Mickey Mantle interviewed in 1954. Really fascinating interview

I’m as big a Yankee fan as they come, but this has a homoerotic vibe

I was 7 years old - 1954 - I loved Mickey Mantle. He did not disappoint.

Boy, Tom Homan hasn't aged a day...

Did these two have sex before this interview why do they seem so into each other😂

Is that Tom Homan doing the interview?

Weird vibe to this

I often like to lookup players' "bunting avg". Here's the best info that GROK had: Overall Bunting Stats: The best available aggregate data (from Baseball-Reference and other historical analyses) is career-wide for bases-empty bunt singles: 80 bunt singles in 148 at-bats → roughly a .541 batting average on those bunt This ranks him 10th all-time in bases-empty bunt singles. He had additional bunt hits (some sources cite ~87 total bunt singles) and was excellent in the World Series (7-for-8 on bunt attempts, .875).radicalbaseball.blogspot.com Never knew he bunted that often! 🧐😮

By Tom Homan!

Lou Fonseca ,a former batting title winner( 1929) ,is the one doing the interview. Fonseca was the first to film hitters and use that as a training tool.The Giants and Cubs used his films for instruction. MLB had him do WS films for a number of years in the 40’s and 50’s.

Gosh the way they talked back then

Mickey Mantle bunting. Sheesh.

Underrated best clutch hitter ever, really humble, no wonder he was so beloved.

The Mick

AI you idiots

I never noticed it until I saw this video but he looks like Mike Trout in a Yankees uniform.

@grok who was the fastest mlb player from home plate to first base. Was anyone faster than Mantle’s 3.1 seconds?

Mantle was my favorite player when I was a kid. He died too young, but one time quipped, "If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself".

Very cool.

Brilliant

everybody keeps calling this guy Tom, when Mickey keeps calling him LOU........lol

Thanks for this. Very fun to watch. And I’m a Dodger fan. But an even bigger baseball fan.

Kinda sweet vibes coming out

Awesome!! Thanks for sharing. Made me smile 😊

One of the best all time HR hitters also drag bunt. When it was a game.

He’s was either very drunk or very nervous

Hard to say. Mick was very shy when he first came up.

So one of the greatest home run hitters would also practice and use drag bunting to win, huh

That guy's lips don't move when he talks. That is unsettling.

He seemed like a sweet young man. Something I don't think he ever really lost...❤️❤️

Did they fuck after this??? The tension is crazy lol

@tah101081 This guy sounded like Humphrey Bogart

@CLIFFMOSKOWITZ Wow.

Why is the background blk n white ? Photoshop

@jimiuorio @Bob_Iaccino great video clip