At the young age of 22, baseball legend Mickey Mantle had already cemented himself as one of the league’s finest.
Mantle hit his first of three homers in the first inning and his second homer came in the fifth inning when he hit a 407-foot blast into the right field stands, extending the Yankees lead to 4-0. Mantle switched over to batting right-handed in the eighth inning as a switch-hitter to hit his farthest homer of the day, leading the Yankees to a 5-2 win over the Detroit Tigers.
Mantle dominated the rest of the season, leading the league in on-base percentage, slugging percentage and home runs. He carried this momentum into the following season, winning AL MVP.
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