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The Enemy Speaks: Dirty Jocks

Welcome to this edition of The Enemy Speaks, Recent Crap Edition. Here are the interesting tidbits gleaned from NOT listening to the Brennemen, but rather to the opposing team's announcers,...

This Week in Baseball Season One Recaps: Episode 9

Matthew Callan Feb 22 2013, 1:00p

In episode 9 of TWIB '77, Mel Allen and co. face the fears of expansion team balks, Walnut Hands, and CLOWNS.

So You Think You've Seen a Slow Start

jay jaffe Pinstriped Bible Apr 10 2012, 4:56p

The Yankees finally put one in the win column on Monday night, beating the Orioles 6-2 behind a dogged effort from Ivan Nova (seven innings of two-run ball despite yielding 10 hits) after being...

Making The Last Out

Cliff Corcoran Pinstriped Bible Oct 14 2011, 4:42p

Alex Rodriguez tied a Yankee record by making the last out of their last two postseasons. (AP) As a kid I was fascinated with the final out...

Shots of a Lifetime

jay jaffe Pinstriped Bible Feb 10 2011, 12:05p

Mickey Mantle as photographed by Hy Peskin. Via Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness and UniWatch, check out this this sumptuous archive of...

Forty-Sixed

Cliff Corcoran Pinstriped Bible Feb 11 2011, 5:30a

The Yankees have some hard decisions coming up about which numbers to retire. (AP) Andy Pettitte's retirement last week raised an interesting question about the future of the Yankees'...

Mickey Mantle, Billy Martin, Casey Stengel, and the Battle of the Bottle

Steven Goldman Pinstriped Bible Aug 13 2012, 3:51p

Ruminating on Mickey Mantle, Billy Martin, Casey Stengel, and alcohol on the occasion of the anniversary of Mantle's death.

Then There Was One.

BatesHorn Barking Carnival Feb 28 2011, 12:47p

Duke Snider died this weekend. The Duke of Flatbush was 85 and sadly, the last two decades of his life was a parable for many a sports star: beset with money and health problems and largely...

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As for what Mantle lost to injuries and destructive self-indulgence, we can only guess. But it...

posted by philkid3, Jun 03, 2010

As for what Mantle lost to injuries and destructive self-indulgence, we can only guess. But it wouldn't be much of a stretch to consider Ken Griffey Jr. to be the second-coming of Mantle and use the second of Junior's career as an indication of what The Mick might have done. The statistical similarity over their first eight seasons -- each compared to the other at the same age -- is stunning.

Unique among the elite company represented by this squad, Mickey Mantle's actual accomplishments whet the appetite for what he might have done had he remained healthy enough long enough to reach his full potential. As we've suggested here, to estimate the heights he should have reached, keep an eye on Junior.

— All Century Team, 1999 This is an excerpt from the Mickey Mantle article in the hardcover All Century Team book, which I for my birthday ten years ago almost to the day. At the time it was interesting, and a decade later I find it haunting.

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Today in Sports History: September 19th

misterpincus SBNation.com Sep 19 2010, 2:00p

Tom Gamboa's fat beatdown and Denny McLain's fat pitch to Mantle.

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