The Yankees took a page from their glory days and found an impressive name to replace the injured Bobby Abreu on the roster... but it's not Bernie Williams.
Try Mickey Mantle.
This is odd for a number of reasons. First off, Joe Torre and Brian Cashman have repeatedly said that they plan to give Melky Cabrera the at-bats when Hideki Matsui, Johnny Damon and Abreu are rested. And Mantle really doesn't have much outfield range any more, due to his bad knees.
Plus, there's the fact that he's been dead since 1995.
Why, then, is The Mick pictured in the Yankee dugout on Derek Jeter's 2007 Topps baseball card? Apparently, one of the Photoshop gremlins at Topps superimposed the image of Mantle -- and another of President Bush -- on Jeter's card as a little prank. It wasn't intended to generate a bunch of free publicity for Topps... and frankly, I'm shocked that you'd suggest such a thing. (But while we're on the topic, a healthy market for the Jeter/Bush/Mantle cards has developed on eBay.)
Originally published at About Baseball
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