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Originally Posted by Yoda
The following year a friend found the '52 Topps Mantle, passed it round for loving admiration and the card paid a price.
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My father was born about the same time you were and was a Yankees fan growing up.
Then when I was a kid, his mother was cleaning out stuff and found two old cards. A Mantle and a Whitey Ford. She gives me Ford and my cousin Mantle without even asking or showing them to us. This made no sense because not only were they my
dad's cards, but that cousin had no interest in sports anyway
The Ford was a '53 Topps in about grade 2. I still have it. The Mantle was never seen again by anyone. I prefer to assume that it was a '53 as well and in no better shape than Whitey. Hopefully he hadn't gotten it a year earlier...