The official Mickey Mantle Pickup Thread. All Mick, all the time!

[tedzan]

Mantle's HOF placard ............and, a highly sought after Red Man card of Mantle......that never was





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[KCRfan1]

Ted,

I'm always fascinated with your collections and the knowledge you have of cards. How did you acquire the Red Man Mantle, and what prevented the card from being issued?

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by KCRfan1

Ted,

I'm always fascinated with your collections and the knowledge you have of cards. How did you acquire the Red Man Mantle, and what prevented the card from being issued?

Hi Lou

Thanks for the compliments.

I acquired this Red Man Mantle in a collection I purchased some years ago.

My guess is that the Bowman Gum Co. had exclusive rights to Mantle, and that is why he was not included
with the 1952 - 1955 Red Man issues.

And perhaps, to a certain degree the same applies to why Mantle was not in the 1954 and 1955 Topps sets.


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[tedzan]

Hey guys......when is the last time you saw this Mantle card ?





TED Z
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[ALR-bishop]

Someone posted one of these on CU so I picked one up because I of have a few other Topps player tribute posters that picture all of the player's Topps and Bowman cards. I just posted the four I have in a separate thread to see if anyone knows of others. I have all the card portrayed but think they make neat room decor in my study.

The certificate from Topps says 10,000 of the Mantle poster were produced

[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Someone posted one of these on CU so I picked one up because I of have a few other Topps player tribute posters that picture all of the player's Topps and Bowman cards. I just posted the four I have in a separate thread to see if anyone knows of others. I have all the card portrayed but think they make neat room decor in my study.

The certificate from Topps says 10,000 of the Mantle poster were produced

I wonder why they left the '52 & '53 Bowmans out. Looks like for 'artistic balance' ?

[orly57]

Scratch a big one off the list:

[tedzan]

Hi Al

That's a great looking poster.


TED Z
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[tedzan]

Originally Posted by tedzan

Hey guys......when is the last time you saw this Mantle card ?





TED Z
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I'm surprised at the lack of curiosity on this forum regarding this Mantle card.

Anyhow......I did receive a couple of emails from Net54 "readers" inquiring about the source of this "1954 TOPPS" Mantle. On display here is a partial picture of
Sports Illustrated (Aug 23, 1954) edition with the centerfold-out depicting 27 players on the New York Yankees.

Back in the early 1980's a collector/dealer and ole friend, Charlie, who frequented the Willow Grove Show gave me this card. Charlie had a printer buddy of his,
using the image of Mantle from this centerfold-out, produced a number of these cards. I have not seen any of these in circulation since the mid-1980's.






TED Z
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[KCRfan1]

Ted,

You always have cool stuff!!!