Mickey Mantle should have a knuckleball rating

[Leo_The_Lip]

...and a good one. I remember players talking about him throwing it before games. One story:

Bobby Richardson
Yankees second baseman, 1955-66

Mickey was a jokester, and most people don't know he had the best knuckleball in baseball. Anytime a rookie came up, we'd tell him we'd give him $100 if they could catch three of Mickey's knuckleballs in a row. So Jake Gibbs came up, he was a football player, a Heisman Trophy candidate out of the University of Mississippi. He caught Mickey's first knuckleball, but the second danced right around his glove and hit him right in the nose and broke it. They had to send him back (to the Minors), and we had to stop offering $100 to rookies.

He'll never pitch in PT, however it would be accurate and memorable to include the pitch in future versions.

[Orion]

Originally Posted by Leo_The_Lip

...and a good one. I remember players talking about him throwing it before games. One story:

Bobby Richardson
Yankees second baseman, 1955-66

Mickey was a jokester, and most people don't know he had the best knuckleball in baseball. Anytime a rookie came up, we'd tell him we'd give him $100 if they could catch three of Mickey's knuckleballs in a row. So Jake Gibbs came up, he was a football player, a Heisman Trophy candidate out of the University of Mississippi. He caught Mickey's first knuckleball, but the second danced right around his glove and hit him right in the nose and broke it. They had to send him back (to the Minors), and we had to stop offering $100 to rookies.

He'll never pitch in PT, however it would be accurate and memorable to include the pitch in future versions.

Another thing about Mantle not commonly known, the guy was one of the best bunters of all time. Here you had a triple crown threat, and he also could lay one down the moment you let your guard down. If not for the injuries, could have been the best ever. The real life Natural.