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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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Mickey Mantle
Age: 63 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 20
Died: 1995
Died: August 13
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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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I don't know why, but for some reason I seem to be more popular now than when I was playing.
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Don't do as I did. I'm living proof of how not to live.
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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 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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When I'm hitting, I'd play for nothing. When I'm not, any kind of money I receive makes me feel as if I'm stealing.
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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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I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.
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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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I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.
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The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.
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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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If I were playing today I'd do what Joe DiMaggio said. I'd go knock on the door at Yankee Stadium and when George Steinbrenner answered I'd say, 'Howdy, pardner.'
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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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Before you go, would you sign that case of balls for me?
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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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The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.
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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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