For no particular reason, I just wanted to post this story about Mickey Mantle. It always cracks me up. I suppose you would really have to know a bit about the Mickey-Billy dynamic to fully appreciate it, but here it is anyway:
Mickey Mantle took teammate Billy Martin hunting one day in Oklahoma and told him to wait in the car while he went and asked a friend of his who was a farmer for permission to hunt on his land.
The farmer agreed, but asked Mickey for a favor. He had an old cow that needed putting down and asked Mickey to do it for him because he didn’t have the heart to. So Mickey decided to play a trick on Billy.
Mickey came back to the car, pretended he was mad and got his rifle. “That son of a gun won’t let us hunt,” he said. “I’m going to shoot his cow.”
So Mantle when into the barn with Billy trailing behind. Bang! He shot the cow dead.
Suddenly he heard two more shots. Bang! Bang!
He turned around and there was Billy with a smoking rifle. “I got two of his horses, Mick,” he said. “That’ll show him.”
Mickey Mantle took teammate Billy Martin hunting one day in Oklahoma and told him to wait in the car while he went and asked a friend of his who was a farmer for permission to hunt on his land.
The farmer agreed, but asked Mickey for a favor. He had an old cow that needed putting down and asked Mickey to do it for him because he didn’t have the heart to. So Mickey decided to play a trick on Billy.
Mickey came back to the car, pretended he was mad and got his rifle. “That son of a gun won’t let us hunt,” he said. “I’m going to shoot his cow.”
So Mantle when into the barn with Billy trailing behind. Bang! He shot the cow dead.
Suddenly he heard two more shots. Bang! Bang!
He turned around and there was Billy with a smoking rifle. “I got two of his horses, Mick,” he said. “That’ll show him.”
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