Mickey Mantle
09/03/2010 Jesus Blond Alberto
In these days there are some that are asked in case Mickey Mantle also used hormone-steroids or some substance, now prohibited, to only remember their extraordinary power to bat
In these days there are some that are asked in case Mickey Mantle also used hormone-steroids or some substance, now prohibited, to only remember their extraordinary power to bat
Not it, but then to as they are the things in this delicate subject, one no longer knows what to think or to where turning around, including the heroes and idols of long ago.
And as it welds to comment: Only lack that our Vinicio Castile also, as well as not wanting the thing, appears in another list of peloteros, that received certain doses of those substances at the time Imagines that?
It would be the last straw!
Ah, but what angry walks on this subject the great Roger Clemens, no? And to think that Palmeiro and Popeye Mark McGwire, among others I illustrate, nor pío say.
But, returning to the binocular, native of Spavinaw, Oklahoma, anything it has on the matter says to something on steroids or some class of hormone, except his medecines that great part of its active life like pelotero received to mitigate its pain the disease that affected to him in terrible form: the osteomelitis.
We know that in his time, still there was no prohibition and except some investigation on if the athletes-peloteros used some class of substance to fortify muscles and the power.
And, the truth, outside its normal medecines that it received, does not know anything.
Most devastating
And it is that if force and power is, Mickey Mantle burst in into the Great Carp like the most devastating toletero of its time, is batting of left-handed person or right.
It had an incredible force.
In 1953, in Washington, it stuck a howitzer of 565 feet, something unforgettable.
It was the perfect combination, the last one that have been seen, to be able and the speed.
It was fundamental piece of those Yankees that dominated the beisbolero panorama of the postwar period in twelve of 14 World-wide Series, between 1951 and 1964.
By all means that also represented with pride and prestige the being the first sport hero of the American television.
Willie Mays could have been the best one of its time, but he only played six seasons in New York, before the Giants moved to San Francisco.
However, Mantle passed all their race contained in fine rays in the Yankee system Stadium, inheriting the throne of Joe DiMaggio and appearing the television October after October.
It also had a factor to his favor:
In those years to Yankees peloteros black really did not arrive, except the great receiver Helston Howard, to that they signed in 1955.
Thus, the Jackie Robinson, Mays, Ernie Banks, Hank Aaron, to mention only four, did not have the privilege to dress the famous uniform rays.
Star of a generation
Mantle grew with the baseball between 1949 and 1964.
To its they less baptized it parents like Mickey in honor neither the more nor than to Mickey Cochrane, the unforgettable member receiver of the Hall FAMA of Cooperstown and in its great time a stellar one with Tigers of Detroit.
Mantle meant something outside series and a star star for that one generation of Americans.
It was part of that one time when presidents John F. Kennedy and Lindon B. Johnson were going to see play the Griffith Stadium of the Senators of Washington and people laughed with the comicidad and films of Jerry Lewis.
In the decade of the 50 no longer there was economic depression in the EU and Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Marlon Brando and Lucy Ball, would begin to monopolize to the world-wide attention .
And there already he appeared in firmamente a handsome youngster of Oklahoma of Mickey name Charles Mantle to whom the Mules of NY in had sent it to the 49 to Class B so that he took his first steps in the professional baseball.
And it would be in 1951 when it was going to be with pleasing presence and enormous expectation in the right garden with Yankees, the last year of Joe DiMaggio, that would inherit the central garden to him to the great prospectus.
However, that his first campaign was difficult yet to him and that in 1950 in the Western Association bat with,383 had been champion, pushed 136, written down 141 and stuck 26 home runs. like shortstop!
It was not so easy
In the middle of season, it was sent to American Association since, it fíjese well, in his first 96 games had only stuck 13 home runs, eleven doubles, 5 triples, impelled 65, robbed 8 bases, with,267 of batting .
Good, and it is that Yankees, hoped more of those excellent numbers for a novice.
And it is that to gain a place with that one tremendous equipment and to especially fill the hollow that was on the verge of leaving DiMaggio, it was not any thing.
Nevertheless, from the 52, everything began to change, with a Mickey Mantle way to constitute itself in an enormous ligamayorista pelotero, way to Cooperstown, the enclosure of the consecrated ones.
For Mantle, the hero of all their life in the baseball was neither but nor less than Stan Musial.
In 1994 when already he was ill, Musial went to San Luis to have breakfast with him.
could not believe it , said in that occasion.
When Mantle died the 13 of August of 1995, thousands and thousands of fans to the baseball suddenly wanted to know more on the life of that outside so powerful toletero.
In its 18 years as pelotero assets stuck 536 quadrangular ones and in twelve World-wide Series 18, for the effective record. And it accumulated excellent,298 of batting of by life.
Not to have suffered so many injuries because of the osteomelitis, many more heroisms we would have known him.
In fact, its history, is something to count by many months… or years.
It would take thousands of pages to continue writing of that were my idol in my unforgettable and beautiful childhood.
Steroids ?
Difficult, with famous no. 7, immortal for all time.
jarubio@guaymas.uson.mx
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