Offered is a multi-signed baseball featuring the signatures of New York City’s three great centerfielders of the 1950s, Mickey Mantle, Duke Snider and Willie Mays.  Mantle has signed on the sweet spot of the Official American League Bobby Brown baseball in blue ballpoint, while Mays has signed in blue pen to the right of the OAL Brown stamp, with Snider signing in blue ink to the left. The three Hall of Fame center fielders all played in New York City at the same time – Mays for the New York Giants, Mantle for the New York Yankees and Snider for the Brooklyn Dodgers.  Mays was the 1951 National League Rookie of the Year with the Giants and a two-time NL MVP and played in New York up to the 1958 season, when the club moved to San Francisco.  He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979.  Mantle played his entire career (1951-1968) with the Yankees, was a 20-time All-Star and three-time American League MVP.  He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1974. Snider played 18 seasons for the Dodgers, breaking in in 1947 in Brooklyn, and was an NL All-Star eight times.  He helped lead the Dodgers to six World Series, with victories in 1955 and 1959.  He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1980. This item comes with a LOA from Steve Grad of Beckett Authentication (A62621).

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