Ray Barker’s major league record-tying second consecutive pinch-hit home run is wasted in a first-game, 6 – 2 Yankees loss to the A’s. Mickey Mantle adds a home run in the opener, but in the 4 – 2 nightcap win, he tries to score from second base on a wild pitch and snaps an upper-thigh hamstring. He will be out for three weeks. Ironically, the June 21st Sports Illustratedcover features Mantle with the prescient title “New York Yankees: End of an Era?”

on June 22, 1965 Ray Barker’s major league record-tying second consecutive pinch-hit home run is wasted in a first-game, 6 – 2 Yankees loss to the A’s. Mickey Mantle adds a home run in the opener, but in the 4 – 2 nightcap win, he tries to score from second base on a wild pitch and snaps an upper-thigh hamstring. He will be out for three weeks. Ironically, the June 21st Sports Illustratedcover features Mantle with the prescient title “New York Yankees: End of an Era?”

 

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