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The best hitter I ever saw was Ted Williams.

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
Hitter
Williams
Baseball
Saws
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He said to play louder. He can't hear you.
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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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Those people don't know how tough that really was.
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Because the players knew that if Billy asked them to jump off a roof, he'd jump off with them.
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The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record.
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After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.
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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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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 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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I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.
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Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
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Butcher boy, damn it, butcher boy.
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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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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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I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.
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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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During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball.
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