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Mickey
Quiz
Answers to Mickey Mantle Quiz
Questions 81-90
(Excerpted from Mickey Mantle's award-winning DVD autobiography,
Mickey Mantle:
The American Dream
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The Deluxe
Lost
Stories Edition.
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Answer Question 81:
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His tenth-inning game-winning home
run that it the facade in Yankee Stadium on May 22, 1963. It hit it
so hard the ball bounced all the way back to the infield. A computer projection found that, had the ball not
hit the façade, it would have traveled
an astounding 734 feet! A mathematical projection showed that, if the ball was
at it's highest point when it hit the
façade (eyewitnesses are unanimous
in their agreement that the ball was still rising), the minimum distance it
would have traveled was 620 feet. |
Answer Question 82:
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Bill Fischer of the Kansas City Athletics. |
Answer Question 83:
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During a game, no. No one has. However, it is believed that he did hit a ball out
during batting practice two or three times, twice
to rightfield and, incredibly, once to leftfield. |
Answer Question 84:
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Accurate records weren't kept of this remarkable achievement. However, it
is known that Mickey hit the façade
at least three times. |
Answer Question 85:
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The 565-foot home run hit at Griffith Stadium in Washington on April 17, 1953. |
Answer Question 86:
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Denny McLain of the Detroit Tigers on September 19, 1968 at Tiger Stadium in
Detroit. It was career home run
number 535. |
Answer Question 87:
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Mickey had already said that 1968
was probably his last season. During his last game in Detroit, in what was to be his last at-bat, with the Tigers
leading 8-1, McLain who won 31 games that year, decided to give the fans a thrill. He called catcher
Bill Freehan out just a few yards from
the plate and told him he was going to let Mickey hit a home run. Mickey couldn't help but overhear what he
said, but he was suspicious. He asked Freehan if McLain meant it, and Bill
told him he thought he did. Still leery of a trick, Mickey watched McLain's
first pitch split the middle of the plate. Knowing McLain was serious, he swung
too hard on the next pitch and fouled it off. The next one, however, Mickey parked in the upper deck. McLain
laughed as Mickey rounded the bases. |
Answer Question 88:
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Joe Pepitone, the next hitter, watched
the entire event unfold. When he got up
to the plate he motioned with his hand
where he wanted McLain to place his pitch. On his first offering McLain knocked Pepitone down with a
brush-back pitch!
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Answer Question 89:
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Mickey's friend pitcher Whitey Ford
is called "Slick." |
Answer Question 90:
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Casey Stengel called a team meeting
to take some players to task for
staying out too late and partying too much. In the meeting he said, "Some of you guys are
getting 'Whiskey Slick,'" a phrase clearly
directed at Mickey, Whitey Ford and Billy Martin.
Having never heard that phrase before,
the players started calling Mickey and Whitey "Slick." Eventually it became
just Whitey's nickname. For some
reason no one ever called Billy "Slick"
as a nickname.
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Program:
Mickey Mantle:
The American Dream Comes
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The Deluxe
Lost Stories
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Program
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Program Series:
John
Madden: The American Dream
Comes To Life®
(1
hour)
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