Question: Talkin' Baseball,  is a 1981 song written and performed by Terry Cashman, inspired by who, that was born on October 20, 1931?

Context articles: The Chevrons
Ain't Talkin'
R&amp;B Junkie
Mickey Mantle
Terry Cashman
Talkin' Baseball
Talkin' to Me
Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues
Don't Start Me Talkin'
Sunday Will Never Be the Same

The Chevrons were a United States pop group who recorded the hit record "Lullabye" in 1960.
 The band featured lead singer Terry Cashman, best known for his baseball songs, notably "Talkin' Baseball", then known as Dennis Minoque.
 The group disbanded when John "Marty" Trautman, co-founder of the group, was drafted by the U.S. Army on December 11, 1962.
"Ain't Talkin'" is a song written by Bob Dylan, appearing as the closing track on his album "Modern Times", recorded in February 2006.
 It is the longest track of the album (8:48).
 The song derives its chorus words from the more up-tempo "Highway of Regret" by Don Anthony and Ralph Stanley.
 The lyrics of the first verse seem to be derived from the first verse of "As I Roved Out", a traditional Irish song, and with its line "through this weary world of woe" a nod to the traditional "Wayfaring Stranger."
 Allmusic wrote about the song, "The great irony is in the final track, "Ain't Talkin'," where a lonesome fiddle, piano, and hand percussion spill out a gypsy ballad that states a yearning, that amounts to an unsatisfied spiritual hunger.
 The pilgrim wanders, walks, and aspires to do good unto others, though he falters often—he sometimes even wants to commit homicide.
 It's all part of the "trawl" of living in the world today."
"R&B Junkie" is a song by American singer-songwriter Janet Jackson from her eighth studio album, "Damita Jo" (2004).
 Written by Jackson, James Harris III, Terry Lewis, Tony "Prof T" Tolbert, Michael Jones and Nicholas Trevisick, the track was released as a promotional single in December 2004 by Virgin Records.
 "R&B Junkie" is an upbeat song which has a "retro" feel consisting of eighties soul, R&B funk, dance-pop and synths, while it samples Evelyn King's 1981 song "I'm in Love"; it has "oh-oh-ohs" throughout the verses.
Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 – August 13, 1995), nicknamed The Commerce Comet and The Mick, was an American professional baseball player.
 Mantle played his entire Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the New York Yankees as a center fielder and first baseman, from 1951 through 1968.
 Mantle was one of the best players and sluggers, and is regarded by many as the greatest switch hitter in baseball history.
 Mantle was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974 and was elected to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999.
Terry Cashman (born Dennis Minogue, July 5, 1941, in New York) is a record producer and singer-songwriter, best known for his 1981 hit, "Talkin' Baseball."
 While the song is well recognized today, it was all but ignored by typical Top 40 radio during its chart life, making only the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.
"Talkin' Baseball (Willie, Mickey & The Duke)" is a 1981 song written and performed by Terry Cashman.
 The song describes the history of American major league baseball from the 1950s to the beginning of the 1980s.
 The song was originally released during the 1981 Major League Baseball strike, and was inspired by a picture of the three outfielders of the title (Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, and Duke Snider) together.
 (Joe DiMaggio was also in the photograph, but he was left out of the song and airbrushed from the record's picture sleeve.)
 The original sheet music for the song is a part of the Cooperstown Collection, and Cashman was honored at the 2011 Hall Of Fame weekend.
"Talkin' to Me" is a song by American R&B singer Amerie from her debut album, "All I Have" (2002).
 Written and produced by Rich Harrison, it was released in late 2002 as the album's second and final single solely in the United States, thus not being able to make the charts elsewhere.
 A remix of "Talkin' to Me" by the production duo Trackmasters featuring rapper Foxy Brown exists.
 The song first obtained airplay during the week of October 8, 2002.
"Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues", also known as "Talkin' John Birch Society Blues" and "Talkin' John Birch Blues," is a talking blues song written by singer-songwriter Bob Dylan in 1962.
 It is a satirical song, in which a paranoid narrator is convinced that communists, or "Reds" as he calls them, are infiltrating the country.
 He joins the John Birch Society, an anti-communist group, and begins searching for Reds everywhere: under his bed, up his chimney, down his toilet and in his glove compartment.
 After exhausting the possibilities, he begins to investigate himself.
"Don't Start Me Talkin'" (also called "Don't Start Me to Talkin'") is a blues song written and performed by Sonny Boy Williamson II.
 It was Williamson's first single recorded for Checker Records and reached number three in the Billboard R&B charts in 1955.
"Sunday Will Never Be the Same" is a 1967 song by the American band Spanky and Our Gang from their self-titled debut album.
 The single peaked at #9 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and #7 in the Canadian "RPM" Magazine charts (July 1, 1967).
 The song was written by Terry Cashman and Gene Pistilli and borrows an interlude from the Christmas hymn "Angels We Have Heard on High."