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1957 Mickey Mantle's
Grand Slam baseball
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Item Details |
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CIRCA
- 1957
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MANUFACTURER
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Gardner & CO.
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SIZE
- 16" x 20"
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PRICE GUIDE- $1,500.-
$3,000.
Very
Good - Excellent
Condition
-Scorecard (only)
$150.-$200.
Information
Provided by:
Keymancollectibles.com
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Mickey Mantle’s Grand Slam Baseball
No. 770, was manufactured by Gardner in
1957. It
was one of a number of Mickey
Mantle endorsed games issued by Gardner
that year which also included; Mickey
Mantle's Four Bagger No. 780, Mickey
Mantle's Target No. 750 (also a Four
Bagger game), and
Mickey Mantle's Big
League Baseball No. 710. The lithograph
art on the metal game with a red wooden
frame, features a picture of Mickey
Mantle in the upper left corner and his
facsimile signature on a baseball in
the upper right. The red, green, and
blue pennants at the bottom, indicates
the outcome of each play.
Mickey Mantle's Grand Slam Baseball was
a "challenging game of action, skill,
sound, mystery, and luck." The player
would strike the "bat" with one hand,
while using the other to hold open the
chute controls. When release the marble would then travel through a runway
and land in an area that determined the
outcome of the at-bat. The object is to
have the ball ring bell and drop into a
high scoring pocket. The results of
the at bat; single double, triple,
home run, walk, sacrifice, ground
out,
fly out, strike out etc... is
indicated on the pennants at the
bottom. The
game which was originally listed for $5.00,
was reduced to $1.00 by 1959. The game came with a
Mickey Mantle Grand Slam score sheet
pad, and as stated in a 1960 ad, rules,
marbles, pegs, and whistles.
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1957 Mickey Mantle's
Grand Slam baseball Scorecard |
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1957 Gardner & Co.
Trade Magazine
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