Billy Crystal's Mickey Mantle Glove Gets Boost

[Horsehide Historian]

I enjoyed the article, too. I'm not sure what the author means by saying the Crystal's glove "gets a boost" because of Tom Tresh's gift from Mantle.

It's cool that Tresh's glove is likely a Mantle game-used piece, but how does that affect Crystal's Halper purchase?

I think the Tresh glove is a steal at under $8K, especially because it came from Mantle and might've been used by him.

[HRBAKER]

Me too, I fail to see the boost.
If I follow the chain correctly, the winner paid nearly $8000 for a glove that may have been used by Mantle but was for sure used by Tresh. Billy paid nearly a quarter of a million for a glove purported to be game used from the magical '61 season which most believe was from much later in the decade. It's going to be tough to give that a boost at those prices, right?

I have always thought the game-used niche suffered from a tad of euphoric-wishful-thinking.

[hcv123]

Here's an interesting read about the glove:

http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/...ticle-1.514248