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Originally Posted by Bestdj777
Mantle has around 450 career contemporary "cards", depending on what you consider a card a card and which variations are recognized. Curious as to the most for a pre-WW2 player. Ruth maybe?
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HI Chris...
Andy's research above shows Cobb having the most pre WW2, and a pretty high total for Ruth. They each had long careers obviously. I thought of Eddie Collins for the same reason. I can't think of anyone else who might challenge these three, but it would take a better researcher than I to find them
I thought of Mantle when considering the Topps Era, and all the various issues that encompasses. He may very well lead that era due to his immense popularity.
The modern era saturation is just hard to fathom...10X to 20X the amount of cards for the game's popular players
For that matter,
I presume Fernando Rodney has far more baseball cards than Mickey Mantle.