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Mickey Mantle Frame Color:Brown " remarked Fire Commissioner EdwardMickey Mantle, wearing his familiar pinstripes and No. 7, walks through the stands of Yankee Stadium before a game in 1963. The Times called Mantle, "The most powerful switch hitter in baseball history and the successor to Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio as the symbol of the long reign of the New York Yankees." When "The Mick" died at age 63 in 1995, The Times wrote, "He was the blond, muscled switch hitter who joined the Yankees at 19 in 1951 as DiMaggio