Prices are silly right now, yes, but it's hard to imagine nice midgrade 50's and 60's star cards of folks like Mantle, Mays, Aaron, Clemente, Robinson, Koufax, et al. ever going down significantly or being "bad" investments. They've been rock solid for nearly 4 decades now in most cases. Prices might level off for a bit, sure - but it's hard to see Mantle cards en masse "going down." With him, even low grade stuff and it's hard to go wrong. 10-15 years ago, and a lower grade slabbed '53 Topps Mantle? Even like a 1 or a 2 could be had for $500 or less. What's that card worth today? Even a 1 is well north of $1,000.
It's all relative, but short of thermonuclear war or the asteroid from Armageddon materializing - it's just hard for me to see those cards turning out bad in the long run.
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Last edited by jchcollins; 11-18-2020 at 01:36 PM.
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