Mickey Mantle Treated for Chest Pains
Baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle was admitted to an Irving hospital late Sunday night after he suffered chest pains on a jetliner en route to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
“I’m tired, but I’m feeling fine,” Mantle said in a statement released today by Sharon Peters, spokeswoman for Irving Community Hospital. She said doctors said Mantle had not suffered a heart attack.
His condition was upgraded from serious to fair at 8:30 a.m., said Ramona Bevir, administrative assistant at the hospital. He was being treated in the hospital’s intermediate coronary care unit.
Mantle was en route to the Dallas area aboard a Delta Air Lines jet at the time he became ill, she said.
The former New York Yankees star was taken to the hospital in an ambulance from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, she said.
Mantle, 55, starred for the Yankees from 1951 to 1968 and was elected to the baseball Hall of Fame in 1974.
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