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.

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.

Only eight batters reached the. 300 mark in the American League, and he finished fourth in the batting race with a. 318 average behind Ted Williams (. 388 ), Mickey Mantle (. 365 ) and Gene Woodling (. 321 ), and over Nellie Fox, Minnie Miñoso, Bill Skowron and Roy Sievers.

Mantle is a master at dragging a bunt toward first base.

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 ; ;

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

Beginning in 1997, the Topps Baseball Card company retired the card # 7 in its base sets in tribute to Mantle, whose career was taking off just as Topps began producing baseball cards.

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.

The esteemed sportswriter, Red Smith, placed him at third base on an all-time New York all-star team that had no room for the likes of Mickey Mantle, Duke Snider or Mel Ott.

Maxwell played 141 games for the Tigers in 1956 and finished among the American League leaders in most batting categories with a. 534 slugging percentage ( 3rd in the AL behind Mickey Mantle and Ted Williams ); a. 326 batted ( 4th in AL ); a. 414 on base percentage ( 4th in the AL ); 96 runs ( 4th in the AL ); 28 home runs ( 5th in the AL ); and 95 RBIs ( 5th in the AL ).

In the same game, Yankees regular catcher Yogi Berra played his only game at third base in his career, and teammate Mickey Mantle appeared at shortstop ( September 26, ).

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 '' ).

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

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 ; ;

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.

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.

It may, however, attempt to settle questions such as " Was Willie Mays faster than Mickey Mantle?

Mantle material containing a trace of partial melt ( e. g., as a result of it having a lower melting point ), or being richer in Fe, also has a lower seismic wave speed and those effects are stronger than temperature.

The new items come from literary, rather than traditional, material ; the Mantle comes from a version of the Caradoc story, while Eluned's stone and ring come from the prose tale Owain, or the Lady of the Fountain.

The Mantle Lane Sidings are overgrown with saplings that are now more than 20 years old and only a short stretch is usable from the points on the main line before the trees encroach the track.

Mantle rocks shallower than about 410 km depth consist mostly of olivine, pyroxenes, spinel-structure minerals, and garnet ; typical rock types are thought to be peridotite, dunite ( olivine-rich peridotite ), and eclogite.

Taking a more mellow tone than Agalloch's first full-length, Pale Folklore, The Mantle still contains heavy electric guitar riffs as well as acoustic guitar portions.

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.

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

Despite being among the best-paid players of the pre-free agency era, Mantle was a poor businessman, having made several bad investments.

Mantle let others run the business operations, but made frequent appearances.

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.

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.

Throneberry made it back to the majors for good in 1958, and although he possessed good power — his swing drew comparisons to Mickey Mantle — he showed a tendency to strike out and had difficulty fielding his position.

DiMaggio and Mantle converged on the ball, DiMaggio called Mantle off, and Mantle stutter-stepped, catching a cleat in a drain cover, and fell to the ground in a heap with a wrenched knee as DiMaggio made the catch.

* The Coronation Robes of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia ( also designed by Philipp von Stubenrauch and executed by Johann Fritz in Vienna in 1838 ) are patterned similar to the Mantle of the Austrian Empire, but made out of blue and orange velvet, with white moiré, gold and silver embroidery, ermine and lace.

He made the AL All-Star team, won his second Gold Glove, and came in second in the AL MVP voting, just behind teammate Mickey Mantle.

The Royal Mantle is made of purple velvet, embroidered with gold and lined with ermine fur.