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Mickey Mantle

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Subject(s): Mickey Mantle
Sport: Baseball

Location: Mickey Mantle Field, Commerce, OK
Unveiled: 10/5/2010
Sculptor: Dr Nick Calcagno and Joe Schaefer
Material: Bronze
Status: In Situ

Inscription(s):
Inscribed on plinth, side 1: Mickey Charles Mantle. "A Great Teammate".

Inscribed on plinth, side 2: "The Commerce Comet". CHS class of '49.

Plaque: About the Artist. Dr. Nick A Calcagno was the recipient of numerous awards and many professional achievements. His artwork is exhibited at the Kansas City Art Institute, Oklahoma Hall of Fame, Legacy Sports Gallery in Arlington, Texas, and the Fenster Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma amongst others. Fine examples of his immense talent are an 8" sculptor [sic] of 1969 Heisman Trophy winner Steve Owens displayed on the Oklahoma University campus, and the Norseman sculptor [sic] displayed on the NEO A&M campus in Miami, Oklahoma. Dr. Calcagno literally touched thousands of lives throughout his 39 years in education, 28 in the humanities and art department at NEO A&M College. A community can never fill the void with the loss of a master educator, Nick Calcagno was a master educator.

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