» August 16, 1947: Ralph Kiner hits three successive home runs for the host Pittsburgh Pirates, in a 12–7 win over the Cardinals in a game in which the two clubs bang out major-league record (since topped) 10 homers. Two other Bucs, Hank Greenberg and Billy Cox, and one Cardinal (Whitey Kurowski) each contribute two home runs to set a major-league record for most players with 2+ homers in a game. Kiner matches the ML mark of seven home runs in four games, six in three games, five in two games, and four in consecutive at bats. By the end of the month, Big Ralph will still trail Mize 39 to 43 in a head-to-head home run competition that will only be matched by Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle in 1961. Starters Roger Wolff and the Cards Ken Burkhart exit in the first inning.

» March 26, 1951: In an exhibition game at USC, Mickey Mantle propels a homer estimated at 654 to 660 feet. The shot clears Bovard Field and then goes the width of a practice football field before landing. Mantle has two homers, a bases loaded triple, and drives in seven runs as the Yankees flunk the collegians, 15–1.

» April 17, 1951: Rain cancels yesterday's presidential opener in Washington, washing out the debut of rookie Tom Morgan. Morgan would have been the first Yankee rookie ever to start an opener. Clad in an army uniform, Whitey Ford tosses out the first pitch today at Yankee Stadium, and Vic Raschi scatters six singles to shut out the Red Sox, 5–0. Bill Wight gives up all the Yankee runs, including a two-run homer to Jackie Jensen in the 3rd inning. Mickey Mantle, making his debut before 44,860, has one hit and scores a run. Also debuting is public address announcer Bob Sheppard.

» May 1, 1951: The Yankees' new phenom, Mickey Mantle, connects for his first ML home run, off Randy Gumpert of the White Sox. Minnie Minoso becomes the first black to play for the White Sox. He plays 3B and, facing Vic Raschi in his first ML at bat, rips a home run to CF. The Yankees win 8–3, with Mantle collecting three RBIs.

» May 4, 1951: In St. Louis, the Yanks pummel the Browns 8–1 behind Eddie Lopat. Mickey Mantle, again batting leadoff and playing RF, connects for his 2nd home run, off Duane Pillette, a 450-shot in the 6th inning.

» May 13, 1951: At Philadelphia's Shibe Park, Mickey Mantle hits his first righty homer, off Alex Kellner, in the majors, then makes the last out by popping up his bunt attempt with the tying run on 3rd. The A's win 5–4, then win the nitecap as well. Mantle has no homers in the 2nd game loss, but misses 2nd base on a hit.

» May 16, 1951: At Yankee Stadium, Mickey Mantle drives in four runs and scores three as New York routs the Indians, 11–3. Mantle connects for the first of his 206 homers at the Stadium, the blast coming off Dick Rozek.

» May 24, 1951: Mickey Mantle is 0-for-5 but reaches base twice after striking out on a wild pitch. The 2nd time, in the 6th inning, he reaches 2B before Detroit C Joe Ginsberg can retrieve the ball, and Joe DiMaggio follows with a homer to deep left field. New York wins, 11–1, behind Joe Ostrowski.

» May 26, 1951: At Yankee Stadium, the Yanks top the A's, 8–5, with Mickey Mantle belting a bases-loaded triple off Dick Fowler that bounces off the bleacher railing in CF.

» May 30, 1951: In a doubleheader loss with Boston, Yankee slugger Mickey Mantle strikes out three times in the opener, and twice more to start the 2nd game: Casey Stengel lifts the slugger in the middle of the game for Cliff Mapes. In the opener, Ted Williams scores from 2B on a sacrifice bunt, and then ties the game with a home run. Vern Stephens 15th inning homer off Spec Shea wins it for Boston, 11–10. Williams then ties the nitecap with a double and Stephens' single drives him home with the game winner as Boston triumphs, 9–4. Ray Scarborough and Bill Wight are today's winners. The loss drops the Yanks into 2nd place, where they'll stay for a month.

» July 16, 1951: While in Detroit, the Yanks option rookie Mickey Mantle to Kansas City (AA). Mantle, plagued with strikeouts—3 on the 13th—and in a slump, will go 0-for-22 in his start with the Blues, before ending with a tear at .361. The Yankees will recall him August 20th. Art Schallock takes Mickey's place on the Yankee roster and gives up 7 hits in 2.3 innings in today's 8–6 win.

» August 24, 1951: Against Cleveland's Early Wynn, Gene Woodling cracks his 3rd homer off the Tribe ace this year, as the Yanks win, 2–0. Woodling went deep on Wynn on June 24th, July 24th and today. Mickey Mantle makes his first appearance since his recall from the minors.

» August 25, 1951: Before 66,110 at Cleveland, Mickey Mantle belts an opposite field 2-run homer off Mike Garcia to help the Yankees win, 7–3. New York (77-46) moves to a game in back of the Tribe.

» August 29, 1951: The Yankees pick on the lowly Browns for a 15–2 win at Sportsman's Park. Mickey Mantle has four RBIs including a three run homer in the 9th off Satchel Paige. Ned Garver (15-9) is the loser.

» September 8, 1951: At an Oldtimer's Day at Yankee Stadium, former manager Joe McCarthy is honored. With the game scoreless in the 7th inning, Mickey Mantle belts a Bob Porterfield pitch into the last row of the RF bleachers, some 460 feet away to break the scoreless tie. Ed Lopat shuts out the Senators for 4–0 Yankee win.

» September 9, 1951: The Yanks hit five homers—4 off the Nats' Dick Starr—to win, 7–5. Mickey Mantle's leadoff homer on the first pitch, which starts the scoring, slams against the bottom of the flag holder on the top of the right field stands. Vic Raschi then wins the nitecap, 2–0, in a game called after the 6th inning because of "darkness." Though Yankee Stadium has lights, unlike the National League, these cannot be used on Sunday. The Yankees (88-49) remain virtually tied with the Indians (88-51).

» September 13, 1951: Yankees leadoff hitter Mickey Mantle drives a Virgil Truck's pitch deep into the RF upper deck to start the Yankee scoring. Witnesses say that if Mantle had hit it more to CF, the ball would've traveled 600 feet. Mantle then K's three times, as Trucks drives over New York for a 9–2 Detroit win. Trucks adds a pair of RBIs.

» September 19, 1951: The Yankees are victorious when Mickey Mantle hits a 3-run homer off Chicago's Lou Kretlow to win, 5–3. A small crowd of 12,127 watch the game at the Stadium. The two teams have been tied now for 11 days. The Yanks now have nine games left, eight against Boston.

