MANTLE UNDER THE KNIFE
Baseball great Mickey Mantle is undergoing a transplant operation to replace his damaged liver. Sources at Baylor hospital say Mantle's rapidly deteriorating condition, due to the hepatitis he contracted during earlier surgeries, put him at the top of the transplant waiting list when a new liver was found last night.
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