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[QUOTE="superjohn, post: 3651997, member: 1522"]
My dad had several Mickey Mantle stories.  When my dad was a kid he had a cousin who lived on Billy Martin's block, Billy and Mickey used to come home late at night/early in the morning plastered.  Billy had an RV in the driveway where Mick slept off his drinking and he would sneak in the basement to shower, Billy would sleep in the RV when the wife was tired of him...The cousin would call my dad and say The Mick is over here again and on at least one occasion they got to play catch with him...

As a grown man my dad is alone at a bar in Manhattan waiting for a friend and Billy Martin comes in solo and takes the bar stool next to him and buys my dad a drink and they shoot the breeze.  Many years later Mickey is at a bar in Waterbury and he's so hammered people have to put him in a cab to take him to the hotel.  Years after that my dad sees Mickey at a country club in Northwest CT. when a super rich guy my dad is friend's with pays to fly Mick up to golf with them.  He said he didn't like anything about that, Mickey was drunk and it looked like his health was catching up with him.
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