I think I have a new favorite baseball player
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…
Here’s the letter. You really have to read it to fully appreciate it’s awesomeness.
And, no, I don’t care if it’s later determined to be apocryphal.[fn1] Also, I’m totally stealing his closing line when someone asks me a question to which I don’t know the answer.
[fn1] I think it’s apocryphal. The size of the story is too perfect and too perfectly sized, with too zinger-y of a punchline to be real. Still, good joke. If they’d have said Earl Weaver, I would have believed them.
