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I missed seeeing this last night before I checked out for the night at 9PM EDT. I only know this because I was a big Mickey Mantle fan as a kid (my first bat, one that I used for years, was a Louisville Slugger Mickey Mantle model).
When I was a kid of course we rooted for the Red Sox but being perennial cellar dwellars in the 50s you had to pick another team to be your favorite and who better that the always in the World Series Yankees, and what better player than the faboulous Mick for a 9 or 10 year kid who read everything he could about baseball.
I used to subscribe for years to a little weekly magazine called The Baseball Digest that I think is still around. In it there were trivia facts galore, that is where I read about the Mick's first round tripper.
I remember anxiously waiting for my weekly edition of The Baseball Digest throughout my childhood. I should have paid the same attention to my schoolwork as I did The American League as a kid.
The Mick hit his first homeer off a journeyman right hander (basically his only claim to fame was he gave up the homer) by the name of Randy Gumpert of the ChiSox on Mayday of 1951.
Gumpert who played with 4 or 5 teams in his career actually played the 1952 season with Boston in the AL..
An old Baseball Digest cover.
wil..
I missed seeeing this last night before I checked out for the night at 9PM EDT. I only know this because I was a big Mickey Mantle fan as a kid (my first bat, one that I used for years, was a Louisville Slugger Mickey Mantle model).
When I was a kid of course we rooted for the Red Sox but being perennial cellar dwellars in the 50s you had to pick another team to be your favorite and who better that the always in the World Series Yankees, and what better player than the faboulous Mick for a 9 or 10 year kid who read everything he could about baseball.
I used to subscribe for years to a little weekly magazine called The Baseball Digest that I think is still around. In it there were trivia facts galore, that is where I read about the Mick's first round tripper.
I remember anxiously waiting for my weekly edition of The Baseball Digest throughout my childhood. I should have paid the same attention to my schoolwork as I did The American League as a kid.
The Mick hit his first homeer off a journeyman right hander (basically his only claim to fame was he gave up the homer) by the name of Randy Gumpert of the ChiSox on Mayday of 1951.
Gumpert who played with 4 or 5 teams in his career actually played the 1952 season with Boston in the AL..
An old Baseball Digest cover.
wil..
belly, when I was a kid I had Mickey Mantle's card from his last season. I went to college and lost sight of it. Back in '92 my brother told me he found my baseball cards. Somehow they ended up in his foot locker.
Sure enough, there was the Mantle card. I was unemployed at the time so I took it to a card show and got over $100 for it.
