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Article: The Two Mickey Mantles
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 18, 1995
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Mickey Mantle died amid a sea of ink and chat about his, well,
imperfections. As everyone knows by now, the mythic slugger, the all-
American baseball hero, abused body and mind -- and deeply wounded
his family -- as he descended into an alcoholism which lasted
through most of his post-baseball life. Then, last year, he sobered
up and went straight. And finally, while succumbing to liver cancer
caused by his bad living, he expressed remorse and regret, urging
others, "Don't be like me."
We Americans are not very good at dealing with flaws in our
heroes. Until recently, our preferred habit was to ignore or suppress
the flaws (John Kennedy's, for example). Now we wallow in them. Call
it the ...
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