When I was born in 1957, my older brother urged my parents not to name his baby brother Patrick (after our maternal great-grandfather) but rather Michael. That way, he could nickname me "Mickey," in ...

Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 – August 13, 1995), nicknamed "the Mick" and "the Commerce Comet", was an American professional baseball player. Mantle played his entire Major League Baseball ...