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Mantle spoke with great remorse of his drinking in a 1994 Sports Illustrated cover story.

He said that he was telling the same old stories, and realizing how many of them involved himself and others being drunk – including at least one drunk-driving accident – he decided they were not funny anymore.

He admitted he had often been cruel and hurtful to family, friends, and fans because of his alcoholism, and sought to make amends.

He became a born-again Christian because of his former teammate Bobby Richardson, an ordained Baptist minister who shared his faith with him.

After the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, Mantle joined with fellow Oklahoman and Yankee Bobby Murcer to raise money for the victims.