"I grew up a Yankee fan my whole life, everybody knew that," Harper told ESPN's Pat McAfee. "I grew up watching some really ...

Mickey Mantle, one of his friends said ... And in 1956 he missed by 18 inches from hitting the first ball out of Yankee Stadium, when his prodigious drive off righthander Pedro Ramos struck ...

But love of baseball is not the reason this column celebrates Marianne Moore. She was a Big Leaguer of modernist poetry.

The franchise has retired 22 uniform numbers and immortalized 37 figures in the famed Monument Park at Yankee Stadium ... of Famers such as Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio ...

Even when Harper played for the Washington Nationals, he selected his jersey number in honor of Yankees legend Mickey Mantle ... professing his love for Yankee Stadium. When Harper became ...

When he got cancer, a whole generation felt the fear of death," said author Roger Kahn about Mickey Mantle on ESPN ... hitting the first ball out of Yankee Stadium, when his prodigious drive ...