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Mickey Mantle:
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Answers to Questions 41-50 (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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Mickey hit homers in both games of a doubleheader 11 times. |
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Mickey hit seven pinch-hit home runs. |
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Mickey's first pinch-hit homer came on July 6, 1953 against the Philadelphia Athletics in Philadelphia. It was a grand slam hit off Athletics' pitcher Frank Fanovich and led the Yankees to a 10-5 win. It was Mickey's only career pinch-hit grand slam. |
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Yogi Berra hit back-to-back homers with Mickey 12 times, followed by Roger Maris who did it ten times. |
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Mickey hit nine grand slam home runs. |
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Mickey hit a grand slam on October 4, 1953 against the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field to lead the Yanks to an 11-7 win in game five of the World Series. The pitcher was Monk Meyer. It was only the fourth grand slam in World Series history, and the only one Mickey hit in World Series play. |
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Mickey played in 12 World Series. |
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Mickey played on seven World Champion teams. |
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Mickey had 2,415 career hits, a little more than one per game. |
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On a drag bunt from the left side Mickey was timed at 2.9 seconds to first base. After Mickey was injured in the 1951 World Series he "slowed" to a still blazing 3.1 seconds. |
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