I believe Mantle is still considered the fastest runner from home plate to first base in baseball history.
He was incredibly fast, especially before his knee problems.
I was listening to a Kansas City Blues game in 1951. Mickey was caught in a run down between first and second. Pretty soon ALL the opposing players were backing up one base or the other. Yet, they couldn’t run him down and he got back in safe. Larry Ray was the announcer.
May he RIP.
Lew, in Ks.