1994 - Baseball Clip - Mickey Mantle Interview by Bob Costas - Highlights

Retro Sports Radio: Classic Games from History · Oct 15, 2026 · 15m · transcript

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- Bob Costas

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By 1994, Mickey Mantle was nearly 25 years removed from his playing career, which had ended after the 1968 season. He'd spent much of the years since as a fixture at old-timers' events and memorabilia shows, and had also become increasingly public about his struggles with alcoholism — he would enter the Betty Ford Center in January 1994, the same year this interview appears to have taken place. Bob Costas, then in his late 30s and well established at NBC Sports as a baseball broadcaster, was known for a personal connection to Mantle dating back to childhood; he would…