Mickey Mantle spends eighteen seasons in center field for the New York Yankees, playing through knee injuries and chronic pain to hit 536 home runs, including two seasons over 50, while batting .300 or better in ten of them and reaching seven World Series. This HBO Sports profile traces how a kid from the Oklahoma lead mines became "The Mick," still regarded as the greatest switch-hitter the game has produced, and sets his statistics against the private cost behind them. Drinking runs through the story from his rookie years to his final decline, straining his marriage and his relationships with his four sons long before it damaged his liver. The film does not treat the charm and the wreckage as separate stories, showing how the same recklessness that made him electrifying on the basepaths followed him home. It closes on the reckoning Mantle made with his own legacy late in life, warning fans not to be like him even as it lays out exactly why they wanted to be.