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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
Williams
Baseball
Saws
Best
Ever
Hitter

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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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I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.
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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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I expected him to say, 'Hang in there' or something like that. It took me an hour to talk him into giving me another chance!
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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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Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy.
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A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
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We know you can bunt, Mick. You're not down here to bunt. You're here to get some hits and get your swing back.
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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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What did you say, Joe?
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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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Every time I see his name (Dean Chance) on a lineup card, I feel like throwing up.
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You might as well go in and start getting dressed. I'm going to hit his first pitch for a home run.
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My biggest regret was letting my lifetime average drop below .300. I always felt I was a .300 hitter, and if I could change one thing that would be it.
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I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.
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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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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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All I have is natural ability.
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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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I wanted to throw my glass at the TV.
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