Mickey Mantle Day Pennant Questions

[aelefson]

Thank you again for everyone's help! I really appreciate all of the information and opinions.

Alan

[YankeeFan]

I've always wondered whether these red Mantle Day pennants were reproduced. I suspected that they were, even though they seem to be accepted as authentic.

The one I have also has the white edge and printing style like the other white-edged one shown. Other differences in the style of the lettering are that "I was there" is slightly italicized in the white-edged version and not so in the yellow-edged one; and the white outline of the word "Yankees" is thicker on the yellow-edged pennant, making it stand out more. I've never seen the yellow-edged one before.

I have to agree that the quality of the OP's yellow-edged pennant looks much better, which makes me agree with Jason that this is the "real deal" version sold in the Stadium that day. I think white-edged one is likely a reproduction, but may be a bootleg version sold by street vendors outside the stadium, as someone else suggested.

But I have seen another, very different, Mickey Mantle Day pennant. I've only seen it once, and I bought it while I had the chance. I posted this in another thread a long time ago, but it seems appropriate to show it here too.
Has anyone else seen this version?

[Duluth Eskimo]

That a great and very authentic pennant. As you said, probably bootleg with lower quality production and sold outside stadium. Oftentimes the bootleg pennants were produced with older, sometimes thicker felt as they used whatever they could get the cheapest or was laying around rather than using newer fabrics. Very rare pennant.