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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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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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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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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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