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

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

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 is not normally given to public speaking -- or, for that matter, to private speaking.

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.

( `` 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 ''.

Mantle is considerably better hitting for average (

Particularly famous is the Pratt Mantle, relatively easy but a classic mantle ; the Pratt Overhang, a classic off-width, an adjacent John Gill face problem, and the forty foot Monkee Traverse.

His first foray into television was a documentary for NBC's Omnibus, Dancing is a Man's Game ( 1958 ) where he assembled a group of America's greatest sportsmen – including Mickey Mantle, Sugar Ray Robinson and Bob Cousy – and re-interpreted their moves choreographically, as part of his lifelong quest to remove the effeminate stereotype of the art of dance, while articulating the philosophy behind his dance style.

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.

* 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.

Mantle convection is the slow creeping motion of Earth's rocky mantle caused by convection currents carrying heat from the interior of the earth to the surface.

Archie Comics is an American comic book publisher headquartered in the Village of Mamaroneck, Town of Mamaroneck, New York, known for its many series featuring the fictional teenagers Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Reggie Mantle and Jughead Jones.

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

Mantle's off-field behavior is the subject of the book The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood, written in 2010 by sports journalist Jane Leavy.

" This is a role model: Don't be like me ," a frail Mantle said.

" Japanese Traditional Music ," LP master of Keiji Yagi, studio recording by Mantle Hood, 1967.

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

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.

Many scouts were looking at him play, including Tom Greenwade of the New York Yankees ( who discovered Mickey Mantle ), and Danny Murtaugh of the Pittsburgh Pirates.

He was of at least partial English ancestry ; his great-grandfather, George Mantle, left Brierley Hill, in England's Black Country, in 1848.

Mantle was an all-around athlete at Commerce High School, playing basketball as well as football ( he was offered a football scholarship by the University of Oklahoma ) in addition to his first love, baseball.

However, Mantle struggled defensively at shortstop.

Mantle moved to center field in 1952, replacing DiMaggio, who retired at the end of the 1951 season.

Over the course of time, however, Mantle ( with a little help from his teammate Whitey Ford, a native of New York's Borough of Queens ) had gotten better at " schmoozing " with the New York media, and had gained the favor of the press.

In the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 3 of the 1964 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals, Mickey Mantle blasted Barney Schultz's first pitch into the right field stands at Yankee Stadium, which won the game for the Yankees 2 – 1.

Another Mantle homer, hit right-handed off Chuck Stobbs at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D. C. on April 17, 1953, was measured by Yankees traveling secretary Red Patterson ( hence the term " tape-measure home run ") to have traveled 565 feet ( 172 m ).

Mantle twice hit balls off the third-deck facade at Yankee Stadium, nearly becoming the only player ( along with Negro Leagues star Josh Gibson, though Gibson's home run has never been conclusively verified ) to hit a fair ball out of the stadium during a game.

When Mantle played for the Yankees, the distance to the right-field foul pole stood at a mere 296 feet ( 90 m ), with markers in the power alleys of 344 and 407, while the left-field power alley ranged from 402 to 457 feet ( 139 m ) from the plate.

Mays ' fly was hit to deep right center, and as both Mantle and DiMaggio converged to make the catch, DiMaggio called for it at the last second, causing Mantle to suddenly stop short as his cleats caught a drainage cover in the outfield grass.

In 1962, Mantle and Maris starred in Safe at Home !.

A statue of Mickey Mantle at Newcastle Field at Bricktown in Bricktown ( Oklahoma City ) | Bricktown, Oklahoma City

Mantle was a prized guest at any baseball card show, commanding fees far in excess of any other player for his appearances and autographs.

In 1983, Mantle worked at the Claridge Resort and Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, as a greeter and community representative.

During the final years of his life, Mantle purchased a luxury condominium on Lake Oconee near Greensboro, Georgia, near Greer Johnson's home, and frequently stayed there for months at a time.

Both have brilliant speed: Mantle was timed from home plate ( batting left-handed ) to first base in 3.1 seconds, faster than any other major leaguer ; ;

Later in his life, Mantle expressed relief that his father had not known Cochrane's true first name, as he would have hated to be named Gordon.

As a 19-year-old rookie in his first World Series, Mantle tore the cartilage in his right knee on a fly ball by Willie Mays while playing right field.

Still, Mantle was known as the " fastest man to first base " and won the American League triple crown after these injuries.

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.

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.

* Mickey Mantle, New York Yankees outfielder and first baseman ; played with the Class C " Joplin Miners " minor league baseball team in 1950

Mantle becomes only the seventh player to make it in his first try.

Mantle lamps, because of the higher temperature at which they operate, do not produce much odor, except when first lit or extinguished.

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.

* The first home run in the Astrodome was hit by Mickey Mantle off of pitcher Turk Farrell on April 9, 1965 in an exhibition game between the Astros and Yankees.

Yount was the first AL player to win multiple MVP's in over twenty-five years, since the Yankees ' Roger Maris ( 1960 & 1961 ) and Mickey Mantle ( 1956, 1957, and 1962 ).

The last series in 1952 started with card No. 311, which is Topps ' first card of Mickey Mantle, and remains the most valuable Topps card ever ( and the most valuable post-1948 card ).

The World Series held that year brought the first player-specific baseball bobbleheads, for Roberto Clemente, Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, and Willie Mays, still all with the same face.

His first 20-win season, a career-best 25-4 record, and the Cy Young Award ensued, but Ford's season was overshadowed by the home run battle between Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle.

Mickey Mantle and Hank Bauer were solid outfield regulars, which left manager Casey Stengel to use Howard as a backup catcher and occasional outfielder, competing for playing time with Norm Siebern and Enos Slaughter ; by 1959, Howard was often playing at first base in order to remain in the lineup.

It was the 12th walk-off home run of his career, tying him for first all time with Jimmie Foxx, Mickey Mantle, Stan Musial, Frank Robinson, and Babe Ruth.

Following the arrival of Mickey Mantle with the Yankees, in May 1952 Jensen was sent to the Washington Senators in a six-player deal, and he made his first All-Star team.

On September 13, 2006, Berkman became only the second switch hitter in Major League history to hit 40 or more homers in multiple seasons, with Mickey Mantle being the first.

Although the series focus heavily on Caramon and Raistlin Majere, Riverwind makes an appearance at the beginning of the first book of the Legends trilogy, Time of the Twins ( 1986 ), written by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman and published by TSR, in which he is recognized as leader of the Que Shu and other barbarian tribes by wearing the Mantle of the Chieftain.

The first planet they visit is his home planet, Planet Rock, but Lord Mantle stubbornly refuses to ally himself with the other worlds after Rock's Battle Moons repel a Beast attack.