The Ghost of Mickey Mantle

In the 1950's and 60's, Mickey Mantle was a hero to many a young boy welding a dinged up wooden bat hitting a baseball with the red laces coming undone and running around rocks for bases on fields of dreams. Lil Dude visited Mick's boyhood home in Commerce, Oklahoma, where he learned to become the best switch hitter and one of the best players in the history of baseball.

The Mick's boyhood home. The metal shed he, his father
and grandfather used as a backstop while he learned to
hit is to the right.

Only a small commemorative marker indicates the
history of this house.

Front door of the Mantle home.

A more complete write-up can be found here.