1963 Mickey Mantle 'Bat Girl' Archive
Clip: Season 28 Episode 16 | 2m 3sVideo has Closed Captions
1963 Mickey Mantle 'Bat Girl' Archive
Check out Simeon Lipman’s appraisal of a 1963 Mickey Mantle “Bat Girl” archive in Vintage Atlantic City, Hour 1.
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1963 Mickey Mantle 'Bat Girl' Archive
Clip: Season 28 Episode 16 | 2m 3sVideo has Closed Captions
Check out Simeon Lipman’s appraisal of a 1963 Mickey Mantle “Bat Girl” archive in Vintage Atlantic City, Hour 1.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipGUEST: Well, it all started when I was eight years old.
I went to try out for the Little League, and they had a Yankee bat boy contest.
Well, girls couldn't participate, so I made up a name.
I put "Jimmy Lotsie."
So when they called my house, my mother answered the phone.
They said, "Oh, your son Jimmy just won the Yankee bat boy contest."
And my mother started to laugh.
She said, "Well, I don't have a son, Jimmy, but it's my daughter, Nancy."
So when they found out, they were like, "Wow, we've got to do this, you know, make her the honorary bat girl."
So they said to me, "Who's your favorite Yankee?"
And I said, "Oh, Mickey Mantle."
And it just so happened that Mickey Mantle came to speak to me.
APPRAISER: And obviously you, uh, two became friends.
GUEST: Oh, yes, yes.
APPRAISER: Here you are giving him a peck on the cheek.
GUEST: And I had asked him, "Oh, Mickey, can you hit a run... a home run for me?"
He said, "Well, I can't promise you anything."
I said, "That's okay."
And he hit a home run, and he came over to me, he said, "Here, Nancy, here's my bat."
And then, a few weeks later, I get this autographed picture in the mail-- "To Nancy, the cutest bat boy we have ever had, Your pal, Mickey Mantle."
APPRAISER: It's incredible.
I was so excited to see this.
This is such a wonderful story.
GUEST: Yes.
APPRAISER: This happened in 1963.
GUEST: Yes.
APPRAISER: You really can't get a better bat than this-- a home run bat, this kind of documentation.
GUEST: Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: Here you are with the Mick, here you are in Life magazine.
GUEST: Yes.
APPRAISER: I think with all this backup documentation, this fantastic photo, at auction, I would expect a bat like this to go for about $35,000.
It's truly a fantastic piece.
GUEST: Thank you.
APPRAISER: One of the best pieces I've seen on this show.
GUEST: Thank you!
Thank you.
Yes, I mean, my memories are awesome.
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Appraisal: 1870 Cornelius Krieghoff Oil Painting (2m 16s)
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Appraisal: 1875 D. J. Kennedy Atlantic City Watercolor (33s)
Appraisal: 1910 James H. Hare Aviation Photo
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Appraisal: 1910 James H. Hare Aviation Photo (3m 5s)
Appraisal: Albert Bierstadt Oil Painting, ca. 1875
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Appraisal: Albert Bierstadt Oil Painting, ca. 1875 (43s)
Appraisal: Albert Carrier-Belleuse Bronze, ca. 1855
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Appraisal: Albert Carrier-Belleuse Bronze, ca. 1855 (2m)
Appraisal: Animated Pig Pull Toy, ca. 1900
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Appraisal: Animated Pig Pull Toy, ca. 1900 (1m 55s)
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Appraisal: Austrian Rock Crystal Ewer, ca. 1900
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Appraisal: Austrian Rock Crystal Ewer, ca. 1900 (43s)
Appraisal: Colonial Revival Tilt-top Table, ca. 1911
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Appraisal: Colonial Revival Tilt-top Table, ca. 1911 (2m 52s)
Appraisal: Delaware River Valley Armchair, ca. 1750
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Appraisal: Delaware River Valley Armchair, ca. 1750 (2m 48s)
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Appraisal: Early American Button Mold, ca. 1722 (1m 33s)
Appraisal: Fake Shang Dynasty 'You' Bronze, ca. 1900
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Appraisal: Grueby Cuenca Seagull Tile, ca. 1915 (2m 25s)
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Appraisal: Kerman Millefleurs Carpet, ca. 1900 (40s)
Appraisal: Late 19th C. Vincent G. Stiepevich Oil Painting
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Appraisal: Portraits Attributed to Ruth H. Bascom, ca. 1830
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Appraisal: Portraits Attributed to Ruth H. Bascom, ca. 1830 (2m 26s)
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Appraisal: Steuben Jade & Alabaster Glass Vase, ca. 1928 (1m 5s)
Appraisal: Walt Whitman-inscribed Memoranda, ca. 1875
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Appraisal: Yoruba Ibeji Carvings, ca. 1900
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Appraisal: 1925 Marc Chagall Signed Etching
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Appraisal: Folk Art Root Sculpture, ca. 1900
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Appraisal: S.S. Stewart Banjo, ca. 1897
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