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I doubt there will be another 52 Mantle sort of situation anytime soon. It's got all the things that make for a really expensive collectible.
It's not common at all, but not so rare that someone couldn't find one. The subject is incredibly popular, even across generations. Bonus for the subject being possibly the biggest star from the biggest media market, And that he was that star at just about the perfect time. It's got a good backstory, maybe not as good as the Wagner, but the fewer produced/not necessarily available everywhere/Excess unsaleable inventory being dumped off a trash barge by the company is a pretty good one. Today there's too much access to the players for them to be as revered as the players in the 50's. The PED era leaves most of us with just a bit of doubt/mistrust. Cards are widely collected, so most get saved as opposed to thrown out. Companies just don't usually operate in ways that would lead to a great backstory, and if for some reason they did we're all too jaded to find it amazing. Imagine if Mantle had played for Kansas City, and was regularly in the paper for drinking too much and saying crass things, and the High numbers had hung around the warehouse for a decade or two until they got sold to the Christmas racks makers. No matter how great he was his card would be just another star card. |
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