Mickey Mantle

Major League Baseball''s Opening Day, 1951. Nineteen-year-old Mickey Mantle puts on the New York Yankees'' famous white pinstriped uniform. His stomach roils. Sweat beads his brow. Today is his first major league game in front of a near-capacity crowd at Yankee Stadium, and there is one man Mickey doesn''t want to disappoint above all others: his father.

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