The Quality of Courage.

MANTLE, Mickey.

Item Number: 134102

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1964.

First edition of this early work by baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on front free endpaper, “Thanks for helping the Special Olympics Mickey Mantle.” Near fine in a near fine jacket. Jacket photograph by Fred Kaplan. Jacket design by Stoney Butchkes. Uncommon signed.

Mickey Mantle was a professional baseball player, who played his entire career with the New York Yankees as a center fielder and first baseman, from 1951 through 1968. Mantle was one of the best players and sluggers, and is regarded by many as the greatest switch hitter in baseball history. Mantle was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974 and was elected to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999.