» September 28, 1951: Allie Reynolds pitches his 2nd no-hitter of the season, defeating the Red Sox in Yankee Stadium 8–0. It is his 7th shutout of the year. With two outs in the 9th, Ted Williams hits a foul pop that catcher Yogi Berra drops. Williams then hits another foul fly that Berra grabs for the last out. The Chief is the first American League hurler with two no-hitters in a season; Vander Meer's pair in 1938 is the only other time a pitcher has thrown two in a season. In the 2nd game, the Yankees clinch their 3rd straight pennant under Casey Stengel as Vic Raschi wins 11–3 for his 21st victory. Mickey Mantle drives home three runs with a pair of doubles and Joe DiMaggio belts the final homer of his career—a three run shot. The Yankees are three 1/2 games ahead of slumping Cleveland with two to play.

» October 5, 1951: The Yanks and Eddie Lopat even up the World Series by winning 3–1 over Larry Jansen. Lopat scatters five hits, three by Monte Irvin. Irvin has now hit safely seven straight times in two games. Mickey Mantle is injured in the 5th inning when he steps on an exposed water sprinkler while chasing a Willie Mays fly ball. Mantle is taken off the field on a stretcher and the injury to his knee will plague him throughout his career. He will undergo the first of six knee operations.

» May 5, 1952: Mickey Mantle's father dies of Hodgkin's Disease and Mantle will miss six games attending funeral and seeing to family matters in Oklahoma. Mickey's grandfather died eight years earlier of the same disease.

» May 20, 1952: Playing center field and batting third, Mickey Mantle displays his switch-hitting skills by collecting two singles from each side of the plate. His first two hits are against righty Ken Holcombe, while the last two come off lefty Chuck Stobbs. Johnny Sain scatters six White Sox hits to win, 3–1.

» May 30, 1952: At New York, Mickey Mantle's homer in the 3rd is all the scoring the Yanks can muster against Bobby Shantz, as the "Mighty Molecule" strikes out 11. Mantle doubles off Shantz in the 14th, but the A's hold on for a 2–1 victory. Dave Philley knocks home the winner. In game 2, Bob Hooper loses a shutout with two out in the 9th, but wins, 4–2.

» April 17, 1953: Mickey Mantle hits the longest HR in Griffith Stadium history, a 565-feet shot off of Chuck Stobbs of the Washington Senators. The Yanks win 7-3.

» May 9, 1953: At Boston, the first place Yanks beat the Red Sox, 6–4. Mickey Mantle hits one homer off Bill Werle and is robbed of another when Jimmy Piersall makes a sensational catch at the Sox bullpen in right-center field.

» May 25, 1953: The Yankees and Red Sox play the longest 9-inning game to date, lasting three hours and 52 minutes. Boston lefty Mickey McDermott take two hours, 45 minutes to pitch six of the innings, as Boston outlasts New York, 14–10. Mickey Mantle hits an opposite field homer off McDermott.

» October 2, 1953: The WS moves to Ebbets Field as Carl Erskine establishes a new Series strikeout record by fanning 14 Yanks, including Mickey Mantle and Joe Collins 4 times each. Roy Campanella breaks a 2-2 tie with a game-winning solo HR in the 8th for a 3-2 Brooklyn win

» October 4, 1953: In Game 5, Mickey Mantle hits a grand slam off Russ Meyer, and the Yanks hold on to win 11-7.

» February 2, 1954: Mickey Mantle has his second operation since the end of last season, this one to remove a cyst behind the right knee.

» April 19, 1954: On Patriot's Day in Boston, The Yankees sweep both games from the Red Sox. New York wins the morning game, 2–1, on Jim MacDonald's one hitter. Harry Agganis has Boston's only hit, a second inning bloop single. In the afternoon game, the Yankees top Mel Parnell, 5–0 behind Jim McDonald, as Mickey Mantle belts his first homer of the year.

» April 21, 1954: At Yankee Stadium, Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle belt back-to-back homers in the 3rd, off Leo Kiely, and Gil McDougald adds a solo blast to key the Yankees to a 5–1 win over the Red Sox.

» May 7, 1954: At New York, Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra crash back-to-back homers in the 7th to pin a 2–0 loss on the A's Morrie Martin.

» May 21, 1954: Boston rookie Frank Sullivan makes his first start and beats the Yankees at the Stadium, 6–3. Sullivan strikes out Mickey Mantle three times before Mickey clocks one over the auxiliary scoreboard into the right-CF bleachers.

» May 22, 1954: At Yankee Stadium, Allie Reynolds tosses a 7-hit shutout over the Red Sox to win 7–0. Mickey Mantle is the offense, going 4-for-5 with four RBIs. Mick will knock in 10 runs in the 3-game series against the Red Sox.

» May 23, 1954: At New York, Mickey Mantle's three run homer in the 3rd ties the game, but Mickey strikes out for the final out of the game, and Boston wins, 10–9.

» May 30, 1954: At Boston, Mickey Mantle belts his 2nd homer in two days to tie the game at 1–1 in the 6th. But that's all the scoring off Willard Nixon as the Red Sox win, 3–1.

» June 30, 1954: Tom Morgan of the Yankees hits three Red Sox in the third inning of a 6-1 loss. Mickey Mantle's HR against Willard Nixon is the only Yankee tally.

» July 22, 1954: Stengel switches players in an effort to get more power in the Yankee lineup. Phil Rizzuto plays 2B and Mickey Mantle plays SS. Mantle wins the game 3-2 against Chicago with a 10th-inning HR.

» July 24, 1954: After Casey Stengel pulls Phil Rizzuto in the eighth for a pinch hitter, he brings in Mickey Mantle again at SS. Mantle plays SS with Willie Miranda at 2B against lefthanded hitters. Against righties, Miranda and Mantle switch positions. Cleveland wins 5-4 to go 2¹Ž2 games up on New York.

» September 26, 1954: Art Ditmar of the Athletics defeats the Yanks 8-6 in the last game the franchise will play in Philadelphia before moving to Kansas City. Yankee C Yogi Berra plays his only game at 3B in his career. Mickey Mantle plays SS again in Casey Stengel's "power line-up."

» May 3, 1955: Mickey Mantle's homer in the 6th off Mike Garcia gives New York a 4–3 lead, but Cleveland wins it 5–4 at home. Garcia last year allowed just six homers in 258 innings, the best mark of the 1950s.

» May 6, 1955: At Fenway, Mickey Mantle lines a first inning solo shot into the Yankee bullpen, and Bob Turley shuts out Boston the rest of the way for a 6–0 New York win. Frank Sullivan is the losing pitcher.

» May 7, 1955: Backed by Elston Howard's first ML homer, and Mickey Mantle's tie breaker to dead CF in the 8th, the visiting Yanks overpower the Red Sox, 9–6. The Yanks spot Boston a 5–0 lead before roaring back with three in the 9th.

