Mickey Mantle

Mickey Mantle is genuinely one of those figures where the legend is so big it almost gets in the way of appreciating the actual man. A kid from tiny Spavinaw, Oklahoma, he arrived at Yankee Stadium in 1951 and just never left — spending his entire career in pinstripes, which says something about loyalty that feels almost quaint now. Three MVP awards, a Triple Crown in 1956, 536 home runs hit with that enormous switch-hitting swing, and the kind of raw athleticism that had people whispering he might be the greatest ever if his knees hadn't kept betraying him. That's the part that gets me — watching Mantle play through injury after injury, and still putting up numbers most healthy players could never dream of. He was voted into the Hall of Fame in 1974 and passed away in 1995, and honestly the game has never quite found another personality that fills that particular center-field-sized hole he left behind.

Name (English)

Mickey Mantle

Name (Japanese)

ミッキー・マントル

Reading

みっきー・まんとる

Born

October 20, 1931 – August 13, 1995

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Goat

Origin

Spavinaw, Oklahoma, United States

Height

181 cm

Occupation

baseball player

Awards & achievements

• Rawlings Gold Glove Award
• 1956 Associated Press Athlete of the Year
• 1962 Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award
• 1957 Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award
• 1956 Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award
• 1974 National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%83%83%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%AB

Tags

• Oklahoma
• baseball player

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.