Today's baseball is contemptible mess. In the old days, many of us have stories of meeting our heroes in person. Mays, Aaron, Kaline, Maz, Brock, Billy Williams, Drysdale, Maury, Frank and Brooks, Jim Palmer...I met them all. Even the guys who weren't particularly nice like Gibson and Reggie would be civil and decent. I loved that game so much.
But Mantle is a figure of supreme legend, and most of the Yankee players of the 50’s and 60’s were tremendous fellows, even with their drinking and womanizing and wildness, They knew what is was to be idolized and loved by kids, and were very very good to us. God rest you, Mickey.
Oh, shut up, don't remind me. :-)
Mets beat them in 1969, the same year Namath beat Unitas in the Super Bowl...
Orioles (well, OK, Brooks Robinson) beat the Reds in 1970.
It still hurts that the Orioles lost to Pittsburgh in the World Series (both times it went 7 games) in 1971 and 1979.
1979 sucked all the more in that the Orioles had a 3-1 lead and Palmer, Flanagan, McGregor due to pitch, IIRC.
NO cheers, unfortunately.