Mickey Mantle June 25, 1956 Newsweek Magazine Cover
Description
A color slide of a June 25, 1956, Newsweek magazine cover featuring Mickey Mantle posing in a left-handed and right-handed batting stance. Mantle is visible from the waist up in both images, wearing a New York Yankees home uniform. He is looking over his front shoulder at the camera. A yellow banner runs across the magazine's top with the text "What Voters Think - Report From the Listening Post Will Ike's Illness Tighten the '56 Race?" The caption underneath the photograph reads, "Yankees Mickey Mantle: Can the Switch Hitter Beat the Babe?" Another yellow banner across the bottom of the cover with text reads, "Spotlight on the Business of Air Conditioning."
Player(s)
Mantle, Mickey, 1931-1995
Team(s)
New York - AL
League(s)
American League of Professional Baseball Clubs
Picture Date
1956–1956
Subject
Hall of famers; Batting (Baseball); Magazine covers--1950-1960
Source
Unknown
Stadium
Unknown
Location
Unknown
Folder Name / Binder
Slides A-Z: Lop-Man
Photographer
Unknown
Media Type
Slides (photographs)