Mickey Mantle was a star of which sport?
Mickey Mantle Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, the home stadium of the Triple-A Oklahoma City Dodgers, 2 South Mickey Mantle Drive in Oklahoma City. Mantle made a (talking) cameo appearance in Teresa Brewer's 1956 song "I Love Mickey", which extolled Mantle's power hitting. The song was included in one of the "Baseball's Greatest Hits" CDs. In 1962, Mantle and Maris starred as themselves in the movie "Safe at Home!" This was followed that year by the Universal Pictures film, "That Touch of Mink", starring Cary Grant and Doris Day. During the movie, Mickey Mantle is seen in the Yankees dugout with Roger Maris and
Mickey Mantle instead of sending him to the minors. Mickey Mantle's salary for the 1951 season was $7,500 (equivalent to $ in ). Mantle was assigned uniform #6, signifying the expectation that he would become the next Yankees star, following Babe Ruth (#3), Lou Gehrig (#4) and Joe DiMaggio (#5). Stengel, speaking to "SPORT", stated "He's got more natural power from both sides than anybody I ever saw." Bill Dickey called Mantle "the greatest prospect [he's] seen in [his] time." After a brief slump, Mantle was sent down to the Yankees' top farm team, the Kansas City Blues. However, he was not