Felix Mantilla, who played 11 years in the big leagues and was a member of the original 1962 Mets, died this week. He was 90. Mantilla spent six seasons with the Milwaukee Braves, but his impact in ...
Mantilla was one of a small handful of players still alive who were on the Braves 1957 world championship team, famously anchored by a young Hank Aaron. Felix Mantilla, who was among the first wave of ...
A memorial service Sunday at Milwaukee’s Journey House, located at 2110 W. Scott St., marked the passing of another local major league baseball icon, whose influence and accomplishments went far ...
His career may have taken Felix Mantilla elsewhere, and the Major League Baseball team for which he played left town after the 1965 season. But Milwaukee never stopped being home for Mantilla, the ...
Felix Mantilla, a champion with the Milwaukee Braves who continued to make his mark on the community in retirement, has died at age 90. Mantilla was one of only a handful of players remaining from the ...
An original member of the 1962 New York Mets team passed away over the weekend. Mets PR legend Jay Horowitz said in a statement via Medium that Shortstop Félix Mantilla, who was part of that original ...
Felix Mantilla won a world championship with the 1957 Milwaukee Braves, appeared in his only All-Star Game nearly a decade later, and played every position other than pitcher and catcher. A native of ...
Eleven-year MLB veteran Felix Mantilla passed away on Friday at age 90. Mantilla appeared in 969 games with the Braves, Mets, Red Sox, and Astros from 1956-66, playing primarily as a second baseman, ...
Ray Mantilla was born in 1934 in the rhythm rich, dance-crazed atmosphere of the South Bronx where Afro-Cuban rhythmic forms transmogrified with jazz harmonies and sensibilities in the streets, the ...
Félix Mantilla, who was a part of the original New York Mets team in 1962, passed away on Friday at the age of 90. An original member of the New York Mets passed away over the weekend. Mets PR legend ...