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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 5353947, member: 71"] From two years prior to Mantle making it to the majors through Mantle's fourteenth season the Yankees only missed the world series twice and once was due to a team winning a then record number of regular season games while the Yankees won a then record number of regular season games for a non-division winner. They were that dominant. Unless somehow playing a playoff round or two prior to the world series would have somehow limited what he could have done in the world series, the only way your statement works would be with the premise that a lesser AL team would have knocked them from a couple (or more) world series appearances that they had. Not only would that have been very unlikely, it also opens the possibilities of a) beating the 1959 miracle White Sox in the playoffs and b) knocking off the 1954 Indians (who couldn't beat the Giants) and giving Mantle even more opportunities. [/QUOTE]