Claim:   Mickey Mantle sent a crude response when Yankees officials asked him to describe his "oustanding event" at Yankee Stadium.

Status:   Undetermined.

Example:   [Collected via e-mail, 2006]

This is purported to be a questionnaire that Mickey Mantle filled out in response to an inquiry from the Yankees in connection with an Old Timers Day in 1973. It's risque, but would be funny, if true. [Click here to view letter.]

Origins:   In June 2006 we began receiving purported reproductions of a correspondence between a New York Yankees club official and former Yankees slugger Mickey Mantle. It consisted of a form letter (linked above) sent by the Yankees to a number of former players in 1972, requesting that each recipient — in anticipation of a 1973 oldtimers game that would mark the 50th anniversary of Yankee Stadium — indicate what he considered his "outstanding event" at that ballpark. In the bottom portion of the form letter, supposedly filled out and signed by Mantle himself, the superstar outfielder described his "outstanding experience" at Yankee Stadium (in rather crude terms) as a particular sexual act performed "under the right field bleachers," ironically signing his response as "The All-American Boy."

We don't yet have any information about the origins or authenticity of this item — whether it is genuine, a complete fabrication, or a reproduction of a real letter onto which someone has grafted a phony response from Mickey Mantle (complete with a seemingly realistic signature).

Last updated:   26 June 2006

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