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Article: The Mantle of greatness.(Mickey Mantle dies at 63)
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- Newsweek
- Article date:
- August 21, 1995
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MICKEY MANTLE5--ISN'T THAT the greatest baseball name? Four graceful syllables, a four-bagger of a name. And now at 63 he's gone, like one of his supernatural home runs. So, is this going to be one of those sentimental paeans to departed glory, a wallow in the field of dreams? You're damned right it is. Forsaking sentiment in baseball is like watching a winning homer in the last of the ninth and saying coolly: "An excellent, well-struck hit with a highly effective trajectory." Mantle's life is like an extended Eugene O'Neill play--you can't absorb it with just your mind, you need to embrace it with your emotions. There are those who say: "Mantle's overrated. His statistics ...
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