Merlyn mantle biography of michael
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As a genuine American sports legend, Mickey Mantle was always accorded star treatment. When cops realized whom they had just pulled over for drunk driving, they inevitably closed their ticket books and drove the Yankee slugger home. When he drunkenly barreled his car into a telephone pole, nearly decapitating his wife Merlyn, the whole affair was hushed up. Not a word made the papers.
But now, a little more than a year after Mantle’s death, a new book has been published that lays bare Mantle’s shortcomings, which seem every bit as titanic as his tape measure home runs. It details his decades-long alcoholism, but it also portrays him as a cheating husband, a neglectful father, and a man whose crude, juvenile behavior persisted well into his 50s. For good measure, it also reveals him to have been the victim of child sexual abuse at the hands of a half-sister and a bed-wetter until he joined the Yankees.
Who is it that has authored this dismantling of one of our most endu
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Mickey Mantle
American baseball player (1931–1995)
Baseball player
| Mickey Mantle | |
|---|---|
Mantle in 1957 | |
| Center fielder | |
| Born:(1931-10-20)October 20, 1931 Spavinaw, Oklahoma, U.S. | |
| Died: August 13, 1995(1995-08-13) (aged 63) Dallas, Texas, U.S. | |
Batted: Switch Threw: Right | |
| April 17, 1951, for the New York Yankees | |
| September 28, 1968, for the New York Yankees | |
| Batting average | .298 |
| Hits | 2,415 |
| Home runs | 536 |
| Runs batted in | 1,509 |
| Stats at Baseball Reference | |
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| Induction | 1974 |
| Vote | 88.2% (first ballot) |
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Merlyn Mantle
American writer
Merlyn Mantle (née Johnson; January 28, 1932 – August 10, 2009) was an American author and widow of New York YankeesoutfielderMickey Mantle.[1][2]
Early life
[edit]Mantle was born in Cardin in Ottawa County in far northeastern Oklahoma.[1][2] She was the first of two daughters born to Giles and Reba Johnson.[3] She had a sister, Pat, who was three years her junior.[4]
While attending high school, she met Mickey Mantle two years before his debut in Major League Baseball.[1] Mickey was a baseball player at Commerce High School, while Merlyn was a cheerleader at the rivaling Picher High School.[1][2] Their first date took place at a movie theater along the famed Route 66 in Miami, Oklahoma.[2]
Marriage and family
[edit]On December 23, 1951, Merlyn married Mantle, following his rookie season with the New York Yankees.[1] The couple