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What the heck is Topps thinking?

jmbkb4jmbkb4 Posts: 2,963
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Just saw this on eBay, from the 2006 Topps set. Is that a refractor of Mantle as a basketball player?

How idiotic.

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  • EB31EB31 Posts: 250
    I don't know..I think it makes for a nice odd-ball addition to a collection.
  • fsjeterfsjeter Posts: 1,390
    That's actually from the 2005-06 Topps "1952 Style" Basketball set. Either way, Topps is experiencing overkill on having "The Mick" back in the fold. image

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  • onlyanumberonlyanumber Posts: 2,433
    squeezing every opportunity out of that Mickey Mantle estate signing...can't wait for the Mick in the star wars and garbage pail kids sets...or maybe they have Mickey in wrestling tights and we'll see him in the WWE sets...image
    Next MONTH? So he's saying that if he wins, the best-case scenario is that he'll be paying for it two weeks after the auction ends?

    Forget blocking him; find out where he lives and go punch him in the nuts. --WalterSobchak 9/12/12



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  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
    Yikes, almost believable....If The Mick had tattoos all over him and baggy knee-high shorts, then I'd accept him as an NBA player.
  • 1989FleerBillRipkencollector1989FleerBillRipkencollector Posts: 4,590
    Maybe when they run out of celebrities to put on sport cards ie. C. Electra, they will put non celebrity fans of the game on cards. ie you and me. Just wait we will all get our turn.
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  • scooter729scooter729 Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Maybe when they run out of celebrities to put on sport cards ie. C. Electra, they will put non celebrity fans of the game on cards. ie you and me. Just wait we will all get our turn. >>



    Wasn't there a Sportflics card that had some random 8-year old kid on it, as a celebration of fans or some attendance record? That was the strangest card I had seen at that time. Well, along with the 1976 Kurt Bevacqua Bubble Gum Blowing Champ card.....
  • EB31EB31 Posts: 250
    Topps is going to flood the market with mantle stuff...shame
  • onlyanumberonlyanumber Posts: 2,433
    Didn't Upper Deck have a contest a few years ago where the winner would have a card that would be included in the set?
    Next MONTH? So he's saying that if he wins, the best-case scenario is that he'll be paying for it two weeks after the auction ends?

    Forget blocking him; find out where he lives and go punch him in the nuts. --WalterSobchak 9/12/12



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  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,437 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My take on the Mick, Williams and DiMaggio...

    They have signed enough stuff for everyone in the free and not so free world to have a copy of their sig.

    But I can't blame Topps for giving people what they want?

    mike
    Mike
  • CDsNutsCDsNuts Posts: 10,092 ✭
    I broke one booster box of 2006 Topps and averaged more than one Mantle per pack. I also got a few decalration of independence base cards. We're getting to the point where only half the cards made are actual current players of that particular sport.

    Lee
  • Carew29Carew29 Posts: 4,025 ✭✭

    Along with the theme of basketball i went ahead and pimped Micky Mantle's name.

    Mantle's is---Master Fly MICKY Tickle

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  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭


    << <i>Along with the theme of basketball i went ahead and pimped Micky Mantle's name.

    Mantle's is---Master Fly MICKY Tickle
    omigawd, i can't stop laughing



  • GOODLIEUGOODLIEU Posts: 629 ✭✭
    The sad thing about it is that this line really did not need to use the Mick or any other celebs because it is kicking butt with the Autograph Fan Favorites inserts of past players the majority of which only real Basketball junkies would even know. The EBAY sales on these cards are brisk and expensive for these players and it appears Topps has hit a cord with collectors. They should try this strategy in their Baseball/Football issues.
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    my pimp name is Reverend Doctor Ryan Slick..LOL!!!!
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  • WizardsguildcardsWizardsguildcards Posts: 536
    That basketball set is one of the first I have really enjoyed ripping in a long time. Easy to pull autos and of players that were great but never got the recognition they deserved makes this a fun rip.
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  • incugatorincugator Posts: 622
    Next thing you know they're gonna make a card with Jordan playing baseball......Oh wait, that really happened. I am not a fan. Let Deion and Bo and real 2 sport athletes have cards in 2 sports. If you are gonna do this, at least make it funny, like John Daily as a Jockey, or Daniel Negranue (poker player) in a football uniform.

    -Ryan
  • EB31EB31 Posts: 250


    << <i>Next thing you know they're gonna make a card with Jordan playing baseball......Oh wait, that really happened. I am not a fan. Let Deion and Bo and real 2 sport athletes have cards in 2 sports. If you are gonna do this, at least make it funny, like John Daily as a Jockey, or Daniel Negranue (poker player) in a football uniform. >>



    I don't know if this is correct...just my opinion...but they may have done this because Mantle had a 52 Topps rc and because he was a sort of all-american boy...and they gave him the all-american look with the Hoosiers style card.

    Just a theory
  • VintageJeffVintageJeff Posts: 1,282 ✭
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  • BarfvaderBarfvader Posts: 2,859 ✭✭✭✭
    My pimp name is Ice Master J. Shmoove image

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  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
    Pimpin' as G. Masta Itz Matzo Brei image
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  • HoofHeartedHoofHearted Posts: 2,537 ✭✭
    HoofHearted pimped = "Dopetastic H. Kicks"

    Hmm. Kinda like it...
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  • jmbkb4jmbkb4 Posts: 2,963
    Pimp Daddy J. Tickle
  • onlyanumberonlyanumber Posts: 2,433
    OnlyANumber pimpified= Mr. White Chocolate Number Silk
    Next MONTH? So he's saying that if he wins, the best-case scenario is that he'll be paying for it two weeks after the auction ends?

    Forget blocking him; find out where he lives and go punch him in the nuts. --WalterSobchak 9/12/12



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    Smoove B. in the hizzy.
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  • bjork73bjork73 Posts: 2,246
    The "regular" (white) refractor is a much more attractive card... I happened to pull one from a one-pack retail sample image
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  • jmbkb4jmbkb4 Posts: 2,963


    << <i>The "regular" (white) refractor is a much more attractive card... I happened to pull one from a one-pack retail sample image >>


    One thing I can't figure out...did Topps have that goofy basketball photo in its archives, or did they just Photoshop the card?
  • EB31EB31 Posts: 250


    << <i>

    << <i>The "regular" (white) refractor is a much more attractive card... I happened to pull one from a one-pack retail sample image >>


    One thing I can't figure out...did Topps have that goofy basketball photo in its archives, or did they just Photoshop the card? >>



    I would imagine it was "created".
  • bjork73bjork73 Posts: 2,246
    Well he did play HS basketball... I would think the photo is genuine.
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  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
    Maybe it's just me, I don't recall Mick's neck being wider than his head....That looks like a magical work of computer art IMO
  • bri2327bri2327 Posts: 3,178 ✭✭
    All you guys came up with your pimp names a little too easy, kinda scares me a bit image
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