This is for an original ticket stub from the July 4 1957
doubleheader between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium
in the Bronx. Game one would see the Yankees take a 2-1 lead into the ninth
inning, but Bobby Shantz, who had pitched a strong 8 innings would be pulled for
reliever Bob Grim. Grim would proceed to allow a single to Frank Malzone and a
pinch hit homer to Mickey Vernon to hand the Sox a 3-2 win. The second game
would see Don Larsen pitch a complete game 5 hitter with the only run allowed
being a solo homer by Mickey Vernon for a 4-1 Yankee win. Mickey Mantle entered the game hitting .377
so the Sox thought if anyone was going to beat them it wouldn’t be Mantle. The
Mick would go 0-1 with 3 walks in game one and 0-0 with 3 walks and 2 runs
scored in game 2. Max Bishop twice walked 8 times in a doubleheader, once with the
Philadelphia A’s in 1930 and once with Boston Red Sox in 1934. Other than those
2 occasions the Major League record for walks in a doubleheader is 6. Tony
Kubek came in for Mantle in the top of the sixth in game 2 and singled in the
bottom of the seventh or Mickey could have drawn 7 walks. Who knows? A nice
stub from the days when every Yankee game was a momentous occasion. A must have
for any Mantle collector.
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