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Mickey Mantle was a center fielder and first baseman for the New York Yankees from 1951 to 1968. Mantle was nicknamed "The Commerce Comet" and "The Mick", and is considered one of the greatest switch hitters in history. During his career, he hit 536 home runs and was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974.

On December 3, 1982, Mickey Mantle made a personal appearance at the Echelon Mall in Voorhees, New Jersey. To mark the event, three different pins were made to give to the crowds of fans and media that attended the event. The Echelon Mall was renamed the Voorhees Town Center in 2007.

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The New York Mets were founded in 1962 to replace the departed New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers. Their logo is made of the primary colors of the departing teams, Dodger blue and Giants orange. Based out of Queens, New York they did not get a proper stadium until 1964 when Shea Stadium was constructed.

The 1962 inaugural season broke records for the worst season in Major League Baseball since the 1962 game season was started. With a record of 40-120 (2 games were canceled) the Mets were in the bottom two every season until 1969 when they won the world series against the Baltimore Orioles (4-1), winning the name "Miracle Mets". This victory is considered one of the biggest upsets in baseball history. The 1969 season was the first season the Mets posted a winning record.

The logo of the Mets has stayed much the same since their beginning, only slightly changing in shades of color.

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This button is most likely for an Oldtimers Hockey League in Medley which is a province in Alberta, Canada. Oldtimers hockey is a special hockey league for people over the age of 55.

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Masson Elementary School in Lorain, Ohio, opened in September, 1959, and its mascot was the Mustangs. Nearly sixty years later, the board of education voted to close the school due to a $4.7 million budget deficit and a state of fiscal emergency. Masson Elementary School closed its doors in the 2012-2013 school year, and is set to be demolished. 

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Mason City High School is a public high school first established in the 1890's located in Mason City, Iowa.  The school colors consist of black and red and the mascot was a Native American Tribal Leader, a Mohawk, until recently when it was changed to Mo the Hawk.  The team's name is still the Mohawks but the school changed the actual mascot from a Native American to a bird like man, "Mo".  

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The 1983 Sugar Bowl was held January 1st, 1983 at the Louisiana Superdome and was between the Penn State Nittany Lions and the Georgia Bulldogs to decide the National Champion. Winning 27-23, Penn State maintained their lead throughout. The win secured Penn State as the number one college football team in the country.

Central Counties Bank was a banking institution found in State College, Pennsylvania, home of Pen State. In 1983 it was purchased by Mellon National Corporation, a money market management firm based out of Pittsburgh.

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Libertyville High School is located in Libertyville, IL a northern suburb of Chicago.  The school was originally founded in 1917 as the Libertyville Township High School.  The school's mascot is the wildcat, featured on the button. 

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Lane Technical College Preparatory High School, commonly referred to as Lane Tech, is one of the oldest and most renowned schools in the Chicago Public School System. Founded in 1908, the school is named after former Superintendent Albert Lane (1841-1906), who had great influence over the development of the Chicago public school system. At one point the enrollment of the school had swelled to over 9,000 boys (the school was not made co-educational until 1971), requiring them to move to their present location, a 33 acre campus at Addison Street and Western Avenue. The school currently enrolls students from 7th-12th grades and has an enrollment of over 4,000 students.

The institution is called 'The School of Champions' because of its history of excellence (16 state championships since 1908). Its students have gone on to play in multiple professional leagues and even the Olympics. Fritz Pollard, a former student at Lane, was the first African American to be head coach in the NFL, when in 1921 he was named Head Coach of the Akron Pros.

In 2020, the school voted to remove the Native American man as its mascot after consulting with the American Indian Center of Chicago. The mascot was described by the organization as "racist and uphold[ing] our genocidal past as a nation." In 2022, the school plans to survey the school community to choose a new mascot.