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.

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 ''.

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

These three characters along with Jughead Jones and Reggie Mantle are the five main characters of this long-running series of comics, which has been published in two volumes.

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.

Hall-of-Fame teammate Warren Spahn once said of the two: " Mathews is just as strong as Mantle.

Often compared with two other New York center fielders, fellow Hall of Famers, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays, he was the reigning " Duke " of Flatbush.

The second of only two Victoria Crosses awarded for action in the United Kingdom was posthumously bestowed on Jack Foreman Mantle, who died at his post on HMS Foylebank during a 1940 air raid on Portland Harbour.

Later lists also include two additional treasures, the Mantle of Tegau Eurfon, and Eluned's Stone and Ring.

* Elijah's Mantle: Angels of perversity ( 1993, " Paradis IAC " & " Quem di dilicunt-part two ")

In Game 5, he was again brought in with two men on and one out in the seventh, this time leading 4-2, and retired eight of the last nine batters, allowing only a walk to Mantle.

The final Game 7 was rougher going for Face, however ; he was brought in with two on and none out in the sixth inning, with a 4-1 lead which he surrendered via an RBI single by Mantle and a 3-run home run by Berra.

Bryn Mawr Drive is only two or three miles from the Spartan, and it took me less than five minutes to get there.

Actually, only two men know what the formula is, Blake and '' -- He stopped and looked at Thor's body.

At her door, two or three hours later, Mary Jane whispered, `` Everyone is asleep ''.

The two main charges levelled against the Bourbons by liberals is that they are racists and social reactionaries.

The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.

The one apparent connection between the two is a score of buildings which somehow or other have survived and which naturally enough are called `` historical monuments ''.

I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.

One is tempted to say that, on the difference between the concepts of sovereignty in these two preambles, the worst war of the Nineteenth century was fought.

The ambulance is drawn by two `` charming '' little horses.

moreover, it is increasingly difficult to distinguish between the two.

The first of two possible variations on this theme is symbolized by Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.

and it is surely clear that the first of these is the result of the way in which the individual's command of language interacts with the other two.

Rather it is a division established by two absolutely different ways of thought with regard to man's life in society.

There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.

It is reasonable to affirm two propositions: Jews have been perceived by non-Jews as all things to all men ; ;

but the possibility of this effort is bound up with that development of historical thought which is the greatest achievement of our civilization in the last two centuries, and it is utterly impossible to people in whom this development has not taken place.

Of the two, The Life Of Bright is incomparably the better biography.

`` But if there is no line, how can there be two countries??

This agreeable state of affairs is explicable, I think, on two counts.

There is a mediocre restaurant at Sounion and I fed a thin little Grecian cat and gave it two saucers of water -- there was no milk -- which it lapped up as though it were nectar.

`` Little Rock is, without any flattery, one of the dullest towns in the United States and I would not have remained two hours in the place, if I had not met with some good friends who made me forget its dreariness ''.

The two horses broke from the yard, from the circle of light cast by the lamp still burning in the house, into the darkness.

They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.

It was pierced by a wagon gate built of two wings.

They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.

While several yards from it, still concealed by the shrubbery, she'd seen two men on her left at the pool's edge.

The Grafin, who was charmed by her, told her, `` Your sister who was here two years ago has quite dark hair.

In two minutes the body of Tilghman's former comrade, who had been killed by Blue Throat in a gambling brawl the previous night, was carried into the town's funeral parlor to be prepared for decent burial.

When I question them as to what they mean by concepts like liberty and democracy, I find that they fall into two categories: the simpler ones who have simply accepted the shibboleths of their faith without analysis ; ;

Beyond the two basic tasks mentioned above, no attention was paid by statesman or scholar to an idea of state responsibility, either internally or externally.

The state's rights position was formulated by Jefferson and Madison in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolves, but in their later careers as heads of state the two proved themselves better Hamiltonians than Jeffersonians.

As for progress, the `` backward South '' can boast of Baton Rouge, which increased its population between 1940 and 1950 by two hundred and sixty-two percent, to 126,000, the second largest growth of the period for all cities over 25,000.

My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.

But people can't be made to integrate, socialize ( the two are inseparable by Southern standards ) by law.

He also spoke of `` the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years in unrequited toil ''.

The company grew out of efforts by two completely inexperienced men in their late twenties, neither having a formal education applicable to, or experience in, manufacturing or selling our type of articles.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

The result was the `` Gross Report '', prepared by Gross, as chairman, with the assistance of two U.N. Under Secretaries, Constantin Stavropoulos and Philippe De Seynes.

Somewhat daunted, the two American missionaries reached the police station where they were questioned by a most unfriendly clerk.