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re: Forget the lottery, check your baseball cards: Mickey Mantle rookie card sells for $5.2M!
Posted on 1/14/21 at 2:20 pm to LegendInMyMind
Posted on 1/14/21 at 2:20 pm to LegendInMyMind
When I was in like the 2nd or 3rd grade I bought some pack of cards that had a mickey mantle rookie card in it and I thought I had just won the lotto basically. Of course it was one of those specialty packs that had random reprinting or whatever I was just a dumb kid but it still felt amazing at the time.
Posted on 1/14/21 at 2:20 pm to Ralph_Wiggum
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The 1951 Bowman is the real rookie. I don't know why the 1952 Topps is called a rookie card. It's the first Mantle Topps card. The 1952 Bowman Mantle is the prettier card in my opinion compared to the 1952 Topps.
1952 was the first Topps baseball card set
Posted on 1/14/21 at 2:23 pm to LegendInMyMind
My uncle was married to his aunt a long time ago. No cards though, dammit.
Posted on 1/14/21 at 2:23 pm to LegendInMyMind
My dad had an old collection of negro league baseballs cards in a picture frame. We can’t find them.
Posted on 1/14/21 at 2:23 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
quote:Probably very little. It must be 1st edition stamped
What about a one that's all bent to shite?
Psa 1 charizard
As you can see even a “1” grade isn’t that bad of condition.
Posted on 1/14/21 at 2:24 pm to dewster
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Where could I get a rough appraisal on baseball cards?
You can do "rough" appraisals yourself via Ebay sales. Keep in mind, though, the top dollar cards are all graded and slabbed. Some cards are worth spending money to send off and get graded. Most aren't.
Posted on 1/14/21 at 2:25 pm to MBclass83
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My uncle was married to his aunt a long time ago.
That is an odd sentence. I know what you mean, but it took me a second.
Posted on 1/14/21 at 2:31 pm to LegendInMyMind
I used to buy cards through the mail back in the 80's
A rookie Mantle was a couple hundred back then.
I should have bought all of them but I parents would have killed me
A rookie Mantle was a couple hundred back then.
I should have bought all of them but I parents would have killed me
Posted on 1/14/21 at 2:33 pm to nicholastiger
I have two or three Mantle cards, but from later in his career, that were given to me by my dad.
Posted on 1/14/21 at 2:35 pm to LegendInMyMind
I had a bunch of them starting in about 1957-58...have no idea where they are today.
Posted on 1/14/21 at 2:36 pm to LSUballs
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Hold on let me check my Beckett
This one?
Posted on 1/14/21 at 2:38 pm to LegendInMyMind
I had an original 8x10 photograph of Mantle from 1951, wearing uniform number 6. I gave it away to a friend Yankee collector as a gift. He was sent down to the minors, and Bobby Brown returned to the Yankees from military service and resumed wearing his number 6 from prior four years with the club. When Mantle was called back up he was then assigned number 7, which coincidentally was Brown's original first number in 1946. Brown's Yankee uniform is framed on the wall of the Tulane Institute of Sports Medicine on their campus where he became a doctor.
Posted on 1/14/21 at 2:41 pm to LegendInMyMind
why would MT card be so high? was it printed upside down or is it just an "investment"
Posted on 1/14/21 at 2:45 pm to Topwater Trout
What’s with the quotations? Don’t think cards are a worthy investment?
Posted on 1/14/21 at 2:55 pm to Proximo
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What’s with the quotations
I meant did he overpay thinking the value would skyrocket in the future. Seems high for a player still playing
Posted on 1/14/21 at 3:11 pm to LegendInMyMind
I couldn’t imagine being a more seasoned fella who possibly had that card at one time in my youth and either made it the motor on my spoke bike or traded it for a pack of bubble gum
That said, I still have every binder of cards I collected in my youth and a shoebox of comics
Including the biggest rip off of all time, The Death of Superman Series.
That said, I still have every binder of cards I collected in my youth and a shoebox of comics
Including the biggest rip off of all time, The Death of Superman Series.
This post was edited on 1/14/21 at 3:16 pm
Posted on 1/14/21 at 3:16 pm to MBclass83
quote:This could mean that you are Mickey Mantle....
My uncle was married to his aunt a long time ago.
Posted on 1/14/21 at 6:17 pm to TigerintheNO
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1952 was the first Topps baseball card set
True. But the 51 Bowman was the first baseball card of Mickey Mantle. The 1952 Topps is best described as a second year. Topps with the bigger size had better appeal, but the 51, 52, and 53 Bowman Mantles are some of the best baseball cards produced.
Posted on 1/14/21 at 6:49 pm to LegendInMyMind
When I was big into baseball cards in the early '90s like everyone else, I went to a card shop with my dad. Mickey Mantle was his favorite player and there was one of his cards for sale around $1,000. He remembered having a few of that card and a bunch of others that were likely thousands/each. His mom threw them away around the time I was born. Could have been my college savings.
Posted on 1/14/21 at 7:07 pm to Topwater Trout
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why would MT card be so high?
Cards from the old days are valuable because they are rare, especially if they are still in mint condition. They didn't make as many back then plus the centering and ink consistency was all over the place due to mediocre printing techniques. Plus kids would put them in their bike spokes or bend them up, etc. The ultimate force, however, was angry moms who threw them away when cleaning out their kid's rooms.
As collecting became more popular, card companies produced way more cards and kids (and even their parents) became better at preserving the cards in the hopes that they might become more valuable just like the cards from the old days. The phenomenon peaked into a dutch tulip craze in the late 80s - early 90s. If you were a kid back then, you probably remember it.
But those modern cards are now worthless because they were massively overproduced and perfectly printed with laser techniques. There is nothing rare or special about them. The card companies realized that a big segment of their market was the "investment" collector so they started creating artificial rarity by printing a small, limited number of star player cards or special edition cards - essentially lottery tickets slipped into packs. There's probably a bunch of fraud involved, just like the McDonalds Monopoly Game.
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