Selling 80% of your collection for ‘52 Mantle - would you?

[sycks22]

I'd rather have a Luka orange green blue refractor jersey patch shoelace card numbered to 50.

[todddds]

Yes

[FrankWakefield]

Hell no.

[Peter_Spaeth]

To frame it another way. If you're a fan of the game, depending on where you cut off on the modern side, there are probably 20-25 indispensable players IMO. If I were in your position, I'd much rather have all or most of the 20-25 than have 5 of them plus the 311. It's a great card but I would not want it to the exclusion of the other all time greats. Now if the sole purpose is to "invest," the analysis may be different.

[2dueces]

I would sell my entire collection and purchase 10 cards. What those cards are doesn’t matter but I’d be hard pressed to own just one.
That day is soon approaching

[yanksfan09]

Lots of different opinions here as there should be.

It really comes down to everyone’s individual collection and situation. If the pile of cards making up the 80 percent to sell doesn’t bring as much enjoyment as the grail would then go for it! There’s no one size fits all method of collecting. Do whatever your gut tells you to do, whatever will be more enjoyable for you!

Whenever I’ve sold cards or traded multiple to go for a bigger card I really wanted I’ve never regretted it, but I also collect sets and couldn’t part with my core sets. Everyone has different tastes and goals so like the fictional Babe Ruth says in Sandlot, “Follow your heart kid, you’ll never go wrong.”

[tbob]

No frigging way.

[Fuddjcal]

Originally Posted by sycks22

I'd rather have a Luka orange green blue refractor jersey patch shoelace card numbered to 50.

PSA 10 1 of 1 ONLY! I'd sell it allllllllll

I have just 1200-1300 cards, 1/2 raw and 1/2 graded. Guys I've always "Liked". The 52 Mantle was a must. I do hate selling, but if that was the only way I could afford the purchased or justify it, I probably would just make a 6 month-1 year project out of it and downsize all the crap for cash?

For me, less is more. I only own a few cards after 1975 and I don't need the house cluttered with landfill material. I'm a seasoned hoarder.