Manufacturers make mistakes; it happens. But in the sports card hobby, when those mistakes get corrected, and both variants end up in collectors’ hands, there’s…
Posts tagged as “Mickey Mantle”
I noticed a nice signed, raw, 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card while perusing Mastro’s September 2000 catalog and wondered if it ever got graded. Yup!…
A true piece of hobby history! Mickey Mantle’s 1958 Topps contract extension—signed by Mantle, Frank Scott, and Sy Berger! The scan above is from Mastro’s November 1999 Fine…
Vintage baseball cards are incredibly popular, but people sometimes forget that baseball card manufacturers had to find original photographs to design the cards around. Here…
I’ve written about Yoo-Hoo a few times on the blog before and am super interested in the 1959 Yoo-Hoo set and 1959 Yoo-Hoo Mickey Mantle…
The Fall 1992 Issue of Topps Magazine featured a great competition. The grand prize was an autographed copy of the 9th Topps Magazine’s centerfold illustration…
In June 2005, Sotheby’s offered this gorgeous PSA 8 graded 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle in their Important Sports Memorabilia and Cards catalog. The expected sales…