Mantle Opinion

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

This is one of those instances with Mantle balls that comes up every so often.

For those of you who do not like it, your feelings are valid. There's this anomaly and that anomaly--oh, and that other anomaly! While I'd rather have a less cloudy photo (and perhaps rather have it in hand) to be entirely certain, I'm bucking the trend here and saying it's likely genuine. With that being said, it's a show-era Mantle ball, which are extremely common, with all kinds of issues to give pause. On top of that, it's toned. It would be a huge "no, thanks" if offered to me, as there's a whole field of Mantle balls to pluck from. Why bother with something like this?