Baseball Legends - Mickey Mantle

(Book summary from inside jacket cover)

Mickey Mantle was a baseball fan's dream come true.  He was the greatest switch-hitter who ever lived and could wallop tape-measure home runs and haul in the toughest line drives.  On top of all of that , he won the hearts of fans everywhere by playing throughout most of his career with painful leg injuries and a serious bone disease.

Mantle first donned the Yankee pinstripes in 1951, and by the time he finally laid them aside at the end of the 1968 season, he had won three Most Valuable Player Awards.  His most spectacular season was in 1956, when is .353 batting average, 52 homers, and 130 RBIs made him the only switch-hitter ever to win the Triple Crown.  He led the league in home runs three other times on his way to blasting 536 career round-trippers - the most ever by a switch-hitter and sixth on the all-time list.  In his 18 years with the club, "the Mick" led the Yankees into the World Series an astounding 12 times, belting a record 18 home runs in postseason competition.

Mickey Mantle was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1974.