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He said to play louder. He can't hear you.

Mickey Mantle

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Mickey Mantle
Age: 63 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 20
Died: 1995
Died: August 13
Baseball Player
Dallas
Texas
Mickey Charles Mantle
Louder
Baseball
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He can run, steal bases, throw, hit for average, and hit with power like I've never seen. Just don't put him at shortstop.
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I never got to see the '27 Yankees. Everyone says that was the greatest team ever. But I think it would've been a great series if we'd have had the chance to play them.
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Casey wanted us to stay loose. That didn't mean clowning around. He just meant we should be confident and relaxed. We shouldn't feel that one strikeout was going to end the season for us.
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Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy.
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I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.
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Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.
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My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.
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Ralph (Houk) brought out the best in everybody, and that included me. I consider myself lucky to have played for him.
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Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
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Billy (Martin) was a great one for jokes. He liked to play a joke more than anyone I ever knew.
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The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.
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Don't do as I did. I'm living proof of how not to live.
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I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
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A lot of people wrote that Roger (Maris) and I didn't like each other and that we didn't get along. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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I had it all and blew it.
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His fielding leaves you wondering. Then he steps up to hit and all doubts start to fade.
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If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.
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It was the single greatest feat I ever saw.
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Before you go, would you sign that case of balls for me?
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