Finally got it
momo1234
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In 91 I cracked open a lot of score to find this. Now 30 years later it’s mine. 
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momo1234
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very nice! he was only in series 2 boxes, right?
Yup. I was 12 and spent the whole summer buying packs and trying to find one mantle. Was glad to add it to my PC at the national this year along with a bunch of other cards I had my eye on for a while.
I would’ve been happy hitting an unsigned one
Agreed.
The nice thing about this particular card is that the auto is entirely in the picture. A lot of others have the auto end in the white border.
Most of the earlier certified/pack pulled autos have caught up or surpassed similar autographs, but many of them used to be bargains. I wish I would have pushed harder top find more of them. I wanted to get them all, but had to spread the money around.
I went with most of the easier ones and missed out on a lot of the big $ cards (UD Ted Williams, Score Mantle, Pinnacle Joe D, Topps Archive Aaron, etc. Still have a lot of the middle of the road cards and a few top end singles like Elite Ripken, Koufax 1995 Archives, etc.
It was fun to chase them but frustrating to not find any. That’s for sure. Kept me busy.
See.... This is " collecting" 👍
My pickups from the national were all about cards I always wanted for my pc for a while. No flips or anything like that. Those days are done for me. For now :-)