin was traded by the Yankees to the Kansas City Athletics when the Yankees were playing in Kansas City. Mickey, Billy and Whitey went out to commiserate the night of the trade. Whitey, who was pitching the next day, told Billy he would signal him his pitches by crouching on a curve and standing upright on a fastball. " But don't hit a home run off me" was what he told Billy, who agreed. In the game the next day Whitey tipped his pitches to Billy, and Billy immediately hit a home run, laughing as he ran all the way around the bases. |
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The next time Billy came up Whitey knocked him down with his first pitch. |
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During his 18-year career Mickey was selected to play in 20 All-Star games. |
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