Mickey Mantle and Ted Williams
Description
A slide of a black-and-white photograph from the knees up of Mickey Mantle (left) and Ted Williams (right) standing together at Fenway Park. Mantle is wearing a New York Yankee road uniform, and Williams is wearing a Boston Red Sox home uniform, with each player holding a baseball bat resting on their respective left shoulders. The caption underneath the photograph reads, "(BXl) BOSTON, JULY 5 – TOPS IN THE SLUGGING DEPARTMENT- Mickey Mantle of the Yankees and Ted Williams of the Red Sox discuss batting averages at Fenway Park before Mantle suffered leg injury in first game of doubleheader yesterday. Yankee trainer Gus Mauch says the slugger may be out "two or three" days. Manager Casey Stengel says he hopes his center fielder will return to the lineup in "a couple of days." Mantle has hit 29 home runs so far this season. Williams is the only active player to have batted .400 in one season. (dcE 50700 pjc)" See mantlmii01_19.