The Quality of Courage.

MANTLE, Mickey.

Item Number: 95370

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1964.

First edition, early printing of this work by Baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Mantle on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Fred Kaplan. Jacket design by Stoney Butchkes.

Mickey Mantle was a professional baseball player, who played his entire career with the New York Yankees as a center fielder and first baseman, from 1951 through 1968. Mantle was one of the best players and sluggers, and is regarded by many as the greatest switch hitter in baseball history. Mantle was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974 and was elected to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999.