My dad's cards (likely late 40s and early 50s) didn't survive his mom after he went to college and then the Air Force, but this ball made it.
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He got this in 1950, when Mickey Mantle's Joplin team was visiting my dad's hometown Enid Giants. He was 13 at the time and idolized Mantle. The other sigs are a combination of Enid and Joplin players he got that day or at other games that year.