Word: mickey
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...foreseeable tax package is likely to restore America to its Golden Age of relative equality. As policy analyst Mickey Kaus notes in The End of Equality, "The top 1% have gotten so rich that it would take an effective tax rate of more than 50% to cut their income share back down to what...
They should have been joined by the entire cast from 1995: Cal Ripken, Hideo Nomo, Mo Vaughn, Randy Johnson, Trammell and Whitaker--even Mickey Mantle. The season just past is as worthy of celebration as the Braves...
Mantle's father died in 1951, during Mickey's first year in the big leagues as a 19-year-old wunderkind. Mantle's father was not able to see Mickey's phenomenal career, where he hit 536 colossal home runs (the most by a switch-hitter, almost 200 more than his closest rival), roamed center field for the dominant Yankees, and set most World Series hitting records...
Mantle is considered one of the greatest players ever, and by my unofficial count, is the third most recognized ball player of all-time, behind Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio. Yet Mickey considered himself a failure in his father's eyes because he was not what he could have been...
...Mickey Mantle typified what we admire most about sports in that it was easy for him. He wasn't giving his life out there every day for the Yankees...