Chris, your post reminded me that I have lots of 1955-1960 cards that cost me a penny when I was a youngster. Fortunately, after I left home, got married, and started a family, Mom called me out of the blue one day 9n the early 1970's to say she had come across a couple of boxes of my childhood baseball cards and was about to toss them, but decided to first ask me if I happened to want them. Thinking that my rug rats might collect cards one day, I asked her to hold them until I next visited. It never entered my mind that I might start collecting again one day (my boys never got interested). This is the only card from my youth that I happen to have already scanned (and graded) - the rest of them are raw. The only reason I recently got this one graded is to use it as trade bait, because to me, it is one of the ugliest Mantle cards ever produced - I realize that most collectors think otherwise!
Val
|