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Hello, you are looking at an official Rawlings Stotz Little League baseball signed by Mickey Mantle with his vintage 1955 signature. The authenticity is guaranteed and backed by a stamp and letter from JSA. The handwriting on the top panel baseball was written by an unknown hand (probably the Little League player or coach) but the handwriting by Mantle’s Signature was penned in his hand. The story to go along with this baseball is: “Signed at his home in November after the 1955 baseball season and just prior to his winning baseball's rare Triple Crown the next year in 1956. It was signed by Mickey on a Little League baseball during the time Carl Stotz -- the founder of Little League Baseball -- was the league's commissioner. Stotz left that position in November 1955. It was one of a dozen baseballs Mickey signed that day for his former coach, Frank Bruce, who had coached Mickey in the small town of Commerce before leaving for a teaching position in Galena, Kansas, about 15 miles up the road. Bruce at the time of the signing coached a Little League baseball team in Galena that won that city's championship in 1955. Each of the team's players and coaches received one of the baseballs." |