For Mickey Mantle fans....flashback to 60-year old event at USC

[Kawika]

Originally Posted by GoldenAge50s

As a kid who grew up watching baseball in the late '40's & fortunate enough to have seen Mantle, Williams, Mays, Aaron, Jackie Robinson, etc play in person, I have said before that only 1 player ever made the hairs on my neck tingle when he came to the plate and it was #7!

Old age sucketh mightily but at least we got a front row seat on some great history.

[GoldenAge50s]

I hear 'ya on that David!

[tedzan]

Hey guys....I'm somewhat older than you. For me, it all started in the Summer of 1947 when my sister and I were getting these BB cards
out of the Bond Bread packages. We did not have a TV, so I listened intently to the New York teams' games on my old vacum tube radio.
The '47 World Series was the most exciting and thrilling ever in my lifetime. And, with the exception of 1948, I have seen all of the Series
since then.

Yes, I was a Yankees fan, after all, Phil Rizzuto lived nearby us (2 blocks away) in Hillside, NJ. I was very fortunate to see most of Mickey
Mantle's tremendous HR's. And, I saw his very last HR at Yankee Stadium. I took my family to see the Oldtimer's game in the Summer of '73.
Mickey wowed the crowd of 67,000+ by hitting one deep into the seats.



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