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This week I learned what I always suspected—Mickey Mantle makes Charlie Sheen look like Tim Tebow.
On Thursday, an excerpt from female sports columnist Diane Shah revealed that during an interview with the Yankees legend in 1970, The Mick handed her a card with flowers on the front, but inside it read, “Wanna fuck?”
Take notes, kiddos.
If that wasn’t enough chivalry for ya, please read on.
In his upcoming book “Gatecrasher,” journalist Ben Widdicombe writes that a Daily News editor once told him, “That sofa you’re sitting on right now … Mickey Mantle sat on that very sofa and told me how he once went on a date with Angie Dickinson, took her home, and was so drunk that he threw up while he was [performing a sex act on her].”
For you youngin’s who are unfamiliar with the name Angie Dickinson, she was one of the hottest actresses going in the 60s and 70s and appeared in over 50 films in her six decade career. And Mickey Mantle puked on/next to her like she was a dorm room trash barrel.
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For any other human, puking on a sex symbol would be traumatizing, but for Mickey Mantle, stuff like this was typical.
In a leaked memo between the New York Yankees and a retired Mickey Mantle in December of 1972 in advance of Yankee Stadium’s 50th anniversary, Mantle filled out a survey question asking what he considers to be his most “outstanding experience at Yankee Stadium” as follow:
“I got a blowjob under the right field bleachers by the Yankee bullpen.
It was about the third or fourth inning. I had a pulled groin and couldn’t fuck at the time. She was a very nice girl and asked me what to do with the c*m after I come in her mouth. I said, ‘don’t ask me, I’m no cock sucker.'”
ICYMI, Mickey Mantle once got a blowjob during a Yankees game pic.twitter.com/IXi4bEXJiw
— Becks (@BecksWelker) May 17, 2016
It also should be noted that married his high school sweetheart Merlyn Johnson in 1951, not out of love but because his abrasive father told him to. During his retirement ceremony in 1969, he brought his mistress along with his wife. Mickey and Merlyn separated in 1980, living apart for the rest of Mickey’s life, but neither filed for divorce.
[h/t Page Six]