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Paul SAbout twenty years after I received the autographs above, I was fortunate enough to attend a private party at Mickey Mantle's Sports Bar, the evening before it opened to the public. Well, The Mick had been my guy since I was a kid, so I was really jacked. I had brought an index card to get a signature. Rather than him signing all through the night at random, he instead just sat at a table at one point and people came up to get an autograph if they wanted. On the table was a stack of large "cards" (that you see in the picture below). He asked my name and signed one for me. I then showed him the blank index card I brought with me and asked if he'd just sign his name. He looked at me, thought a moment and said, "I think one's enough." I instantaenously realized that he thought I was going to try and cash in on it. Not m\y intention, but who could blame him. Anyway, I took my index card over to Billy Martin, who gladly signed it. Underneath his sig it says "Yankee." You know that guy had to bleed Yankee Blue from the moment he was traded way back when.
