[jchcollins]

Aaron could prove us all wrong, but historically anyway - I usually think that player deaths are extremely overrated in terms of their effect on card values. Sure there may be a temporary spike, but in most markets a year or so later it was hard to tell exactly what had happened to the cards only because the player died. Mickey Mantle cards were already valuable when he died. They remained that way, but not necessarily because he died. Does that make sense?