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| Mickey Mantle
A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide. After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases. All the ballparks and the big crowds have a certain mystique. You feel attached, permanently wedded to the sounds that ring out, to the fans chanting your name, even when there are only four or five thousand in the stands on a Wednesday afternoon. As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due. But god-damn, to think you're a .300 hitter and end up at .237 in your last season, then find yourself looking at a lifetime .298 average - it made me want to cry.I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love. I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability. I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do. It was all I lived for, to play baseball. Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was. Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.' Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been. The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know. To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer. Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball. When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered. |
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