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Mickey
Quiz
Answers to Mickey Mantle Quiz
Questions 11-20
(Excerpted from Mickey Mantle's award-winning DVD autobiography,
Mickey Mantle:
The American Dream
Comes To Life®-
The Deluxe
Lost
Stories Edition.
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Answer Question 11:
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To put it bluntly, Mickey wasn't a very good shortstop. He made a lot of errors.
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Answer Question 12:
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Mickey appeared at shortstop for the
Yankees in seven games: one in 1953,
four in 1954 and two in 1955. |
Answer Question 13:
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Besides playing in the outfield, Mickey
also played one game at third base,
one game at second base, and 262 games at first base. |
Answer Question 14:
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Mickey jumped from the class "C"
Joplin Miners directly to the Yankees,
the first player in Yankees' history to do that. |
Answer Question 15:
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Mickey's first year (his rookie season) with the Yankees was
1951. |
Answer Question 16:
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Mickey received $7,500, $2,500 above
the major league minimum, provided
he remained with the team the entire
season. |
Answer Question 17:
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Casey Stengel advocated that Mickey
stay with the team in 1951. On the train
from New York to Washington for opening day Casey negotiated with Dan
Topping, Del Webb and George Weiss, insisting
that Mickey receive $2,500 above the minimum. |
Answer Question 18:
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Mickey's teammate second baseman Gil McDougald. |
Answer Question 19:
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Mickey's first number with the Yankees was
"6." He wore #6 for the first half of his rookie
year.
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Answer Question 20:
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Mickey's first major league game was
scheduled to be in Washington, DC against the Washington Senators. However, the series was rained out and
the Yankees opened at Yankee Stadium
on April 17, 1951. |
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Mickey's Videography™
Program:
Mickey Mantle:
The American Dream Comes
To Life®
The Deluxe
Lost Stories
Edition
(2 hours)
Now on DVD
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We also
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Program
in the Comes To Life®
Program Series:
John
Madden: The American Dream
Comes To Life®
(1
hour)
Now on DVD! The original program in its entirety -
not one frame has been omitted.
"60 delightful minutes
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