» May 11, 1955: At Yankee Stadium, Early Wynn survives solo homers by Andy Carey and Mickey Mantle to give Cleveland a 4–3 victory.

» May 13, 1955: It's Friday the 13th and bad luck for the Tigers as Mickey Mantle homers from both sides of the plate for the first time. In all, Mantle has three home runs, the first two lefty against starter Steve Gromek, and the third off Bob Miller, all to the deep reaches of the right centerfield bleachers. Mick adds a single, good for five RBIs as New York beats Detroit 5–2. Whitey Ford goes seven innings for the win. Mantle joins Tony Lazzeri (1927), Ben Chapman (1932), and Bill Dickey (1939) as the only Yanks to hits three homers in a game at Yankee Stadium.

» May 15, 1955: New York's Irv Noren hits an inside-the-park grand slam in an 8–4 victory over the A's. New York wins the nitecap to sweep the A's. Mickey Mantle is 4-for-9 for the afternoon and is hitting .311.

» May 18, 1955: At the Stadium, Mickey Mantle's 8th inning grand slam off Mike Fornieles powers the Yankees past the White Sox, 11–6. In the play before Mantle's blast, a grounder was ruled a dead ball after Hank Bauer interfered with Nellie Fox at 2nd, leaving the sacks jammed. The Sox lose Minnie Minoso for two weeks with a hairline fracture of the skull after he is hit by a pitch from Bob Grim.

» July 9, 1955: Mickey Mantle goes 5-for-5, and Bob Turley tosses a 2-hitter in a 4-0 win over Washington.

» July 12, 1955: In the All-Star Game in Milwaukee, the AL takes a 5-run lead on a 3-run HR by Mickey Mantle off Robin Roberts, only to see the NL tie it. Braves P Gene Conley strikes out the side in the 12th, and Stan Musial of the Cards homers off Frank Sullivan of the Red Sox to win it.

» August 7, 1955: After a 12-17 record in July, the Yankees are in a 4-team race. Tiger Frank Lary beats New York 4-2 in game one, and New York then earns a critical 3-2 10th-inning win on a Mickey Mantle homer off Babe Birrer. The Yanks finish the day in a virtual tie with Chicago, a 1/2 game ahead of Cleveland, and 1¹Ž2 games ahead of Boston.

» August 15, 1955: Mickey Mantle homers from both sides of the plate in the same game for the second time in his career, tying the major-league mark. The Yanks beat the Orioles 12-6 in game two and sweep the doubleheader to move back into first.

» September 2, 1955: Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle celebrate Billy Martin's return from the army; Ford throws 6 innings of no-hit ball against Washington before Carlos Paula spoils it in the 7th with Washington's only hit. The Yanks win 4-2 as Mantle hits his 36th HR, a 3-run shot. Mantle is 10 HRs ahead of rivals Al Kaline and Ted Williams. New York stays a half game behind the White Sox, who beat the 3rd-place Indians. Billy Martin will hit .300 in September, and New York will go on a 17-6 tear to win the pennant by 3 games.

» September 4, 1955: Mickey Mantle's first-inning 3-run HR allows Bob Turley to coast to an 8-3 win over Washington. This is Mantle's last HR of the year.

» September 16, 1955: Slugger Mickey Mantle pulls a hamstring muscle running out a bunt. He will make just 2 pinch-hit appearances in September, and he will go to bat in the WS just 10 times.

» March 11, 1956: At Al Lang Field in St. Petersburg, there are no maybes about it as Mickey Mantle hits a Grapefruit League pitch from Larry Jackson over the left field wall into the bay. The Yanks top the Cards 4–3. Musial contends, "no home run has ever cleared my head by as much as long as I can remember." He'll hit another at Al Lang Field on March 20th off Bob Mave to that also lands in the water. Mantle will clock a 500-foot shot in Miami on the 24th against the Dodgers.

» May 1, 1956: Mickey Mantle takes Steve Gromek deep in the first inning at the Stadium, and New York rolls to a 9–2 win over Detroit. Hank Bauer also homers as Whitey Ford hurls his 3rd CG win.

» May 2, 1956: Yankee killer Frank Lary tames New York 8–1 at the Stadium. Mickey Mantle's 9th inning home run is New York's only score, as they drop into 2nd place behind the White Sox.

» May 3, 1956: Before 4,308 at the Stadium, Mickey Mantle homers for the 3rd day in a row, but Kansas City holds on to win, 8–7. A Mick homer in the 5th is followed by homers by Hank Bauer and Yogi Berra.

» May 5, 1956: The Yankees clout four homers -- Yogi Berra's, Hank Bauer's inside-the-park, and two moonshots by Mickey Mantle -- to top the A's, 5–2. Mantle's 2nd homer hits the RF facade just inside the foul pole, and almost clears the roof.

» May 8, 1956: Mickey Mantle clouts an Early Wynn pitch in the 6th to tie the Indians at 2–2, and New York edges the Tribe 4–3.

» May 10, 1956: At Yankee Stadium, Bob Lemon gives Cleveland a 7–2 win over the Yankees. Mickey Mantle has a solo homer in the 6th for New York. For Mantle, it is his 20th homer of May, a new record. The slugger adds a double and two singles and is hitting .425 with 50 RBIs.

» May 14, 1956: Bob Lemon tops the Yankees for the 2nd time in four days to give the Indians a 3–2 win at Cleveland. New York's only score comes in 4th when Gil McDougald and Mickey Mantle hit back-to-back homers.

» May 16, 1956: On a blustery day in Cleveland, the Yankees top the Indians, 4–1. Mickey Mantle hits a homer, off Bud Daley, while his pal Billy Martin is benched for the first time. Bobby Richardson takes his place at 2B.

» May 18, 1956: Mickey Mantle hits home runs from both sides of the plate for the 3rd time in his career, eclipsing the mark of Jim Russell. The shots come off Billy Pierce and Dixie Howell, the 2nd tying the game. Mantle and Yogi Berra, the American League's top home run hitters, combine for 20 bases as the visiting New Yorkers nip Chicago 8–7 in 10 innings.

» May 21, 1956: At Kansas City, Mickey Mantle clouts a drive over the 2nd and more distance fence in RF to help the Yankees win, 8–5. The drive, off Moe Burtschy, matches homers to that spot by Larry Doby and Suitcase Simpson.

» May 24, 1956: Mickey Mantle goes 5-for-5 with an intentional walk in an 11–4 win against the Tigers. Mantle is hitting .421. He combines with Joe Collins for back-to-back homers, off Duke Maas.

