Golden_Smog

Hi Thomas, 61* is one of my all-time favorite baseball movies and I think you really did a phenomenal job capturing the lovable nature of Mickey Mantle and how it collided with his very obvious demons. He strikes me as one of the more tragic figures in baseball despite his overall greatness. I feel like you really drove it home in the scene where Mickey talks about no one in his family making it to old age due to Hodgkin’s (my mother is a two-time survivor of Hodgkin’s).

Did you find Mantle to be a particularly difficult character to capture because of this duality?

Thanks for the reply! It probably also helped that you look almost identical to Mick. Barry also looked so much like Roger Maris. Crystal did a great job casting you two. Dead ringers.