It's Mickey Mantle Banner Day at Yankee Stadium! Mickey watches the fans parade past the #Yankees dugout (August 4, 1968) #FlashbackFriday pic.twitter.com/Y1Y7e63vvQ
— Baseball by BSmile (@BSmile) August 4, 2017
A half-century later, that moment is ingrained in my head, never to be lost.
Here’s the story behind it:
By 1968, Mickey Mantle was a memory of himself. The glory of what was had caught up to the icon who regularly patrolled the streets of New York City with his posse Billy Martin and Whitey Ford.