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Posted By: identify7

In 1957 I came across a friend just coming out of the candy store, still opening packs. I had a stack of cards in my back pocket ready for some flipping. Wouldn't you know it - he got a Mantle in those packs.

Well we flipped, and in part because I had way more cards to start off than he did, I cleaned him out.

Well that (now NM) Mantle went into the front pocket in my dungarees. Quite seperate from my flipping cards. Those dungarees went through at least one wash cycle before I retrieved the Mantle.

And although it is not NM anymore, Im still not giving it up. It is the only card which survived my youth that I know that I won.

A free Mantle.

That deep green grass in the background sets off Mantle's white uniform nicely (when the card is not so wrinkled that everything is obscure).