Mickey Mantle 1969 - Mickey Mantle Day, Yankee Stadium, 6/8/1969, WPIX-TV 

9 minutes it lasted.

Watch Bobby Orr nite

Bobby Orr's retirement was equally impressive! Think how crazy the ovation would have been if the ceremony were held in an arena?!?

I remember watching it live, ovation would’ve got a lot longer but they cut in on the mic and made announcements

@@louisbobola374 the closing of Montreal Forum is right up there for the 9 minute ovation for Maurice Richard.

My favorite player of all time.

I was sitting in the bleachers that day.

@@JohnDavis-nx8hh That must have been a truly wonderful experience.

+Jeff Rosen I would imagine at that moment in time there weren't many fans buying soda...lol....lucky kid

Jeff Rosen Good for you!

Those are the true baseball fans accompanied by the voice of radios, very powerful then. With an arrival of TV and the emergence of internet media like RU-vid, baseball is no longer America's pastime, Football is.

My first game ever (13, '67?, Anaheim, Ca) Mick homered right handed where the 'big A' used to be. Biggest thrill ever!

@@jasonkim8410 Football really overtook baseball after the 1994 strike.

Watched it live back then more impressive now as time passes and we lose more and more heroes

@John Pelliccia. O

I think the Mick hit like .381 that year @ Joplin

Growing up I loved this guy! HE had so much raw talent that it truly was amazing! (of course I was a lot younger myself). :)

Yeah he was always that same ah shucks kinda guy, fame didn't change that

I was there as well and took a picture of Mickey in the cart as he came towards home plate!

I became a NY Rangers fan when I first turned on a game and saw rookie Gilbert wearing Mantle's #7.

+pwnycny Appalling that it was torn down. At least the upper deck façade should be on display somewhere.

+huskyjerk I was a vendor in the old stadium and was very upset when they rebuilt it in the 70's so you can imagine how I felt when they tore it down and replaced it with a shopping mall that happens to have a baseball field in it. I still haven't been to the new stadium which shouldn't be called Yankee Stadium and have no desire to go there. Also feel the same way about Roosevelt Raceway.

+pwnycny I was a vendor in the old stadium and was very upset when they rebuilt it in the 70's so you can imagine how I felt when they tore it down and replaced it with a shopping mall that happens to have a baseball field in it. I still haven't been to the new stadium which shouldn't be called Yankee Stadium and have no desire to go there. Also feel the same way about Roosevelt Raceway.

I have vowed since the old stadium was torn down that I would never set foot in the new stadium. I have kept my word. The stars that walked on that grass. They tore down sacred ground in my opinion. Furthermore, my great uncle, Jack Bentley, pitched off that mound in the '23 world Series as a player with the New York Giants.

@@sgtjeff56 Stop whining, Jeff. You csn only put lipstick on a pig so many times. The Yankees are the biggest draw in baseball, so why SHOULDN'T they have a new stadium? The old stadium was historic, but it was a dump. The ghosts moved to the new one, & helped win a champinship in the first frickin' year! We muss the atmosphere & memories, but it was time for it to go. If it had stayed, empty, as a historic landmark, that would've been untenable, re security, maintenance, etc.

I was there in 1969 with my kid brother God rest his soul what a memory my nephew still has a scorecard from that day I believe they lost to the twins

My favorite all time athlete/

Much more somber for Ruth and Gehrig since they were both in poor health. Ruth needed a cane to stand up and he was only 50 yrs old. Both died within month's of their ceremonies. Much sadder occasion. Mel Allan participated in Babe's ceremony also.

@@toscodav Gehrig dies two years later.

I always enjoyed listening to Messer, Bill White, and the Scooter; great broadcasts

Messer is an outsider? So is the whole yankee team. MM is from Oklahoma if you want to get technical sparkle nuts.

"Sparkle Nuts?" Do I know you? (Shrugs)

If anyone was an outsider, Michael Burke was. He was an egotist who also worked at Madison Square Garden. No teams improved over the years and finally...George Steinbrenner forced him out when he bought the Yankees in 1973.

Agreed. The most underated Yankees announcer ever. 1968-1986. 18 years is a long time.

Absolutely

Let's not be sacrilegious.

@MANCHESTER UNITED soccer sucks....if it's so great....why are you watching a baseball video?

@@lancebaker1374 He's quoting Reggie Jackson.

Exactly! We knew the name Mickey Mantle meant greatness, but the name was so cool and the legend so great it seemed certain he had to be fictional.

Where were you sitting sir ? I was sitting in the bleachers.

And before the Yankees got Maris, Mantle was the target of the boo birds. I remember my father telling me how these phonies used to boo Mantle until Maris gave them another target and suddenly Mickey was the fair haired boy. Don't let them fool you into thinking they always loved Mickey.

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@@RRaquello Mickey was booed when he first came up because he sucked! He was sent back to the minors, found himself and returned to the majors! Don't think he was booed after that.

