【How-to】Who has worn 19 for the yankees

Mapes then wore number 13 before switching to number 7. When Mapes was traded by the Yankees in 1951, Mickey Mantle took uniform number 7. Mapes, thus, is mainly remembered as the Yankee who wore both Babe Ruth’s and Mickey Mantle’s numbers. On December 5, 1996, Mapes died in Pryor, Oklahoma, at the age of 74.