1950 Mantle #6 Scorecard

[doug.goodman]

Mantle wore #6 for the first 69 games that he played for the Yankees in 1951, thru July 13, while Cliff Mapes wore #7. When Mantle next played a big league game on August 24, he was wearing #7, which was available due to Mapes being traded to the Browns at the end of July. Although Bob Cerv wore #7 for at least a portion of his time with the team that year (Aug 1 thru Aug 20).

The attached scorecards show each of them wearing #7.

July 30 - Mapes
Aug 15 - Cerv
Aug 29 - Mantle

Also, at some point, Bobby Brown, who had been wearing #9, switched to #6

[doug.goodman]

PS - here is a game where #7 Mapes, replaced #6 Mantle.

That's reason enough to show it on this thread, but a better reason is that it is Mickey's first career HR.

[YankeeFan]

The Yankees and Dodgers did meet in an exhibition game on April 15, 1951 at Brooklyn. Mantle played and hit a home run. This page is from the April 16th Newark Star-Ledger.
(Note: this is how I bought it at an antique shop a couple of years ago.)

I would say it is almost a certainty that what you have is a program fom that game. Very nice!

[doug.goodman]

That's a pretty great newspaper page!

[gomez50]

Found this on an old REA site, explains it very well.

http://www.robertedwardauctions.com/..._fall/937.html

[btcarfagno]

Originally Posted by gomez50

Found this on an old REA site, explains it very well.

http://www.robertedwardauctions.com/..._fall/937.html

That's my program!!

Tom C

[icollectDCsports]

Mystery solved. So an exhibition game but from '51 and not '50. Cool stuff. Didn't know that it was common for prior year programs to be used for such games and I'm glad I learned that tidbit for future collecting purposes.