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This Day in Baseball: Mantle Reaches 50

By Precious Sanders @pdsanders99

On September 18, 1956, the Yankees’ Mickey Mantle became just the eighth player in baseball history to hit 50 home runs in a season.  Mantle’s home run came in the top of the 11th inning off the White Sox’s Billy Pierce.  Whitey Ford and Bob Grim combined efforts to shut down Chicago in the bottom of the inning, thus sealing the American League pennant for the Yankees.

This day in baseball: Mantle reaches 50

This day in baseball: Mantle reaches 50


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