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"Mickey Mantle Talks About Switch Hitting" 1989
CMC Flexi-disc Talking Baseball Card |
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"Mickey Mantle Talks
About Switch Hitting" |
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Item Details |
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CIRCA
- 1989
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RECORD LABEL
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CMC
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CATALOG
NUMBER -
99996
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SIZE
- 5"
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SPEED -
33⅓
RPM
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PRICE GUIDE
- $10.00 - $15.00
(complete Baseball
Card kit)
Excellent -
Near Mint Condition
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In 1989 CMC-Collectors
Marketing Corp. issued four baseball
card collectors kits featuring; Babe
Ruth, Joes Canseco, Don Mattingly, and
Mickey Mantle. Each kit included a
tri-fold booklet with a Story about the
player (e.g. "The Mickey Mantle
Story"); a
limited edition baseball
card set of 20, and a Flexi-disc
"Talking Baseball Card," all housed in
an embossed collectors album.
The 33 ⅓ RPM Flexi-disc, Talking Baseball Card - "Mickey Mantle Talks
About Switch Hitting" measures 5x5
inches, and has a transparent plastic
record- superimposed over the photo of
Mickey Mantle on the front. The back has
a blurb about the "Greatest Switch-
Hitter in the history of baseball," to
the left of a black and white picture
of Mickey Mantle. The same picture was
used for the 1975 T.C.M.A. All Time New
York Yankee Team, OF Mickey Mantle
Card.
Listen to
"Mickey Mantle Talks About Switch
Hitting" on YouTube.
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"Mickey Mantle Talks
About Switch Hitting" Talking
Baseball Card |
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| Back Of Talking Baseball Card |
Mickey Mantle Baseball Card Kit |
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"Mickey Mantle
Talks About Switch Hitting"
Transcript - Spoken words by
Mickey Mantle |
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From the time I was 4 years old, my dad started
teaching me how to hit. I was naturally a right handed
hitter, and I could hit a lot better right handed, but
he started teaching me to hit left handed because he
said some day, and he was a very good amateur baseball
player himself, he said that some day, there's going to
be platooning in baseball. And the year I joined the
Yankees, is when Casey Stengel started platooning. And
since I could hit both ways by then, I was very lucky
because he let me play all the time.
When I first started I couldn't hit as good left handed as I could right
handed. and I hated to hit left handed and if my dad
wasn't there I wouldn't hit left handed. If he drove up
and we was playing ball, we didn't have Little League
at the time we just choose up sides and play all day
sometimes I would hit 50 times a day. Most of the time
I would try to hit left handed but if my dad wasn't
there I would go and head and hit right handed because
I could hit better right handed. I think when it was
all over my lifetime average was like .345 or something
like that as opposed to .250 left handed.
In fact the way that he taught me to switch hit. My grandfather would
pitch to me left handed and I'd hit right handed, and
then my dad would pitch to me right handed and I'd hit
left handed. There's going to be a lot of times that
your, your natural side is going to take over, but you
gotta you goatta just keep tying and trying, trying,
and you'll finally get just about as good one way as
you are the other.
There wasn't very many switch hitters when I first started switch hitting.
A, there's a lot if them now, and I think they're smart
in doing it, and I really believe that almost any kid
that wants to be a switch hitter could be a switch
hitter if he starts out young enough, and just sticks
with it.
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