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DonViejo

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Fri Apr 20, 2018, 11:11 AM Apr 2018

1952 Mickey Mantle Rookie Card Sells for $2.88M

A 1952 Mickey Mantle rookie-year baseball card sold for $2.88 million Thursday evening, the second most expensive ever sold at auction, ESPN reports. The Topps card was graded a 9 out of 10 by Professional Sports Authenticator, and cards in similar condition were valued at $240,000 just 11 years ago. The Mantle Topps card is extraordinarily valuable due to its rarity: Few bought the cards at the time, as they were being sold too late in the baseball season. Sy Berger, a Topps “card pioneer,” is said to have started selling them for a penny a piece, then 10 for a penny, and eventually dumped more than 300 cases of the 1952 decks into the ocean to get rid of them. The record price for a baseball card at auction remains $3.12 million for a 1909 T206 Honus Wagner card sold in October 2016.

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1952 Mickey Mantle Rookie Card Sells for $2.88M (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2018 OP
My guess is $2.88 million is way more than Mantle made in his entire career. Maybe even including kairos12 May 2018 #1

kairos12

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1. My guess is $2.88 million is way more than Mantle made in his entire career. Maybe even including
Wed May 2, 2018, 06:59 PM
May 2018

promotions.

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