» May 29, 1956: At Yankee Stadium, Mickey Mantle's walk in the 7th is the first base runner against Willard Nixon, and Mantle's 2-out 9th inning homer deprives the Boston righty of a shutout. Boston wins 7–3 at the Stadium.

» May 30, 1956: Mickey Mantle hits one of the most memorable home runs in his career, in the 2nd game of a doubleheader with the Washington Senators. He tags a pitch from Camilo Pascual that comes within 18 inches of leaving Yankee Stadium, something never accomplished by any major leaguer. The ball was still climbing when it caromed off the upper-stand facade, about 396 feet from home plate. Estimates are that the ball could have traveled more than 600 feet. It is Mantle's 20th home run of the season; no one else has ever hit 20 home runs before June. Mantle also homers in the opener, off Pedro Ramos, with two on as New York sweeps, 4–3 and 12–5.

» June 20, 1956: At Detroit's Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle poles two Billy Hoeft pitches into the right CF bleachers, something no other player had done since the bleachers were built in the late 1930s. New York wins 4-1.

» July 1, 1956: Mickey Mantle switch-hits HRs in the same game for the fourth time in his career. The Yankees win 8-6 over Washington.

» July 10, 1956: In the All-Star Game, Ken Boyer of the Cardinals makes 3 sparkling plays at 3B and gets 3 hits as the NL defeats the AL 7-3. Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams, and Stan Musial all homer. Mays's pinch-hit 2-run HR off of Whitey Ford is his 7th straight hit against the Yankee lefty.

» August 7, 1956: The Boston Red Sox fine Ted Williams $5,000 for spitting at Boston fans, as the Red Sox edge the Yanks in 11 innings on Williams's bases-loaded walk. It is Williams's third spitting incident in three weeks. The spitting started after the crowd of 36,350, a record for night games at Fenway Park, started booing the Splendid Splinter for muffing Mickey Mantle's windblown fly in the 11th. Before the game, RF Jackie Jensen had to be restrained by teammates from going into the stands after a heckler. The previous year Jensen had challenged a fan to come out of the stands.

» August 23, 1956: Led by Nellie Fox's seven straight hits, the White Sox sweep the Yankees. Mickey Mantle has a bunt single, triple and HR in the 6-4 nightcap loss but trails Fox in season hits, 158 to 155. But the Mick still leads in the Triple Crown race.

» September 18, 1956: Mickey Mantle hits his 50th HR, only the 8th to do so, in the 11th off of Chicago's Billy Pierce, as New York wins 3-2 to clinch another pennant.

» September 21, 1956: 1B Bill Skowron has 5 hits, but the Yankees strand a record 20 base runners in losing to the Red Sox in Boston, 13-9. Mickey Mantle sends a 480-foot HR into the CF bleachers that lands a foot from the top. His 3 hits raise his average to .352, 4 points behind Ted Williams.

» September 29, 1956: Mickey Mantle has only one hit against Boston pitching, but it is his 52nd HR. In the 2 late-season series against Boston, Mantle has 7 hits in 14 at bats, while Ted Williams has just 3 hits in 20 at bats. Mantle wins the Triple Crown with a .353 batting average, 52 HRs, and 130 RBI. The Yanks and the Red Sox use a record 44 players in the game. The 26 used by New York set a new ML mark.

» October 8, 1956: Series history is made by Don Larsen of the Yankees, who pitches a perfect game to defeat the Dodgers 2-0 in Game 5. He requires only 97 pitches. Sal Maglie matches him until Mickey Mantle homers in the 4th.

» May 8, 1957: The Indians clout three homers to back Early Wynn's 10–4 win over the Yankees. Mickey Mantle has a homer and three RBIs for New York.

» May 12, 1957: At Baltimore, 3B Andy Carey hits two homers for New York, while Mickey Mantle's tie breaking clout in the 8th gives them a 4–3 win over the O's.

» May 16, 1957: The Yankees top Kansas City 3–0 behind Bob Turley's four-hit shutout. Mickey Mantle has a homer off Alex Kellner, the 11th time in his last 12 at bats he's reached base safely. That night a group of Yankees celebrate Billy Martin's 29th birthday in a raucous fashion. An ensuing fight at Manhattan's Copacabana Club leads to $5,500 in fines and the eventual trade of Billy to Kansas City. Hank Bauer allegedly starts the fight by hitting a patron, although Bauer denies it. The Yanks fine Whitey Ford, Bauer, Yogi Berra, Mantle and Martin $1,000 each and Johnny Kucks $500.

» May 19, 1957: At Yankee Stadium, New York knocks out Bob Lemon and tops Cleveland 6–3. Mickey Mantle hits a homer in the 6th inning rally, his 6th off the future Hall of Famer.

» May 21, 1957: For his part in the Copacabana incident, Yankee OF Hank Bauer is arraigned. He is eventually cleared and threatens to sue the alleged victim, Edward Jones, who suffered a concussion and a broken jaw. In today's game, Yogi Berra, Billy Martin, and Whitey Ford are benched, while Bauer bats 8th. Mickey Mantle has a single, two walks, and a homer to back Bob Turley's 4-hit 3–0 shutout over the A's. Turley helps his cause by starting a triple play. The Yanks now trail the White Sox by a half game.

» May 23, 1957: At Ebbets Field, the Yanks top the Dodgers, 10–7, in the Mayor's Trophy game. Al Cicotte allows two hits in six innings, and smacks two himself. Mickey Mantle is 4-for-5.

» May 26, 1957: The Senators build a 6–0 lead over the Yankees and hold on to win 9–7. Mickey Mantle hits his 2nd homer in two days at the Stadium.

» May 29, 1957: At Washington, Camilo Pascual gives up two solo homers, to Mickey Mantle and Hank Bauer, but the Senators win 6–2. Pascual will groove 43 gopher balls this year.

» June 12, 1957: Mickey Mantle again hits HRs from both sides of the plate, and drives in four runs, but the Yankees lose to Chicago 7-6.

» June 23, 1957: Prime Minister Kishi of Japan, wearing a Yankees cap, is one of 63,787 fans at Yankee Stadium to see New York split with Chicago, winning the first 9-2 and dropping the second game 4-3. Mickey Mantle goes 6-for-9 as the Yankees maintain their ¹Ž2 game lead over Chicago. Mantle is leading the AL in hitting, HRs and is one behind the Senators' Roy Sievers in RBIs.

» July 23, 1957: Mickey Mantle hits for the cycle, and adds a SB, against Chicago's Bob Keegan. The Yankees win 10-6.

» July 26, 1957: Jim Bunning of the Tigers 2-hits New York 3-2, but one of the hits is Mickey Mantle's ninth left-handed HR, the 200th HR of his career.

