Mantle Mailday. Part 2:) New Card 10/31
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I have decided to put updated photos to my Mantle collection on the first post here so it is easier to see all the cards as I get them.
Mantle #1 in the collection!
I knew this was waiting for me at the office for the last couple days, but I have been working out of my other location. In all the years I collected, I have never owned a Mantle card. As a kid this was the card I always wanted. Loved the design and the history of being his Triple Crown MVP year. When I returned to collecting, I focused mainly on basketball before expanding slowly to football. I have very few baseball cards except for a small Will Clark PSA collection and my newest collecting interest is 500 HR Club RC's. Even though this isn't a RC, I couldn't be more excited to have this card in my collection. My first Mantle! Thanks to Brian (Camlov2) for selling a great card at a great price!
Mantle #2--This is about as high grade as my budge will allow on Mantle cards. I put in (I thought) a relatively low snipe and was pleasantly surprised to see this in my eBay cart.
Mantle #1 in the collection!
I knew this was waiting for me at the office for the last couple days, but I have been working out of my other location. In all the years I collected, I have never owned a Mantle card. As a kid this was the card I always wanted. Loved the design and the history of being his Triple Crown MVP year. When I returned to collecting, I focused mainly on basketball before expanding slowly to football. I have very few baseball cards except for a small Will Clark PSA collection and my newest collecting interest is 500 HR Club RC's. Even though this isn't a RC, I couldn't be more excited to have this card in my collection. My first Mantle! Thanks to Brian (Camlov2) for selling a great card at a great price!
Mantle #2--This is about as high grade as my budge will allow on Mantle cards. I put in (I thought) a relatively low snipe and was pleasantly surprised to see this in my eBay cart.
Steve
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Doug
Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
WTB: PSA 1 - PSA 3 Centered, High Eye Appeal 1950's Mantle
A well centered beauty!
I saw that one too, but went after the 56 Mays instead.
Great Looking Card!!!
Congrats!
Jim
Doug, ThoseBackPages, Piggs, Ashabby and Mike (Stone193)--Thanks for the nice messages. I am about as excited as I have been for a card in a long while. This card probably gave me the biggest hobby rush since landing my centered PSA 7 Wilt RC. This immediately goes up there as one of the top 10 favorite cards in my collection. I agree with the folks who have talked about the great centering on this example. I was not in the market for a Mantle at all, but when I saw the centering on this card and the overall eye appeal I knew I had to go for it.
JBrules--That is a terrific 1959 Mantle you've got. I have always loved the design of that set going back to when I was collecting as a teenager. Back then, I somehow ended up with an Al Dark 1959 Topps card and I always thought that the set had a great design. I definitely think your 5 is sharp. The great centering with the red background really make your card pop. The eye appeal of that card definitely goes above and beyond the grade. Like I said earlier, I had no intention of getting this Mantle, but now that I have I am actually contemplating making a run at more. Maybe I will try to do a complete original Topps run. I have started a 500 HR RC set, so the 1951 Bowman Mantle has been on my eBay watchlist for the last several months. But I haven't seen any with the centering I want that would fit in my budget. I have always liked the look of the 1960 Topps Mantle so I would like to add that at some point. Honestly, the next Mantle I buy will probably be the one that I can get the best value with, price-wise vs. eye appeal and grade. Do you have other Mantles already? What is your next add?
Jim--Thanks for leaving the Mantle for me
But you have to scan these landscape cards horizontally so they can be fully appreciated!
Snorto~
<< <i>Congrats, Steve, you'd be hard pressed to find a nicer 5 than that one. Definitely one of my favorite Mantle cards as I love the 56 design.
But you have to scan these landscape cards horizontally so they can be fully appreciated!
Snorto~ >>
Snorto--You are correct!
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MUCH better, Steve, thanks and congrats again!
Snorto~
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John--Thanks. I think we have many parallels in our lives and in our collections. I like following your Reds thread and seeing updates to your collection. You are right, I am definitely opening up to a lot of different parts of the hobby. When I first returned to the hobby, I only collected basketball cards (and specifically two sets 1961 and 1986 Fleer). Then, I caught the unopened itch, which I am scratching to this day. Starting my unopened collection, opened me back up to baseball and football cards. While I still don't do a ton of football or baseball, I have started to collect HOF RC's of FB stars from the 80's (when I grew up). For baseball, I grew up going to card shows getting autographs of 500 HR club members (from the 60's and 70's). I couldn't afford their cards back then, but now that I can I have decided to start collecting the cards of the stars I grew up wishing I could have. As a kid, I was actually more interested in the stars from the 60's (like Mantle, Mays, Killebrew, Aaron, etc.) than in the current players (with the exception of my hometown Giants--Will Clark in particular). I remember watching ESPN reruns of the old HR Derby shows and dreaming of getting those cards.
Cooptown--You could not be more right. Now that I have this one, I am already looking for my next Mantle. This could become a problem
JBrules--Here is my Wilt. I saw it sitting on eBay for $2000 BIN/BO. I offered the seller $1500 and we agreed to do it in an off eBay deal.
Mantle is just awesome !!!
1948-76 Topps FB Sets
FB & BB HOF Player sets
1948-1993 NY Yankee Team Sets
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-Dave
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.
-George F. Will
A triple crown smile.
Congrats!
Or when you say at the office do you mean the same place I find most my cards? LOL
Dave (dberk12)--Yes, after seeing posts of a lot of beautifully centered cards in lower grades over the past year, I decided to jump into the pool. It is definitely a good way to save money on some high eye appeal cards. As others have said, it can very rewarding waiting on just the right card. I probably never would have spent the money to get a 56 Mantle in a 7 or 8 but I could justify the amount on a 5 and I couldn't be happier. I still look for cards in 7 or 8 but I have definitely opened up to vintage cards in lower/mid grades as well.
Jim--Lol, card is off of eBay. I just get all my cards shipped to the office. Makes going to work much more enjoyable knowing what awaits me on some days