1952 Topps Mickey Mantle PSA 10 on display
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What many consider to be the holy grail of card collecting is on display in Denver until tomorrow, and it was transported by armed guard. I always jump at a chance to look at this card.
Holy grail of baseball cards is on display at McGregor Square
The 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card arrived at the Hall of Legends exhibit by armored car on Saturday.
DENVER — It's been called the most sought-after baseball card in the world, and it got an entrance worthy of its status.
The mint-condition 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card arrived by armored car, escorted by around 15 Denver Police officers, on Saturday morning at the Rally Hotel at McGregor Square.
Usually the card is kept in a bank vault, but for three days, it will be on display in the Hall of Legends exhibit at the hotel. Private collector Marshall Fogel, of Denver, has owned the card since 1996.
Baseball historian Jason Hanson is the chief creative officer at History Colorado and the organizer of the Hall of Legends exhibit. He and Fogel met the armored car outside the hotel. The card, in a black box, was set on a cart that Hanson wheeled through the hotel.
Hanson then opened the box, donned a pair of purple gloves, and carefully set the card in its display case.
Denver Police officers escort the armored truck carrying the Mickey Mantle card.
The display case is the same one that housed President Thomas Jefferson's Bible and the inkwell that Gens. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant used to sign the surrender at Appomattox, when those items came through Denver, Hanson said.
"We thought it was the right case to put this card in," Hanson said.
Fogel said he was honored to be a part of the exhibit.
"People love baseball," he said. "People love the game."
The Mantle card will be on display from Saturday through Monday.
The Hall of Legends exhibit is part of the city's All-Star Game events and is a collection more than 30 pieces of legendary baseball memorabilia, like the jersey worn by Joe DiMaggio when he hit his last home run in his final game in the 1951 World Series.
Advance tickets for the exhibit are $10 and available at rockies.com/halloflegends, and in person for $20 at The Rally Store, at 20th and Wazee streets.
Comments
Call me funny, but if I see a beat up Mantle rookie, I see something that was enjoyed by a child. Something cards should have been back in the day.
When I see gem mint examples, I see cards that never touched a child’s hand. Something they were meant to do.
Then I think of the envy of many who don’t own a mint copy, thinking it would bring them joy to own it.
I’m just glad that there are many like me who care less about the best of the best, and enjoy having our own cards, or ex-mt replacements.
Cards should be good memories.
Thanks for posting the pic. It’s a nice card, but it was never enjoyed by a child. It was reserved for an older child who would one day enjoy it like a child once again.
I hear you, I actually enjoy collecting cards regardless of condition. I've never really cared for critiquing cards. The hobby was created as a innocent kids hobby and for some it's turned into a obsession over every little flaw a card might have, centering, surface, corners, etc. It's insane.
I would find Cindy Crawford attractive if she didn't have that grotesque mole on her face.
Yes, kind of like a pig in a thong, it just doesn't work!