Sports Illustrated August 23rd 1954 2nd Issue Mickle Mantle Baseball Card

Sports Illustrated August 23rd 1954 2nd Issue Mickle Mantle Baseball Card.

This 1954 Sports Illustrated magazine is a must-have for any vintage sports memorabilia collector. The magazine features an original and authentic 70-year-old Mickey Mantle baseball card inside. It is a rare find for any New York Yankees fan or sports enthusiast. Add this to your collection today! Only the 2nd S.I.. ever produced. 

Sports Illustrated used a beautiful black and white photo taken by George Silk for the card. The same photo was also used by Sports Illustrated for the cover of its August 21, 1995, issue that was published days after Mantle passed away. 

The front cover features a color photograph of “Golf Bags at the Masters” by Mark Kauffman. Includes a three page fold-out spread of Baseball Trading Cards, 27 in total. A bright, near fine example, solid binding.

Topps Chewing Gum, Inc., one of the leading gum-and-card concerns, issues an average of 15 cards per team, and this average holds for the Yankees. The 15 Yankee cards in Topps’s 1954 series are reproduced front and back on color on the following foldout. They are, of course, prize items. But SPORTS ILLUSTRATED has added prize items of its own to fill out the Yankee squad to full strength: black-and-white “cards,” front and back, of those Yankees for whom Topps – for one good reason or another – did not print cards. The result is a collector’s dream: 27 Yankees, a collection almost beyond the highest hopes of the most avid gum-chewing, card-collecting boy.”