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 |
Very cool pictures
ReplyDeleteHow can that be Mantle's hat when it is obviously a KC logo from a different year?
ReplyDeleteYou're right Jerry, doesn't look like a match. Whatever auction house called it possibly Mantle's was probably dreaming a little (or just outright lying).
DeleteBTW, I have several EFF hats and love them all.
what were dates in 1951 that he played for KC
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