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New York Yankees
10 Lots
 Lot 198. Collection of 21 Newspapers and a Magazine Focusing on Mantle, the Yankees, Bonds, Etc. The newspapers are complete unless otherwise noted. Five newspapers and the Aug. 28, 1995 issue of People magazine (nm) cover the life and death of Mickey Mantle. The 1995 newspapers are the Aug. 14 South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the Aug. 15 New York Daily News and New York Post, the Aug. 22 Baseball Weekly and the Aug. 21 Sporting News. The New York tabloids are vg to vg-ex, and the others, ex to ex-m. Baseball Weekly covers the passing of Joe DiMaggio, including a cover photo, in its March 10-16, 1999 edition, ex+. The New York Yankees are the front-page subjects of four more tabloids, including the earliest newspaper in the group, the Oct. 17, 1947 NY Daily Mirror. The paper heralds the Yankees’ triumph over the Dodgers in the World Series and has a photo of DiMaggio, team president Larry MacPhail and star relief pitcher Joe Page. The newspaper has a 2” edge tear that affects neither the photo nor the headline; otherwise, ex. The three others papers are Oct. 25-30 editions of the New York Post, two dealing with the Roger Clemens-Mike Piazza confrontation and the other celebrating the Yanks’ World Series title. Ex-m. Another early newspaper, the Oct. 2, 1950 edition of The Evening Bulletin of Philadelphia, features a front-page article on the Whiz Kids, who had just captured the N.L. pennant. Complete paper (vg) with extensive coverage in the sports section (ex). Seven papers have front-page coverage of the quest for home run records: Sept. 9, 1998, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, McGwire’s 62nd home run. The Stuart (FL) News, Sept. 9, 1998 (McGwire’s 62nd), Oct. 5 and 6, 2001 (Bonds’ 70th through 72nd home runs), and Aug. 8, 2007 (Bonds’ 756th). Baseball Weekly, Sept. 9-15 and Sept. 30-Oct. 6, 1998, McGwire. And Newsday, Aug. 5, 2007, Rodriguez. These papers average ex. Finally, the Oct. 29, 2007 Denver Post features World Series coverage, and the March 18, 2008, Stuart News shows Tommy Lasorda at the Dodgers final spring training game at Homan Stadium. Ex-m.
Minimum Bid $25.
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