1991 Score Mickey Mantle autographed odds ?

Borst

The autographed Mickey Mantle cards in the 1991 Score baseball series 2, does anyone know the odds of pulling one from a pack? You can get cases for $140 and have 720 chances per case, buying 3 cases would be about what it'd cost you to just buy the card but that wouldn't be as fun, but also in 2160 packs you might not get a Mantle auto or the one you get might be all super faded (seen a couple of them forsale before and they don't look good)

Anyone have any good case break stories trying to get the autogrpahes from the early 90s stuff? (Like 1991 Upper Deck Nolan Ryan/Hank Aaron/Joe Montana/Joe Namath or 1991 Score Mickey Mantle/Ted Williams or any of the other stuff I forget names and years but there were quite a few in Upper Deck and Score from 1991-3)

baseballfanatic

Take the money and "invest" it in Powerball tickets............

gameusedhoop

I bought 1 case in 1991 for $240 and split it with my brother. He opened his 10 boxes that night and nothing. He helped me open my 10 the next day and about half way through I hit the World Series card, nicely autographed. I sold the card for $300 at the show the next week. We then made sets and sold them for $15 each, about 10-12 of them if I remember correctly. It worked out pretty well, but looking at it now, the Mantles haven't appreciated that much (around $400 now), and the sets are better used as firewood (except for the toxic smoke from the ink).

All in all I would say either buy a nice Mantle that you can see exactly what you're getting (the #1 card is signed on the back because the front is very dark), or put the $$$ into something else. Nobody needs 3 cases of that stuff sitting around. Good Luck, STEVE.

mikeschmidt

I think that he autographed 2,500 of them.

Let's put it like this. We don't know Score's production numbers OR the odds for that year.

However, if you were to assume that Score produced 10,000 Series 2 cases that year - that would put the odds at precisely on in 2,880 packs. Or, four case.

At the end of the day - the markets are overall pretty efficient. Most 1991 cases do not have an auto - that is known. How many cases - it's a crapshoot, but buying a case is a fun exercise - but not a known money-maker.


FWIW - In 1994, I took a few boxes of Upper Deck and ended up with the Mantle/Griffey auto. That left me speechless!

yankeeno7

I believe there was 1 mantle card per case. Take your chances on if its autographed. Some say they know exactly what box in the case will contain the Mantle. I have no idea if that is true or not.

NickM

There were a lot more than 10000 cases of 1991 Score 2nd series. It may be close to 100000 cases. Based on how many I saw sitting around dealer stock for several years, I would be surprised if it is less than 50000.

For all the boxes I opened of early '90s cards, I never pulled a "money card" - no Donruss Elite, no Score or UD autograph, no Pro Set hologram, no Topps buyback, nothing. My best was buying a pack of '93 Stadium Club baseball in '95 or '96 for a quarter and pulling a Frank Thomas 1st Day Production card.

Nick