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wed, may 3, 2023 1:50 p.m.
Joe Guzzardi on Mickey Mantle
Joe sent me his latest baseball column:
https://www.gettysburgtimes.com/opinion/staff_columns/article_f348f6c3-19f9-5249-afc9-fb7e388669ae.html
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"The Mick" only realized he "screwed up" after a fatal diagnosis.If he had received a new liver and not gotten cancer,I have no doubt he would be drinking again full blast.Why?He enjoyed it.Yes it's a horrible way to live and die,but no one here gets out alive(to quote a Jim Morrison bio)and Mick would be dead now anyways--if he'd been a sober,healthy person--so there isn't much to say about feeling sorry for Mickey Mantle.He had an exciting life as a baseball talent and did what he wanted.
Am I supposed to feel sorry for that?
--GRA
Mickey as his father before him suffered from some sort of chronic illness that convinced Mickey he was not going to live to old age. I guess he lived longer than he expected but ended his days shaking hands of those entering an Atlantic City casino.
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