162 game average numbers, with TheMick listed first, then Manny
Avg .298 .315
R 113 111
RBI 102 133
HR 36 41
2B 23 39
3B 5 1
OPS .977 1.006
K 115 128
Really a pretty persuasive case for Manny here.
Take the vaunted Mickster out of The Stadium with that short ass RF porch and he's likely down to well under 500 HRs, thus making him pretty much an earlier version of Eddie Murray.
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Yeah, that it..Mickey Mantle was just another Eddie Murray
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Mantle also hit some of the longest home runs in
Major League history. On September 10, 1960, he hit a ball left-handed that cleared the right-field roof at
Tiger Stadium in
Detroit and, based on where it was found, was estimated years later by historian Mark Gallagher to have traveled 643 feet (196 m). Another Mantle homer, this one hit right-handed off
Chuck Stobbs at
Griffith Stadium in
Washington on April 17, 1953, was measured by Yankees traveling secretary Red Patterson (hence the term "tape-measure home run") to have traveled 565 feet (172 m). Though it is apparent that they are actually the distances where the balls ended up after bouncing several times
[1], there is no doubt that they both landed more than 500 feet (152 m) from home plate. Mantle twice hit balls off the third-deck facade at Yankee Stadium, nearly becoming the only player (other than Negro Leagues star
Josh Gibson) to hit a fair ball out of the stadium during a game. On May 22, 1963, against Kansas City's Bill Fischer, Mantle hit a ball that fellow players and fans claimed was still rising when it hit the 110-foot (34 m) high facade, then caromed back onto the playing field. It was later estimated by some that the ball could have traveled 620 feet (190 m) had it not been blocked by the ornate and distinctive facade. While physicists might question those estimates, on August 12, 1964, he hit one whose distance was undoubted: a center field drive that cleared the 22-foot (6.7 m)
batter's eye screen, beyond the 461-foot (141 m) marker at the Stadium.
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