Like the new name for OKC’s Triple-A baseball club or not, “Comets” received a meaningful endorsement from Danny Mantle, one of Mickey Mantle’s sons.

When he got cancer, a whole generation felt the fear of death," said author Roger Kahn about Mickey Mantle on ESPN ... the Depression on Oct. 20, 1931 in Spavinaw, Okla. (population 300), he ...

But, in time, that's where Mickey ... Mantle said while in his 20s. "Sure, I kid about it, but I think about it, too." At his birth during the depths of the Depression on Oct. 20, 1931 in Spavinaw ...