Mickey Mantle biography
Mickey Mantle, in full Mickey Charles Mantle, byname the Mick, (born October 20, 1931, Spavinaw, Oklahoma, U.S.—died August 13, 1995, Dallas, Texas), skilled American League baseball participant for the New York Yankees (1951–68), who was a robust switch-hitter (right- and left-handed) and who hit 536 dwelling runs. He helped the Yankees win seven World Series (1951–53, 1956, 1958, 1961–62).
Mantle started enjoying baseball as a Little League shortstop and at Commerce (Oklahoma) High School. A soccer harm sustained in 1946 led to osteomyelitis, a bone-tissue an infection, which required 5 operations earlier than the illness was managed.
Mantle performed as an outfielder on Yankee farm golf equipment (1949–50) and joined the Yankees in 1951. He performed with them primarily as an outfielder till he went to first base in 1967. He performed a lot of his profession closely taped due to his earlier bone illness. He led the league in dwelling runs for 4 seasons (1955–56, 1958, and 1960), and in 1961, when his teammate Roger Maris broke Babe Ruth’s season dwelling run report, Mantle hit a season excessive of 54. He led the league six instances in runs scored (1954, 1956–58, 1960–61) and in runs batted in (RBIs) in 1956, the 12 months he gained the league Triple Crown for dwelling runs, RBIs, and batting common (.353). In the Nineteen Eighties his profession 536 dwelling runs positioned him sixth amongst home-run hitters. He performed in 12 World Series (1951–53, 1955–58, 1960–64), hitting a report 18 dwelling runs in them. He was voted the American League’s Most Valuable Player in 1956, 1957, and 1962.
After his retirement as a participant Mantle coached for the Yankees and bought life insurance coverage. In 1983 the baseball commissioner barred him from any reference to skilled baseball as a result of he had taken a public-relations place with an Atlantic City (New Jersey) playing on line casino. The ban was lifted in 1985. Mantle was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974.