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Posted By: Al C.risafulli

I'm sure I'm about to make a statement that will cause insults to rain down all over me, but if I had $50,000 and was going to buy baseball cards, and consider them an "investment", I would also be considering the popularity of the player and the size of the potential market once I was ready to sell.

As such, I would buy a well-centered 1952 Mantle in EX and another in EX-MT, focusing on the highest-end example for the grade that I could find. Then I'd resubmit the card a few times, hoping to get it into a higher holder.

Whatever money I had left, I'd split between well-centered, EX-MT and NMT '33 Goudey Ruths and mid-grade T205 Cobbs.

-Al