» August 13, 1957: Mickey Mantle goes 3-for-3 and drives in three runs as the Yankees edge the Red Sox 3-2. Mantle improves his average to .384 while Ted Williams, with 1-for-2, is at .388. A week later Mantle will injure himself when he angrily swings a golf club at a branch and gouges his shinbone. This will effectively take him out of the running for a second-straight triple crown.

» November 22, 1957: Mickey Mantle edges Ted Williams 233 to 209 votes to win the American League MVP. Williams, at 39 years of age, led the league in hitting with a .388 average, hit 38 home runs, and compiled a slugging average of .731. Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey brands the voting "incompetent and unqualified," noting that two Chicago writers listed Williams in the 9th and 10th places on their ballots.

» May 9, 1958: After six straight home rainouts, the Yanks play their first home night game of the year, against Washington. Mickey Mantle breaks a 2–2 tie in the 3rd with an inside-the-park solo homer off Pedro Ramos. New York rolls to a 9–5 win.

» May 20, 1958: In Chicago, New York coast to a 5–1 win over the last-place Sox behind the pitching of Johnny Kucks. Mickey Mantle's line drive between Al Smith and Jim Rivera goes for his 2nd inside-the-park homer of the year. The Yankees have now won seven in a row. Mantle will hit three inside-the-park this year, and a Yankee-record six during his career.

» June 2, 1958: Yankee P Whitey Ford fans six in a row to tie an American League record as he shuts out the White Sox 3–0. Sox pitcher Jim Wilson allows just six hits but three -- 2 by Hank Bauer and one by Mickey Mantle -- are out of the Stadium. On a botched hit-and-run attempt, Luis Aparicio is thrown out at 2B ending his streak of 26 consecutive steals.

» June 3, 1958: Led by Mickey Mantle's 3-run homer in the first, the Yanks jump on Dick Donovan, who does not retire a batter. New York rolls to an easy 13–0 win over the White Sox.

» June 5, 1958: In the opener of two, the Yanks rout Sox starter Early Wynn for a 12–5 win at the Stadium. In the 3rd, Mickey Mantle legs out his 3rd inside-the-park homer in a month. The Sox take the nitecap, edging New York, 3–2.

» June 6, 1958: In New York, Mickey Mantle homers in the first against Indians P Dick Tomanek, then ties the game at 4–4 with a 3-run tomahawk off the Tribe starter. New York wins 6–5.

» June 13, 1958: At Yankee Stadium, Mickey Mantle connects of Detroit lefty Billy Hoeft and the Yankees win, 4–2.

» June 20, 1958: At Detroit, Jim Bunning fans 14 Yankees to win 7–1, Detroit's 6th win in a row over the Bombers. Mickey Mantle and Elston Howard each fan three times.

» June 24, 1958: The Yankees erupt for five runs in the 4th inning off Early Wynn to beat the Sox 6–2 at Comiskey Park. Mickey Mantle's clout into the CF bleachers leads off the inning, followed by a single, walk and Jerry Lumpe's first ML home run, and a home run by Siebern. Duren K's six of the last nine batters to preserve Bob Turley's win.

» June 29, 1958: Former Yankee Ralph Terry gets 12 runs from his KC teammates to top New York, 12–6. Mickey Mantle gets his first hit in his last 17 at bats against the A's, a 3rd inning homer.

» July 28, 1958: For the sixth time in his career, Mickey Mantle hits HRs from both sides of the plate. New York beats the Athletics 14-7.

» September 2, 1958: At Yankee Stadium, New York snaps a scoreless tie with Boston when Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle crash back-to-back 6th inning homers off Dave Sisler. Mantle has hit three this year of Sisler. New York wins, 6–1. Mantle, with 38 homers, leads the American League. Mantle and Berra will hit back-to-back homers 12 times together, and homer in the same game 50 times before they are through.

» September 3, 1958: The Yankees spot Boston a 5–3 lead before Mickey Mantle homers in the 8th and Yogi Berra cracks a 3-run homer in the 9th to win it 8–5. Mantle and Berra each have 85 RBIs for the year.

» September 17, 1958: Despite a wind blowing in at Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle poles a Jim Bunning pitch down the right field line over the roof onto Trumbull Avenue, some 500 feet away. The 2-run homer is all the Bunning allows as the Tigers win 5–2.

» September 24, 1958: The Red Sox close out their home schedule with a 7–5 loss to the Yankees. Mickey Mantle cracks his 42nd homer of the year to put him three ahead of Rocky Colavito, who will finish at 42 home runs.

» April 23, 1959: The Senators tally only three hits off Bob Turley, but beat the Yankee righty, 3–2, snapping his 12-game winning streak over Washington. Russ Kemmerer is the winner, despite allowing a home run to Mickey Mantle.

» April 29, 1959: At Comiskey Park, the Yankees get homers from Mickey Mantle, Bauer, and Skowron to beat the Sox, 5–2.

» May 10, 1959: The Yanks sweep two from the Senators at the Stadium, winning 6–3 and 3–2 in 10 innings. Mickey Mantle's homer in the 3rd inning of the opener starts the Yanks scoring as they beat Chuck Stobbs. Mantle singles and scores the winning run in the 10th of the nitecap. Yogi Berra has a home run in the nitecap and sets a new major-league record for consecutive errorless games by a catcher with 148.

» May 12, 1959: At Yankee Stadium, Yogi Berra's errorless streak of 148 games comes to an end when he makes an error on his 34th birthday today. Berra also homers, as do Elston Howard and Mickey Mantle, but New York loses 7–6 to the first-place Indians.

» May 22, 1959: Baltimore's Hoyt Wilhelm one-hits the Yankees 5–0, with Jerry Lumpe's single in the 8th the spoiler. Switch hitter Mickey Mantle hits righty against Wilhelm and does no better than he has been lefty. On May 28, Wilhelm will beat the Yankees again, 5-0.

» May 31, 1959: At Washington, the Yankees beat the Senators, 3–0, on Bob Turley's two-hitter. Moose Skowron accounts for the scoring with a three-run homer. Mickey Mantle almost homers, but his 438-foot drive is caught by CF Bob Allison.

» June 3, 1959: At Detroit, Mickey Mantle homers off Ray Narleski in the 9th to give the Yankees a 6–5 win. New York chases nemesis Frank Lary with five runs in the 3rd.

» June 9, 1959: At the Stadium, the Yanks edge Kansas City, 9–8 in 13 innings. Mickey Mantle homers in the 4th, off Murry Dickson, but it is Hector Lopez's single that wins it in the 13th.

» June 17, 1959: At Yankee Stadium, Mickey Mantle lashes a Ray Moore 3–0 pitch some 470 feet into the RF bleachers to lead New York to a 7–3 win over the White Sox.

