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If the Aaron Judge hits 63+, wins the Triple Crown and the Yankees don't make it through the post-season, Brian Cashman might channel the ghost of George Weis.

In his (Mickey Mantle's) Triple Crown season in 1956, the 25-year-old slugger led the American League with a .353 average, 52 homers and 130 runs batted in: a troika that today's players only dream about.

"I wanted to double my salary from the $32,500 I made in 1956," he recalled. "But when I asked Weiss for $65,000, he told me I was too young to make that kind of money. Then he threatened to show my wife reports from private detectives he had gumshoe me and Billy Martin. He threatened to trade me to Cleveland for Herb Score and Rocky Colavito."

Weiss wouldn't budge, but Del Webb, then a Yankee co-owner, agreed to meet Mantle's price.

"Weiss never forgot," Mantle said. "After the 1957 season, he tried to cut me $5,000."

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/26/sports/sports-of-the-times-when-mantle-had-to-battle-for-a-raise.html