The New York Yankees both won and lost in Game 2 of the 1951 World Series. The home Yankees defeated the New York Giants 3-1 to tie the Series at a game apiece. Yet, they also suffered an enormous loss when almost 20-year-old rookie Mickey Mantle severely injured his knee on a play that would haunt the Yankees and Mantle for the rest of his career. Mantle singled in the bottom of the first, for his first lifetime World Series hit, and later scored. Mantle was playing rightfield in deference to Joe DiMaggio, playing at the end of his final season, in center. In the Giant fifth, Willie Mays hit a high fly to right center. DiMaggio and Mantle converged on the ball, and DiMaggio went for the ball. Mantle, in trying to avoid crashing into DiMaggio, caught his spikes in a sprinkler drain and crumbled to the ground. Mickey had torn his anterior cruciate ligament, and his leg and speed were never the same. Mantle hit 536 home runs in his career, won a Triple Crown, was a 3-time AL MVP, and helped the Yankees to seven World Series Championships. His astounding athleticism allowed him to accomplish all that in spite of bad legs, in great part attributed to that injury in Game 2. The ticket stub is for a $1.00 admission to the bleachers. The stub has been graded and encapsulated by PSA Good 2. The ticket stub stands for a moment when the soon-to-be past Yankee centerfielder almost collided with the Yankee future centerfielder, and the result had reverberations for years.