When he got cancer a whole generation felt the fear of death," said author Roger Kahn about Mickey Mantle on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series. April 17, 1952 - It was the fifth inning at Griffith ...
When a man of a certain age says he dreamed of playing centerfield for the New York Yankees, what he really means is that he wanted to be Mickey Mantle. For boys growing up in the 1950s and '60s, ...