Pretty Cool Mantle and DiMaggio Items

[isaac2004]

Originally Posted by canjond

Isaac - not quite sure. They came up for auction at a local Florida auction, so I'm not quite sure who originally obtained them.

To add a little more background to the pick-up, years ago as a teenager, I worked with a promoter who had weekly autograph guests (I started running the ticket line at age 10). One day, Enos Slaughter dropped his used boarding pass. I asked him if he minded me keeping it and autographing it for me. He graciously gave it to me and signed it. After that, my "momento" collection was born. Every time a player would make an appearance, I would ask them for their boarding pass and have them autograph it. Sometimes, players would have thrown the boarding pass away by the time I asked (or had otherwise lost it), and they would usually save their return ticket and then mail it to me after the fact. (On a side note, John Mackey had thrown his boarding pass out by the time I asked him. He thought the idea was really cool though. On his trip home, he saved his boarding pass, signed it and mailed it to me. About a month later, another one arrived in the mail. A few months after that, 3 more. This went on for 2 years! Old John Mackey saved a boarding pass for me as often as he remembered!)

All in all, I probably have 30 or 40 signed boarding passes. Everyne from Whitey Ford to Don Mattingly to Clyde Lovellette.

Thats such a cool idea, shame you can only do this with players on the signing circuit but kudos for that. I bet that Mantle and Dimaggio sold for a pretty penny.