» June 22, 1959: At Kansas City, Mickey Mantle drives in six runs with a triple and two homers to lead New York to a 13–6 win. Skowron adds his 4th homer in four days to move New York to three games out of first place.

» June 23, 1959: The Yankees ride 2-run homers from Mickey Mantle, Bauer and McDougald to a 10–2 win over KC.

» July 16, 1959: After beating the Indians, yesterday, the Yanks sweep a doubleheader today to knock the Tribe out of first. New York wins the opener when Berra ties the game in the 9th with a homer, and Mickey Mantle wins it, 7–5, in the 10th with a 2-run shot off Gary Bell. Bobby Shantz wins the nitecap, 4–0. New York is five 1/2 games out of first.

» July 19, 1959: Before 57,000 at the Stadium, the Yankees sweep a pair from the visiting White Sox, winning the nitecap 6–4 on Mickey Mantle's homer off Turk Lown. In game 1, Yankee veteran Enos Slaughter belts a pair of homers: at age 43, he is the oldest player this century to accomplish the feat. Carlton Fisk, a few months older, will top Slaughter in 1991.

» July 25, 1959: Against Detroit, Yankee first baseman Moose Skowron reaching for a wide throw collides with Tiger runner Coot Veale. Skowron's arm is broken in two places and he is out for the rest of the season. Marv Throneberry will fill in at 1B. The Yanks win, 9–8, when Berra hits a home run in the 9th with Mickey Mantle on. Prior to the Yogi home run, Richardson and Brickell hit their first ML homers for NY. Berra's home run erases five Yankee errors, three by 3B Lopez.

» August 5, 1959: Mickey Mantle breaks up a scoreless pitching duel between Detroit's Don Mossi and Bobby Shantz by belting an 8th inning homer with one on. New York wins at home, 3–0.

» September 10, 1959: Mickey Mantle goes 5-for-6, including a HR, in a 12-1 romp over Kansas City's Ray Herbert.

» April 22, 1960: In the home opener at Yankee Stadium, Mickey Mantle socks a 4th inning homer off Hoyt Wilhelm, and New York beats Baltimore, 5–0.

» May 1, 1960: Orioles vet Skinny Brown hurls Baltimore to a 4–1, win over the Yankees. Brown allows just one hit, a first inning homer by Mickey Mantle. Rookie Ron Hansen matches Mantle to up his RBI total to an American League high 32.

» May 20, 1960: At Comiskey Park, Ted Kluszewski drives in four runs to lead the White Sox to a 5–3 win, the 9th in a row at home for Chicago. Mickey Mantle hits a 2-run homer in the 9th inning 2-run shot off Early Wynn, the winner. Chicago leads Cleveland in the American League by one 1/2 games.

» May 28, 1960: Casey Stengel is hospitalized with a virus and high fever and will miss 13 games. New York goes 7-6 under interim manager Ralph Houk. Today the Yanks top the Senators, 5–1, behind Jim Coates' 5th straight win. The game is scoreless until Mickey Mantle cracks a 5th inning opposite field homer off Jim Kaat, who then walks three, hits two batters, and a serves up a Gil McDougald 2-run triple good for three runs. Later Mantle homers again, and Roger Maris, leading the American League, also homers, the first time the two have hit round trippers together in a game.

» May 30, 1960: At the Stadium, the Yanks earn a split with the Senators when, in game 2, Yogi Berra belts a two-run homer in the 8th inning. When Mickey Mantle makes a catch for the final out, he is surrounded by a group of fans, one of whom punches him in the face as he races for the dugout. Because of the incident, the Yankees announce that ushers using ropes -- a tactic used at one point with Joe DiMaggio -- will escort Mantle off the field.

» June 1, 1960: Mickey Mantle hits a one-out home run in the first inning, a 400-foot blow on an 0–2 pitch, for the only Yankee hit against Baltimore's Hal Brown. The Baby Birds win 4–1 and sweep the three game series with the Yankees to move into first place (27-15). New York leaves Baltimore in 4th place (19-19).

» June 5, 1960: The Yankees sweep two from the Red Sox, taking the opener on homers by Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris. Roger's blow is a three run shot to give New York a 5–4 victory. Art Ditmar is the CG winner in the nitecap, winning 8–3.

» June 8, 1960: Bob Turley tosses a 3-hit shutout against the White Sox, and Mickey Mantle adds his 9th and 10th homers of the season. His 2nd homer, in the 8th, is followed by Roger Maris's 16th of the year, matching his season total last year with KC. It is the first time the M Boys have hit back-to-back homers.

» June 10, 1960: In New York, Mickey Mantle cracks his 3rd homer in three days to ruin a good relief effort by Cleveland's Dick Stigman. The 8th inning solo shot gives New York a 4–3 win.

» June 17, 1960: In Chicago, Bill Veeck's new $300,000 exploding scoreboard is silent as no Sox players hit homers. However, when Clete Boyer bangs one in the 2nd inning, all the Yankees light sparklers and greet the third baseman on the dugout steps. Berra leads the sparklers in the bullpen. Mickey Mantle's 8th inning homer prompts another round of sparklers as the Yanks win, 4–2.

» June 18, 1960: New York continues the fireworks in Chicago with long home runs by Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris and Skowron to win 12–5 and sweep the 4-game series in Chicago. The Mantle home run is over the CF fence and is followed by Maris's clout to the upper deck in right.

» June 21, 1960: Whitey Ford outduels Yankee Killer Frank Lary to give New York a 6–0 win in Detroit. Mickey Mantle is 3-for-5 with two homers off Lary.

» June 30, 1960: New York beats up on their cousins from Kansas City by banging out five homers to win 10–5. Skowron leads with two home runs, with one each from Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris and Kubek.

» July 3, 1960: Before 50,556 fans in New York, the Yankees sweep two from the Tigers, winning 7–6 and 6–2. In the opener, Ryne Duran fans Charlie Maxwell with the bases loaded and two outs in the 9th. Detroit is ahead 2–1 in the night cap when Norm Cash argues at length about a call at first base, and finally gets tossed. When play resumes, Pete Burnside serves up a 3-run homer to Mickey Mantle, batting righty. The Yankees are 23–5 since June five and lead the American League by three games.

» July 4, 1960: Mickey Mantle's 3-run first-inning home run off Hal Woodeshick is the 300th of his career. Mantle becomes the 18th player to join the 300 club, but the Yankees drop a 9–8 decision to Washington.

» July 15, 1960: At Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle cracks a three-run homer of Don Mossi, but Detroit rallies to win 8–4.

» July 20, 1960: At Municipal Stadium, with Cleveland in the lead 8–2, Mickey Mantle golfs a Gary Bell pitch over the auxiliary scoreboard into the distant upper deck in RF, matching Luke Easter as the only players to reach that spot. Cleveland holds on for an 8–6 win.

