Collectors would be hard pressed to remember a time when Mickey Mantle ... assume it's Mantle's rookie or assign disproportionate significance to labels like "first Topps card" to attach rookie ...

“So it’s a legit Mickey Mantle ... flatten the card if too tight and make it too big to be graded). But it wasn’t the Mantle rookie (the 1951 Bowman). It was the 1952 Topps, the holy grail ...

Mickey Mantle’s rookie card arrived a year before in 1951 Bowman. Even though the 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle is his most popular card it’s not deserving of the rookie card designation.

The chase for Topps’ game-worn Rookie Debut Patch cards is returning ... Series is a run of seven Cut Signatures featuring Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Stan Musial, Johnny Mize, Roy Campanella ...

A sports card dealer is alleging that a man stole approximately $2 million worth of rare baseball cards and inventory from a card show in Texas on Sunday in a coordinated group effort caught on video.

When it comes to card collecting there are just a few “Holy Grail” cards out there, and the 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle rookie card is one of them. Ashish Jai had six of the cards with him at ...

But the average person can't afford a $12.6 million 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card, a $7.25 million T-206 Honus Wagner or even the $474,000 that one collector paid for a Jasson Dominguez rookie ...

And Mickey Mantle was my hero ... The best-known post-World War II card is the s, '52 Topps card of Mantle. But this is Mantle's true rookie card. GUEST: Yes. APPRAISER: So that is, right after ...

When the Topps 1952 Mickey Mantle rookie card sold for a record-shattering $12.6 million on Aug. 27 at Heritage Auctions, the question most often asked was: Why would anyone pay that much for a ...

QUINCY – A mint-condition Mickey Mantle ... The 1952 Mantle is not the player's rookie card. It's from his second year in the game and the first year Topps made baseball cards.

We have a new record. Nearly 30 years after his death, one of Mickey Mantle's 1952 rookie cards sold at Heritage Auctions for a whopping $12.6 million. The big question now: Who or what will top ...