The posed shots show No. 7 at various stages of his Hall of Fame career, including triplicates of a rare shot of a baby-faced Mantle at spring training in 1950, when as a 19-year-old phenom he joined the Yankees but couldn't take the pressure and was sent down. In it, Mantle wears his original Yankee number 6. There are 13 shots of an older Mantle on one knee and gripping a bat at Yankee Stadium, 16 of him in his feared batting stance at the Stadium, and one of him set against a blue sky with his hat doffed and his mitt under his right arm. Mantle signed all of the photos in blue Sharpie apparently in one sitting, and the signatures rate strong 9s and near 10s..