Mickey Mantle on Cover of Sport World, 1966 Baseball Guide Edition
Description
A color slide of the cover of Sport World Magazine, 1966 Baseball Guide edition, featuring Mickey Mantle, from the waist up, in a right-handed batting position wearing a New York Yankee home uniform. The basic color of the cover is yellow. The picture of Mantle is in the left center of the cover with a rectangular blue background going the width of the cover and the text "EXCLUSIVE:" in white in the upper left corner of the background. The words "MICKEY MANTLE's TRAGIC DECISION" are in white on the right side of the background. The top of the cover has the text "SPECIAL:" in a blue arrow followed by "1966 BASEBALL GUIDE" in red letters. Underneath this, in black letters, reads "COMPLETE RUNDOWNS-ROSTERS-PHOTOS-ALL 20 MAJOR LEAGUE TEAMS". Below this is the title in large red letters, "Sport World" on two lines with the word "World" being indented. In the indentation is the text in small black letters "JUNE 50¢ PDC". To the right of the title is a blue rectangle with a full-length picture of Maury Wills in a Los Angeles Dodgers home uniform starting to slide. To the right is the text "MAURY WILLS - WILL HE CHANGE HIS STYLE OF BASE STEALING?" in white letters. In the yellow strip at the bottom of the page underneath the blue background with the picture of Mantle, there are two supporting coverlines. On the left, in a blue rectangle, is the text "RATING THE YOUNG FIREBALLERS - THE SEARCH FOR THE NEW KOUFAX" in white letters. To the right of that, in red letters, is the text "THE INTER-LEAGUE TRADING STORY NOBODY WILL TALK ABOUT"
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Picture Date
1966–1966