[4] While attending high school, she met Mickey Mantle two years before his debut in Major League Baseball.

[2] Merlyn Mantle was treated for alcoholism at the Betty Ford Clinic, a problem which also afflicted her husband and three of her sons.

[2] In an interview with the New York Daily News shortly after her husband's death in 1995, Merlyn Mantle spoke of the negative impact that alcohol had over her family's life: "I was in there partying and doing the same thing as Mick.

[2] Merlyn Mantle's last public appearance was on August 5, 2008, at a dinner for the memorial service of former Yankees player Bobby Murcer.

[5] Merlyn Mantle died of pneumonia at a hospice in Plano, Texas, on August 10, 2009, at the age of 77.