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Originally Posted by egri
I disagree; when a player of Mays’s caliber dies, there is an extensive amount of positive media coverage that exposes people who otherwise wouldn’t be as aware of that player’s accomplishments. When Tom Seaver died, after reading some of the press coverage, I nearly went and picked up a couple cards of his (I couldn’t find a signed 1987 Topps at a reasonable price). I wouldn’t have looked into his cards if it hadn’t been for the attention he got, and he had been in declining health for a while, so it wasn’t really a shock.
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Again, temporary spikes - yes. Did Mantle's card prices double when he died? Did anything like that happen for Ted Williams? No. I'm simply saying that the perceived effect of the death is less in my estimation than some people make it out to be. Most of the time significant increases in card values are attributable to other things.