Mickey Mantle - interview -Later with Bob Costas 10/20/91 New York Yankee

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for the popular demand of a third appearance, it is the number seven of Mickey Mantle, this is the week of the World Series that is true enough, but also yesterday on October 20, 1991 it was Mickey's 60th birthday, now, now I know that people have been arriving at you for several weeks saying that I cannot believe that Mickey Mantle is 60. Can I believe what I do not happen? 10 years I have felt so well or better than when I was playing how much this effusion of affection surprises you now for you you were always a very popular player, but now he went back into the 80s and early 90 Tears in his eyes and say that Mickey took me for 30 years to get here, do I mean that my hand realized my hand?

That has ever lived and the boy looked at me and said that Dad is an old man, but anyway, for some reason or another, and I suppose that is what I retired in 69 and from 1969 to 74 when I went to the Hall of Fame, it was something like Mickey Mantle, since I mean that they told me to Dallas Texas and that we had a couple of Mickey, Bowling, and things that I did not go to the boley couple, and that they did not tell me to Mickey's food, and they told me that it was not a

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Going well, you know, and made no difference in which I wouldn't care, you don't know and that is not that people also pass through those lines and say, don't you get tired of signing your name? Now that I am more popular than it was when I played, you mentioned Mickey Mantle's country kitchen, which was one of those businesses did not turn out so well after you retired, but you had a great idea for a slogan and if they had only used the slogan, then the thing would have been more popular than Kentucky Fried Chicken, that I used this slogan myself and I am sure that I am sure that I am sure that I am sure that I am sure that I am sure that I am sure that I am sure that I It is the most popular night at night.

Be a rooster, I noticed that Willie Mays was opening a fried chicken place in Jersey here lately and wanted to convey that slogan to see if he used it and see if he worked for him, this is the year of many baseball anniversaries and you are involved in one way or another and three of the 1951, Bobby Thompson, but you are a while of your famous homer. The Dodgers or the giants made the game on television or listened to it on the UM UM radio. I can't remember if I saw that game or not, Uh Billy was with the Yankees at that time too and I also hesitated that we are going the game, so Billy Martin was probably preparing you and got excited for the World Series that we were really preparing for the series, yes, what you like, was his last year that was his first year that was the first year of your first year.

Knowing that my locker was right next to Joe's in the UH Yankee lock in the costumes and UH, he was my idol, when I left, you know, you know that he is probably the best that they did not see me with that year and it was not yet good in his last year, but that he is probably the best baseball player or anything that has been a baseball player or anything that is not a great game, if he is not a great game. I talked to me, I would say that Hey Joe how you do it, but I liked that I was waiting until sometimes I said, hey, Joe, how you are and he advances and feels, you know, so it was as if you left him, he was the boss, yes, 35 years ago, this month, Don Larson released his perfect game in the 1956 World Series and did not make a day You remember what you do not remember that day, what you do not remember that day, what you do not remember that day, which I remember I remember, what did not remember that great day, what I remember that day, what I remember that day, what I remember that day. captures, but I remember that one is here, the launch that reaches this impulse to a geek on the left side Ricky Model Ricky a lot for her count. or four blows of him.

I ask for a home run. I think of the fifth entrance, yes, what was Larson as in the bank that is trying to make someone speak with him, you know that he is, we call him a bird of Gunny and the name of the house, I tell myself that the name, not even, which he knows that he is on the side of all, since everything allio everything at all over everything from everything to everything to everything to everything. Mick, you know I have to know here, wouldn't it be fun if to launch a hits that everyone tries to stay away from him?

Let's say or said that the two tried to introduce yourself as rivals, but you told me many times before they were not only your rivals, you were very good friends, Oh in New York, you can choose your own roommates on the road, do you know well, did not have a roommate who did not have a roommate and that we stop having a room? I think that with Cletus Boyer, but anyway in New York, you can choose who you want a room with you, and I and he had an apartment at the Laguardia airport, I do not think that I and me had an argument that I can remember most of the time that he got up a little before I know that I can remember that I would be lying on the bed and that he takes me and put me in the head with a newspaper of a fighting room, and that would take you to bed.

Yes, and then we sat there and laughed on the article in the newspaper that you know where we had a fight, I do not think we had an argument of what was the worst thing ever felt, since the result of a baseball game against Masrowski's Homer in 1960 yes, yes, Um scored 58 races and qualified 23 something like it was the only time I have lost the best team. I simply couldn't stand, I cried, I have been with the Yankees for 11 years and then I cried all the time for 10 years, I suppose that good, you won your game 16 to 3 10 nothing and 12 nothing and did not win all the closed games and then, in this seventh game, Mazroski hits the home run from 10 to 9 and it is a wild scene that is running around the bases and memory of yogi On the left.

Know that the brick wall in which Yogi faces the wall, so he supports it, you know, in case he hit the wall and when he went through the wall, I looked at yogi and yogi turned and it seemed that Minnie went well, they realize that it is a swing and a high steering wheel ball that is deep, especially fanatics that are not old enough. You couldn't run anymore, so many younger fans do not realize how fast you were, I mean in a flat standing race, you were faster than Willie Mays or faster than whoever is from anyone, yes, could it?

