One of my great baseball memories was watching Dizzy Dean pitch an inning in an old timers game in the summer of 1966 in the Astrodome. Other pitchers in the game lobbed easy pitches to the elder hitters but Ol’ Diz’ in his yellowed Cardinals uniform threw good stuff and got all three hitters that faced him out.
I recall that there were other great names in that game but the only two I am sure about were Dizzy and Mickey Mantle, who jacked one over the left field fence.
Are you sure about Mantle? He was still active in 1966.