The official Mickey Mantle Pickup Thread. All Mick, all the time!

[DJCollector1]

Snagged this on Ebay a few days back.

Going to slide right in to my Mantle project.




Took the picture at a bit of an angle to keep the glare down, so it looks a tiny bit off left to right.

[AustinMike]

John, the "Sports Service" Mantles I have are shown below. Looking at my checklists, it appears that I had used the Tradingcard site to improve my listings. As shown below, your Mantle could be from either 1963, 1965, 1966, or 1967 (the first 4 shown). As shown, 3 of the 4 photos appear to be identical. The other (1965, upper right) has a slightly different cropping. In it, Mantle's right sleeve does not touch the border, but it does on the other 3. Another difference is that the 1963 version appears to be printed on slightly glossy paper whereas the other 3 years are not printed on glossy paper.

The last photo shown is from the 1964 set.

I don't have the 1968 set so I don't know what that one looks like. I also don't have 1 of the 1963 sets listed or 2 of the 1966 sets listed, so I don't know what they look like. I would imagine that they are the same as the ones I've posted.

Another curiosity to me is that the photo from 1964 is different from the other years. I wonder why that is.

[DJCollector1]

Snagged this nicely centered '69 Mick from fellow board member Dboneesq and thanks again for the smooth deal.

[Popcorn]

Love the jumbos!