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Mickey Mantle 1952 Spring Training Snapshot Photo

fmclaug11fmclaug11 Posts: 327 ✭✭✭
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Thought I'd share this very recent pickup. I collect old photos and I also collect old Mantles so I guess it was only a matter of time before I started collecting old Mantle photos. The Photo is a personal snapshot from 1952 Spring training in St. Petersburg, before his first full season.

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  • mattyc_collectionmattyc_collection Posts: 2,127 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2, 2018 8:22PM

    Wow. Love to see any image of Mickey Mantle at that time— just pure, massive, awesome potential.

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  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,437 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Original photos are way too cool!

    Is that his dad with him?

    Mike
  • PiggsPiggs Posts: 1,938 ✭✭✭✭

    Awesome photos. Is there a way you can get a closer image of the other two bottom ones?

  • seebelowseebelow Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭

    wow awesome...thanks for sharing and please keep posting of any old photos..much appreciated

    Interested in higher grade vintage cards. Aren't we all. image
  • WalkinDudeWalkinDude Posts: 82 ✭✭✭

    Really nice photos. Love them.

    Patrick

  • baseballfanbaseballfan Posts: 5,464 ✭✭✭

    great pick up congrats!!

    Fred

    collecting RAW Topps baseball cards 1952 Highs to 1972. looking for collector grade (somewhere between psa 4-7 condition). let me know what you have, I'll take it, I want to finish sets, I must have something you can use for trade.

    looking for Topps 71-72 hi's-62-53-54-55-59, I have these sets started

  • fmclaug11fmclaug11 Posts: 327 ✭✭✭

    It's not his dad with him, but I'm still trying to identify the man who is in each of the photos. It may just be a fan taking snapshots. Only one is with Mickey, the other 2 photos are with Joe Collins and Bill Miller.

  • fmclaug11fmclaug11 Posts: 327 ✭✭✭

    Just received these in the mail today so wanted to post a few more pics and also ask if anyone might recognize the person with Mickey. Could just be a fan but suppose it could also be someone in the Yankee organization. By the way, of course I checked and I can read the Rawlings label with my loupe.



  • addicted2ebayaddicted2ebay Posts: 2,096 ✭✭✭✭
    edited January 6, 2018 6:38PM

    Love the rolled up sleeves the Mick has

    1950’s my favorite American era

    Thanks for sharing

  • mrpeanut39mrpeanut39 Posts: 841 ✭✭✭

    No clue, but is it the scout that signed Mick? Tom Greenwade?

    "I think the guy must be practicing voodoo or something. Check out his eyes. Rico's crazier than a peach orchard sow." -- Whitey Herzog, Spring Training 1973
  • IronmanfanIronmanfan Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭✭

    My guess it's just a fan who was the original owner of the snapshot...
    Is it dated 1952 anywhere on the photo?
    Cool item
    IMF

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  • dennis07dennis07 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭

    I have read somewhere that back in the day during spring training some players would stay at the house of someone in the area. With Mickey being a young player and having little money to spring for a rental house of motel maybe this could be the case.
    Could this be the house and the house owner he was staying with that spring? I dunno- just throwing it out there.

    Collecting 1970 Topps baseball
  • IronmanfanIronmanfan Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭✭

    @dennis07 said:
    I have read somewhere that back in the day during spring training some players would stay at the house of someone in the area. With Mickey being a young player and having little money to spring for a rental house of motel maybe this could be the case.
    Could this be the house and the house owner he was staying with that spring? I dunno- just throwing it out there.

    Back then, all of the younger players would have been staying at a team hotel...Perhaps the veterans would have rented their own homes.
    IMF

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  • fmclaug11fmclaug11 Posts: 327 ✭✭✭

    Here are the backs of the three photos along with close ups of the other 2. I looked up Tom Greenwade and it doesn't look like that's him. Probably just a fan...But I do wonder what structure they are standing by if it's at the field. I also find that he looks pretty chummy with Bill Miller so he may have a connection there.



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