Today would have been Mickey Mantle’s 78th birthday. Everyone can get behind a free swinging, alcoholic, statutory rapist. Not many guys could win a Triple Crown while employing the “hit the one in the middle” method. So let’s all be sure to hoist at least 7 of something tonight to celebrate The Mick.
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These days Mr. Mantle would be arrested for smoking within 10,000 feet of a building.