He would become synonymous with the number 7, but for the first three months of Mickey Mantle’s career, he wore a different digit on the back of his Yankee uniform. A one-of-a-kind contact proof image of the teenage star and his earliest big league uniform from the files of noted photographer Bill Jacobellis has sold at auction for $21,000 at the Huggins and Scott Auctions May 10, 2018.
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