Topps Mickey Mantle baseball card
Date1952
DescriptionWhite rectangular cardboard baseball card with a color image of Mickey Mantle on the front surrounded by a white border. Mantle is pictured from the chest up, viewed from slightly below his shoulder level, with a New York Yankees jersey and cap on and a yellow bat on his right shoulder; he is looking up and to his right. At the bottom of the image is a white rectangle with a yellow and black border that reads "Mickey Mantle" at the top and a facsimile signature below. In the upper left corner of this rectangle is a yellow square with the Yankees "top hat" logo in the center. Reverse is plain brown cardboard with red and black text with statistics about the player, a brief biography, and manufacturer information at the bottom.
Object numberB-2019-0055
Artist, Creator, or Manufacturer
Topps Chewing Gum, Inc.
Subject
Mantle, Mickey, 1931-1995
Subject
New York Yankees (Baseball team)
Attributes
Classificationsbaseball cards
Dimensions5.25 x 0.25 x 3.25 in. (slabbed)
Object number: BL-1995-13439-01
Topps Chewing Gum, Inc.
1972 July 25
Object number: B-1984-0211
Wagner, Honus, 1874-1955
between 1909 and 1911
Object number: BL-1946-00141-001
Goodwin & Co. (New York, N.Y.)
1888 or 1889
Object number: BL-1968-01451-1035
New York World-Telegram
1964 October 10