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Where’s the Spot Where Mickey Mantle’s Home Run Almost Left Yankee Stadium?

Creamer is the recipient of the 2012 Henry Chadwick Award from the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR). Creamer, who spent most of his illustrious writing career with Sports Illustrated, wrote an article in 1956 that explains what we have lost.

On May 30, 1956, Mickey Mantle came within a foot or two of hitting a ball out of Yankee Stadium. Creamer described it, but then wrote a sentence that poignantly states what has been lost forever.

“…as people come into the stadium and find their seats, almost invariably their eyes wander to The Spot. Arms point and people stare in admiration.”

It reminds one of Frank Sinatra’s great rendition of Joe Raposo’s “There used to be a Ballpark.” ...

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