Mickey Mantle was sent down to the Kansas City Blues 60 years ago today. He played 40 games with KC. All of his minor league time came in Missouri and Kansas, between the 1949 Independence (Kansas) Yankees, 1950 Joplin (Missouri) Miners and '51 Blues.
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| Mantle and (I think) manager George Selkirk |
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| Mantle in middle row, third from right |
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| Detail of Mantle. Future Yankee team- and roommate Bob Cerv is to Mantle's right. |
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| An auction site listed this as possibly Mantle's hat. |
| Year | Age | Tm | G | PA | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | TB |
| 1951 | 19 | Kansas City | 40 | 191 | 32 | 60 | 9 | 3 | 11 | 50 | 5 | 23 | 30 | .361 | .445 | .651 | 1.096 | 108 |
