TDW 1467 - Playing Baseball at Mickey Mantle's House

0:04 Good morning Lake

0:04 Eupfala. Good

0:13 morning. Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo

0:13 here. Hold

0:21 on. I hadn't talked yet this morning

0:21 very much. So I think I just strained my

0:24 vocal cords.

0:39 It's my second channel, daily vlog

0:39 channel. It's the daily

0:42 woo. That sky is looking a little scary.

0:45 Just leaving you follow. And just up the

0:47 road is another small town where someone

0:49 a few years younger than I am grew up as

0:51 well. You might have heard of her.

0:58 I just want to say hi to my former

0:58 neighbor.

1:04 It must be too early. She must not be up

1:04 yet. Call

1:19 me. There's been talks recently about

1:19 outlawing these round bales of hay. Cows

1:22 and horses just aren't getting a good

1:23 square meal.

1:31 I've been taking a lot of back roads

1:31 today. Just going through a lot of small

1:33 towns, finding stuff like this. Look at

1:35 these old bugs. These are awesome.

1:38 They're just sitting back

1:49 here. Look at this

1:49 guy. That's so cool. The lazy fisherman.

1:53 I'm really confused though. Is the fish

1:56 the fisherman? Off on the horizon is

1:59 Tulsa. And there's a few things I want

2:01 to see in Tulsa before passing through.

2:04 Man, Tulsa is a pretty decent size city.

2:06 I think it might be the second biggest

2:08 city in Oklahoma. Oklahoma City being

2:11 number one, Tulsa number two. You can

2:14 correct me on that, but I think that

2:16 might be the case.

2:23 I'm looking for a certain grave and I

2:23 have scoured the internet trying to find

2:25 the exact location of it. And best I can

2:29 figure it's somewhere in this area

2:44 here. It's very hot and very windy out

2:44 there. If you are not familiar with who

2:46 Sam Kenisonson is, he was a Pentecostal

2:49 preacher who later on went to become a

2:53 very popular,

2:54 runchy, unpolitically correct comedian.

2:57 And he did a lot of jokes about

2:59 drinking, a lot of jokes about drug use,

3:02 and a lot of jokes about how marriage

3:04 was not something he wanted for his

3:07 life. I have to admit, he made me laugh

3:09 on a few occasions. The interesting

3:11 thing is towards the end of his life and

3:13 what would be the end of his life.

3:14 Little did he know he cleaned his act

3:17 up. He was going to AA. He was stopping

3:20 drinking. He ended up meeting a woman

3:22 who he married and they went on their

3:24 honeymoon in Hawaii. Flew back to the

3:27 Los Angeles area and out in the middle

3:28 of the desert. He was hit headon head-on

3:32 collision by a 17-year-old drunk driver

3:35 and that was it. And Sam Kenisonson's

3:38 life came to an end. and he's buried

3:40 next to his brother and his father who

3:43 also were preachers as well. Interesting

3:56 story. I think the last time I was in

3:56 Tulsa was when I did the Outsiders

3:58 filming locations, which can be found

3:59 over on the Adam the Woo channel. And I

4:01 have returned to the park where Pony Boy

4:05 and Johnny got in the scuffle. And if

4:07 you are familiar with the film, this is

4:09 where the fountain used to be. But I

4:11 want to show you something that's two

4:13 blocks that way. For a long time, the

4:15 house that was the Curtis house in the

4:16 film was occupied, but now no one is

4:19 living in it, and it's being

4:22 restored by the singer of House of Pain.

4:25 It still looks exactly the same as it

4:28 did in the film,

4:30 including this bend right there in the

4:33 fence as seen in the film. And there's a

4:35 flyer in the window that states, "Save

4:38 the outsider's house." See, that tree

4:41 wasn't there either. Yeah.

4:43 My dad put the tree there for 33 years.

4:46 For 33 years. Yeah. My dad picture.

4:49 Yeah. Very cool, man. Thanks for the

4:51 info, man. I'll get some pictures.