@@rebelp311 Actually Mickey was frequently and loudly boo'ed just about up to the time they got Roger Maris. Maris took his place as the Yankee fans' whipping boy. My father told me about this, and I thought maybe he was saying this because he was a Giants fan (when they were in NY) and didn't like the Yankees, but I recently heard an old recording of a Jean Shepherd radio show (from during the 1962 World Series) where he was talking about how before Maris came to the Yankees, Mantle was constantly boo'ed at Yankee Stadium, and that suddenly, with Maris there, they all loved Mantle, so that confirmed what my father said. Yankee fans hated Maris for whatever reasons, and then 20 years later were trying to pretend they didn't and that they loved him all the time because the truth made them sound cheap and petty.

he was a fantastic announcer. you're so right. ron klimkowski came to the yanks from the sox in the elston howard trade.

?? if tresh was still there in '69....and munson was a rookie...did munson wear another number?

Frank was a great announcer; for so many years, i loved him, doing the games with White, and Rizzuto

Me too. The race with Secretariat in the Belmont Stakes was the greatest sporting event I’ve ever seen. . I graduated from high school in 1969. Everyone wanted Mickeys number, I think we drew straws. lol

nyterpfan The ovation was for 9 minutes. 9 minutes. That's an eternity. Michael Burke was drowned out by the standing ovation.

I admire the Mick even more for trying to overcome his sins and short comings. Yes,I cried here. He could have been much,much greater if he hadn't stepped on that sprinkler in the outfield. I pull for a dynasty:Alabama football. Are you a Maryland fan,with "terp" being in your moniker? Bear Bryant's first head coaching job was at Maryland.

@@joerhoden4919 Did hard Maryland Terp fan for almost 50 years!! I STILL haven't gotten over Maryland losing to NC State 103-100 in the 1974 ACC Tournament. Len Elmore, Tom McMillan, Owen Brown, John Lucas, Mo Howard--WHAT a friggin AWESOME team--so heartbreaking they couldn't even get into the NCAA tournament because of that loss. (Been to psychologists, priests, witch doctors--NOBODY can ease the pain LMAO!!)

I'm almost 55 and was just starting to follow sports then. Maryland did have one fine team in 1974.Tommy Mac was solid for the Hawks and later became a congressman. Now Mo Howard might have been the weak link on that club (LOL!!!!!!!!! Moe Howard was one of the 3 Stooges).You had to win the conference title then to get in the NCAA. Only 32 made it. They shouldn't have had a conference tournament then,because the regular season title carries more weight with more games! NC State had a lot of luck AND skill in '74 and '83. Shifting gears,I believe 2020 Alabama football might have been the greatest college team ever. At the very,very least,the best offense ever! The defense hung tough giving up only 19.4 per game in this up tempo era with no cupcakes on the schedule. Now Bama made a lot of their opponents look like cupcakes. We beat 11 SEC teams and 2 Northern powers to bag the championship. Hey,Alabama and Tennessee play in 30 minutes.Man,I wish the Tide could win a National Title in my lifetime!!!!!!! I just found out we were retroactively named 1930 National Champs in hoops. Hope we claim it and hang a banner,along with one here in '21! Again,that Mantle tribute made me cry. I fully respect the Yankees,though I pull for the Braves. God bless you. Richard Rhoden from Alabama

Sir,I really thought Maryland would play Alabama tough tonight. We got sizzling hot on 3 pointers. Still think we take too many 3s. UCLA will be mighty tough,because you can't give a blue blood program even a slither of daylight! Look at Syracuse now and in 2016 and 2018. I really think the Terps should have stayed in the ACC. Hope Maryland football will continue to improve with former Tide assistant Coach Mike Locksley and Tagaviola at quarterback. Richard Rhoden

joe d was a prick....I read somewhere he charged the yanks to come and throw out first pitches

I was sitting in the bleachers the night DiMaggio's hitting streak came to an end. Bob Feller ended his streak. Great hurler.!

I was in the lower deck, first base line. I took my kid brother, a birthday present for him, but he was a Mets fan.

I was behind home plate next to the last row $1.50 upper deck grandstand seat which is usually unreserved. All the seats in the main grandstand were reserved. I'm not sure about the bleachers that day. But I do know the price was 75 cents not 50 cents

That's 11.00 $ by 2020 money now though ,..

My father's uncle used to live in the Bronx around this time, just before that neighborhood turned really bad. We'd visit the old guy, then go to a Yankee game at the stadium. The Yankees weren't very good in those days and it was never any trouble getting whatever seats you wanted. We always sat in the bleachers (1 dollar tickets). As a very young kid, I got to see Mantle a few times in person in his last year with the team, 1968. I was only 7 years old, but still knew that Mantle was THE big star. I tell younger fans nowadays, "I saw Mantle play in person" and it's like someone telling me when I was a kid that they saw Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb, LOL.

He said he had dreams about it later. How he was locked out of the Stadium trying to get in to play.

@@TheBatugan77 wow, I believe it. Like being lost and trying to find your way. When he retired he had been a Yankee for half his life.

My dad said that even though he got injured, he was still one of the fastest runners in the league, and build lay down a base hit bunt any time he wanted.

Who's Marilyn?