1962 Topps #200 Mickey Mantle graded HOF NY Yankees

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1962 Topps #200 Mickey Mantle graded HOF NY Yankees

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Sold Date: 05/27/2008
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Category: Natural History

Mickey Mantle HOF
CARD IS WORTH $ 600.00
*1962 Topps Card # 200
Graded by the Toughest Beckett
5 EXCELLENT
Card Number 5588489 Set Name: 1962 Topps Player Name: Mickey Mantle Date Graded: Thursday, April 17, 2008 Centering Corners Edges Surfaces Final Grade: 5.0
Mickey Mantle CARDS Set #1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.0 5.5 6.0 6.5 7.0 7.5 8.0 8.5 9.0 9.5 10 Total 1962 Topps 200 4 17 24 34 35 42 43 41 41 32 36 26 12 82 10 00 398 Total 398
Mickey Mantle From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia âe¢ Learn more about using Wikipedia for research âe¢ Jump to: navigation , search Mickey Mantle
When Mantle was originally signed by the Yankees, he was a shortstop. Outfielder
Born: October 20 , 1931 (1931-10-20 )
Spavinaw, Oklahoma
Died: August 13 , 1995 (aged 63)
Dallas, Texas Batted: Switch Threw: Right MLB debut April 17 , 1951
for the New York Yankees Final game September 28 , 1968
for the New York Yankees Career statistics Batting average .298 Home runs 536 Hits 2,415 Teams New York Yankees ( 1951 -1968 ) Career highlights and awards 16x All-Star selection (1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968) 7x World Series champion ( 1951 , 1952 , 1953 , 1956 , 1958 , 1961 , 1962 )Gold Glove Award winner (1962) 3x AL MVP (1956, 1957, 1962) 1956 Triple Crown 1965 Hutch Award New York Yankees #7 retired Member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame Elected 1974 Vote 88.2% (first ballot)

Mickey Charles Mantle ( October 20 , 1931 âe" August 13 , 1995 ) was an American baseball player who was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974.

He played his entire 18-year major-league professional career for the New York Yankees , winning 3 American League MVP titles and playing for 16 All-Star teams. Mantle played on 12 pennant winners and 7 World Championship clubs. He still holds the records for most World Series home runs (18), RBIs (40), runs (42), walks (43), extra-base hits (26), and total bases (123).

Contents [ hide ] 1 Youth 2 Professional career 2.1 Retirement 2.2 Injuries 3 Troubled family 4 Mantle's last days 5 Honors 6 Career statistics 7 Awards and Achievements 8 See also 9 References 10 External links [ edit ] Youth

Mickey Mantle was born in Spavinaw, Oklahoma . He was named in honor of Mickey Cochrane , the Hall of Fame catcher from the Philadelphia Athletics, by his father, who was an amateur player and fervent fan. According to the book Mickey Mantle: America's Prodigal Son, by Tony Castro, in later life, Mickey expressed relief that his father had not known this, as he would have hated to be named Gordon. Mantle always spoke warmly of his father, and said he was the bravest man he ever knew. "No boy ever loved his father more," he said. His father died of cancer at the age of 39, just as his son was starting his career. Mantle said one of the great heartaches of his life was that he never told his father he loved him.

When Mantle was four years old, the family moved to the nearby town of Commerce, Oklahoma . Mantle was an all-around athlete at Commerce High School, playing basketball as well as football (he was offered a football scholarship by the University of Oklahoma ) in addition to his first love, baseball . His football playing nearly ended his athletic career, and indeed his life. Kicked in the shin during a game, Mantle's leg soon became infected with osteomyelitis , a crippling disease that would have been incurable just a few years earlier. A midnight ride to Tulsa, Oklahoma , enabled Mantle to be treated with newly available penicillin , saving his leg from amputation . He suffered from the effects of the disease for the rest of his life, and it probably led to many other injuries that hampered his accomplishments. Additionally, Mantle's osteomyelitic condition exempted him from military service , which caused him to become very unpopular with fans, (Castro 2002:61-70) as his earliest days in baseball coinci...