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Mickey Mantle Interview
(please click on an interview comment to hear the mp3)
Modest upbringing: Commerce, Oklahoma
Love of football and basketball
Heroes: Stan Musial, Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams
Auditions for the St. Louis Browns, signs with Yankees
 Ted Williams: Signing with the Red Sox
The shortstop becomes a center-fielder
Error-prone year at shortstop
Speed, base-stealing and station-to-station baseball
Mantle's father saves his career
Mantle's relationship with his father
Yankee mentors: Casey Stengel and Hank Bauer, but DiMaggio is aloof.
Casey Stengel
Ted Williams: Rogers Hornsby
World Series fever
Falling in love with baseball and retiring at 36
Ted Williams: Retiring at 42
Joe DiMaggio
Mantle's New York City rivals at center-field: Hall of Famers Willie Mays and Duke Snider
Late friendships with Mays and Snider
Billy Martin and Whitey Ford
Copacabana: Billy Martin's infamous 29th birthday party
1956: The Triple Crown
Ted Williams: 1942 and 1947 Triple Crowns, but no MVP's
Ted Williams
Ted Williams: Mickey Mantle
Switch hitting
Ted Williams: The art of hitting
Yankee Stadium: Deep center-field and power alleys
Yankee pride
Phil Rizzuto
The Yankees' legendary farm system
Hall of Fame Yankee GM George Weiss
Victory celebration
Roger Maris and 1961's record shattering season
More on the World Champion 1961 Yankees
Yankee fans: Mantle's love, hate relationship
World Series triumphs and what could have been
Ted Williams: Never won a World Series
500th home run and the retirement of Mantle's fabled number
Ted Williams: Hitting .400
Post-baseball struggles and career
Reflections on 1990's baseball
Baseball's resurgent popularity
Ted Williams on Mickey Mantle
The Boudreau Shift: Williams defies the shift and talks about Mantle and Boudreau.
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