Baseball Autobiography
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I'm the one and only Mickey mantle best known for my 7 time World Series championships the Washington wallop the 460 ft home run I hit against right handed chuck stobbs.i was born October 20th 1932 in Spavinaw Oklahoma my mother and father names are Lovell Mantle an Elvin Charles mantle.
My mother said not even within 12 hours of my birth my father put a baseball in my hands.
I was the oldest boy I had 4 younger siblings Roy a bray are the twins and butch and my sister is Barbra. After school every day I would come strait home an work in the yard with my father and grandpa.At first my father and grandpa wanted me to be a catcher so all we did was catch and hit but as the season game they noticed I was …show more content…
My grandpa taught me how to be a switch hitter he said I would be more deadly against pitcher and at the time I didn't believe him because I was a kid and thought my grandpa didn't know anything about baseball.In high school I got my dad to let me play football I played halfback and was pretty good I was fast so I could outrun people and one day in practice I got kicked in the shine in practice an I didn't think anything of it because it football it will be fine but I was wrong when I woke up the next morning my ankle and shine were black an blue and swollen 2 times the regular size turns out I had a infection in my leg and that was the end of football for me and my dad was scared the same for baseball but it didn't stop me when baseball tryouts came I stole the show with my power hitting an my speed. When word got out about me mlb scouts came to see me the Yankees Dodgers and much more but I really didn't know they were there for me.I was drafted out of high school and was playing with the best team at the time the New York Yankees the Kings of baseball so when I went to spring training goals were
I'm the one and only Mickey mantle best known for my 7 time World Series championships the Washington wallop the 460 ft home run I hit against right handed chuck stobbs.i was born October 20th 1932 in Spavinaw Oklahoma my mother and father names are Lovell Mantle an Elvin Charles mantle.
My mother said not even within 12 hours of my birth my father put a baseball in my hands.
I was the oldest boy I had 4 younger siblings Roy a bray are the twins and butch and my sister is Barbra. After school every day I would come strait home an work in the yard with my father and grandpa.At first my father and grandpa wanted me to be a catcher so all we did was catch and hit but as the season game they noticed I was …show more content…
My grandpa taught me how to be a switch hitter he said I would be more deadly against pitcher and at the time I didn't believe him because I was a kid and thought my grandpa didn't know anything about baseball.In high school I got my dad to let me play football I played halfback and was pretty good I was fast so I could outrun people and one day in practice I got kicked in the shine in practice an I didn't think anything of it because it football it will be fine but I was wrong when I woke up the next morning my ankle and shine were black an blue and swollen 2 times the regular size turns out I had a infection in my leg and that was the end of football for me and my dad was scared the same for baseball but it didn't stop me when baseball tryouts came I stole the show with my power hitting an my speed. When word got out about me mlb scouts came to see me the Yankees Dodgers and much more but I really didn't know they were there for me.I was drafted out of high school and was playing with the best team at the time the New York Yankees the Kings of baseball so when I went to spring training goals were