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If ever there was a player that challenged the popularity of Babe Ruth, it had to have been Mickey Mantle. Named after Tigers' Hall of Famer, Mickey Cochrane, Mantle was the idol of many youngsters throughout the 50's and 60's. A 15-time All-star who went to the World Series a dozen times winning seven rings, Mantle was also a Batting Champion, a four-time Home Run leader and a Triple Crown winner that was selected as the A.L.'s Most Valuable Player three times. He's a member of my 1000 card club as I currently have 1411 unique Beckett recognized cards of the Mick plus probably another 30 or so that Beckett doesn't list. I've already showed you a slew of my vintage Mantle cards as well as some of my 1952 Reprints and a bunch of oddball releases so I had to go digging and came up with nine more cards from my collection to show you today.

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1959 Topps #461 Mickey Mantle BT/42nd Homer
1960 Topps #160 Rival All-Stars/Mickey Mantle/Ken Boyer (Sharing this card with Cardinals third baseman, Ken Boyer.)
1961 Nu-Card Scoops #422 Mickey Mantle/(Longest homer)

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1961 Topps #44 AL Home Run Leaders/Mickey Mantle/Roger Maris/Jim Lemon/Rocky Colavito (Mantle's 40 home runs in 1960 put him just ahead of teammate Roger Maris, Jim Lemon and Rocky Colavito.)
1961 Topps #406 Mickey Mantle 565 HR (You can't even see Mickey on this card without a microscope but it commemorates the longest home run of his career.)
1965 Topps #134 World Series Game 3/Mickey Mantle (Here's Mickey hitting his walk-off home run off Barney Schultz in Game 3 of the 1964 World Series. Tim McCarver is the catcher and Ken Burkhart is the umpire.)

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1996 Topps Mantle Finest Refractors #7 Mickey Mantle 1957 Topps (This was a bonus in my 1996 Factory set.)
2006 Topps Sterling #28 Mickey Mantle (This was a gift from one of my trader friends in California.)
2012 Topps Factory Set Mantle Chrome Gold Refractors #50 Mickey Mantle 66T (This was a bonus in my 2012 Factory set.)