Cards and a little mystery from Mark Z.

Mark Zentkovich is one of those guys that spans the blogs, OBC and TCDB. He sent a nice little RAOK PWE my way recently.

My 1970s and 1980s Topps football wantlists are low enough priority that I don't post them directly here or on TCDB. However, they are high enough priority that I do keep wantlists and am glad to send them on request. Mark did and sent me some '82s and '89s. That Joe Fields card is by far the best of the bunch. Rarely does a card capture the essence of a franchise's past, present and future the way that card does.

He also sent this intriguing Yogi Berra photo, which he said came out of a scrapbook. First Elston Howard from Bob, then Yogi Berra from Mark. Can a Bill Dickey scrapbook page be far behind?

The page is newsprint, so I assumed it came out of a newspaper. The back didn't provide a whole lot of clues for what it was, but eventually I figured it out. 

Maybe others are smarter than me, but it took me a realize that these stories were being told by Mickey Mantle. I just had to look up Mickey Mantle talking about Yogi Berra. I also remembered that magazines of that time were often basically newsprint on the inside.

It is from the May 1963 issue of Sport Magazine. Thanks to an eBay listing, here is the cover (in this case autographed) . . . 

. . . and the full first two pages of the article.