Remembering Mickey Mantle

JustinVerlander35 · Aug 13, 2012

It was 17 years ago today that the baseball world lost the legendary Mickey Mantle. Mantle was 63-years-old and suffering liver cancer from all the years of alcohol abuse at his time of death in 1995.

Mickey Charles Mantle was born October 20, 1931 in Spavinaw, Oklahoma. Mickey’s father, Elvin Mantle, better known as “Mutt”, was a big baseball fan, and named Mickey after the Hall of Fame catcher Mickey Cochrane.

As a teenager, Mantle played football, baseball, and even Basketball at Commerce High School in Commerce, Oklahoma. His dreams of being an athlete were almost shattered at a young age. Mantle was kicked in the shin during a game and his leg became infected with osteomyelitis, and nearly had to be amputated. Luckily, they were able to treat Mantle’s leg with penicillin.
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