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Article: The legend of Number 7. (baseball great Mickey Mantle receives liver transplant)
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- Newsweek
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- June 19, 1995
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Baseball: A hero at bat, an abuser at the bar, Mickey Mantle is saved by a liver transplant
HE WAS A ROUGH-HEWN Oklahoma country boy with blond good looks and the power to drive the ball to places, it was said, that a ball had never been driven before. It was a good thing that he was a natural, for Mickey Mantle had to follow the great DiMaggio in the Yankee outfield and, on the grass at least, he was up to it. From the moment he donned his No. 7 jersey, all the boys in the white neighborhoods of New York--except in Brooklyn--wanted to be Mickey.
But 900 miles to the west, a young girl, too, papered her bedroom walls with pictures of the Mick. She studied the ...