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The Lost Ball Parks: Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York
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Mickey Mantle Interview by Bob Costas
DID YOU KNOW ? The New York Yankees signed Mickey Mantle to a minor-league contract in 1949, the day he graduated high school. He was paid $400 for the remainder of the season and a $1,100 signing bonus. A Yankee for his entire career, among Mantle's many accomplishments are all-time World Series records for home runs (18), runs scored (42), and runs batted in (40). He once hit a ball left-handed that cleared the right-field roof at Tiger Stadium in Detroit estimated to have traveled 643 feet. In 1956, Mantle won the Triple Crown, leading the majors with a .353 batting average, 52 HR and 130 RBI on the way to his first of three MVP awards.
The Lost Ball Parks: Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, NY
Arthur Ashe Wins US Open Tennis Tournament in 1968 over Tom Okker
Arthur Ashe Wins US Open
September 9, 1968
Forest Hills, New York
Arthur Ashe won his first U.S. Open men's singles crown, defeating Tom Okker of the Netherlands 14-12, 5-7, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 in the final. The 25-year-old Ashe, a lieutenant in the U.S. Army, played as an amateur and was ineligible to receive the $14,000 first prize in the $100,000 event - the richest tournament in tennis history. Ashe, a resident of Richmond, Va. collected $280 in expenses, at $20 per diem for 14 days, including two days of practice.
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Wilt Chamberlain
David Thompson - NC State
Walt Frazier
Bill Walton - UCLA
Lew Alcindor - UCLA
Wilt Chamberlain
David Thompson - NC State
Walt Frazier
Bill Walton - UCLA
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