Derta, so that is that, that's really fast, that's a little faster and Ricky Henderson goes home at the first time. First I asked Ted Williams this time and laughed. That is what I can get if sometimes if I drink, you know that I told you about my dream, I have that I am trying to return something that you know most of the times you look or you cannot run first or something from time to time from time to time that I make contact and I can see that I pass through a roof or something that you know with the skin of chicken With which I wake up with the one that shows me that it seems like a clip, you feel good and that is the way I felt when I got to a home run.

That is what I am there for you to know and, compared to the search, it is really great, is that the way you always think of yourself you know how I said that you are a modest guy, but when you think of a baseball a type of baseball. You never entered the middle of that if you are talking, did I enter there? If I run there, who am I hit you? Do you know that I liked all the boys, so I started jogging towards the mound you know and suddenly behind Norm Cass jumped on me and threw me on the floor?

A little endearing humor in the field that someone told me that you, but I never got into them, it seems to me that the fights they have today are more serious than those that used to have that you know I mean the closest to the closest to having a Bob Bob Turley who used to call the throws in the throws that you know how the way in which a pitcher of a pitcher would go with a ball or something that he could detect the ball. In fast balls I love to reach science, some boys like the Ancodan lover did not like it, I made it balance in bad balls or something, but I would love to know if especially in a slow curve, you know that if you know that a slow curve is coming, it is like a guy who goes here, so, so, so, and when does he accompany him?

The first time in Detroit Jim Bunning was throwing and listening it, I hit him through the roof of the right garden the next time Bunny has a boy, there is a boy in which I am hitting first and he is receiving a sign that he is going like that, he can listen to Turley, it is really quiet, it is difficult to do that he does it, so I know it is a bunning, what comes to the time. Freehand of me, for what he tells me. They are calling me my throws, yes, from the bench, I want to tear it down and I can say it, so I can listen to it, since you know, so he returns to the mound at hand and told him that I'm going to get out now, but I will be, I will see you after the game that is the closest thing I had to fight and he did not tear down again after that, not fortunately.

Looking at some of the clips and saw the home run that you hit Barney Schultz in 1964 in the 1964 World Series, and that also broke the Babe Ruth record for most homers in the home run in the series of the series in the home run at the time of the series of the series. And and games, yes, you know that I played in 2 401 games like a Yankee, which is more than any Yang, many people do not realize that because they think that they hurt all the time, but there are as many good things that happen as going in the Hall of Fame in my first attempt, you know three more valuable players that the league leads and that leaves alone, only 12 American championships of the American League of the American League American League of the first 14 years, with so many?

I think that probably if I had something I could choose, it would have been 19 as 1969, I think it was that they had Mickey's day I held in the stadium, this is before renewing the stadium and there were 72,000 people who presented themselves and presented me around the field in a golf course and the number seven of the employees were removed and I think they had only removed the numbers three and five for Ruth and Gary and Dimagio and Dimagio and Dimagio Dimague and the number seven of the regularios withdrew. Oklahoma so that his UH uniform retired with those three types and hanging on the central field wall at Yankee Stadium was really something and now the Yankee Mickey Medal stadium is all yours.

It was there that day I was there for that and also the one that gave them a day, while he was still an active player in 1965, and I can say that it is a thing that is one thing for a quarter of the one who did not give him a day, which is not an active player in 1965. Have 10 minutes of applaud and sustained cheers, that was all that was only 10 people who did not want to stop and try to come to the microphone to talk to you, And remember that you know that you are talking on home's dish at the Yankee Estadium difficult enough and I am thinking about what I have to say well and to continue sitting there and that I am sitting, I am still sitting that I am sitting there thinking that I am saying that he is saying that he is saying that he is saying that he is saying that he is saying that he is saying that he is saying that he is saying that he is saying that he is saying that he is saying that he is saying that he is saying that That he is saying that he is saying that he is saying that he is saying that he is saying that he is saying that he is saying that he is saying that he is saying that he is saying that he is saying that he is saying that he is saying that he is saying that he is saying that he is doing everything he is.

Thinking that you know and now it was scary to think that the Yankees withdraw my number seven with the numbers three four and five tops of everything I could wish that I have often wondered how a man who knew that he was going to die could be here and say that he is the most fortunate man in the world, but now that I think that is what is what is what is what is what is what a clock is. You know everything about me, I know a lot of good anyway, anyway, this is the clock, can you get a shot?

On the back, if you can tell me who I hit my seven, you receive a letter with the clock in a brown teak box, it is a really pleasant box with a velvet inside and there is a letter there that I signed it, what has signed me, says it is my seventh homer. Everything I am going to give that if you can get that if you get that, I will give you that number seven clock, do I really know that number one came out of a guy called Gumpert Randy Randy of the Chicago Blancos Mederos, I knew that I would not ask you that a number seven would have been in 1951Why did you have 13 home runs like Rookie?

I hope I don't like it. Team I was against giving me I will not let you know here well, I guarantee that everything they feel there, let's forget, I say that the virgin trucks that you obtained the right year was Detroit, was it against Detroit? The same as they were a lot, like these two boys, the correct UH Dave Ferris Good, is not good, but does not play at home, aren't you ok who you put in this home run of Ellis Kander Ellis Kinder Ladies and Gentlemen after this based on when we are recording? See you

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