Her latest book is The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood, an extensive chronicle of Mantle's off-field behavior published in 2010.

* April 17 – Mickey Mantle hits a 565 foot ( 172 m ) home run at Griffith Stadium in Washington D. C. Mantle's home run is believed to be the longest home run in baseball history by many historians.

This is one of the most popular sets of all time, due in large part to the fact that it contained Mickey Mantle's rookie card.

:* Mantle's Cave is a prehistoric Fremont culture residential site from 499 BC-AD 1749.

But last week, when a reporter was standing near Mantle's locker, Mickey walked up and volunteered an anecdote.

Williams lost the batting title to Mickey Mantle in 1956, batting. 345 to Mantle's. 353, with Mantle on his way to winning the Triple Crown.

So as 1961 progressed, the Yanks were now " Mickey Mantle's team ," and Maris was ostracized as the " outsider ," and said to be " not a true Yankee.

Mickey Mantle's career was plagued with injuries.

Mantle made a ( talking ) cameo appearance in Teresa Brewer's 1956 song " I Love Mickey ," which extolled Mantle's power hitting.

Despite the failure of Mickey Mantle's Country Cookin ' restaurants in the early 1970s, Mickey Mantle's Restaurant & Sports Bar opened in New York at 42 Central Park South ( 59th Street ) in 1988.

Like Mickey, Merlyn and their sons all became alcoholics, and Billy developed Hodgkin's disease, as had several previous men in Mantle's family.

Eventually, the two sides reached a settlement, ensuring the sale of some of Mickey Mantle's belongings for approximately $ 500, 000.

Mantle's monument in Monument Park ( Yankee Stadium ) | Monument Park. On Mickey Mantle Day, June 8, 1969, in addition to the retirement of his uniform Number 7, Mantle was given a plaque that would hang on the center field wall at Yankee Stadium, near the monuments to Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Miller Huggins.

Mantle also had multiple references in the sitcom Seinfeld, specifically the episodes " The Visa " where Kramer punches him while at a baseball fantasy camp and " Seven " where George Costanza wants to name his future baby as ' Seven ' based on Mickey Mantle's uniform number.

The cards included Mickey Mantle's first Topps card, the most valuable card of the modern era.

* Ford was portrayed by Anthony Michael Hall in the HBO movie, 61 * ( 2001 ), about Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle's quest to break Babe Ruth's single-season home run record.

Wynn was the pitcher who allowed the most home runs in Mickey Mantle's career ( 13 ).

After slipping to a. 252 average in 1957, in he batted. 303 with 41 home runs ( one behind Mickey Mantle's league lead ) and 113 runs batted in, and finished third in the MVP balloting.

Mickey Mantle's fourth-inning home run broke the scoreless tie.

Jones became the youngest player ever to homer in the World Series at the age of 19 years, 180 days, breaking Mickey Mantle's record of 20 years, 362 days-on what would have been Mantle's 65th birthday.

Jones surpassed Yankee great Mickey Mantle on what would have been Mantle's 65th birthday ( Mantle died in 1995 ).

Greenwade returned in 1949, after Mantle's high school graduation, to sign Mantle to a minor league contract.

While he was recovering, Mantle made peace with his estranged wife, Merlyn, and repeated a request he made decades before for Bobby Richardson to read a poem at Mantle's funeral if he died.

After Mantle's death, Greer Johnson was taken to federal court in November 1997 by the Mantle family to stop her from auctioning many of Mantle's personal items, including a lock of hair, a neck brace, and expired credit cards.

Mantle and former teammate Whitey Ford were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame together in 1974, Mantle's first year of eligibility, Ford's second.

( However, many of Mantle's left-handed home runs were struck at Yankee Stadium, a park notorious for being very friendly to left-handed power hitters due to the short right field porch, and Mantle batted left-handed much more often than right-handed, simply because there have always been more right-handed than left-handed pitchers.

As the years passed, and he had outlived all the men in his family by several years, he frequently used a line popularized by football legend Bobby Layne, a Dallas neighbor and friend of Mantle's who also died in part due to alcohol abuse: " If I'd known I was gonna live this long, I'd have taken a lot better care of myself.

During Mantle's youth, his father, disgusted by his son's poor athletic performance, forcibly subjected him to unsafe enhancement treatment in a twisted attempt to make him more " manly.

Johnny Blanchard, Mantle's replacement, slammed a 2-run homer as the Yankees routed loser Joey Jay in a 5-run first inning.

When Roger Eugene Maris, Mantle's muscular teammate, powers four home runs in a double-header, his performance merits awe.

Extend Mantle's and Maris's present paces over the full 1961 schedule of 162 games, and, mathematically, each will hit more than 60 home runs.

The sluggers get along so well in fact, that with their families at home for the summer ( Mantle's in Dallas, Maris's in Kansas City ), they are rooming together.

Mantle's hero was Joe DiMaggio.

Kicked in the shin during a game, Mantle's leg soon became infected with osteomyelitis, a crippling disease that would have been incurable just a few years earlier.

In 1948, Yankees ' scout Tom Greenwade came to Baxter Springs to watch Mantle's teammate, third baseman Billy Johnson.

When he arrived, he started packing his son's clothes and, according to Mantle's memory, said " I thought I raised a man.

Mantle's relationship with the New York press was not always friendly.

During the 1957 World Series, Milwaukee Braves second baseman Red Schoendienst fell on Mantle's left shoulder in a collision at second base.

This was probably because the town respected Mantle's privacy, refusing either to talk about their famous neighbor to outsiders or to direct fans to his home.

Reilly has also been a frequent critic of former San Francisco Giants star Barry Bonds for his treatment of his teammates, his off-field behavior and his alleged steroid use.

Bush has not risen past Class A, has hit. 219 for his career, was converted to a pitcher, endured a series of off-field legal problems, and was cut by Toronto in 2009 for their zero-tolerance behavior policy.