Hello everyone!
Today on the blog, we have
a "missing" 1969 Nabisco Team Flakes card for the great Mickey Mantle,
from my upcoming custom printed cereal box "extending" the fun odd-ball
set released way back when:
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Would have been awesome to have a card representing the all-time great as he was closing out a magnificent Hall of Fame career.
Sure,
it'd make things tough these days for guys like me that are trying to
complete the original set, giving us what would have been an
uber-expensive card, but heck, would have been great nevertheless!
Mantle is one of those guys I really don't think we need to get
into as far as his accomplishments on the baseball diamond. It'd be kind
of like a joke to start writing about his career since it would take up
a book's worth.
But alas, 500+ homers, a bushel of World Championships, three Most
Valuable Player Awards, and the hearts of more fans than we can even
imagine to this day.
"The Mick" in all his glory, enshrined in his rightful place in
Cooperstown, along with his longtime buddy Whitey Ford in the same HOF
class.
Not too bad a Hollywood script...