"Willie, Mickey and the Duke," is the poignant, and catchy, refrain from Terry Cashman's 1981 hit song "Talkin' Baseball (Willie, Mickey and the Duke)." Presented is a wonderfully creative, signed and inscribed limited edition lithograph print by Robert Stephen Simon. The litho print creates a combined image of each of three immortal center fielders and that player's home ballpark. In a beautiful golden age of New York City baseball, the 1950s featured three future Hall of Fame center fielders playing for New York's three Major League teams: Willie Mays for the New York Giants; Mickey Mantle for the New York Yankees; and Duke Snider for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Each of the three players was fast and each had great power: Mays blasted 660 lifetime home runs; Mantle had 536 round-trippers; Snider had 407 four-baggers. That's a combined 1,603 home runs from this amazing trio. Until the Dodgers and Giants moved to California after the 1957 season, in the 1950s, at least one New York City team was in the Fall Classic every season; in '51, '52, '53, '55, and '56, two New York City teams made it.

The print measures 19.25x25", matted and framed to 25x31". Mantle is depicted on the viewer's left, both in a large head-and-shoulders version and in a smaller action photo of him batting. The backdrop behind Mantle is the left field section of the original Yankee Stadium, with its three-tiered stands. In the middle of the print is Mays, with the center field area of the Polo Grounds behind him, with the center field clubhouse, before which Mays made his over-the-shoulder grab of a long shot by Vic Wertz in the 1954 World Series, a play known to this day simply as "The Catch." Mays also has a large head-and-shoulder image and a smaller image of him sliding. In right field in the print is Duke Snider. The larger Snider photo depicts him starring pensively into the distance. The small Snider image shows him batting. Behind the Duke is the iconic right field scoreboard at Ebbets Field, and there is even the famous Abe Stark "Hit Sign, Win Suit" advertisement on the right field wall. Mantle used blue marker to sign his name in a perfect autograph, with Mickey adding his inscription of "#7." Mays used a dark blue, fine tip marker to craft a neat signature and add "24" for his number. Snider used a fine tip blue marker to script a neat signature and add "#4" as his number. The artist, Robert Stephen Simon, signed his name in pencil at the bottom of the print. In the right-hand lower corner, the print is hand-numbered in pencil as "323/950." The signed and inscribed offering, with a unique combining of three stadiums and each venue's immortal center fielder, makes a terrific, fascinating 1950s collectible. The frame has two very small scratches. The signed and inscribed lithograph is in EXCELLENT condition. Comes with PSA LOA. 

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