Mickey Mantle April 14, 1957 Family Weekly Magazine Cover
Description
A color slide of the cover of the April 14, 1957, issue of Family Weekly magazine, with the masthead on the top of the page torn off. The cover features a photograph of Mickey Mantle in a batting stance in the left-handed batter's box with an unidentified catcher and umpire. He is wearing a New York Yankees home uniform. The picture is taken from the perspective of the third base side, so in the background are the fans in the first base side stands. The photo credit for the picture is Hy Peskin (1915-2005) from FPG. In the bottom left of the picture is the text "Mickey Mantle (See page16)". At the bottom of the cover, in a translucent blue rectangle spanning the width of the cover, are the words: "in this issue The Ocean Comes to Mid-America". This specific magazine was distributed with the Waterloo (Iowa) Daily Courier newspaper.
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1957–1957