Happy Mickey Mantle Day!

[roger_that]

The Mick would be 91 today!



Just kidding.



It pains me that Keith Hernandez's birthday would fall on Mantle's birthday. Keith is 70 today.



And actually I don't know how old Mantle would have been today--that's just a guess.



But Keith is definitely 70.



Which makes me feel old, very old.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Today would have been Mantle's 92nd birthday.



I hadn't been aware that Keith and Mantle shared a birthday.



My girlfriend's son is 16 today. He has such a complete contempt and loathing for sports that he would not care at all that he shares a birthday with Keith Hernandez and Mickey Mantle.



So I don't think I'll mention it.

[stevejrogers]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Today would have been Mantle's 92nd birthday. I hadn't been aware that Keith and Mantle shared a birthday. My girlfriend's son is 16 today. He has such a complete contempt and loathing for sports that he would not care at all that he shares a birthday with Keith Hernandez and Mickey Mantle. So I don't think I'll mention it.

Kind of young for that sort of vitriolic hatred for sports. I can see “eh, not stuff I'm interested in now, or ever.”. In a way I can see it more from someone that “learns” and “reads” more and decides there is more socio-economic sort of stuff going on with organized sports as a concept to feel that passionately against their very existence.



Had he been the target of extreme harassment and bullying from jocks in school?



Association with a piece of shit father or other family figure?

[kcmets]

Kamala Harris and Snoop Dog are celebrating today too.



Probably not together, but ya never know...

[roger_that]

Bela Lugosi and Margaret Dumont, too. Possibly together.

[Frayed Knot]

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It pains me that Keith Hernandez's birthday would fall on Mantle's birthday.

[whippoorwill]

=kcmets post_id=139680 time=1697816155 user_id=53]
Kamala Harris and Snoop Dog are celebrating today too.



Probably not together, but ya never know...

[Fman99]

As was probably the case for lots of kids growing up in NYC in the 1950's, Mickey Mantle was my dad's favorite player.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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Had he been the target of extreme harassment and bullying from jocks in school?



Association with a piece of shit father or other family figure?

[roger_that]

Frayed Knot wrote: his uni number always had to have a 7 in it.

If you define "always" differently from me. His first two years with the Cards he wore 18.

[kcmets]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Nothing so dramatic. He's autistic and opinionated. He feels the same way about soup.

I have had soup like every weekday for the last thirty years.



Let's keep this between us!

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Nothing so dramatic. He's autistic and opinionated. He feels the same way about soup. I have had soup like every weekday for the last thirty years. Let's keep this between us!

I'm kind of with him on the soup, unless it's Manhattan style clam chowder or butternut squash bisque.

[kcmets]

Is 'butternut squash bisque' some kind of MAGA code phrase? lol...

[Frayed Knot]

Frayed Knot wrote: his uni number always had to have a 7 in it. If you define "always" differently from me. His first two years with the Cards he wore 18.

Rookies don't usually get a say in such things, particularly back then.

[roger_that]

Frayed Knot wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: his uni number always had to have a 7 in it. If you define "always" differently from me. His first two years with the Cards he wore 18. Rookies don't usually get a say in such things, particularly back then.

Just busting chops. My daily exercise.

[Frayed Knot]

=Fman99 post_id=139688 time=1697824471 user_id=86]
As was probably the case for lots of kids growing up in NYC in the 1950's, Mickey Mantle was my dad's favorite player.

[kcmets]

My Mantle memories are that he was a colossal drunkard. I used to go

to his bar near Columbus Circle back in another life. There was a bartender

there who quipped when asked if Mick was there, "yeah, he's in the back but

but doesn't really know where he is."