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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.

October 13, 1960 • Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, PA Bill Mazeroski slammed a ninth-inning walk off home run high over the left-field wall of historic Forbes field to lead Pittsburgh to its first World Series championship in thirty five years. Danny Murtaugh’s astounding Bucs brought down Casey Stengel’s mighty Yankees, 10-9, in a titanic struggle that gave the National League champions the series, four games to three. Minutes later a crowd of 36,683 touched off a celebration that swept through the city.