Recent Posts Tagged With 'mickey mantle'

• Billy Martin’s Death on Christmas Day 1989

  Posted on Sunday December 20th, 2009 at 23:05 in 1980s, mickey mantle, billy martin, bill rigney, art rosenbaum, billy martin's death, william reedy

  To recognize the 20th anniversary of his death, I’m going to present first an account of the truck accident that killed Billy Martin and then a sampling of the many responses to the death. This, from the New York Daily News: BINGHAMTON, N.Y. &#...

• Some Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle Audio

  Posted on Friday August 28th, 2009 at 15:27 in misc., jackie robinson, mickey mantle, yogi berra

  I’ve come across some recordings of Mantle and Berra in the ’40s and ’50s, including Yogi’s first at-bat (a homer), Yogi and Jackie Robinson talking at the end of the 1955 World Series, and Mantle’s retirement ceremony a...

• The Death of Eddie Mathews

  Posted on Monday June 8th, 2009 at 19:36 in mickey mantle, dale earnhardt, deaths obituaries, hitters fielders, eddie mathews

  In the aftermath of Eddie Mathews’ death, in February 2001, the Houston Chronicle published a writer’s memory of Eddie Mathews. It included a reference to another athlete by beginning: “Life is not a game, it is not the wheel of for...