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Mickey Mantle

10th Cousin

Common Ancestor

Father: John Prescot
England
1604 - 1681

Mother: Mary Gawkroger
England
1612- 1688

Born: Died:
20 October 1931 31 August 1995
Spavinaw, Oklahoma Dallas, Texas
Mickey Charles Mantle, nicknamed The Commerce
Comet and The Mick, was an American
professional baseball player. Mantle played his
entire Major League Baseball (MLB) career (1951–
1968) with the New York Yankees as a center fielder,
right fielder, and first baseman. Mantle was one of the
best players and sluggers and is regarded by many as
the greatest switch hitter in baseball history. Mantle
was inducted into the Baseball Hall of
Fame in 1974 and was elected to the Major League
Baseball All-Century Team in 1999.

Mantle was one of the greatest offensive threats of any
center fielder in baseball history. He has the highest
career OPS+ of any center fielder, and he had the

highest stolen base percentage in history at the time of his retirement. In addition, compared to
the other four center fielders on the All-Century team, he had the lowest career rate of
grounding into double plays, and he had the highest World Series on-base percentage and
World Series slugging percentage. He also had an excellent 0.984 fielding percentage when
playing center field. Mantle was noted for his ability to hit for both average and power,
especially tape measure home runs, a term that was originated by a play-by-play caller reacting
to one of Mantle's 1953 home runs. He hit 536 MLB career home runs, batted .300 or more ten
times, and is the career leader (tied with Jim Thome) in walk-off home runs, with thirteen—
twelve in the regular season and one in the postseason.

Mantle is 16th all-time in home runs per at bats. He is 18th in on-base percentage. He was safe
three out of four times, on his base steals. He won the MVP Award three times, came in second
three times, and came within nine votes of winning five times.

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