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rsdsharp

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3. Exactly right. Mantle held the record for years with 18.

Reply to CaptYossarian (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 16, 2020, 02:03 PM

Jan 2020

He played in 12 World Series, but never in a playoff game. If the Yankees had to get through multiple layers of playoffs each with up to 5-7 games to get to those Series (and I acknowledge they may not have gotten to them all), I think he easily would have hit more than 11 additional home runs.

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