Mickey Mantle BATTED 400 — What Happened in Locked Room Left Teammates in TEARS
Автор: Mickey Mantle: The Last Yankee
Загружено: 2026-01-03
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October 13, 1960. Mickey Mantle had just delivered the greatest World Series performance of his career—batting .400 with 3 home runs and 11 RBIs. The Yankees had demolished the Pirates 55-27 across seven games. By every statistical measure, they were the superior team. But when Bill Mazeroski's bat connected in the bottom of the 9th inning, none of that mattered.
What happened next, most people never saw. Photographers weren't allowed in. Reporters were kept outside. For 20 minutes, the door to the visitors' clubhouse at Forbes Field stayed locked. Inside that room, Mickey Mantle—who had played through torn ligaments, infections, and pain that would hospitalize most men—was crying. His teammates stood in shocked silence. "We were the better team," Mickey kept saying through tears. "We were the better team."
This is the untold story of the day greatness wasn't enough. The day doing everything right still meant losing. And the moment that taught Mickey Mantle the cruelest lesson in sports: sometimes the better team doesn't win. What his teammates witnessed in those 20 minutes behind locked doors would haunt them for the rest of their lives. This is what really happened on October 13, 1960.
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