4:55 Here's the backside of the house. And I

4:56 was just talking to a guy who used to

4:58 live here in 1982, 1983 when they were

5:02 doing the filming. and he was telling me

5:04 that they removed part of the sidewall

5:06 that way they could get wide shots of

5:08 the house and all the interiors of the

5:11 house were filmed inside the house and

5:14 you can see they're completely

5:16 remodeling it and are going to turn this

5:18 into a museum. Information I found

5:19 online said that there is a huge

5:21 fundraiser here. I think it's in August

5:23 so I'm missing it by about a month but

5:25 they're going to have part of the cast

5:27 and the guy the singer from House of

5:28 Pain who purchased the house is going to

5:31 be here as well. Just think right up

5:32 these stairs through that front door.

5:34 Patrick sees, Tom Cruz, Amelio Estz, C.

5:39 Thomas Howell are all right inside

5:41 there. Oh my gosh, look at that. The

5:43 inside still looks the same. The

5:45 fireplace identical from the film.

5:54 Wow. Best of luck in the refurbishment.

5:54 I hope to return upon completion. I will

5:57 be back.

6:51 And there's also a

6:51 subway. Insert adult humor here. They

6:55 sell t-shirts and hats and even pingpong

7:04 balls. I didn't get any food, but I did

7:04 get some coffee. Between traveling,

7:06 filming, editing, I haven't been

7:09 sleeping a whole heck of a lot, so this

7:11 helps.

7:19 Wow, look at all these old

7:19 vehicles. Big sign right there says keep

7:22 out. But there are dozens and dozens if

7:26 not hundreds of old trucks. Welcome to

7:30 Miami, Oklahoma. That is

7:41 lots of cool stuff in this motorcycle

7:41 museum. The thing that catches my eye

7:43 other than this General Lee motorcycle

7:46 is the

7:48 evil conval room. Yes, I cannot believe

7:53 they have this in this tiny

7:55 town in Oklahoma. This is the exact van

7:59 that was used as the control center in

8:01 that famous Snake River Canyon jump.

8:05 That's awesome. Evil Convvil was

8:06 definitely passionate about his craft to

8:09 the point where he pretty much broke

8:11 almost every bone in his body at some

8:14 point. That's awesome,

8:24 man. That was freaking cool. I wonder if

8:24 Evil Conval ever went there. I'm sure he

8:26 needed a chiropractor. How often do you

8:28 see traffic lights like this

8:31 anymore? So good.

8:37 Now it just needs to turn

8:37 green any minute now. Yes. Just outside

8:41 the small town of Miami, Oklahoma is an

8:44 even smaller town by the name of

8:46 Commerce. And I have not been to this

8:48 town since my grandfather lived here

8:51 probably about 30 years ago. Now, if

8:54 memory serves me correctly, my grandma

8:57 and grandpa's house was right there. my

9:01 mom's father and mother and my

9:05 grandpa was the preacher at the church

9:07 right here which is now the city of

9:11 commerce city building. The sidewalk

9:13 that was in front of the house still

9:15 remains and it's basically now just used

9:17 for parking for the police

9:24 department. They still have the pulpit

9:24 in here, the church pulpit. Oh my gosh,

9:28 look at this.

9:30 This is insane. That is absolutely

9:34 amazing. And one of the local police

9:36 officers is going to take me to another

9:37 spot. This is the hometown of Mickey

9:40 Manel. I'm getting a police escort to

9:43 Mickey Manel's house. That is cool, man.

9:45 You got a lot of people coming by,

9:46 stopping by, getting pictures and stuff

9:47 with it.

9:53 Small town police. Thumbs up. The

9:53 boyhood home of Mickey Manel, where

9:55 Mickey learned to play the game of

9:56 baseball. When Mickey was 3 years old,

9:59 his family moved to this location. And

10:01 at the age of five or six, his father

10:03 started teaching him how to hit and they

10:06 used the tin barn as their backs stop.

10:10 His father would pitch righty and

10:12 Mickey's grandfather would pitch lefty

10:14 while teaching him the fine art of

10:16 switch hitting. I got to go inside this

10:18 thing. I have to go. Oh my gosh, look at

10:21 this. Mickey Manel's shed. And a few

10:25 people have signed their name right

10:27 there on the inside of the shed. Mickey

10:31 freaking

10:41 manel. Just a little one-bedroom

10:41 house. That could have been Mickey's

10:43 room right there. He could have slept

10:44 right there dreaming of greatness. Just

10:47 think about that for a second. His dad

10:48 would have stood there, pitched a

10:50 baseball. Mickey Manel himself was

10:52 standing right in front of this

10:55 shed. Amazing.

