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The best hitter I ever saw was Ted Williams.

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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
Ever
Hitter
Williams
Baseball
Saws
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Sometimes I sit in my den at home and read stories about myself. Kids used to save whole scrapbooks on me. They get tired of them and mail them to me. I'll go in there and read them, and you know what? They might as well be about (Stan) Musial and (Joe) DiMaggio, it's like reading about somebody else.
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The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.
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As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.
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I never understood how someone who was dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world, but now I understand.
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This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.
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I had it all and blew it.
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The strain on Roger (Maris) was unbelievable. After I dropped out the reporters only had one guy to go to. They surrounded him everywhere he went. He had big clumps of hair falling out. That he went ahead and did it was unbelievable.
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Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
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I don't care what the situation was, how high the stakes were - the bases could be loaded and the pennant riding on every pitch, it never bothered Whitey. He pitched his game. Cool. Craft. Nerves of steel.
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Butcher boy, damn it, butcher boy.
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You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat.
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Hey man! Get away from me!
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The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.
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If I send the ball home, I know what will happen to it. My twin brothers will take it out on the lot, like any 20-cent rocket.
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The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.
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It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.
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If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.
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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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