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Lot 18
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Lot Number: 18
Description: Rare October 6, 1960 Mickey Mantle World Series Game #4 Home Run attributed baseball (478 Foot HR Out of Forbes Field)(Second of Two Game #4 Home Runs) Moderately toned W.Giles National League baseball with period blue ink inscription on side panel, "Home Run By Mickey Mantle Second Game World Series 1960 7th Inning Pitts Pirates 3 NY Yankees 16". The ball originally entered the hobby in 1994 as chronicled by accompanying period correspondence between the original recipient and William Mastro. Ray Zimmerman was executing machinery installment work in the Pittsburgh area from his home in Eugene, Oregon. Zimmerman's work kept him in the Pittsburgh area for nearly three months at which time he was afforded the opportunity to attend the first and second game of the World Series at Forbes Field between the Pirates and Yankees. For game two, Zimmerman had to leave the game before the start of the 7th inning so he began to walk around the field to go to his parked car. While doing so, he saw a ball fly over the fence to a large notice from the crowd as Mickey Mantle had belted his second home run of the game over the Forbes Field fence in right center field. A young boy retrieved the ball to which Zimmerman held out a $5 bill and remarked, "whether he'd rather have the bill or the ball." The boy gladly accepted the $5 bill and Zimmerman left with Mantle's home run baseball. Period newspaper accounts confirm the travels of the baseball noting, "It bounded off a tree into the hands of a departing customer, who found that there can be some advantages to leaving the ball park as early as the seventh inning." As he was travelling for a period of time with work Zimmerman inscribed the ball with the current titling and sent it to his son back in Oregon along with a facsimile stamped 1960 Pirates souvenir ball he had also purchased at the game (included). Although the Yankees would fall to Bill Mazeroski and the Pirates in the World Series Mickey Mantle's play was exceptional batting .400 with three home runs and eleven RBIs. Very well documents Mantle World Series home run baseball with superb period corroborative evidentiary artifacts. Includes 1994 letter of provenance from Ray Zimmerman; Zimmerman's 1960 World Series ticket stubs for Game #s 1 and 2; 1994 correspondence from Zimmerman to both William Mastro and Robert Edward Auctions; 1960 Pirates facsimile stamped baseball purchased at the World Series by Zimmerman, and signed letter of provenance from Geddy Lee. This lot is featured within Geddy's forthcoming book "72 Stories from the Collection of Geddy Lee". A signed copy of the book will accompany the winning bid of this lot: EXEstimated Price Range: ($25,000-$50,000)
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