Mickey Mantle August 1953 Inside Baseball Magazine Cover
Description
A color slide of an August 1953 Inside Baseball magazine cover featuring three photographs of Mickey Mantle. In the primary photograph, Mantle is shown at head-and-shoulders length, wearing a New York Yankee road uniform, holding a baseball bat with a right-handed grip, resting the bat on his right shoulder, and smiling while looking past the camera. There are two smaller action photographs of him on the lower left of the magazine cover. In each action photograph, he is shown full-length, wearing a New York Yankee road uniform. In the higher of the two, he is leaping and about to throw a baseball. In the lower-positioned photograph, he is completing the follow-through of a left-handed swing with his right side visible. The masthead of the magazine reads "INSIDE BASEBALL". Immediately beneath the masthead is the text "AUGUST 35¢". Immediately below that is a blue text box with the word "EXCLUSIVE". In the center-left of the cover is more text, which reads "The Mickey Mantle Nobody Knows! Personal interviews with Mantle's mother, his boyhood pals, and many other friends." Beneath that is an article headline reading "IS BIG LEAGUE BASEBALL DOOMED?" Information written on the physical slide reads "Inside BB 8/53".
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1951–1953