By JT
The Sporting News (TSN) would often post articles on baseball's fastest players out of the box to first base. A gentleman names Lou 'The Clocker" Miller apparently sat somewhere with a good vantage point from home to first and a stopwatch would time players and in 1952, then in 1956 published the times of MLB players. This is part of the 1956 article.
Mickey Mantle tops the list, again showing no one has more speed than he did, though Bill White was a tenth of a second behind him from the left-side and Willie Mays was a tenth behind him from the right side.
All the rest of the right-handers were two-tenths behind Mantle—Aparicio, Banks, Bauer, Clemente, and others.
The same is true for the next-in-line lefties, they were two-tenths behind Mantle at 3.5—Ashburn, Doby, and Virdon, etc.
In 1952 Mantle was even faster when he was 3.1 on bunts and 3.2 from the left side of the plate. Amazing.
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