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MICKEY QUOTES
(101-120)
by Lewis Early
(Excerpted from the award-winning DVD, Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life®- The Deluxe Lost Stories Edition. Click Here to learn more about it. Click Here to see an outline of the contents of the DVD.)
 
101. "I've been sitting here since 1927 and I finally got one. This is the first one hit here and the last one. I'm not gonna give it up."
Fan Oscar Alonso about the baseball that Mickey launched 486 feet into Yankee Stadium's centerfield bleachers, the first ever - Alonso later gave the ball to Mickey when reunited with his old stickball buddy, Yankees' pitcher Eddie Lopat

102. "They make it look smaller."
Senators' rookie Ron Stillwell on Griffith Stadium after Mantle and Maris went 13-for-21 with 7 homers, 12 runs and 21 rbi in a three game series

103. "Those two beat us by themselves."
Senators' manager Mickey Vernon after Mantle and Maris went 13-for-21 with 7 homers, 12 runs and 21 rbi in a three game series

104. "It would've been hit out of an airport."
Art Fowler after pitcher Ryne Duren said he and his teammates didn't think a Mantle home run was going out

105. "I bet you can't hit one out against this gale. I bet you a case of beer you won't do it."
Twins' pitcher Ted Sadowski to Mickey when pitching to him during a storm with gale force winds blowing

106. "I'll take Budweiser."
Mickey to Twins' pitcher Ted Sadowski after Sadowski challenged Mickey to homer off him during a storm with gale force winds blowing, and Mickey belted a homer into the right-field bleachers on the next pitch

107. "It was like a golf ball going into orbit. It was hit so far it was like it wasn't real. It was a super-human feat."
Legendary USC Coach Rod Dedeaux on Mickey's 656-foot home run hit in an exhibition game at Bovard Field, USC on March 26, 1951

108. "Go chase that one, big boy."
Joe Collins to Mickey after smacking a 475-foot homer in Cleveland

109. "What did you say, Joe?"
Mickey to Joe Collins after smashing a 500-foot homer on the very next pitch

110. "Aw, go s*it in your hat."
Joe Collins' response to Mickey

111. "I thought it was going completely out of the park. If not for the roof, it would 
have hit the subway across the street."
Athletics' broadcaster Merle Harmon on Mickey's homer off athletics' pitcher Moe Burtschky at Yankee Stadium May 5, 1956

112. "That would bring tears to the eyes of a rocking chair."
Tigers manager Bucky Harris on Mickey's 643-foot homer out of Tiger Stadium off Paul Foytack, September 10, 1960

113. "I had never heard such an explosive sound of bat on ball; it was by far the most awesome I'd heard before or since, nor had I ever seen a ball leave a ballpark so quickly. It happened so fast I wasn't sure I actually saw what I thought I had seen."
Yankees' pitcher Johnny James on Mickey home run on September 17, 1958 in Detroit

114. "We did not believe what we were seeing... for a second, we thought it was going over the second fence in dead center onto Brooklyn avenue, and it just missed doing that!"
Athletics' broadcaster Merle Harmon on a Mantle homer in Kansas City on August 31, 1955

115. "I just wouldn't have believed a ball could be hit that hard. I've never seen anything like it."
Bucky Harris, the Manager of the Washington Senators, on Mickey's 565-foot homer hit at Griffith Stadium, Washington

116. "Lookout!"
Yankees' third base coach Frank Crosetti, yelling at Mickey when Billy Martin stayed at third base and pretended to tag up on Mickey's 565-foot home run at Griffith Stadium in Washington - Mickey ran the bases with his head down and didn't notice Billy standing there, almost running into Billy

117. "That was the hardest ball I ever saw hit."
Billy Martin to Mickey, on Mickey's 565-foot homer hit at Griffith Stadium, Washington

118. "If I send the ball home, I know what will happen to it. My twin brothers will take it out on the lot, like any 20-cent rocket."
Mickey on the baseball he hit 565-feet in Washington

119. "Happy anniversary!"
Jocelyn Stobbs to her husband Chuck on April 17, 1955, the second anniversary of the 565-foot home run Mickey hit off him at Griffith Stadium

120. "Mickey didn't get a hit every time he faced me. I got him out a few times, too."
Chuck Stobbs, the pitcher who gave up the 565-foot homer to Mickey in Washington

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