Pumpsie Green hits first career homerun in Red Sox win over Yankees Full Radio Broadcast
1959 09 07 Yankees at Red Sox Phil Rizzuto
Before 57,000 at Yankee Stadium, the Yankees sweep a pair from the visiting White Sox, winning the nitecap, 6 – 4, on Mickey Mantle’s homer off Turk Lown. In game 1, Yankee veteran Enos Slaughter belts a pair of homers; at age 43, he is the oldest player this century to accomplish the feat. Carlton Fisk, a few months older, will top Slaughter in 1991.
1959 – Before 57,000 at Yankee Stadium, the Yankees sweep a pair from the visiting White Sox, winning the nitecap, 6 – 4, on Mickey Mantle’s homer off Turk Lown. In game 1, Yankee veteran Enos Slaughter belts a pair of homers; at age 43, he is the oldest player this century to accomplish the feat. Carlton Fisk, a few months older, will top Slaughter in 1991.
The Yankees ride two-run homers from Mickey Mantle, Hank Bauer and Gil McDougald to a 10 – 2 win over Kansas City.
The Yankees ride two-run homers from Mickey Mantle, Hank Bauer and Gil McDougald to a 10 – 2 win over Kansas City.
Mickey Mantle drives in six runs with a triple and two homers to lead New York to a 13 – 6 win
At Kansas City, Mickey Mantle drives in six runs with a triple and two homers to lead New York to a 13 – 6 win. Bill Skowron adds his 4th homer in four days to move New York to three games out of first place.
Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees ends his holdout after one day.
1959 – Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees ends his holdout after one day. Mantle agrees to a salary of $72,000 and a bonus of $2,000. He had been asking the Yankees for $85,000 after batting .304 with 42 home runs and 97 RBI in 1958.
Warren Spahn Shuts Down New York in Game 4 of World Series
October 5, 1958 World Series Game 4 at Yankee Stadium Warren Spahn was at his much-needed best, winning Game 4 3–0 on a two-hit shutout over Yankee ace Whitey Ford. New York left-fielder Norm Siebern (playing for the injured Elston Howard), had trouble fielding with the afternoon sun blazing, losing fly balls in the…
Mickey Mantle poles a Jim Bunning pitch 500+ feet
1958 – Despite a wind blowing in at Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle poles a Jim Bunning pitch down the right field line over the roof onto Trumbull Avenue, some 500 feet away. The two-run homer is all that Bunning allows as the Tigers win, 5 – 2.
For the sixth time in his career, Mickey Mantle hits home runs from both sides of the plate
1958 – For the sixth time in his career, Mickey Mantle hits home runs from both sides of the plate. New York beats the Athletics, 14 – 7.
Casey Stengel and Mickey Mantle testifey to Senate
On Capitol Hill, Casey Stengel and Mickey Mantle appear in front of the Senate Anti-Trust and Monopoly Subcommittee which is investigating the baseball monopoly power in regards to sport’s antitrust exemption. After ‘The Old Perfessor’ gives 45 minutes of rambling and confusing testimony, Senator Estes Kefauver laughs when Mickey Mantle answers his inquiry about the topic with, “My views are just about the same as Casey’s.”
Former Yankee Ralph Terry tops New York, 12 – 6
Former Yankee Ralph Terry gets 12 runs from his Kansas City teammates to top New York, 12 – 6. Mickey Mantle gets his first hit in his last 17 at bats against the A’s, a 3rd-inning homer.
