Mickey Mantle

English thumb|a monument to Mickey Mantle Etymology After the highly-regarded American baseball player Mickey Charles Mantle (1931–1995). Noun A popular hero and champion in a field. en Egged On: Meggi Lays Claim To Another Title Park City Daily News September 20, 1957 Meggi O'Day, the Mickey Mantle of the poultry world, has added another championship to her list of titles. The little Leghorn hen laid another egg.... en Boys' Life 1974 October 9 64 10 It isn't easy to explain why Danny Blancheflower, the Mickey Mantle of English soccer 15 years ago, says, "Your country is a great frontier town and you have great big attitudes toward things en Real steel: an investor's and philosopher's guide to the American automobile 22 Bill Neville 1979 This does not mean that the 1940 Buick was the Mickey Mantle of automobiles, but it was an all-star en The Trial Lawyers: The Nation's Top Litigators Tell How They Win 163 Emily Couric 1990 "The engineers that were put to work on this are ... the Willie Mayses and the Mickey Mantles of the engineering profession. They are devoted, intelligent, honest engineers." en 'Damn Yankees' Not A Homer, But A Solid Hit The Day February 23, 1998 Kristina Dorsey "Damn Yankees" isn't the Mickey Mantle of musical comedies en Business week 3914-3922 2004 Says James Swanson, chief investment strategist at MFS Investment Management: "They are the Mickey Mantles of the investing world." Harvard Management has achieved this with a formula that bears little resemblance to that of the average en Real Life Lessons for Teens R. Simmons 2005 Nearly all the answers were entertainers or athletes, the Mickey Mantles of your generation - until Sept. 11, 2001 en The soup peddler's slow & difficult soups: recipes & reveries 148 David Ansel 2005 ... the Mickey Mantle of soups, then avgolemono, if you'll humor me, is the Eddie Murray of soups en The Mad Dog Hall of Fame 137 Christopher Russo Allen St. John; Matthew Shepatin 2007 And that combination of Hair and efficiency really helped him [Johnny Unitas] become one of football's first television stars, kind of the Mickey Mantle of professional football. Further reading en eponyms