11:02 It's a home run. A home run. I'm going

11:02 to be completely honest with you. That

11:04 just blew my

11:13 mind. The Commerce Comet, class of 1949,

11:13 Commerce High School. And he's batting

11:15 right-handed on this statue. Oklahoma

11:17 City, the statue there, he's batting

11:19 left-handed. He was a switch hitter,

11:21 arguably the best switch hitter in all

11:24 of

11:33 baseball. And here's another crazy

11:33 Commerce Oklahoma connection to

11:35 history. Commerce constable slain and

11:38 the police chief was kidnapped by Bonnie

11:42 and Clyde on April 12th,

11:45 1934. It's amazing. No matter where you

11:48 go, there's always something historical

11:50 that you can learn. You can learn

11:52 something every day. At the end of the

11:54 road, you've heard of Dairy

11:56 Queen, but have you ever seen a Dairy

12:00 King? I'm doing good. I've never been in

12:03 here before, so checking it

12:05 out. Very

12:11 cool. So, one side was gas, the other

12:12 side was the Dairy King. Yeah. And now

12:13 it's all Dairy King. Yeah. This was

12:15 before our building was here cuz this

12:17 taken in January of 17. Yeah, those look

12:19 great. So, this is kind of your

12:21 specialty, right? The sugar cookies and

12:23 chocolate chip cookies.

12:24 Shout6 has the uh copyright on it. Oh,

12:28 he has the copyright on this. Sure does.

12:30 And you only accept cash. No checks or

12:32 credit. Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

12:36 Okay. You too. Have fun. Thanks. They

12:38 were telling me right where that 10

12:40 building is, there used to be a hotel

12:42 pictured right here. And Harry S. Truman

12:45 stayed right there for 6 months. He

12:47 lived here. Right there. They were also

12:50 telling me that right in this area there

12:51 used to be train tracks that ran past

12:53 the outskirts of town. And this was the

12:56 spot where Bonnie and Clyde killed the

12:58 constable.

13:04 Pretty good. Directly in front of me is

13:04 what appears to be a former gas station

13:07 that's completely abandoned. And we are

13:09 going to be driving through a 99%

13:11 abandoned town, a ghost town by the name

13:14 of Pitcher, Oklahoma. And there's not

13:16 really a whole lot left. And the

13:17 government owns a lot of the property

13:19 now. There are a lot of no trespassing

13:21 signs and fences, barb wire. Years ago,

13:24 a tornado came through and pretty much

13:26 just ravaged this whole area. Here's the

13:28 old auction

13:29 house. Man, just imagine this place back

13:32 in the day. Lots of people bidding on

13:34 items. Looks like the town was founded

13:36 in 1918. And according to the water

13:39 tower, their mascot was the gorillas.

13:42 You can see back in the distance there,

13:44 lots of abandoned houses. And there's

13:46 spray paint on there saying keep out.

13:49 The government probably put that on

13:51 there cuz they don't want people

13:52 snooping around. See, there is a little

13:54 bit of stuff left, but a lot of the the

13:56 roads are blocked. And there's some

13:59 equipment over here behind the barb

14:00 wire. Not a whole lot left out here. I

14:02 honestly thought there was going to be a

14:03 lot more buildings, but there's not. But

14:06 I do want to show you something really

14:08 interesting. This is the mascot of the

14:10 school. According to the sign, they won

14:13 the state championship in

14:16 1984 for 1A

14:19 football. And this is really one of the

14:21 few things remaining in the town. I

14:24 think the school is gone.

14:28 But this still remains a

14:30 statue. Kind of

14:44 sad. Prepare to experience something

14:44 very random and interesting. At the end

14:46 of this gravel dirt road, I have parked

14:48 my van and directly at the threshold of

14:52 my feet. I am standing at the corner

14:56 state lines of three

14:59 states. Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma.

15:04 Right here, my toes are inkling into

15:07 each state. I don't know what toes are

15:10 on what line, but how often does this

15:13 happen? Whichever direction you look,

15:16 you're looking at one state this way,

15:18 another state this way, and another

15:20 state this way. This is blowing my mind

15:23 right now. Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay, that

15:29 might have been a little overboard, but

15:30 I was really excited. Blog over.

TDW 1467 - Playing Baseball at Mickey Mantle's House

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