One Foot in the Grave (Tankard album) thrash release. One Foot in the Grave (Tankard album) One Foot in the Grave is the seventeenth studio album by the German thrash metal band Tankard. It was released on 2 June 2017, on the Nuclear Blast label. "Metal Hammer" Germany called the track "Arena of the True Lies" a catchy continuation of the band's previous album "R.I.B" and cited "Syrian Nightmare" as being singer Gerre's expression of anger about the current political situation in the Middle East. The reviewer for "Rock Hard", too, praised the album as being catchy with strong lyrics, although he found the riffs too unoriginal
Mickey Mantle team played the rest of the season with black mourning bands topped by a number 7 on their left sleeves. Mantle was interred in the Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery in Dallas. In eulogizing Mantle, sportscaster Bob Costas described him as "a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic." Costas added: "In the last year of his life, Mickey Mantle, always so hard on himself, finally came to accept and appreciate the distinction between a role model and a hero. The first, he often was not. The second, he always will