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Article: Mickey Mantle dead of cancer The icon for a baseball era was 63
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 14, 1995
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Willie Mays covered more ground in center field. Hank Aaron
cranked more homers. Ted Williams hit for a higher average and
struck out less. Stan Musial had a sweeter swing and Roberto
Clemente a better arm.
But none of them belonged to America like The Mick.
While the nation slept, Mickey Mantle died early yesterday in a
Dallas hospital. He was 63. Gifted with more power and speed than
any ballplayer of his generation, Mantle in recent months was ravaged
by self-inflicted liver disease and cancer.
And so another in the Yankees' procession of legends is gone and
those gray New York road uniforms will look particularly bland and
sad when the Yanks play the Red Sox tonight in Fenway ...