IS Mickey Mantle the Ultimate Exception? O/T

[CW]

Now my punctuation may seem aggressive...

Yes, you have very aggressive punctuation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GoldenAge50s]

When it comes to Mickey Mantle, ANY exemption is OK w/ me!

[shammus]

Peter, it's an interesting topic. I think there are a few factors involved -

"Postwar" generally means "Post WWII" as you all know, which in my eyes is anything after say, 1945. Like a previous poster mentioned, a lot of the Mantle topics that come up involve the 1952 Mantle or something involving Mantle from the early 50s. A topic pertaining to the early 50s, I think, is just simply "close enough" to Pre-war that a lot of people look the other way. I've noticed that questions involving 1948 Leaf/Bowman cards, for instance, seem to fall into this category too so it's not just Mantle. It would probably be different though if someone started a thread saying "Hey, I have a question on a '69 Topps Mantle...."

Also, if the contributing poster is a regular board member, we've always allowed those individuals a little leeway when posting.

And finally, if the subject matter at hand consists of a questionable card, or a suspect auction on Ebay - which a good deal of them are, and the general idea behind the post is to warn people of a potentially bad situation, I would say that that sort of a situation is also permissable on the main board. Especially since a good portion of prewar collectors in our community also collect cards from the 40s and 50s, and the card being discussed is likely worth hundreds, if not thousands.

Just my two cents anyways.....

[Tao_Moko]

This came up in an epic Zone topic and I voted at that time that the '52 Topps Mantle is an iconic card in our hobby and transcends era. Discussions of Mantle as a player I would say do not belong on the "prewar" forum, unless he's being compared with a prewar player.

There are days that I might find one topic on the main prewar forum that I want to read and days that I can go through all of them. I would rather read about a '52 Mantle then many of the "OT" threads. The OT threads don't bother me because I can choose to pass them by.

*I think cards 1945 and earlier are acceptable as they are not yet "postwar".