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Mickey Mantle
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Mickey Mantle, in full Mickey Charles Mantle was born on October 20, 1931 and died on August 13, 1995. He was a professional American League baseball player for the New York Yankees (1951 - 68). Mantle began playing baseball at Commerce High School (Oklahoma). But 1946 he got a bone-tissue infection (osteomyelitis), which required five operations before the disease was under control. First Mickey Mantle played as an outfielder on Yankee farm clubs before he joined the Yankees in 1951. He held the homerun records in his League for six times. He was voted the American League`s Most Valuable Player three times (1956, 1957 and 1962). After he retired as a player Mantle coached for the Yankees and sold life insurances. In 1983 the baseball commissioner barred him from any connection with professional baseball because he had taken a public relations position with an Atlantic City gambling casino. But the ban was lifted in 1985. Mickey Charles Mantle was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974.
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