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Damn Yankees
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The son of a miner from Oklahoma, Mantle was led to baseball at an early age by his father, Mutt, a former minor leaguer. But he struggled with the Yankees and was sent down to their farm team in Kansas City, where he went 0 for 22 in a slump. He called his father saying, "I don't think I can play baseball anymore." The next day his father appeared unannounced in Mantle's hotel room and started packing a suitcase, jamming Mantle's clothes into it. Asked what he was doing, Mantle's father told him; "Your're going home. You're going to work in the mines, that's what we'll do. You can work back down there." Shocked, Mantle bounced back out of his slump, hitting .360 for Kansas City and returning to the Yankees. Looking back years later, he said, "That was the turning point of my life."
1952 Topps #311 Mickey Mantle - Estimated SGC 9.5 Value: $12,600,000 – No, that’s not a typo.