Friday, May 1, 2020

Mickey Mantle, "Brooklyn Dodger"? My 2015 post v. 2020 copycat.

I learned about the copycat, not from its author, but from a Google alert:

from: Google Alerts <googlealerts-noreply@google.com>
to: Ken
date: May 1, 2020, 8:01 AM
subject: Google Alert - "radical baseball"


What if Mickey Mantle signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers instead of New York Yankees? It's not far ...
Oklahoman.com
Which as historian Kenneth Matinale of Radical Baseball pointed out in 2015, means no Los Angeles Dodgers. Maybe no San Francisco Giants, who ...

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He did mention me but there was no link to my blog or, more importantly, to my post on the subject. There certainly was no footnote with my title, which as you can see below, would have obviously been much too similar to his title. Reading our material, you'll see a similarity.

https://radicalbaseball.blogspot.com/2015/08/mickey-mantle-what-if-hed-played-for.html

Mickey Mantle: what if he'd played for the Dodgers? They might still be in Brooklyn.
by Kenneth Matinale
Monday, August 17, 2015


This is not as much of a Twilight Zone deal as you might think.
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https://oklahoman.com/article/5661196/what-if-mickey-mantle-had-become-a-brooklyn-dodger-instead-of-a-new-york-yankee-its-not-far-fetched

What if Mickey Mantle signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers instead of New York Yankees? It's not far-fetched.
Berry Tramel
by BERRY TRAMEL
Published: Wed, April 29, 2020 7:00 AM Updated: Fri, May 1, 2020 9:52 AM


Argh!

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