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Larry, I repeat, Mantle’s job batting third for the Yankees was to drive in runs. I took a look at one of the players I mentioned, Harry Hellmann, and compared his impact on his team to the impact of Mantle on his. What I compared was, over the course of their careers what percentage of their teams runs did the knock in. Interestingly, Mantle knocked in 12% of the Yankees runs. Hellmann, hardly the face of the hobby, knocked in 14% of his team’s runs.
In 1961, after he had left the Yankees, Casey Stengel put together a list of the greatest players he had seen, by league, at each position. He listed three American League center fielders: Tris Speaker, Ty Cobb and Joe DiMaggio. Mantle didn’t even get an honorable mention. |
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Most collectors know the name Scott Hileman of SGC better than Harry (not here of course). So you can't be surprised why Harry and most other players take a major back seat when it comes to card prices of Mick.
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Arguably the best HOFer that your average fan has never heard of. Not a lot of Slug cards out there.
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I found this in a 1950's scrapbook I picked up this week, thought it was pretty cool:
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Mickey only received 88.2% of the BBWAA votes. How good could have really been?
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