The official Mickey Mantle Pickup Thread. All Mick, all the time!

[LuckyLarry]

I'm always on the lookout for extra Mantle cards. And I don't care what they look like if the price is right. Recent pick-ups:
1953 Bowman color #44 the Standard Catalog says the NM "value" is $775 I paid $15 or 1.9% book.
1957 Topps #407 the Standard Catalog says the NM "value" $465 this card cost me $14 or 3% book.
Larry

[CxG Seven Dust]

Originally Posted by LuckyLarry

I'm always on the lookout for extra Mantle cards. And I don't care what they look like if the price is right. Recent pick-ups:
1953 Bowman color #44 the Standard Catalog says the NM "value" is $775 I paid $15 or 1.9% book.
1957 Topps #407 the Standard Catalog says the NM "value" $465 this card cost me $14 or 3% book.
Larry

Still, beautiful pieces of old time cardboard! Nice pick ups!

[irv]

All my Mick's together.

[clydepepper]

1952 Bowman MICKEY MANTLE PSA-5.jpg

1953 Bowman MICKEY MANTLE PSA-5.jpg

1953 Topps MICKEY MANTLE PSA-5.jpg

1954B MICKEY MANTLE PSA7.jpg

1956 Topps Mickey Mantle PSA7.jpg

1958 Topps- MANTLE & AARON PSA-7.jpg

1958 Topps- MICKEY MANTLE ALL STAR PSA-7.jpg

1959 Topps MICKEY MANTLE PSA-7.jpg

1959 Topps- MICKEY MANTLE ALL STAR PSA-7.jpg

1960 Topps MICKEY MANTLE PSA-7.jpg

1960 Topps- MICKEY MANTLE ALL STAR PSA-7.jpg

1961 Topps- MICKEY MANTLE ALL STAR PSA-7.jpg

1962 Topps MICKEY MANTLE PSA-7.jpg

1962 Topps- MANTLE & MAYS PSA-7.jpg

1962 Topps- MICKEY MANTLE ALL STAR PSA-7.jpg

1964 Topps Stand-Up- MICKEY MANTLE PSA-7.jpg

1968 Topps- KILLEBREW, MAYS & MANTLE PSA-8.jpg

[mrmantlecollector]

Originally Posted by LuckyLarry

I'm always on the lookout for extra Mantle cards. And I don't care what they look like if the price is right. Recent pick-ups:
1953 Bowman color #44 the Standard Catalog says the NM "value" is $775 I paid $15 or 1.9% book.
1957 Topps #407 the Standard Catalog says the NM "value" $465 this card cost me $14 or 3% book.
Larry

Great cards got to like a bargain. Here's a couple bargains I picked up.

[orly57]

Finally snagged the Topps Super. This one is a psa 5. Most of the Supers come in ultra high grades, but I was happy to find a more affordable mid-grade to scratch off the list.

[brian1961]

Originally Posted by orly57

Finally snagged the Topps Super. This one is a psa 5. Most of the Supers come in ultra high grades, but I was happy to find a more affordable mid-grade to scratch off the list.

Orlando---

I dearly love this card of Mick, ever since the first time I saw it. Whilst going through the set, I glimpsed the Mantle, and bought the set on the spot. It was July of 1972, at the Midwest Sports Collectors Convention in Troy, Michigan. I bought it from Bill Haber, a kind man who worked at Topps, and drew their cartoon artwork on the backsides. He'd brought a black satchel along with him, full of papers, letters, what have you, and about a dozen brand new gleaming mint sets of the '69 Topps Supers, I suppose to help fund his journey to Michigan from New York, as well as a few card purchases. That set was worth every penny.

Extra nice pick-up, Orlando. Nothing jumps out to me in a bad way about your fine card. The colors and picture registry are flawless. By the by, isn't it nice that you rarely have to be concerned with centering defects on these '69 Topps Supers!

Anyway, congratulations, bro. ---Brian Powell

[MikeGarcia]

....When I picked this up many years ago I didn't know much about sixties cards , still don't actually , but the first time I saw this I actually at first thought it was a Bob Lemke fantasy card , one of those beautiful center-page-binding stiff stock inserts , and his connections to Sports Collectors Digest magazine and the grading company that they had had 'way back then at that time just re-inforced my thought process . Managers' Dream indeed. They could just as well have named it "pitchers' nightmare".


... Hi Bob , hope all is well...

..

[Neal]

I'll take mid grade like this all day .... and for a decent price (non PWCC )

1960MantlePSA5.jpg

[skil55voy]

The Life magazine is intact and from Canada

[Robs70sCards]

Got my first Mickey Mantle for my 1969 set. I have to say it's very nice having a Mantle card. It's not in the best shape but it fills the slot.

[brian1961]

Rob, Congratulations on the '69 Topps Mantle pick-up. A visually stunning card. For whatever it's worth, back in 1969, as a 15 year old, I pulled two Mickey Mantles like yours from wax packs. Both of mine were just as off-centered as yours! I tried; oh well. I was just glad to get what I figured was Mickey's last card, with that solemn and befitting gloomy gray sky looking like it's about to rain. Reminiscent of our sadness that the mighty Mick had left and gone away. I am happy to report that I still have one of those treasured 1969 Mantles. ---Brian Powell