Mantle (left) in 1995. Source: The Oklahoman. Rose (right) in 2019. Source: LA Times.

Seven (Times Two) Equals: Fourteen

Mickey Mantle’s epic final days moved a generation, and that’s precisely why we must let Pete Rose back into baseball

My Dad, born fifteen months after the Japanese capitulation in 1945, grew-up in Ardmore, Oklahoma. He has always revered his home state’s golden boy: Mickey Mantle.