Mickey Mantle

plural Mickey Mantles

1. A popular hero and champion in a field.

   "Damn Yankees" isn't the Mickey Mantle of musical comedies

   1998 February 23, Kristina Dorsey, “'Damn Yankees' Not A Homer, But A Solid Hit”, in The Day

   5 more examples

   Meggi O'Day, the Mickey Mantle of the poultry world, has added another championship to her list of titles. The little Leghorn hen laid another egg....

   1957 September 20, “Egged On: Meggi Lays Claim To Another Title”, in Park City Daily News

   It isn't easy to explain why Danny Blancheflower, the Mickey Mantle of English soccer 15 years ago, says, "Your country is a great frontier town and you have great big attitudes toward things

   1974 October, Boys' Life, volume 64, number 10, page 9

   This does not mean that the 1940 Buick was the Mickey Mantle of automobiles, but it was an all-star

   1979, Bill Neville, Real steel: an investor's and philosopher's guide to the American automobile, page 22

   "The engineers that were put to work on this are ... the Willie Mayses and the Mickey Mantles of the engineering profession. They are devoted, intelligent, honest engineers."

   1990, Emily Couric, The Trial Lawyers: The Nation's Top Litigators Tell How They Win, page 163

   Says James Swanson, chief investment strategist at MFS Investment Management: "They are the Mickey Mantles of the investing world." Harvard Management has achieved this with a formula that bears little resemblance to that of the average

   2004, Business week, numbers 3914-3922