» July 28, 1960: With relief help from Bobby Shantz, Whitey Ford, who leaves with an upset stomach, picks up a 4–0 win over the Indians. Kubek, Mickey Mantle, and Boyer homer for the pinstripers. The Yanks sweep, winning the nitecap, 9–2, and take over 1st place by three percentage points.

» August 14, 1960: The Yankees lose a doubleheader to Washington and fall to 3rd place in the American League, a half game behind the Orioles and White Sox. P Camilo Pascual's grand slam is the difference in a 5–4 first-game win. In the 2nd, Mickey Mantle, believing there are two outs, jogs to 1B on a grounder to 3B. The Senators turn a DP, with New York's Roger Maris suffering bruised ribs trying to break it up at 2B. Maris will miss 18 games as a result. Mantle is heavily booed, and Casey Stengel replaces him with Bob Cerv. The clubs set a major-league record by using 17 pinch hitters—9 by the Yankees—in the doubleheader (more than 18 innings), while playing a major-league record 24 errorless innings.

» August 15, 1960: Behind Art Ditmar's 5-hitter and Mickey Mantle's two home runs, off Jerry Walker and Hoyt Wilhelm, New York cops a 4–3 win and first place in the American League. The 2nd home run comes after C Clint Courtney drops a Mantle foul pop-up. Baltimore's loss is only its 2nd in the last 15 games. Baltimore and Chicago now trail by a half-game.

» August 28, 1960: In New York, the Yankees snap a 3–3 tie when Mickey Mantle hits a 2-run homer in the 5th and Berra follows with a solo shot. The Yanks top the Tigers, 8–5.

» September 6, 1960: In his final game at Yankee Stadium, Ted Williams thumps his 518th career homer to lead Boston to a 7–1 win. Billy Muffett's shut out is ruined when he serves up a homer to Mickey Mantle with two outs in the 9th.

» September 10, 1960: In Detroit, Mickey Mantle unloads a cannon shot for three runs in the 6th inning, the ball clearing the RF roof and landing in the Brooks Lumber Yard across Trumbull Avenue. New York pins a 5–1 loss on Paul Foytack that moves them a half game in first place ahead of Baltimore, losers today. In June, 1985, Mantle's blow was retroactively measured at 643 feet, and will be listed in The Guinness Book of World Records at that distance.

» September 16, 1960: 17th With Ty Cobb among the 49,055 fans in attendance at Yankee Stadium, Mickey Mantle cracks a 2-run homer, his 35th, off the O's Chuck Estrada to give New York a 2–0 lead in the first. Berra adds a home run. In the last of the 8th, Bobby Richardson's hit off Estrada's glove drives in two runs for a 5–3 New York win.

» September 24, 1960: Mickey Mantle's 11th inning homer off Ted Wilks gives New York a 6–5 win over the Red Sox at Fenway. Mantle had driven in the games first run with a drag bunt in the first.

» September 28, 1960: The Yanks win their 12th of 15 straight, taking a 6–3 victory over the Senators. Mickey Mantle swats homers 39 and 40, off Chuck Stobbs, to insure his home run title over Roger Maris. Since August 15th, Mick has hit 13 to Roger's 4.

» October 3, 1960: The Yankees head into the World Series with a 15-game winning streak, the 8th longest streak in the American League this century, after Dale Long's 2-run 9th-inning home run gives them an 8–7 win over the Red Sox. New York's 193 home runs are an AL record, three better than the 1956 Yanks. RBI leader Roger Maris drives in three runs, but falls one home run short of Mickey Mantle's league-high 40.

» October 6, 1960: Mickey Mantle's two home runs highlight New York's 16–3 victory at Forbes Field, evening the World Series. A 7-run 6th inning overwhelms Pittsburgh.

» November 2, 1960: Roger Maris nips Mickey Mantle for the American League's Most Valuable Player award, 225-222, the 2nd-closest vote ever, after the DiMaggio-Williams race in 1947.

» April 17, 1961: At Yankee Stadium, 1,947 fans braves the freezing rain to watch Whitey Ford shut out Kansas City, 3–0. Mickey Mantle drives in all three Yankee runs, connecting a solo shot off Jerry Walker in the first inning.

» April 26, 1961: Roger Maris hits his first home run of 1961 off Paul Foytack of Detroit, and Mickey Mantle adds home runs from both sides of the plate (for the 8th time), as New York wins 13–10 at Tiger Stadium. Mantle's 2nd homer, a 2-run shot off Hank Aguirre, snaps a 10–10 tie in the 10th.

» May 2, 1961: In their first appearance in Minnesota, the Yankees top the transplanted Washington team, 6–4. Mickey Mantle's grand slam in the 10th inning off Camilo Pascual, is the big blow. Luis Arroyo picks up the save after the Twins score 2. Mick's extra inning grand slam is the 6th by a Yankee, joining Wally Pipp (1923), Babe Ruth (1925), Bob Meusel (1929), and Joe DiMaggio and Tommy Henrich (1948).

» May 4, 1961: Mickey Mantle homers and extends his hitting streak to 16 games, as the Yankees top the Twins, 5–2. New York sweeps all three games in Minnesota.

» May 29, 1961: At Fenway, Ike Delock outduels Whitey Ford to beat the Yankees, 2–1. New York's scoring is Mickey Mantle's first homer in two weeks.

» May 30, 1961: Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle, and Moose Skowron each belt two home runs, tying the major-league record for most players (one club) with multiple home runs in a 9-inning game. Berra adds a homer as New York wins at Fenway Park 12–3.

» May 31, 1961: Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris again homer as New York edges Boston, 7–6. Mantle's is #14, two ahead of Roger. In the 8th inning, Carroll Hardy pinch hits for rookie Carl Yastrzemski: last year he pinch hit for Ted Williams, making him the only player to go in for both future Hall of Famers.

» June 5, 1961: In the first of two games at the Stadium, Mickey Mantle hits an 8th inning homer to help New York top the Twins 6–2. Mantle, Roger Maris, and Rocky Colavito each have hit 15.

» June 7, 1961: The Twins lose to the Yankees, 5–1, for their 13th straight loss. They'll reach 14 losses in a row in 1982. Ralph Terry allows the Twins a run in the 1st on two hits, then pitches hitless ball for the next eight innings. Berry and Mickey Mantle homer off Pascual in the 3rd; it is a record setting 31 homers in the last 16 consecutive games.

» June 9, 1961: In a rain-interrupted game in New York, Mickey Mantle's 3-run homer in the 3rd is the difference in a 8–6 win over Kansas City. Roger Maris also homers, the third time this year the two have gone deep in the same game.

