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.

How can you walk Maris to get to Mantle ''??

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.

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.

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 were scholastic stars in football, basketball, and baseball ( Mantle in Commerce, Okla., Maris in Fargo, N.D. ) ; ;

Neither Mantle nor Maris need fear being classified an intellectual, but lately Mantle has shown unusual devotion to an intellectual opus, Henry Miller's `` Tropic of Cancer ''.

What is surprising and pleasant is that Mantle and Maris, under constant pressure from writers and photographers, are trying to be cooperative.

Of the two, Mantle is by nature the less outgoing, Maris the more outspoken.

Neither Mantle nor Maris is totally devoted to baseball above all else.

But since railroading and mining are not the highest paid arts, Mantle and Maris concentrate on baseball.

( `` One of the reasons they get along fine '', says a sportswriter who is friendly with the two men, `` is that both realize Mantle is head-and-shoulders above Maris ''.

) Hitting, Mantle has an immediate advantage because he bats both left-handed and right-handed, Maris only left-handed.

Yet with all their skills, the appeal of Mantle and Maris in 1961 comes down to one basic: The home run.

Some of Bedrock's sports heroes include: football player " Red Granite " ( Red Grange ), wrestler " Bronto Crushrock " ( Bronko Nagurski ), golfer " Arnold Palmrock " ( Arnold Palmer ), boxers " Floyd Patterstone " ( Floyd Patterson ) and " Sonny Listone " ( Sonny Liston ), and baseball players " Sandy Stoneaxe " ( Sandy Koufax ), " Lindy McShale " ( Lindy McDaniel ), " Roger Marble " ( Roger Maris ) and " Mickey Marble " or " Mickey Mantlepiece " ( Mickey Mantle ).

Mantle ( right ) with Roger Maris during the historic 1961 Major League Baseball season | 1961 season.

During the 1961 season, Mantle and teammate Roger Maris, known as the M & M Boys, chased Babe Ruth's single-season home run record.

Mantle and Cerv use the twin beds in the bedroom ; ;

Maris and teammate / roommate Bob Cerv invite Mantle to move in with them in a modest apartment in Queens to stay out of trouble, with one condition: no women.

But he rebounded in 1958 with. 319, ending third in the league behind Williams (. 328 ) and Pete Runnels (. 322 ), and surpassing Al Kaline, Vic Power, Bob Cerv, Mantle, Rocky Colavito, Minnie Miñoso and Nellie Fox.

Some say had Cerv not played back-up to such greats as Mickey Mantle he would have done so much more on the field.

Mantle lherzolites may be the principal source rock for basaltic magmas, whereas mantle harzburgites probably form both from the crystalline residue left after basaltic magma migrates out of lherzolite and from a crystalline accumulation of early solidification products of some basaltic magmas within the mantle.

Tonalitic basement is preserved beneath some greenstone sections but supracrustal rocks commonly give way downward to correlative or younger plutonic rocks ... Mantle plumes probably did not yet exist, and developing continents were concentrated in cool regions.

Doreen Mantle ( born 1930 ) is a South African-born British actress who is probably best known for her role as Mrs Jean Warboys in One Foot in the Grave ( 1990 – 2000 ).

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.

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.

The stamp is one of a block of four honoring " baseball sluggers ", the others being Mickey Mantle, Mel Ott, and Roy Campanella.

Jean Warboys ( Doreen Mantle ) – Mrs Warboys is a friend of Margaret ( and a rather annoying one in Victor's eyes ) who attached herself to the Meldrews, accompanying them on many of their exploits.

On August 7,, after Williams was booed for dropping a fly ball from Mickey Mantle, Williams spat at one of the fans that was taunting him on the top of the dugout.

Mantle is regarded by many to be the greatest switch hitter of all time, and one of the greatest players in baseball history.

Mantle reached base more times than he made outs ( 319 to 312 ), one of two seasons in which he achieved the feat.

Mantle insisted that the promoters of baseball card shows always include one of the lesser-known Yankees of his era, such as Moose Skowron or Hank Bauer so that they could earn some money from the event.

The stamp is one of a block of four honoring baseball sluggers, the others being Mickey Mantle, Hank Greenberg, and Mel Ott.

His father, Ricky Mantle, owns a newspaper-publishing company with varying names, one of which is The Riverdale Gazette.

In one story, Archie Andrews and Reggie Mantle go to the school office, where a woman tells them that Jughead's real first name is Steve.

In current stories, this relationship is increasingly being portrayed as symbiotic, with Dilton standing up in favour of Moose — in one story, he even pounces on Reggie Mantle in defense of Moose, when the latter was insulting Moose.

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.

According to the Opies, Jack's magical accessories – the cap of knowledge, the cloak of invisibility, the magic sword, and the shoes of swiftness – could have been borrowed from the tale of Tom Thumb or from Norse mythology, however older analogues in British Celtic lore such as Y Mabinogi and the tales of Gwyn Ap Nudd, cognate with the Irish Fionn Mac Cumhaill, suggest that these represent attributes of the earlier Celtic gods such as the shoes associated with triple-headed Lugus ; Welsh Lleu Llaw Gyffes of the Fourth Branch, Arthur's invincible sword Caledfwlch and his Mantle of Invisibility Gwenn one of the Thirteen Treasures of Britain mentioned in two of the branches ; or the similar cloak of Caswallawn in the Second Branch.

Widely regarded as one of the greatest second basemen of all time, during his career Gehringer, who batted left-handed and threw with his right, compiled a. 320 batting average and had seven seasons with more than 200 hits – a hit total never reached in a season by Ted Williams or Mickey Mantle and reached only once by Willie Mays.

Mantle plumes were originally postulated to rise from this layer because the " hot spots " that are assumed to be their surface expression were thought to be fixed relative to one another.

Mathews was regarded as one of the strongest power hitters of his time, often being compared to American League contemporary Mickey Mantle, in terms of power hitting strength.

" Action All-Star " were not the standard 2½ " by 3½ " card size, rather 3½ " by 5 " and included a 63-piece Mickey Mantle puzzle ( eight cards per pack and three pieces on one card per pack ).

On April 17, 1953, Mantle hit one off Chuck Stobbs that was so impressive that someone tried to determine its flight with some precision, thus popularizing the term " Tape Measure Home Run.

The legend claims that one can see Green Mantle when looking into the mist of Kakabeka Falls, a monument to the princess that gave her life to save her people.