SIGNED Yankee Mickey Mantle #7 Framed 32\" x 35\" Photo is 11\" x 14\" JSA COA
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SIGNED Yankee Mickey Mantle #7 Framed 32\" x 35\" Photo is 11\" x 14\" JSA COA:
$999.00
SIGNED Yankee Mickey Mantle #7 Framed 32\" x 35\" Photo is 11\" x 14\" Steiner COA
This sale features a SIGNED Yankee Mickey Mantle #7 Framed, Photo is 11\" x 14\" Pinstripes, patches and photo, total size Framed is 32\" X 35\".
The frame has some small nicks.
It comes with a JSA COA.
Price $2499.99
Major League Baseball (1951–1968)Rookie season: 1951Mantle was invited to the Yankees instructional camp before the 1951 season. After an impressive spring training, Yankees manager Casey Stengel decided to promote Mantle to the majors as a right fielder instead of sending him to the minors.[7] Mickey Mantle\'s salary for the 1951 season was $7,500.
\"He\'s the greatest prospect I\'ve seen in my time, and I go back quite a ways. I\'ll swear I expect to see that boy just take off and fly any time.\"
—Bill Dickey on Mickey Mantle[16]Mantle was assigned uniform #6, signifying the expectation that he would become the next Yankees star, following Babe Ruth (#3), Lou Gehrig (#4) and Joe DiMaggio (#5).[7] Stengel, speaking to SPORT, stated \"He\'s got more natural power from both sides than anybody I ever saw.\"[17]Bill Dickey called Mantle \"the greatest prospect [he\'s] seen in [his] time.\"[16]
After a brief slump, Mantle was sent down to the Yankees\' top farm team, the Kansas City Blues. However, he was not able to find the power he once had in the lower minors. Out of frustration, he called his father one day and told him, \"I don\'t think I can play baseball anymore.\" Mutt drove up to Kansas City that day. When he arrived, he started packing his son\'s clothes and, according to Mantle\'s memory, said \"I thought I raised a man. I see I raised a coward instead. You can come back to Oklahoma and work the mines with me.\"[18] Mantle immediately broke out of his slump, going on to hit .361 with 11 homers and 50 RBIs during his stay in Kansas City.[7]
Mantle was called up to the Yankees after 40 games with Kansas City, this time wearing uniform #7.[7] He hit .267 with 13 home runs and 65 RBI in 96 games. In the second game of the 1951 World Series, New York Giants rookie Willie Mays hit a fly ball to right-center field. Mantle, playing right field raced for the ball together with center fielder Joe DiMaggio who called for the ball. In getting out of DiMaggio\'s way, Mantle tripped over an exposed drain pipe and severely injured his right knee. This was the first of numerous injuries that would plague his 18-year career with the Yankees. He played the rest of his careerwith a torn ACL.After his injury he was timed from the left side of the batters box, with a full swing, to run to first base in 3.1 seconds.[citation needed] That has never been matched, even without a swing.[according to whom?]
Stardom: 1952–1964 Mantle (left) in the early 1960s signing an autograph.Mantle moved to center field in 1952, replacing DiMaggio, who retired at the end of the 1951 season.[7] He was named to the American League All-Star roster for the first time but did not play (5-inning game). Mantle played center field full-time until 1965, when he was moved to left field. His final two seasons were spent at first base. Among his many accomplishments are all-time World Series records for home runs (18), runs scored (42), and runs batted in (40).
In 1956, Mantle won the Hickok Belt as top professional athlete of the year. This was his \"favorite summer,\" a year that saw him win the Triple Crown, leading the majors with a .353 batting average, 52 home runs, and 130 runs batted in, and his first of three MVP awards. Mantle is the last player to win a league Triple Crown as a switch hitter.
Mantle won his second consecutive MVP award in 1957.[19] Mantle led the league in runs and walks, and batted a career-high .365 (second in the league to Ted Williams\' .388), and hitting into a league-low five double plays. Mantle reached base more times than he made outs (319 to 312), one of two seasons in which he achieved the feat.
