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In the glory days of Orioles, when I was a newbie baseball writer for the Post, the roster of talkers was as…
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There is nothing incompatible about laughter and demons, nor about athletic achievement and depression. Mike Flanagan made me laugh, too. But mostly,…
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When my father realized he was going blind, he took up golf.
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In 1927, my father descended the heights and took his place as the newly appointed water boy for his beloved New York…
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On winter Sundays when I was a child, we waited for my father to return from his tennis game with bagels and…
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He really loved baseball and loved being on the field. But Mantle was lonely in a lot of ways. He had many…
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Indianapolis proved to be the perfect Super Bowl city, accommodating in the truest sense of the word.
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Naming is a privilege of reason and the province of bullies. We name to tame and to maim; to honor the great,…
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Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman…
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Claire Hodgson, born Clara Mae Merritt, was the daughter of a prominent Georgia attorney who had once represented Ty Cobb. She was…
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There is no free speech in football. Information is parsed by monosyllabic head coaches, who dictate who gets to speak to whom…
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Trauma fractures comprehension as a pebble shatters a windshield. The wound at the site of impact spreads across the field of vision,…
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If that guy (Mickey Mantle) were healthy, he'd hit 80 home runs.
— Carl Yastrzemski
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I think it's incredible because there were guys like (Willie) Mays and (Mickey) Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for…
— Sandy Koufax
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He (Mickey Mantle) should lead the league in everything. With his combination of speed and power he should win the triple batting…
— Casey Stengel
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On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived.
— Nellie Fox
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Carl Yastrzemski was the best all-around player. He could run, throw and hit. He had the ability to play a number of…
— Al Kaline
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Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it's a deal.
— Branch Rickey
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In Naples, Fla., I met a self-made man, a multimillionaire, whose round penthouse apartment is home to Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Henry…
— Jane Leavy
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Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys.
— Bert Campaneris
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Everyone has someone they looked up to. Mine was Mickey Mantle. For Alex Rodriguez to idolize me coming up, that makes me…
— Keith Hernandez
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