In Ken Burns ' documentary Baseball, Mickey Mantle claimed that Ford gave Rose the nickname after Rose, playing in left field, made an effort to climb the fence to try to catch a Mantle home run that everyone could see was headed over everything.

* 1979 Selection, The Burns Mantle Theater Yearbook, The Best Plays of 1978-1979

Theater critic and historian Burns Mantle cited a letter he received from Woolf saying “ Mamzelle Champagne was my Columbia Varsity Show, and was transported by a manager, Henry Pincus, to the open Madison Square Roof with a professional cast .” However, The Varsity Show ’ s own website disputes this “ legend ”, saying Mam ’ zelle was Woolf ’ s first professional show and not the one he had written as a student in the class of 1901.

* Mantle, Burns, and Garrison P. Sherwood, eds., The Best Plays of 1899-1909, ( Philadelphia: The Blakiston Company ), 1944.

* Mantle, Burns, and Garrison P. Sherwood, eds., The Best Plays of 1899-1909, Philadelphia: The Blakiston Company, 1944.

" Mickey Mantle, in an interview for Ken Burns ' Baseball documentary series, relates that Don Larsen, famed for his 1956 World Series perfect game, tried to talk about his no-hitter throughout the contest but much to his chagrin his Yankee teammates avoided his conversation and maintained the superstition.

In addition to the Pulitzer, " Dinner with Friends " received an American Theatre Critics ’ Association New Play Citation, The Dramatists ’ Guild / Hull-Warriner Award, the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award, a Drama Desk Award nomination, and was selected a Burns Mantle Best Play of 1999-2000 ).

The play was nominated for a 2010 Tony Award for Best Play and was selected a Burns Mantle Best Play of 2009-2010.

It was an American Theatre Critics ’ Association New Play Award finalist, an Outer Critics ’ Circle nominee, and a Burns Mantle Best Play of 2004-2005.

It was a Drama Desk nominee and a Burns Mantle Best Play of 1988-1989.

" Burns Mantle of the NY Daily News declared Jubilee, " the most satisfying musical comedy produced in an American theatre within the length of trustworthy memories.

* Mantle, Burns, and Garrison P. Sherwood, eds., The Best Plays of 1899-1909, Philadelphia: The Blakiston Company, 1944.

Three of his subsequent six plays produced on Broadway were chosen for publication in the annual Ten Best Plays of the Season, compiled by Burns Mantle, the widely read critic of the New York Daily News, at the time the largest circulation daily in the U. S. They were “ Accent On Youth ”( 1934 ), “ Skylark ” ( 1939 ) and “ Jason ” 1941.

* 1979 Selection, Burns Mantle, The Best Plays of 1978-1979

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.

P ( 1974 ), John Cale ( 1978 ), Kim Wilde ( 1984 ), U2 ( 1990 ), Andrew Lloyd Webber ( 1993 ), Liz Phair ( 1993 ), Kurt Elling ( 1995 ), Susan McKeown ( 1995 ), Mark St. John Ellis as Elijah's Mantle ( 1995 ), Old 97's ( 1997 ), The Changelings ( 1997 ), The Residents ( 1998 ), Enrique Bunbury ( 1998 ), Chayanne ( 1999 ), Patti Smith ( 2000 ), Killing Miranda ( 2001 ), Gary Jules ' " Pills " ( 2001 ), The Booda Velvets ( 2001 ), Xandria ( 2007 ), Pete Doherty ( 2009 ), Os Pontos Negros ( 2009 ), 9GOATS BLACK OUT ( 2009 ), Justin Vivian Bond ( 2011 ), Regina Spektor and Kaya ( Japanese musician ) ( 2012 ).

In 1995, he joined with fellow Oklahoman Mickey Mantle to raise money for the victims of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing.

Willie's big day revived the running argument about the relative merits of Mays and Mickey Mantle.

With Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra both out of action due to injuries, the American League champs still mounted a 15-hit attack against a parade of eight Cincinnati pitchers, the most ever used by one team in a series game.

The two top talents of the time, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays, have hit the ball harder and more successfully so far this early season than at any period in careers which, to be frank about it, never have quite reached expectations.

Mays and Mantle, both 10-year men at 30, have so much ability that, baseball men agree, they've never hit the heights.

Mantle, the bull-necked blond switch-hitter, had one sensational triple-crown season, 1959, when he batted and also led the American League in home runs, 52, and rbi's, 130.

Now, apparently happier under new managers, Mays and Mantle, the perfect players, are behaving as though they're going to pass those previous peaks.

Mantle, it's apparent, resented Casey Stengel's attempts to push and prod him into the perfection the veteran manager saw as a thrilling possibility.

Stengel inherited DiMaggio, Rizzuto, but he brought up Mantle from Class C to the majors, from Joplin to New York.

Inheriting a more mature Mantle, who now has seen the sights on and off Broadway, Ralph Houk quietly bestowed, no pun intended, the mantle of authority on Mickey.

And what leadership a proud Mantle has given so far.

The opinion continues here that with a 162-game schedule, pitching spread thin through a 10-team league and a most inviting target in Los Angeles' Wrigley Field Jr., Mantle just might break the most glamorous record on the books, Babe Ruth's 60 homers of 1927.

When Mickey Charles Mantle, the New York Yankees' man of muscle, drives a home run 450 feet into the bleachers, his feat touches upon the sublime.

Their names are Mantle and Maris, their team is the Yankees, and their threat is real.

After 108 games in 1961, Mickey Mantle has 43, Roger Maris 41.

All Mantle needs is eight more home runs in August and ten in September, and he will establish a new record.

Neither Mantle nor Maris, understandably, will predict 60 home runs for himself.

But one thing is for certain: There is no dissension between Mantle, the American League's Most Valuable Player in 1956 and 1957, and Maris, the MVP in 1960.

Each enjoys seeing the other hit home runs ( `` I hope Roger hits 80 '', Mantle says ), and each enjoys even more seeing himself hit home runs ( `` and I hope I hit 81 '' ).

Mantle, Maris, and Bob Cerv, a utility outfielder, share an apartment in Jamaica, Long Island, not far from New York International Airport.

They divide up the household chores: Cerv does most of the cooking ( breakfast and sandwich snacks, with dinner out ), Mantle supplies the transportation ( a white 1961 Oldsmobile convertible ), and Maris drives the 25-minute course from the apartment house to Yankee Stadium.

Mantle, Maris, and Cerv probably share one major-league record already: Among them, they have fifteen children -- eight for Cerv, four for Mantle, and three for Maris.

As roommates, teammates, and home-run mates, Mantle, 29, who broke in with the Yankees ten years ago, and Maris, 26, who came to the Yankees from Kansas City two years ago, have strikingly similar backgrounds.

Both are 6 feet tall and weigh between 195 and 200 pounds, but Mantle, incredibly muscular ( he has a 17-1/2-inch neck ), looks bigger.

Mantle, more concerned with dress, buys his suits four at a time at Neiman-Marcus in Dallas and pays as much as $250 each.