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

[brian1961]

Originally Posted by pawpawdiv9

2021 X collection Mantle
1st time i heard or seen of this.
I did my look on Ebay---WOW!
Some really nice cards...and i see it had variations like Gold, Platinum, Stripes
and some are Auto and some Numbered.
Some are demanding some high prices too!!!!
Guess what i done did??? I bought a 3 box deal off Ebay ($60)
Lets see what I and my Brother go ripping!!!

Hey Chris. I just saw these myself a little over a month ago. I have too many irons in the fire to collect the set, but as soon as I saw that Topps included a nice replica of their long-ago test issue, the Dice Game, I bought one----and love it. The quality is just fine. Chris, I also feel Topps went out of their way to really get the beautiful blue background color, and the color of Mickey's face, JUST RIGHT on the 1952 Topps. I bought one of those, too, and just am thrilled by it as well.

Hope you pull some beauties, bro. Happy collecting. --- Brian Powell

[dio]

Just got this in mail

[GasHouseGang]

Pretty amazing 1.5. Must be some paper loss that's not obvious.

[dio]

Originally Posted by GasHouseGang

Pretty amazing 1.5. Must be some paper loss that's not obvious.

light crease when close up, but pretty good eye appeal

[pawpawdiv9]

Originally Posted by brian1961

Hey Chris. I just saw these myself a little over a month ago. I have too many irons in the fire to collect the set, but as soon as I saw that Topps included a nice replica of their long-ago test issue, the Dice Game, I bought one----and love it. The quality is just fine. Chris, I also feel Topps went out of their way to really get the beautiful blue background color, and the color of Mickey's face, JUST RIGHT on the 1952 Topps. I bought one of those, too, and just am thrilled by it as well.

Hope you pull some beauties, bro. Happy collecting. --- Brian Powell

Just pulled from the 3 packs today-
Tho i have questions??????
I noticed on the 51B it doesnt have the 70 logo on it and the 53B as well.
I totally was impressed getting both the 51& 52 and also the dice game.

[brian1961]

Hey, Chris. That's a mighty nice array of those 2021 Topps X Mickey Mantle cards you have there! So glad you pulled the Dice Game; that baby is such a beauty. For such a mysterious and alluring card that's as rare as rare can be, wasn't it nice of Topps to allow us Mantle collectors the privilege of owning a genuine well-done reprint?

My guess as to the absence of the 70 logo on the two Bowmans is because Topps did not own Bowman at the time.

Cheers. --- Brian Powell

[MattyC]

Big fan of that Rawlings poster-- cool piece. Been hard to find any nice Mick cards lately; seems they're locked away in collections these days and things have dried up quite a bit.

I've been playing around on this app on my laptop creating collages of cards and this one is my favorite. Figured any Mantle guys would dig it. The pop data on these signed vintage Micks continues to amaze me, for example around 8200 unsigned 1959s in the PSA pop report versus only 24 signed. Only 19 signed 1952 Bowmans out there, etc. And then when they surface, you gotta hope the auto isn't faded and is in a good place, and that the card is just not 90/10 OC. The 51 and 52T signed have sailed way out of range for me, but I hope to one day track down nice dual-signed copies of the multi-star Mantles, with Aaron, Berra, and Mays. I think they're out there...somewhere LOL.

[irv]

Originally Posted by MattyC

Big fan of that Rawlings poster-- cool piece. Been hard to find any nice Mick cards lately; seems they're locked away in collections these days and things have dried up quite a bit.

I've been playing around on this app on my laptop creating collages of cards and this one is my favorite. Figured any Mantle guys would dig it. The pop data on these signed vintage Micks continues to amaze me, for example around 8200 unsigned 1959s in the PSA pop report versus only 24 signed. Only 19 signed 1952 Bowmans out there, etc. And then when they surface, you gotta hope the auto isn't faded and is in a good place, and that the card is just not 90/10 OC. The 51 and 52T signed have sailed way out of range for me, but I hope to one day track down nice dual-signed copies of the multi-star Mantles, with Aaron, Berra, and Mays. I think they're out there...somewhere LOL.

Wow!

Beautiful collection.

[Seven]

Recently picked up a 63 Mantle, from a member on here (thank you, Anthony) I've been searching for the "right" one for a while, I think this fits the bill for now. Presents very nicely, and gets me a little closer to my goal. I'm now only missing the 51 Bowman, 65 Topps, 67 Topps and a 69 Topps, in my journey to get a Mantle from every year from his career. I do eventually want to add a 52 and 53 Topps to my collection. The latter is more realistic than the former. With the former, I'm going to have to wait until retirement, as teaching unfortunately does not pay nearly enough for me to afford a 52 Mantle at the moment!

Those signed Mantles, are a beauty. Love seeing those.

[ullmandds]

I'm happy to have another true Mantle RC in the pc...albeit not as nice as the one I sold a few years before the big run up. This one will do for now!