At the plate was 21-year-old Mickey Mantle, batting righthanded against ... the Yankees preferred that he didn't run. He stole 153 bases in his career, with a high of 21 in 1959.
Mickey Mantle was a hard-livin’ guy, no Boy Scout. Fine. But he was also a gent, at least in one respect: his home-run trot. When he hit a home run, he would trot around the bases with his head ...