He was elected to the Hall of Fame alongside Whitey Ford in 1974. In 1961 he and teammate Roger Maris both had a chance of passing Ruth’s 1927 mark (60), but injuries forced him out of the race (Maris hit 61).
During the regular season, his switch-hitting powered 536 home runs and won him four homer titles (1955, 1956, 1958, 1960), three MVP awards (1956, 1957, 1962), and a triple crown (1956).
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He holds World Series records for home runs (18), RBI (40), runs (42), walks (43), extra-base hits (26), and total bases (123). Mantle played on twelve pennant winners and seven World Championship clubs.
Known as the “Commerce Comet” because of his speed and because he grew up in Commerce, Oklahoma, he became the Yankee center fielder following DiMaggio’s retirement in 1951. In high school it was nearly amputated because of osteomyelitis, the first of his many leg problems.
Mickey Mantle (1931–1995 center field) was born to play baseball-his father named him for Hall of Fame catcher Mickey Cochrane-but his left leg wasn’t. He married Marilyn Monroe in 1954, but they divorced after nine months. His career totals are abbreviated because of his military service (1943–1945) and because of the distance to Yankee Stadium’s left-field power alley, in those days known as Death Valley. In 1941 “Joltin’ Joe” hit safely in 56 consecutive games, a record that has never been challenged (he once hit in 61 straight for the Seals in 1933). “The Yankee Clipper” won three Most Valuable Player awards (1939, 1941, 1947), two batting titles (1939, 1940), and two homer titles (1937, 1948). Joe DiMaggio (1914–1999 center field) left the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League and joined New York for the 1936 season, where he helped Lou Gehrig drive the Yankees to their fifth championship and the first of nine that he would win with the Bombers. In deference to Lou, no Yankee was appointed captain until Thurman Munson in 1976. When it was discovered that he was suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-now commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease-he delivered his famous “Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth” speech at Yankee Stadium on July 4, 1939. in 1995) that earned him the nickname “The Iron Horse.” His batting feats include 184 RBI in 1931 (the AL record), 23 career grand slams (the ML record for many decades, since broken by Alex Rodriguez), a triple crown in 1934, and a. He became a regular in 1925, replacing Wally Pipp at first base and beginning his streak of 2130 consecutive games played (since broken by Cal Ripken Jr. A football and baseball player at Columbia University, he signed with the Yankees in 1923. Lou Gehrig (1903–1941 first base) was born in Manhattan to German immigrants. Before Ruth, the homer was a rare occurrence. Since his retirement from baseball in 1935, many of his most famous pitching and batting records have been surpassed, but power hitting as a legitimate approach towards playing baseball continues. He hit his controversial “Called Shot” homer against the Cubs during the third game of the 1932 World Series after allegedly gesturing towards the centerfield stands. In 1927 he hit 60 home runs and led the “Murderers’ Row” Yankee lineup to a sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the World Series. Moved from the pitcher’s mound to the outfield, he won nine home-run titles and four World Series from 1920 to 1934. Already famous as a player, eater, and carouser, Boston sold him to New York for the 1920 season, where his fame became legend. 
Released after signing a baseball contract with the minor-league Baltimore Orioles, he was bought by the Boston Red Sox and played with them for six seasons, winning 89 games and three World Series, and, in 1919, setting a new single-season home-run record: 29. George Herman “Babe” Ruth (1895–1948 pitcher and outfield), the rough son of a saloon keeper, grew up on the Baltimore waterfront and in the St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys.
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