He was the best and most glamorous player on the best and ... challenged by football or basketball, putting a Jackie Robinson, Willie Mays or Mickey Mantle in the center of the sports stage.

Mickey Charles Mantle was the epitome of an athlete. Agile, fearless, and courageous. He was looked at as one of the best ever to play the great ... played baseball, basketball, and football ...

In 2009, Mickey Mantle would not have been criticized ... and the cyst that developed on the back of the knee by playing basketball too soon after the operation was gone. Casey Stengel, who ...

Mick’s response is indeed his, in his handwriting, but it was meant to shock the very straight-laced Bob Fishel on whom he was always playing practical jokes. Mickey Mantle was one of the ...

The Yankees were visiting Sarasota, 30 minutes away, to play ... huge Mickey Mantle fan since about 1951-1952,” Olsen told me. He dearly wanted his autograph. The high school’s head basketball ...

Signed vintage cards have been on the rise in the past few years, with autographed 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle cards leading the ...