The family of baseball legend Mickey Mantle has filed suit against a sports memorabilia house now selling a corked bat it maintains once belonged to the Hall of Famer.
Relatives of Mantle have hired the law firm of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani to fight for The Mick’s “honor.” “We can no longer remain silent,” family members said in a statement. “The statements and suggestions that Dad used a corked bat more than 49 years ago to cheat at the game he worshipped are false. Let us be clear: Dad didn’t need and never used a corked bat.”
Beside The Mick, family members also insist they are fighting “for the honor of the New York Yankees, the team he gave his heart and soul to for almost two decades.”
Jonathan Halpern, a partner at Bracewell & Giuliani, stresses the auction house also refused to issue a “correction of the false claims” and is still balking at providing the family with the evidence that they used in determining the bat even belonged to the former Yankees slugger.
“The family has made several straightforward, common-sense authenticity requests, including the rights to the review the basis for the claim, Halpern told the New York Daily News. “This all stops now,” the family added in its statement.
At the request of the family’s attorneys, Gray Flannel removed the bat from its web site late last week.
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