Mantle was the man, he could swing that bat.
He still holds the record for running to first base both left and right handed. He was really fast until he hurt his knee on an outfield sprinkler head during a sprint to catch a ball. Had shoulders like Charles Atlas.
The booze ruined him early on in his career out partying with the other party Yanks.
At the time of this film, neither one of them was making $100k; nobody had made that much since Ruth, as I recall. And the federal budget blasted through $100b just about then.