Mickey Mantle's Holiday Inn Napkin

This Cocktail Napkin is from the Dugout Lounge at Mickey Mantle's Holliday Inn. In 1956, Harold D. Youngman approached Mickey Mantle about leasing and operating a Holiday Inn hotel in Joplin, Missouri. It was agreed that Mickey would be named the president of the Mickey Mantle Motel Corp., the Holiday Inn, and Youngman would be the vice president. The hotel opened for business on January 10, 1957.

Mickey brought up the Holiday inn during his induction into the Hall of Fame speech.....

....."I don't know if all of you have ever heard about any of my business endeavors or not, but some of 'em weren't too good. Probably the worst thing I ever did was movin' away from Mr. Youngman. We went and moved to Dallas, Texas, in 1957, but Mr. Youngman built a Holiday Inn in Joplin, Missouri, and called it Mickey Mantle's Holiday Inn. And we were doin' pretty good there, and Mr. Youngman said, 'You know, you're half of this thing, so why don't you do something for it.' So we had real good chicken there and I made up a slogan. Merlyn doesn't want me to tell this, but I'm going to tell it anyway. I made up the slogan for our chicken and I said, 'To get a better piece of chicken, you'd have to be a rooster.' And I don't know if that's what closed up our Holiday Inn or not, but we didn't do too good after that. No, actually, it was really a good deal."

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