The Mick’s last big hit

Just a month before he dies, terminally ill Mickey Mantle makes his final public appearance 28 years ago today to promote the awareness of organ donation programs.

A lifetime of alcohol abuse leads the Hall of Famer to receiving a donated liver just a month earlier in early June 1995.

After his plea to others to donate their organs to those in need, Mantle dies shortly afterward on Aug. 13, 1995 – nine weeks shy of his 64th birthday.