Headline should be “The LEGEND of Mickey Mantle.”
I wonder if the author knows there is a difference in the meanings of those two words. I agree. It should be LEGEND.
He’s a white guy so it has to be a “myth”
Maybe whoever proof read the article is a Yankees hater and was happy to see the slight.
You’re right. Myth is the wrong word. It implies that he wasn’t really that great, that his ability was fiction, created by others. Legend is a much better choice.
You would think someone at the LAT would catch that.
I recently heard a rapper described as a “Musical Hero!”
A few corrections:
Rap is not music!
Emmenem is no hero!
Exactly, but the liberals want to tag the “myth” to Mantle as if he was a phony like Sandy Koufax.
I finished the bio of Willie Mays. At the time in New York, fans would watch Mantle and Mays both in center field and a few others. It was really a golden period of baseball.
Then when Mantle got hurt, his game changed. He played hurt every day.