» June 10, 1961: At New York, ex-Yank Hank Bauer hits a inside-the-park homer over Mickey Mantle's head to the CF monuments, but Mantle's homer in the bottom of the 8th off rookie Bill Kunkel cements New York's 5–3 win over Kansas City.

» June 11, 1961: The Yankees sweep two the Angels, winning the opener, 2–1 behind Ralph Terry's 5-hitter. Yogi Berra clouts a pair of solo homers. In the nitecap, Mickey Mantle's 1st inning homer, #19, gives him the American League lead, but Roger Maris adds a pair of home runs, his 19th and 20th, as New York wins 5–1. The Yanks have won 10 of 11 games.

» June 15, 1961: Undefeated Ralph Terry's 11-inning 3–2 win at Cleveland moves the Yankees into first place. Mickey Mantle's homer ties the score at 1–1 and Johnny Blanchard's pinch single in the 11th wins it.

» June 17, 1961: With two out and two on in the 9th, Mickey Mantle homers off Paul Foytack into the RF upper deck. Elston Howard follows with a home run, but Detroit hangs on to win 12–10 over the 3rd-place Yanks.

» June 26, 1961: At LA's Wrigley Field, Angel reliever Art Fowler, who has allowed just one hit in his last 12 innings, serves up a 9th inning home run to Bill Skowron as New York wins 8–6. Mickey Mantle adds an earlier homer, off Ken McBride, and Ford wins his 13th.

» June 28, 1961: Ryne Duran goes eight innings and strikes out 12 former teammates to give the Angels a 5–3 win over New York. Mickey Mantle drives in all three Yankee runs, two on a home run.

» June 30, 1961: Whitey Ford (14–2) tops the Senators 5–1 to give the 2nd place Yankees their 22nd win of the month. Roger Maris drives in three runs and Mickey Mantle lines shot over CF Willie Tasby's that rebounds for an inside-the-park home run.

» July 1, 1961: The Senators stake rookie Carl Mathias to a 3–0 lead over New York, but a Mickey Mantle solo shot, a few feet left of the 456-foot sign in left at Yankee Stadium, puts New York on the board. The Nats up the score to 5–1, but Mantle then bangs a 3-run homer to make it 5–4 and knock out Mathias [who in his 11 ML games will give up three homers to Mantle]. In the 9th, Roger Maris poles a 2-run homer, his 28th, to give New York a 7–6 victory.

» July 2, 1961: The Yankees hit five homers -- #28 by Mickey Mantle and #'s 29 and 30 by Roger Maris -- to easily beat the Senators 13–4.

» July 8, 1961: At Yankee Stadium, Whitey Ford tops the Red Sox 8–5. Mickey Mantle hits a home run in the 4th, off Tracy Stallard, for his 10th roundtripper this year in support of Ford.

» July 13, 1961: Chicago's Early Wynn gets an early departure as he retires just two Yankees in the first inning. Then Mickey Mantle (30th) and Roger Maris (34th) belt back-to-back homers to send the vet to the showers. For Mantle, it is the 13th homer in his career off Wynn, his favorite target. New York wins, 6–2

» July 16, 1961: New York edges 3rd place Baltimore, beating Steve Barber 2–1. Mickey Mantle drives home both runs.

» July 17, 1961: The Yankees top the O's, 5–0, behind Whitey Ford's 13th straight win. Mickey Mantle (#33) and Skowron hit long home runs at Baltimore. The nitecap goes into the 5th when, with two outs and the Yanks up 4–1, a thunderstorm strikes. The umps wait 65 minutes before calling the game, thus washing out homers by Roger Maris and Mantle.

» July 18, 1961: Mickey Mantle poles two homers, off rookie Joe McLain, to pace New York to a 5–3 win over the Senators. In pre-game ceremonies, Mantle teamed with New York Congressman Eddie Dooley to win the homer-hitting contest against other Congressional-player duos.

» July 19, 1961: The Yanks and Senators split, with Washington winning the nitecap 12–2. Dick Donovan is the winner. Mickey Mantle belts a 500 foot homer in the 4th over the RF wall.

» July 21, 1961: Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris slam back-to-back home runs in the first inning for New York, but it takes a 2-out, 9th-inning pinch-hit grand slam by Johnny Blanchard to finally subdue the Red Sox, 11–8, at Fenway. The pinch slam is the American League's 6th of the season, a new record.

» July 24, 1961: At Yankee Stadium, 50,000 fans, on hand for the Yankees exhibition game with the Giants, save their biggest cheer for Willie Mays. Willie delivers a 2-run single in the 4–1 victory. The only score for the Yanks is a Mickey Mantle homer.

» July 25, 1961: Roger Maris hits four home runs, tying the American League record for a twin bill (at least one in each game), as New York beats Chicago 5–1 and 12–0. Mickey Mantle also homers off Frank Baumann in the first game. He ends the day with 38 home runs to 40 for Maris.

» July 26, 1961: John Blanchard ties a major-league record by hitting his 3rd and 4th home runs in four at bats over three games. He drives in four of the Yankee runs in a 5–2 victory over the White Sox at the Stadium. New York manages just six hits but four are homers, including one by Mickey Mantle following Blanchard's first-inning clout. Blanchard will end the year with 21 homers in 243 at bats, the first player in history to hit 20 or more in fewer than 250 at bats.

» August 2, 1961: New York beats Kansas City 12–5 with Mickey Mantle walloping a first inning homer off Art Ditmar. Mantle and Roger Maris are both at 40 homers.

» August 6, 1961: Mickey Mantle leads the Yankees to a doubleheader sweep of the Twins, going 5-for-9 with three home runs and a double. His four RBIs gives him an even 100 for the year and his homer total is now 43. In the opener, Mantle's had two home runs off his favorite pitcher Pedro Ramos, but it is Johnny Blanchard's homer in the 10th that ties the game at 6–6. In the 15th, Yogi Berra hits a bases loaded grounder and just beat the throw at first to give the Yanks the win. The Yankees win the nitecap by a run as well, when Clete Boyer drives in Mantle in the 9th inning to break a 2–2 tie. New York now leads Detroit by two 1/2 games.

» August 11, 1961: Mickey Mantle (44) and Roger Maris (42) belt homers off reliever Pete Burnside to lead New York to a 12–5 pasting of the Senators.

» August 13, 1961: In the first of two with the Senators, Roger Maris belts his 44th homer to tie Mickey Mantle. An inning later, Mantle, hits a Bennie Daniels offering for his 45th, but that's all Daniels allows, winning 12–2. Maris adds his 45th homer in the 1st inning in game two as the Yanks win, 9–4.