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Mickey
Quiz
Answers to Mickey Mantle Quiz
Questions 51-60
(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 51:
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Mickey was timed rounding the bases in a blazing 13 seconds! The first time
Manager Casey Stengel timed
Mickey rounding the bases during spring training Casey thought his watch
was broken. He had Mickey run the
bases twice more to make certain he
had the right time. |
Answer Question 52:
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Mickey stole 153 bases in his career. |
Answer Question 53:
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Stealing bases is very hard on a player
physically. With power like Mickey's,
the Yankees didn't want him to get hurt stealing a base. Also, the Yankees
teams that Mickey played on were
primarily power teams. They didn't need to steal a lot of bases because
they had so many power hitters. When
you have so many players who can knock the ball out of the park and score runs with a single swing of the
bat, it's counterproductive to take a chance stealing a base when getting
caught can take you out of the inning. |
Answer Question 54:
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Mickey hit 536 career home runs,
third highest when he retired |
Answer Question 55:
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Mickey and his close friends Billy Martin and Whitey Ford.
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Answer Question 56:
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Mickey's favorite player was Stan "The Man" Musial, who played for
the St. Louis Cardinals, the closest team to Mickey's home in Oklahoma. |
Answer Question 57:
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While playing pepper during spring
training, Mickey hit a ball that got
past the other players and struck
another player walking behind them
on the shin. That player was Joe DiMaggio |
Answer Question 58:
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Mickey's first recollection of meeting
Whitey was at Whitey's wedding, which
the entire team attended after a pre-season exhibition game against
Brooklyn in 1951. |
Answer Question 59:
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Mickey thought Ralph Houk was his best manager, bringing the best out
of him. |
Answer Question 60:
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Joe DiMaggio. |
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We highly recommend
Mickey's Videography™
Program:
Mickey Mantle:
The American Dream Comes
To Life®
The Deluxe
Lost Stories
Edition
(2 hours)
Now on DVD
with nearly 200 on-screen pages of bonus features!
"The best baseball program ever made!"
- USA Today, The Washington Post, The NY Daily News, Newsday, The Los
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We also
recommend the second Videography™
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
- A must!"
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Oakland Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Sacramento Bee, The TODAY Show, ESPN... |

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