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Originally Posted by the 'stache
All those Mantles, but not a single Eddie Mathews?
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The way I read the article is that he traded for these Mantles. He traded his Red Sox cards to folks across the river for Yankees cards.
My parents as well as Aunts and Uncles grew up in both East and West Hartford at the same time as the guy who owned these cards did.....not sure if this is ironic or not, but the West Hartford portion of the family were/are definitely Yankee fans, while the few original EH family members were/are Red Sox fans.
Growing up in CT a generation later, I found fans of both the Red Sox and Yankees on either side of the river.
So it makes a ton of sense why this card owner from West Harford had 5 Mantles and not as many of some of the other cards (especially Red Sox cards).