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"Those Broadway lights,the neon glowing, hamburgers sizzling behind plate-glass windows, a carnival atmosphere, with Dixieland sounds floating up from basement steps on 52nd Street,"Mantle remembered."I couldn't avoid the newsstand dailies. Big black headlines, grisly headlines, a murder a day. This is how it looked to a nineteen-year-old kid from Oklahoma. But I was starting to like the excitement of the big city."

"A little big for a shortstop, don't you think?"
This is revealing the opinions of the other players on the team for the New York Yankees about Mantle. In this case the starting shortstop's opinion of mantle as the new rookie for the team.

"A little big for a shortstop, don't you think?"
This is revealing the opinions of the other players on the team for the New York Yankees about Mantle. In this case the starting shortstop opinion of mantle as the new rookie for the team.

"A little big for a shortstop, don't you think?"