Mickey Mantle, one of his friends said ... Long Count" to Gene Tunney and winning over the nation, the Mick lost a home-run race and won millions of fans. Like many sports heroes, Mantle would ...

Two home runs deserve special mention ... He died of cancer on Aug. 13, 1995 in Dallas. Mickey Mantle was 63. In his eulogy, announcer Bob Costas pointed out why a nation turned its eyes toward ...

Mickey Mantle’s presence is all around Chickasaw ... which will be worn on home hats, and a baseball shooting like a comment ...

That self-evident fact came home to me a few years ago when I read The Baseball 100 by Joe Posnanski, which contains essays about the greatest baseball players of all time (Mickey Mantle was ...