Lot # 2432: May 30, 1956 New York Yankees (vs. Washington Senators) Ticket Stub PSA GOOD 2 - Mickey Mantle's Home Run Hits Facade at Yankee Stadium

Graded GOOD 2 by PSA. Offered is a ticket stub from one of the memorable home runs of Mickey Mantle's storied career. On May 30, 1956, in the fifth inning of the first game of a doubleheader against the Washington Senators at Yankee Stadium, Mantle hit a home run that just missed clearing the facade in right field. Had he done so, he would have been the only player in baseball history to hit a ball completely out of Yankee Stadium. It was estimated at the time that the ball missed clearing the facade by just eighteen inches. If it had not been impeded and kept traveling, mathematicians estimate the ball would have traveled approximately 600 feet. Mantle's power was already the stuff of legend at the time. In 1953, he helped coin the term "tape measure home run" with a prodigious 565-foot home run in Griffith Stadium. Nearly three weeks later, on June 18, 1956, Mantle became only the second player in history to hit a ball out of Tiger Stadium. Mantle capped the 1956 season by winning both the Triple Crown and MVP Award at season's end. The ticket stub (1.5 x 2.75 inches) displays scattered creasing.