Comments on: Mickey Mantle: Yankees add new exhibit http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/2012/06/09/mickey-mantle-yankees-add-new-exhibit/ Thoughts from The Oklahoman Sports Columnist Berry Tramel | NewsOK.com Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:41:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: wilie http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/2012/06/09/mickey-mantle-yankees-add-new-exhibit/comment-page-1/#comment-127577 wilie Sun, 10 Jun 2012 01:09:31 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/?p=9478#comment-127577 “The Mick”. Everybody who follows sports, young or old, knows who “The Mick” is.

]]> By: Randall http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/2012/06/09/mickey-mantle-yankees-add-new-exhibit/comment-page-1/#comment-127575 Randall Sat, 09 Jun 2012 19:13:12 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/?p=9478#comment-127575 Great writing, Berry.

I was born in 1954, so by the time I was watching and playing baseball, Mickey Mantle was a bit past his prime. He was the aging star (I don’t think that “superstar” had been coined yet) who could still hit the ball a mile, if not as often as he had just a few years before.

I remember the ’63 World Series where the Yanks got swept by the Dodgers, and the ’64 Series where the Yanks lost in 7 games to the Cardinals. And, after that, there were no more World Series–just a long, sad, decline–for Mickey Mantle.

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