“Mickey Mantle’s creepy come-on detailed in new reporter memoir”

Mickey Mantle once slipped a female reporter a cutesy greeting card during an interview — with the message “Wanna fuck?” written inside.

“As the evening wore on and Mantle kept drinking, he became tipsy and, at one point, nearly fell off his chair. Later, as we walked along Central Park South, he tripped on the curb at Sixth Avenue and — for one fleeting moment — oh, God — there was my hero, lying in the gutter.”

2 thoughts on ““Mickey Mantle’s creepy come-on detailed in new reporter memoir”

  1. I remember how Jim Bouton got blasted for spilling the beans on Mickey in “Ball Four”.

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