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[Rear view of New York Yankee baseball player Mickey Mantle with bat swung up in air] / Marvin E. Newman. – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Rear view of New York Yankee baseball player Mickey Mantle with bat swung up in air] / Marvin E. Newman. — historic photograph
[Rear view of New York Yankee baseball player Mickey Mantle with bat swung up in air] / Marvin E. Newman.. Historic photograph from the Baseball collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This historic photograph of [Rear view of New York Yankee baseball player Mickey Mantle with bat swung up in air] / Marvin E. Newman. brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Rear view of New York Yankee baseball player Mickey Mantle with bat swung up in air] / Marvin E. Newman.

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Few images capture a batter's swing from behind the way this contact-sheet frame does, with Mickey Mantle's back to the camera and the bat raised high overhead. Marvin E. Newman, a staff photographer for Look magazine, made the picture, and the record notes it was added to the magazine's library on May 15, 1956. Mantle was in his mid-twenties and at the height of his career with the New York Yankees, then the dominant club in the American League. Look's photographers often sought action shots that showed a player's build and motion rather than a posed face, which makes this view unusually revealing of the swing itself.

Medium1 photographic print (contact sheet frame)
Notes1956 May 15. (date added to Look's library)
SubjectsMantle, Mickey,--1931-1995--Sports. New York Yankees (Baseball team)--People--1950-1960.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,366 × 5,355 px · prints to 15 × 18 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-213898

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