Mickey Mantle card crushes record after selling for $5.2 million

NY Post ^ | 14 January 2021 | Dan Martin

[oh8eleven]

A 1952 Mantle baseball card became the highest-priced sports card ever, selling for $5.2 million, PWCC Marketplace announced Thursday.

The Topps card, rated PSA 9 based on the grading system for cards, blew by the previous record of $3.94 million, set in August for a signed Mike Trout 2009 rookie card – of which just one was created.

As for the Mantle card, there may be as few as three left in good condition.

[oh8eleven]

in my pre-teens, we used to ‘Flip’ or ‘Scale’ cards against a wall

And as we got older, we used to pitch pennies, then nickels, dimes, etc.

[max americana]

One of the mistakes I made was I gave a Mike Piazza rookie card many years ago to my cousin back in the early 90’s. If you told me back then that he would in the Hall of Fame, I would have asked where you bought your weed..

[alternatives?]

If you print enough money, this is the result.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Peak stupid.

[duckman]

See my post #15. Also opened up more fun and amusement for us kids by creating different games, kept us out of trouble. For a nickel you could get a Topps pack of gum and 5 Topps base ball cards. If you were good at a game you could turn those 5 cards to 100’s.

[Dacula]

I have two footlockers of baseball cards from the late 60s to the mid-90s. Many of those in the 80s are in complete sets sealed by Topps.

I have also several of my 1940 to 1950s cards to the Ty Cobb Museum in Royston, GA.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Mom either sold my 1,000 card collection at a garage sale for 25¢ or threw them away. I grew up in upstate NY, so the Yankees were a big thing in the 50s and 60s.

[Flick Lives]

or comic books and antiques and much more, you need xtra folding cash to participate and most cant

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Houses, art, and collectibles all are classic places for money laundering

[a fool in paradise]

How much is the Fauci card going for these days?

[a fool in paradise]

these days it is all about high grade slabbed cards. 9-10.

Of course you pay a percent to the grading agency which is contrary to legit appraisals.

[zeebee]

This author would have flunked my English composition class:
“ The sky-high value of the Mantle card is due in part to the fact that in addition to being the Yankee legend’s rookie card...”

[EQAndyBuzz]

I have his rookie card. Fair condition. Where was the item sold?

[fhayek]

Well, Mantle cards are always expensive, but condition is always crucial. Fair condition is probably a far cry from the condition of this particular card (although there are rumors that the card was 'trimmed" to make its corners sharper). But a mid grade card can still fetch five figures.

[Dacula]

I agree. Not much in total value, but I will make the best of it as I can.

these days it is all about high grade slabbed cards. 9-10.

Of course you pay a percent to the grading agency which is contrary to legit appraisals.

[a fool in paradise]

If you have factory sets that are unopened the cards are probably in real good shape.

But those higher numbers are exceptional examples even of what was in a package. They are mass produced so cards can be offcentered, scraped, gum stains, wax stains, bent edges/corners, printing errors, etc.

[Rockingham]

Old baseball cards offer nostalgia for when one was a boy in love with America’s sweet game of summer and saw the men who played it as heroes of Homeric stature.

[Migraine]

Hey, just think—if we’d print up 350 million of those, we could grubstake everyone in the country to a comfortable life! /sarc

[fhayek]

Nicely done. Actually, as far as I know, there is nothing to say that the Topps company can't print more 1952 Mantles. Correct me if I am wrong here. They don't because it would probably destroy their business overnight. A major part of a collectible lies in its exclusivity.

I mean, I think that they have publicly declared that they wouldn't do that, so I suppose there could be fraud here. But they do own the copyright to the card.

[Migraine]

You can just interpolate my tongue in cheek assertion over into giveaways like Guaranteed Personal Income. Also over into the present ballooning national debt based on vapor paper. Sooner or later, when it’s too late, we’ll see that we’ve been had.

[sit-rep]

lmao... I know I went thru MANY!!...