Prior to today’s game with the Oakland A’s, the Yankees honored the late Mickey Mantle with a monument in Monument Park. Only three other Yankees have been monumentalized – Miller Huggins, Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth.
“This is great day for us,” said David Mantle, one of Mantle’s three surviving sons, “and a sad one, too.” (Via NY Times). It’s been over one year since Mantle passed last summer.
Former teammates Whitey Ford and Joe DiMaggio joined Mantle’s family and friends for the ceremony.