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"Hell, it's true, isn't it? If you don't want to be quoted on that, he can quote me."

— 1960 World Series

January 1, 1970

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1960 1960s in the United States Sports in New York City 20th century in American sports

Original Language: English

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Mickey Mantle, on the matter of whether Yogi Berra's claim of Yankee superiority regardless of the Series' outcome—made following New York's Game 6 blowout win, knotting the Series at three all—should be on or off the record (see Berra quote from the same article, above); as quoted in "We Flattened 'Em, Yet We're Only Tied'" by Joe Reichler (AP), in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Thursday, October 13, 1960), p. 35

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Mickey Mantle, on the matter of whether Yogi Berra's claim of Yankee superiority regardless of the Series' outcome—made following New York's Game 6 blowout win, knotting the Series at three all—should be on or off the record (see Berra quote from the same article, above); as quoted in "We Flattened 'Em, Yet We're Only Tied'" by Joe Reichler (AP), in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Thursday, October 13, 1960), p. 35