Alex Lopez
Michael O'Neill, "Mickey Mantle"
1994
What do you see? An old man holding a baseball bat. Just an ordinary man looking afar, not into the future but rather that of the past. To remember the man he once was, to remember a young gifted athlete. This man is Mickey Mantle. A member of major league baseball's Hall of Fame, a seven time World Series champion and was an all-star 16 times in his 18 year career. I say this as a reminder that this man was once a phenomenon yet all that is left is a man who has been weaken and fatally hurt by the unstoppable force known as father time. This sad realization is one that truly hits home and makes me weary to see the man I become as the years go past. No matter how hard we try no matter how hard we fight there is only one outcome in a battle against father time. Knowing real well who is going to be on the winning side of that result. As my dad always says, "You can have father time against the ropes, but you are never knocking him down."
