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Rookie Mickey Mantle in spring training. Mickey wore number 6 when he first came up with the Yankees. In July of that year, after a particularly horrendous slump, Casey Stengel sent Mickey down to the Yankees Triple A minor league team in Kansas City to regain his batting swing. In August Mickey was brought back up and was given his famous number seven.
The clubhouse man, Pete Sheehy, issued Mickey uniform #6, putting him in a great sequence: Ruth #3, Gehrig #4, and DiMaggio #5. Clearly, Mantle was the Yankee Clipper's heir apparent.
Bill Dickey...“You guys got to see this kid we have in camp. Out of class C ball, hits 'em both ways - five-hundred feet both ways! You've got to see him."
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