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

[quitcrab]

Those Rawlings tags are great! Did any other players endorse shoes ? I collect Brooks Robinson … did he have a shoe or glove tag like those ?
Thanks Scott

[AustinMike]

Originally Posted by quitcrab

Those Rawlings tags are great! Did any other players endorse shoes ? I collect Brooks Robinson … did he have a shoe or glove tag like those ?
Thanks Scott

I don't know about Brooks. I only collect Mickey and Brooks doesn't come up in my searches. But, I would not be surprised if there are any. If they did it for Mick, why not for the other athletes that had their own endorsed Rawlings glove? Keep looking and good luck!

I did a quick Google search and found one Brooks from the early '70s with Clemente.

https://keymancollectibles.com/glove...specialtag.htm

[bswhiten]

Great pickups as always Mike!

[AustinMike]

Originally Posted by bswhiten

Great pickups as always Mike!

Thanks Ben!

Here's another seldom seen Mantle item. A book published in 1953 in Quebec.

[ruth-gehrig]

Why did they use an early Mantle rookie photo for a 1954 issue???

[ruth-gehrig]

Don't think I've ever posted my Rawlings advertisement

[AustinMike]

Originally Posted by ruth-gehrig

Why did they use an early Mantle rookie photo for a 1954 issue???

Who knows? They used that same image for the 1956 team photo set. The 1956 photo (the one on the left) is slightly larger than the 1954 photo.

Originally Posted by ruth-gehrig

Don't think I've ever posted my Rawlings advertisement

Love that. Haven't ever seen that before.

[AustinMike]

Just picked up another unopened Yoo-Hoo bottle with a Mantle cap. This gives me all 3 versions of the Mantle cap (that I know of) plus the screw on cap.