On January 16, 1961, Mantle became the highest-paid player in baseball by signing a $75,000 ($576,197 today) contract.[20] DiMaggio, Hank Greenberg, and Ted Williams, who had just retired, had been paid over $100,000 in a season, and Ruth had a peak salary of $80,000. Mantle became the highest-paid active player of his time. Mickey Mantle\'s top salary was $100,000 which he reached for the 1963 season. Having reached that pinnacle in his 13th season, he never asked for another raise.[21]
M & M Boys Mantle (right) with Roger Maris during the historic 1961 season.Mantle\'s relationship with the New York press was not always friendly. During the 1961 season, Mantle and teammate Roger Maris, known as the M&M Boys, chased Babe Ruth\'s 1927 single-season home run record. Five years earlier, in 1956, Mantle had challenged Ruth\'s record for most of the season, and the New York press had been protective of Ruth on that occasion also. When Mantle finally fell short, finishing with 52, there seemed to be a collective sigh of relief from the New York traditionalists. Nor had the New York press been all that kind to Mantle in his early years with the team: he struck out frequently, was injury-prone, was a \"true hick\" from Oklahoma, and was perceived as being distinctly inferior to his predecessor in center field, Joe DiMaggio. Over the course of time, however, Mantle (with a little help from his teammate Whitey Ford, a native of New York\'s Borough of Queens) had gotten better at \"schmoozing\" with the New York media, and had gained the favor of the press. This was a talent that Maris, a blunt-spoken upper-Midwesterner, was never willing or able to cultivate; as a result, he wore the \"surly\" jacket for his duration with the Yankees. So as 1961 progressed, the Yanks were now \"Mickey Mantle\'s team,\" and Maris was ostracized as the \"outsider,\" and said to be \"not a true Yankee.\" The press seemed to root for Mantle and to belittle Maris. Mantle was unexpectedly hospitalized by an abscessed hip he got from a flu shot late in the season, leaving Maris to break the record (he finished with 61). Mantle finished with 54 home runs while leading the American league in runs scored and walks.
In 1962 and 1963, he batted .321 and .314. In 1964, Mantle hit .303 with 35 home runs and 111 RBIs. In the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 3 of the 1964 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals, Mantle blasted Barney Schultz\'s first pitch into the right field stands at Yankee Stadium, which won the game for the Yankees 2–1. The homer, his 16th World Series round tripper, broke the World Series record of 15 set by Babe Ruth. He hit two more homers in the series to set the existing World Series record of 18 home runs. However, the Cardinals would ultimately win the World Series in 7 games.
Last seasons: 1965-1968The Yankees and Mantle were slowed down by injuries during the 1965 season, and they finished in 6th place, 25 games behind the Minnesota Twins.[22] He hit .255 with 19 home runs and 46 RBIs. In 1966, his batting average increased to .288 with 23 home runs and 56 RBI\'s. After the 1966 season, he was moved to first base with Joe Pepitone taking over his place in the outfield. He batted .245 in 1967, and hit .237 with 18 home runs and 54 RBIs his last season, in 1968.[23]
Mantle was selected as an American League All-Star player in 1968 for the last and 16th time (played in 19/20 All-Star games) beginning with the 1952 season.[14][24] He was an All-Star reserve player on July 11, 1968 making his last All-Star game appearance as a pinch hitter. He missed only two annual All-Star selections (1951 & 1966 seasons) during his entire major league career (he didn\'t play in the 1952 All-Star game).
Retirement: 1969Mantle announced his retirement on March 1, 1969. When he retired, Mantle was third on the all-time home run list with 536.[23] At the time of his retirement, Mantle was the Yankees all-time leader in games played with 2,401, which was broken by Derek Jeter on August 29, 2011.[25]
Player profilePower hittingMantle also hit some of the longest home runs in Major League history. On September 10, 1960, he hit a ball left-handed that cleared the right-field roof at Tiger Stadium in Detroit and, based on where it was found, was estimated years later by historian Mark Gallagher to have traveled 643 feet (196m). Another Mantle homer, hit right-handed off Chuck Stobbs at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. on April 17, 1953, was measured by Yankees traveling secretary Red Patterson (hence the term \"tape-measure home run\") to have traveled 565 feet (172m). Though it is apparent that they are actually the distances where the balls ended up after bouncing several times,[26] there is no doubt that they both landed more than 500 feet (152m) from home plate. Mantle twice hit balls off the third-deck facade at Yankee Stadium, nearly becoming the only player (along with Negro Leagues star Josh Gibson, though Gibson\'s home run has never been conclusively verified) to hit a fair ball out of the stadium during a game. On May 22, 1963, against Kansas City\'s Bill Fischer, Mantle hit a ball that fellow players and fans claimed was still rising when it hit the 110-foot (34m) high facade, then caromed back onto the playing field. It was later estimated by some that the ball could have traveled 504 feet (154m) [27] had it not been blocked by the ornate and distinctive facade. On August 12, 1964, he hit one whose distance was undoubted: a center field drive that cleared the 22-foot (6.7m) batter\'s eye screen, beyond the 461-foot (141m) marker at the Stadium.
Although he was a feared power hitter from either side of the plate, Mantle considered himself a better right-handed hitter even though he had more home runs from the left side of the plate: 372 left-handed, 164 right-handed.[28] That was due to Mantle having batted left-handed much more often, as the large majority of pitchers are right-handed. In addition, many of his left-handed home runs were hit in Yankee Stadium, a park much friendlier to left-handed hitters than to right-handed hitters. When Mantle played for the Yankees, the distance to the right-field foul pole stood at a mere 296 feet (90m), with markers in the power alleys of 344 and 407, while the left-field power alley ranged from 402 to 457 feet (139m) from the plate.
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SIGNED Yankee Mickey Mantle #7 Framed 32\" x 35\" Photo is 11\" x 14\" JSA COA:
$999.00