Mickey Mantle ... a facsimile autograph, and stats on the back! And, of course, there is the legend of what happened to many of the 1952 Topps Mantle cards. Mantle is on card No ...

When he got cancer, a whole generation felt the fear of death," said author Roger Kahn about Mickey ... Mantle wasn't nearly as outstanding, frequently spurning kids who wanted his autograph ...

But, in time, that's where Mickey ... the Yankees signed him - in scout Tom Greenwade's 1947 Oldsmobile - for a reported $1,100 bonus. Less than two years later, the 19-year-old Mantle, who ...