It also retains the original lugs and the elastic strap that is rare to find these days and would have been used to hold the cigarettes in place
Fewer people insist on a coffee after a cigarette than vice versa
According to biographer Ronald Davis, "John Wayne personified for millions the nation's frontier heritage"
he had succeeded DiMaggio, who had succeeded Ruth, but now there was no great young power hitter coming up, and the Yankee management, almost desperate, had talked Mantle out of retirement, and on September 18, 1965, they gave him a "day" in New York during which he received several thousand dollars' worth of gifts - an automobile, two quarter horses, free vacation trips to Rome, Nassau, Puerto Rico - and DiMaggio had flown to New York to make the introduction before 50,000: it had been a dramatic day, an almost holy day for the believers who had jammed the grandstands early to witness the canonization of a new stadium saint