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"After the game, Jackie Robinson came into our clubhouse & shook my hand. He said, 'You're a helluva ballplayer & you've got a great future.' I thought that was a classy gesture, one I wasn't then capable of making. I was a bad loser. What meant even more was what Jackie told the press, 'Mantle beat us. He was the difference between the two teams. They didn't miss DiMaggio .' I have to admit, I became a Jackie Robinson fan on the spot. And when I think of that World Series, his gesture is what comes to mind. Here was a player who had without doubt suffered more abuse, more taunts & more hatred than any player in the history of the game. And he had made a special effort to compliment & encourage a young white kid from Oklahoma." Mickey Mantle