At the plate, he draws comparisons to such luminaries as Ty Cobb and Mickey Mantle.
Like Mickey Mantle, it might even be the preternaturally gifted athlete gracing the game.
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If you want to get every possible dollar you can, pick the Mickey Mantle option.
Mickey Mantle's alcoholism was never front and center until it had almost killed him.
James ranks Musial 10th, behind Ty Cobb, Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams, Walter Johnson and Josh Gibson.
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Robinson Cano opened the sixth with his 344th career double, tying Mickey Mantle for eighth place in Yankees history.
He feels that integrity and character have only been applied in recent years, and for proof he offers Mickey Mantle.
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I've likened it to being the man the Yankees sent out in center field after Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle.
It's the kind of argument that will never be settled, like who was a better ballplayer, Willie Mays or Mickey Mantle.
His contemporary Mickey Mantle was well on the down slope by 33.
By appearing in his 19th Yankees season, Rivera broke a tie with Yogi Berra, Mickey Mantle and Jeter to set the franchise mark.
Johnny Unitas, Mickey Mantle and Wilt Chamberlain were acknowledged as iconic sports figures, but the country still had its priorities fixed where they counted most.
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After fast tracking through the minors, drawing comparisons to Mickey Mantle along the way, Harper made his first Major League appearance in Los Angeles last weekend.
Berman, for his part, likes the 1961 Yankees of Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, though our analysis shows that 109-53 team was helped by the expansion of two new franchises that year, inflating its win total.
Talk of the best-ever teams starts with a pair of New York Yankee clubs--the 1927 "Murderers Row" lineup featuring Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, and the 1961 group led by sluggers Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris.
He had heard the rumblings that his team wanted to move him out of one of the most prestigious positions in sports: center field for the New York Yankees, onetime home of Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle.
But Stan the Man was famous, not for earning more than the President (like Babe Ruth), marrying Marilyn Monroe (like Joe DiMaggio), spitting on fans (like Ted Williams) or going on epic benders (like Mickey Mantle), but for hitting a baseball.
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Louis, he was undeservedly not as well regarded nationally as, say, Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams or Joe DiMaggio, because he was from the Midwest, away from New York, the media capital of the world, and therefore was not as celebrated.
The slugging decades of the 1950s, '60s, '90s and 2000s show that a host of players--Aaron, Willie Mays, Frank Robinson, Mickey Mantle, Harmon Killebrew, Bonds, McGwire, Sammy Sosa and Rafael Palmeiro--come in lower in relative terms than their lifetime home run totals suggest.
Mickey Harte has taken over the mantle of Tyrone Senior Football manager.
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