Article: TAPE-MEASURE SHOTS COMMON WITH MANTLE

BOB HERTZEL, Staff Writer
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
08-21-1995
TAPE-MEASURE SHOTS COMMON WITH MANTLE -- MICK'S POWER LEFT AN IMPRESSION ON
MANY
By BOB HERTZEL, Staff Writer
Date: 08-21-1995, Monday
Section: SPORTS
Edition: All Editions -- 3 Star, 2 Star P, 2 Star B, 1 Star Late, 1 Star Early
Biographical: MICKEY MANTLE

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Lost, perhaps, in the tragedy of Mickey Mantle's death and the
moralizing over his lifestyle was one fact:

The man hit a baseball farther and harder than anyone.

So it was that on a lazy Sunday morning, the talk got around to long
home runs, most of them by Mantle.

Everyone knows about the 565-foot home run he hit off left-hander
Chuck Stobbs in ...

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