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.

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.

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

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 '' ).

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

If working in a zinc mine, which he once did for 87-1/2 cents an hour, paid more than playing center field for the Yankees, Mantle would work in a zinc mine.

Mantle, beyond any question, can do more things well.

Both are good, daring fielders: Mantle covers more ground ; ;

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

Although he was a feared power hitter from either side of the plate, Mantle considered himself a better right-handed hitter even though he had more home runs from the left side of the plate: 372 left-handed, 164 right-handed.

That was due to Mantle having batted left-handed much more often, as the large majority of pitchers are right-handed.

Frequently, Betty dated Reggie Mantle early on in the titles ' runs and occasionally still, more often than not as a casual date when Veronica beat her to the punch to have Archie take her out.

A lot of jokes in the comics are on how he loves himself more than any girl, earning him the nickname " Reggie ' I-Love-Me ' Mantle ".

Mantle lamps are considerably brighter than flat-or round-wick lamps, produce a whiter light, burn fuel faster, and generate more heat.

Among the personalities the book talks about in depth are Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe Louis, Primo Carnera, Tony Canzoneri, Sugar Ray Robinson, Casey Stengel, Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Stillman, Jacob Ruppert and more.

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.

For instance, New York Yankees great Mickey Mantle always considered himself a better right-handed hitter, but hit more home runs left-handed.

( 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.

They don't hit the same – Mantle gets all of his weight into his swing ; Mathews uses his wrists more.

He retired after the 1997 season with 504 home runs ; as of 2011, Mickey Mantle is the only switch-hitter who has hit more home runs ( 536 ).

In 2003, a large 16th century Huron village was discovered in Stouffville during land development ; approximately 2000 people once inhabited the site ( Mantle Site ), which included a palisade and more than 80 longhouses, yielding tens of thousands of artifacts.

Mantle tomography shows that cratons are underlain by anomalously cold mantle corresponding to lithosphere more than twice the typical 60-mile ( 100 km ) thickness of mature oceanic or non-cratonic, continental lithosphere.

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.

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.

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.

( `` 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 ''.

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

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.

He ended the season tied with Mickey Mantle, after having passed Jimmie Foxx, Ted Williams, Willie McCovey, Ernie Banks, Eddie Mathews, Mel Ott, and Eddie Murray.

A midnight drive to Tulsa, Oklahoma, enabled Mantle to be treated with newly available penicillin, saving his leg from amputation.

Mantle began his professional career with the semi-professional Baxter Springs Whiz Kids.

Mantle signed for $ 140 per month ($ today ) with a $ 1, 500 ($ today ) signing bonus.

Mantle won the Western Association batting title, with a. 383 average.

" Mantle immediately broke out of his slump, going on to hit. 311 with 23 homers and 87 RBIs during his stay in Kansas City.

Mantle was called up to the Yankees after 40 games with Kansas City, this time wearing uniform # 7.

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

When Mantle finally fell short, finishing with 52, there seemed to be a collective sigh of relief from the New York traditionalists.

Nor had the New York press been all that kind to Mantle in his early years with the team: he struck out frequently, was injury-prone, was a " true hick " from Oklahoma, and was perceived as being distinctly inferior to his predecessor in center field, Joe DiMaggio.

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.

But Mantle was felled by an abscessed hip late in the season, leaving Maris to break the record ( he finished with 61 ).

Mantle finished with 54 while leading the league in runs scored and walks.

Mantle hit. 255 that season with only 19 home runs.

When he retired, Mantle was third on the all-time home run list with 536.

At the time of his retirement, Mantle was the Yankees all-time leader in games played with 2, 401, which was broken by Derek Jeter on August 29, 2011.