"I think the big deal was, I said Mickey Mantle had a home run with a hangover. On the controversial story he wrote about Mantle in Ball Four Where's the ham?' He said, 'Well, there is no ham.' I said, 'What do you mean?' He said, 'Well, that's one of the hazards of a game of chance.' " I don't know if this is a rookie setup or not, but I went over to his locker and I said, 'Hey, Mick. And then he drew the numbers, and it was my number.
And we all put, you know, 2 bucks into the hat or something like that, and we got a number.
He was talking about how great this ham would taste. My rookie year, he went around the clubhouse, and he was raffling off a Smithfield ham. "He was a practical joker, always pulling stunts in the clubhouse. "He had enormous appetites for, you know, for everything, including competing and being the, you know, the greatest home-run hitter he could be. On his larger-than-life teammate, Mickey Mantle I hit the middle ball.NPR's Neal Conan talks with Bouton about the controversy that erupted whenīall Four was published, and the invention of Big League Chew bubble gum. Then after the game, the sportswriter said, 'Mick, how did you that?'. He comes over to the dugout, and he looks up in the stands, and he says, those people don't know how tough that really was.
He walks up to home plate, takes one practice swing and hits the first pitch into the left field bleachers, a tremendous blast. We'll put somebody else in center field.' Anyway, the game goes extra innings. So, you know, Ralph Houk said, 'Don't worry about it. "We have been out the night before, having a few drinks, and Mickey came to the clubhouse the next day, and he was a little hung over. And, you know, it was more of a story about what a great hitter he was, what a great player he was.
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