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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.

1956 was my first season as a baseball fan. That year Mickey Mantle had one of the best seasons ever by a hitter. He won the Triple Crown with a batting average of .353, 52 home runs, and 130 RBIs. His on-base average plus slugging percentage was 1.169. I resisted the temptation to become a New York Yankees fan, opting instead for the hometown Washington Senators. Their star, Roy Sievers, became my favorite player. But I always wondered what it would be like to root for a team with a star having a season like Mantle’s. In 2015, I found...

The date Jan. 9 is significant insofar as baseball is concerned because the objectively wonderful TV show "Home Run Derby" first took to (s)wing. In commemoration of this important day, let us take a look back at the first episode, which featured Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle, who, as it turns out, were both good at baseball-related tasks and duties. Come with us, won't you?

On August 13, 1995 baseball lost one of its biggest icons – Mickey Mantle. Mickey Mantle played hard, and he lived hard. He was able to change his lifestyle at the end, but it eventually caught up with him. In the end we lost him to cancer. I say “we” because Mickey was a larger than life icon and his life touched millions of people and inspired hundreds of baseball players.

In honor of last night’s Home Run Derby, watch two of the all-time greats go at it in an old school Home Run Derby. For those who don’t know about this style Home Run Derby, the rules are simple. Every pitch that was swung at was either a home run, or an out (exactly the same of modern Home Run Derby rules). Any pitch that was in the strike zone that was not swung at was also an out. Once you made three outs, it was the opponent’s turn. When both players took a turn it was considered an “inning.”...

What's wrong with Steve Jobs? Apple won't say. On Monday, the company said he was taking a medical leave—his third since 2004—but refused to disclose why. Yesterday Apple touted its market prospects in a conference call but again said nothing about its CEO's health. You can argue that Jobs' medical privacy is more important than the interests of Apple's investors. But there's another reason why he should tell us what's going on, and it's bigger than money. It's life and death. Two years ago, Jobs gamed the transplant allocation system to get a liver that could have saved somebody else....

(AgapePress) - Prior to 1949, Mickey Mantle was an unknown. But then Tom Greenwade, a New York Yankee scout, went to a semi-pro game in Kansas with intention of scouting another player from Mantle's team. Instead, the 16-year-old Mantle, an outfielder on the Baxter-Springs team, drew the attention of the veteran Yankee scout. The young Mantle dazzled Greenwade and the spectators that day. Incredibly, Mantle hit two very long home runs while playing with and against baseball players several years older than the aspiring switch-hitter from Commerce, Oklahoma. Greenwade was surprised when he found out Mantle's age. He knew he...

August 15, 1995 - Dallas, TX I want to make a transition now from crying and sadness to laughter because if you know Mickey, he was always laughing. And he enjoyed playing football in the back yard with the boys. He enjoyed golf games at Preston Trails with the boys, and their traveling to autograph sessions with him. But the teammates that are here today will also know that he always kept all of us laughing. I remember the Mongoose in Detroit in the clubhouse. I remember the snake that he put in Marshall Bridge’s uniform in Kansas City before...