10 Original Mickey Mantle Photos Used For His Early Baseball Cards

Vintage baseball cards are incredibly popular, but people sometimes forget that baseball card manufacturers had to find original photographs to design the cards around. Here are some original photos of Mickey Mantle that Bowman, Topps, and Wheaties used on some of his earlier baseball cards.

1951 Bowman #253 and 1953 Topps #82 Mickey Mantle Cards

1951 Bowman and 1953 Topps Mickey Mantle Original Photograph

I wrote about this original photo the other week.

1951 Wheaties Mickey Mantle

1952 Bowman #101 Mickey Mantle

1952 Bowman Mickey Mantle Original Photograph

1952 Topps #311 Mickey Mantle

1952 Topps Mickey Mantle Original Photograph

1954 Bowman #65 Mickey Mantle

1954 Bowman Mickey Mantle Original Photograph

1956 Topps #135 Mickey Mantle

1956 Topps Mickey Mantle Original Photograph – Headshot

1956 Topps Mickey Mantle Original Photograph – Action Shot

1958 Topps #487 Mickey Mantle All-Star

1958 Topps Mickey Mantle All-Star Original Photograph

1958 Topps World Series Batting Foes Mickey Mantle and Hank Aaron

1958 Topps World Series Batting Foes Original Photograph

1958 Topps #418 Mickey Mantle / Hank Aaron World Series Batting Foes

1960 Topps Rival All-Stars Mantle & Boyer

The photo of Mantle and Boyer was taken back in 1957, three years before releasing the popular 1960 Topps Rival All-Stars card.

1960 Topps #160 RIval All-Stars Mantle & Boyer

I’ve been on a bit of a Mickey Mantle kick lately here on PostWarCards; besides the detailed article on The Original Photo Used for the 1951 Bowman and 1953 Topps Mickey Mantle Cards I linked earlier, I also wrote about The Topps Mickey Mantle Card We Didn’t Get (1954 and 1955) a few weeks ago. If you have any other Mantle article requests, let me know (I’ve been thinking about an ebook about the 1952 Mantle, by the way); and happy collecting!