{"id":12,"date":"1949-06-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1949-06-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vintagebaseballreflections.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2026-06-24T10:52:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T10:52:20","slug":"mickey-mantle-signs-his-first-yankees-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vintagebaseballreflections.com\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"Mickey Mantle Signs His First Yankees Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On June 24, 1949, future Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle signs his first contract &#8211; a $1,000 deal with the New York Yankees. Yankee scout Tom Greenwade reels in the 17-year-old high school star, who will make his major league debut two years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 24, 1949, future Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle signs his first contract &#8211; a $1,000 deal with the New York Yankees. Yankee scout Tom Greenwade reels in the 17-year-old high school star, who will make his major league debut two years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,18,8,19],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-june-24","tag-mickey-mantle","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-tom-greenwade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vintagebaseballreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vintagebaseballreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vintagebaseballreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vintagebaseballreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vintagebaseballreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vintagebaseballreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/vintagebaseballreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vintagebaseballreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vintagebaseballreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vintagebaseballreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vintagebaseballreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}