Mickey Charles Mantle, nicknamed The Commerce Comet and The Mick, was an American professional baseball player. Mantle played his entire Major League Baseball career with the New York Yankees as a center fielder, right fielder, and first baseman.
Mickey Mantle: Death Cause| Cause of death| Wife| Card| Kids
Death Cause:
liver cancer
Former New York Yankees star Mickey Mantle dies of liver cancer at the age of 63. While “The Mick” patrolled center field and batted clean-up between 1951 and 1968, the Yankees won 12 American League pennants and seven World Series championships.
Cause of death:
After 40 years of hard living and heavy drinking, Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle has liver cancer and needs a transplant within weeks to survive, his doctors said Wednesday. Mantle, 63, is severely jaundiced, in pain and too weak to get out of bed at the Baylor University Medical Center.
His wife, Merlyn, and son David were at his bedside. On June 8, Mantle underwent a transplant operation to replace a liver ravaged by cancer, hepatitis and cirrhosis.
Wife:
Merlyn Mantle
m. 1951–1995
Personal life. On December 23, 1951, Mantle married Merlyn Johnson (1932–2009) in Picher, Oklahoma; they had four sons. In an autobiography, Mantle said he married Merlyn not out of love, but because he was told to by his domineering father.
Card:
Mantle’s 1951 Bowman Mantle card for only $1.4 million. However, other high-grade cards dwarf the Mickey Mantle card’s value. Just Collect, and MINT state owner Rick Snyder noted that one of those could sell for $10 million.
The biggest reason why these cards are so expensive is that they’re rare. The 1952 card is especially rare because there were not that many printed originally, it had a fantastic and futuristic design, and it was the first Topps set to feature Mantle’s card.
Kids:
Mickey Charles Mantle was born on Oct. 20, 1931, in Spavinaw, Okla. His father, a former semiprofessional baseball player, named him after major-league catcher Mickey Cochrane.
