While I'm glad Mr. Simon satisfied and ultimately pleased (or appeased) Mr. DiMaggio, I must say I would have gone with Mr. Simon's first choice, Mr. Mantle. Well over a decade ago, I had a go:
"Where have you gone, Mickey Mantle?
Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you --- wu, wu, wu.
What's that you say, Mrs. Robinson?
The Mighty Mick has left and gone away --- Oy Vey.
Oh woe!"
Now, if you know how to sing the first syllable of "Mantle" by extending it a tsch, "Mantle" works quite nicely. Sure, he had not retired at the time of the movie's creation, and I get that using Joe DiMaggio fit much better, having been gone a good 16 years hence, but now that it's 2021, and I'm a Mickey Mantle fan, well, must I speak more plainly?
Nevertheless, I applaud the Casey2296 for a brilliant post and a fine card to add to his collection. I also know what it means to hunt down a card for which I never thought I would own. I devoted chapter 13 of NEVER CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN to that singular quintessential occasion of a quintessential impossible dream card. Twas a cardboard cloud 9, from which I've never come down.
Cheers, my Net54 mates. --- Brian Powell
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