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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth
It's not just NY -- it's the YANKEES. Plus, as we've discussed many times, the switch hitter thing, the tape measure HRs, the playing through pain, the aw shucks folk hero personality, etc.
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Agreed.
Adam's blog post mentions Mays being at best indifferent and at worst rude at least during his later show circuit years, and that seems to hold up for me. Mantle is an interesting case - as he was often less than sober at such events, and has if perhaps less - at least a few similar horror stories.
But Mantle for the most part was perceived as a happy drunk, and the media and popular culture bore out that image for him during the 1980's.