mickey mantle

Joe Pepitone is suing the Baseball Hall of Fame for $1 million and ownership of the bat that his former Yankees teammate Mickey Mantle used to swat his 500th career home run. In a lawsuit...

Mickey Mantle’s 1953 Yankees contract sold for $39,237 at auction. In the four-page document — signed “Mickey C. Mantle” and dated Feb. 23, 1953 — the slugger agreed to render his “skilled services as a baseball player” for $17,500. He listed his hometown as “Commerce, Okla.” The document is countersigned by general manager George Weiss. …

Mickey Mantle was quite the charmer, it seems. After Page Six reported that the Yankee legend once slipped a female journalist a greeting card mid-interview, that read “Wanna f– k?,” we’re told that he also once thew up while having sex with Angie Dickinson. In his upcoming book “Gatecrasher,” longtime gossip columnist Ben Widdicombe writes that …

Mickey Mantle once slipped a female reporter a cutesy greeting card during an interview — with the message “Wanna f–k?” written inside. In a new memoir, Diane Shah — the first female sports columnist for a major daily newspaper and longtime sports reporter— recalls sitting down with the Yankee legend in 1970 while he was …