Mickey Mantle: The Definitive Story (MLB Baseball Sports Documentary)

Baseball will never be like this again. What a golden age for baseball.

If he would not of been injured... Mantle would of been the best ever.

I am 76 years old. Saw many greats. In my estimation Mickey was the best. Other than Babe ...Greatest Yankee.

I went to a game with my dad in 1961 at old Comiskey park in Chicago. Mantle and Maris were both chasing Babe Ruth's record of 61 home runs in a season. In batting practice Mantle hit 5 straight balls into the upper deck two almost went over the roof. In the first inning the Yankees loaded the bases with Mantle coming up. My dad said " the Sox have to walk him he hit all those balls in batting practice". I said "they are not going to walk in a run".  the Sox pitched to him and he hit a grand slam deep into the upper deck in right field. My dad bitched the rest of the game and all the way home how they should have walked him. I will never forget that day or the memory of seeing one of the greatest baseball players ever.Six years ago I had the privilege of talking to Bill "moose" Skowron who is on this tape. He was one of Mickey's closest friends on the Yankees and described Mickey the same as he is portrayed on this tape.He said one game Mantle went 0 for 4 and when he sat down next to Mickey after the game he was crying and Moose said "forget about today we play again tomorrow". Mickey said" yeah I know but I let 50,000 people down today". Do you think any players today do that?. I don't think so.

The reason I learned to switch hit was Mickey. I went to the railroad tracks, like he did. Learned how to pivot without falling off the track. A true hero. Him, and Ted Williams. The kind of people we will never see again.

I was fortunate to be born in Manhattan and go to hundreds of N.Y. Yankee games. Every kid wanted to wear number 7 even on a tee shirt playing stick ball. God Bless you Mickey rest in peace. You gave me so many fond memories watching you play center field. I cried like a baby after watching this documentary.

I frickin hate the Yankees, but whenever I play sports, I wear number 7 for Mickey Mantle. He was my Dads favorite player, so, respect.

We still love you in 2021 Mickey Mantle. Rest In Peace brother.

Was only alive for 4 days before Mickey Mantle died. But every few years I rewatch this doc and for years have researched Mantle and love learning about him. Even as a Met fan, Mantle is my favorite player. Wish it was around to watch him play and imo is the greatest of all time

I met Mickey Mantle in October 1988 a card show at the Minnesota State Fair Grounds. He was awesome. I knew the promoter of the shows and after it was done he let me stick around in back and I got to talk with him for a few minutes. I was an usher at Met Stadium when I was in high school and when I was working the entry right by the visitor's clubhouse I met Billy Martin who was managing the A's. So we talked a little about that, I told him I had read his book The Mick he said I should have brought it for him to sign. Big difference from how he said he had treated people in the past in the book. He might not have been a good guy as a player ( as he admitted in the book) but he was sure gracious that day for sure.

I was born in 1970 didn't know who he was till I was in my teens my mom told me about him and took me to a card show in Toledo Ohio in 86 he's still one of my favorite ballplayers that I've never seen play before I was born. He was very nice to meet and still have the picture my mom took of shaking his hand. Sorry for the long read.

What a story. I grew up in Oklahoma. Mickey Mantle, Jim Shoulders, and OU Football brought Oklahoma out of the dust bowl and put Oklahoma on the map. Of the three, Mickey Mantle was my hero. I would watch Yankee games on black and white TV, later in color during the Mantle-Maris home run spree. You just don't see athletes like that anymore. $1100 signing bonus? Parking meters are more than that in New York.

As a boy, I had two heroes, Mickey and my dad. It was so amazing my dad and Mickey we’re just about the same age and looked so much alike. They had the same bodybuild with those big forearms, strong as horses but fast as a deer. And ironically they both died from the same disease. I was very fortunate to have them both in my childhood. So many fools continue to knock Mickey even to this day but they don’t realize he went through living hell is a child. He was sexually abused multiple times as a boy and this caused him to be a bedwetter to age 14. And of course he was haunted with the prospect of dying very young from Hodgkins. In the end, Mickey set the record straight, repented of his wrong doings and got right with God and his family. Let no one judge the hero who fell, for when a hero falls we do not step on him, we offer our hand of help, for what he has given us can never be repaid.

No matter fame and fortune. Popular or unpopular. The good or the bad. We are all human and share in commonality the thing called life. We all share highs and lows. What Mickey did for the game of baseball was great, but his messages about how to truly live toward the end of his life i'm sure helped more people than we will ever know. Keep swingin' Mick. We love you!

no doubt at all , Mickey was my Hero , my Idol , to this day i still look up to Mickey , there is always a part of him in my life

The greatest of his era. An unbelievable ball player. First time I saw him as a 7 year old he hit one nearly 500 ft. Immediately became a fan.

as a red sox fan i am not ashamed to admit that in my youth Mickey Mantle was my hero.

From an Orioles fan, thanks Mickey. Baseball is great, a lot of it's because of you.

He was larger than life. Every boy growing up in the 50`s & 60`s fantasized of becoming Mickey...nobody else!

Mantle and Maris take me back to my childhood. My cousin was a baseball geek and tell you all the records that the Yankees had. Those were happy times then you grow up and seems that we concentrate too much on our work and careers. By the way my cousin Steve was killed in a car accident in 69. When I hear of the Yankees from that period I think of Steve and his love of the Yankees.🇺🇸✝️