This
is a Mickey Mantle Reserve Life Insurance company
baseball card. In the early 1980s Mickey Mantle worked as
Director of public relations for the Dallas Reserve Life Insurance Company.
Mickey Mantle was the guest of
honor, and speaker at numerous events, and insurance association
business meetings. Reserve Life would hold quarterly insurance association meetings in Dallas, Texas and Mickey was the guest speaker in 1984/85.
At these events Mickey would personally sign these
postcard sized baseball cards. The baseball
"business" cards were also used to help
promote the Life insurance company. Sometimes Reserve
Life would also send these cards through the mail signed
by Mickey Mantle. Below along with the picture of the
back of this card is a baseball ordered by Reserve Life
Insurance company, and Made by Rawlings for the purpose
of having Mickey Mantle Sign them at the end of these
business meetings.
