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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3025293, member: 27"] I never saw Mickey play. Wish I could have in his prime. Mantle ruined his knee in the World Series his rookie year and never was the same after that. There is a school of thought that the injury involved a torn ACL and MCL. The doctors in those days could not fix these kinds of injuries. That couldn’t have helped him. But from what I have read, I think you are right. Mickey was a fly ball hitter who didn’t hit a lot of line drives. I suspect outfielders played him very deep, making it hard to get the ball into the gaps in the outfield. It is still weird how few doubles he got though... [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/05/sports/baseball/mantle-sustained-yankees-other-famous-knee-injury.html[/URL] [/QUOTE]