As my deceased parents were both born in 1925, they and I grew up with and remembered and admired this star from afar (not so much his team though!). Mickey's first few years though he was booed by Yankee fans fearing him displacing their beloved center fielder Joe Dimaggio, but after Joe's retirement, they grew to love him. Mickey as a rookie was one of the fastest players in baseball, but unfortunately a trip and fall over a springler head in center field of the old Yankee Stadium took that speed aspect of his game away from him. Later on the Yankees were upset with Billy Martin taking Mickey and other players to enjoy the New York nightlife and inbibe late into the night, which rumor has it caused the Yankees to trade Martin to Kansas City! Late in his career, the Yankees adopted a policy of giving Mick a game off whenever a day game followed a night game with allegedly hangovers from the night before a consideration. One day game, late in a tie game, he was sent up to pinch hit and Mick hit a 500 foot game winning homer, and his first words to his teammates upon his return to the dugout were: "Those fans don't realize how hard that was. I saw two baseballs and swung in between"! Now that's a story showing just how talented he was! RIP Mick.
