Mickey Mantel guest on Joan Rivers

[dougcapehart]

I never saw Joan Rivers gush over a guy like this

[tunabob13]

Just read his and Willies autobiographies, Willies was a happy story that made me cry and Mickey's was very, very sad and made me cry. Both very good for baseball fans.

[cbarrett34]

what year was this?

[seeingthesigns]

The Mick played it humble for this interview. He said he retired due to his drinking and carousing.

But it was also his injuries that really caught up with him.

[switchhitter08]

@seeingthesigns If you read the article Mickey wrote for SI in 1994, entitled "I Was Killing Myself", which can be found on the internet, he neglected to rehab himself properly and spent more time drinking because Mickey was afraid of dying young. So it's a little bit of both that shortened his career.

[justW353]

If he taken care of himself he could have easily hit 715 and 61.

[RamSBronx94]

To me, Joan Rivers looks beautiful in this scene and Mickey Mantle is old, but still the COOLEST. NYY# 7 The best baby!

[martinmorales94606]

everytime i see and hear mickey mantle, i think chipper jones...both are the greatest switch hitters of all time in my eyes.

[RamSBronx94]

I like Chipper too, but The Mick, man, he's number 1.

[Dave23459]

A real LEGEND. If he would have taken care of his body he would have easily hit 650+ homers!

[EndStupidity]

This guy is such an inspiration. So many people make excuses all day long why they can't take initiative in their lives, and people like Mantle teach us that there are no excuses. Left Handed, Right-Handed...it didn't matter. No challenge was too big. He took it on without a second thought. (only problem was booze)

I think what separates the great ball players from the mediocre ones is their sense of character.

Check out this article about the philosophy of Ty Cobb at "paulneedzaeducation com"

[tkfaclark]

Wonderful and sad at the same time. Thank you for posting.

[footeze226]

I have a webpage about the Mick

look for the vid on my profile page with the pic of the two boys and The Mick THEN WATCH IT THE link is seen there

What a Guy

[LesbianVampireLover]

Excellent video, thanks for sharing. Still, its a bit painful to watch Mantle, even AFTER Betty Ford. The booze definitely took its tool. I recommend reading his autobiography, but make sure that the box of kleenex is nearby.

[gymnastix]

I'm saying this even as one who greew up & lived in Boston, nearly a lifelong Red Sox fan--Mickey Mantle was one of the greatest baseball players of all-time!

[gymnastix]

When I was a boy, Mickey Mantle was tops--the epitome of a baseball player. There wasn't this animosity that exists now between Red Sox & Yankees' fans--just a healthy rivalry, so it was cool to like Carl Yastrzemski and Tony Conigliaro, and Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, all at the same time. After all, a class act is a class act, no matter for what team he plays!

[gymnastix]

Hey Alex--do you have this complete Rivers show? I also remember a show Rivers did with Angela Bowie, David Bowie's ex-wife, where she revealed that he had an affair with Mick Jagger while married to her.

For all the criticism about Rivers' FOX show (the one she left Carson's "Tonight Show" to host, thus losing any chance to succeed him), this daytime, syndicated show was actually pretty good--as evidenced by this interview here, the types of unique guests she would book.

[raverkiddy]

amazing footage.. 3/5 too bad not the full interview