mickey mantle
...uld walk two to three miles a day just to play baseball on a sandlot team, which is a team that is like recreation teams now a days, called the Duathats. While he wasn’t playing on the sandlot team the majori5ty of his extra time would be with his dad who was teaching him how to be a switch hitter which 2would be a huge help later in his career as a baseball player. At the age of fifteen Mickey Mantle was infected with Osteomylits. Which is a desease that eats away at the bone causing weak bones. This desease would have completely ruined his career if penasciline wasn’t invented. This medacine that tastes extremely nasty saved his baseball career. Later Mickey wanted to loin the a...