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Hahaha, that's actually how I ended up here. Got the banhammer at the STLtoday forums by good ol' mikesmith for posting that one in a Bonds steroids thread.

I must have had 45 of this guy but none of Johnny Bench, Tony Perez, or Joe Morgan...

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That is a Jim Bouton knuckleball that didn't knuck.

I'd have to check, but given that they were teammates from 1962-68, and Mantle retired after the 1968 season, I don't believe Bouton ever faced Mantle. Who else was throwing the knuckler in those days?

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"They call baseball a game because it's too screwed up to be a business." - Jim Bouton, 1971.

"Big deal. Anyone can win games when the other team doesn't score any runs." - Curt Flood to Bob Gibson, circa 1968

Knucklers in those days, off the top of my head: Niekro, Wilhelm, Wilbur Wood, Bo Purkey.

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Niekro, not in 58. Or Wood. Is that Bob Purkey you're referring to? He was a right hander that only pitched in the NL. This card was in reference to Mantle's 42 AL HR during the '58 regular season. So it would most likely be a left hander in the AL. Actually, I just looked it up. It was off of a Boston pitcher named Tom Brewer, a RHer, and it was hit to deep left center field at Fenway. This picture is almost certainly not the pitch that he hit his 42nd HR off of.

Stumbled across a card on Ebay that I'd never seen before. '62 Herzog.

Another card that has popped up a few times the past couple days. I love that there were major league baseball players that you could have easily confused for an Econ professor.

Imagine the poor kid that has everyone at school excited because his Dad is in the major leagues, only to eventually have to show them his cards...