The official Mickey Mantle Pickup Thread. All Mick, all the time!

[MikeGarcia]

....When I picked this up many years ago I didn't know much about sixties cards , still don't actually , but the first time I saw this I actually at first thought it was a Bob Lemke fantasy card , one of those beautiful center-page-binding stiff stock inserts , and his connections to Sports Collectors Digest magazine and the grading company that they had had 'way back then at that time just re-inforced my thought process . Managers' Dream indeed. They could just as well have named it "pitchers' nightmare".


... Hi Bob , hope all is well...

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[Neal]

I'll take mid grade like this all day .... and for a decent price (non PWCC )

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[skil55voy]

The Life magazine is intact and from Canada

[Bestdj777]

Great magazine! I have the insert but have been searching for a really long time for a complete magazine. It's amazing how difficult the Canadian version is to locate, particularly with as common as the U.S. one. Let me know if you ever want to sell it.

[Robs70sCards]

Got my first Mickey Mantle for my 1969 set. I have to say it's very nice having a Mantle card. It's not in the best shape but it fills the slot.

[brian1961]

Rob, Congratulations on the '69 Topps Mantle pick-up. A visually stunning card. For whatever it's worth, back in 1969, as a 15 year old, I pulled two Mickey Mantles like yours from wax packs. Both of mine were just as off-centered as yours! I tried; oh well. I was just glad to get what I figured was Mickey's last card, with that solemn and befitting gloomy gray sky looking like it's about to rain. Reminiscent of our sadness that the mighty Mick had left and gone away. I am happy to report that I still have one of those treasured 1969 Mantles. ---Brian Powell

[pokerplyr80]

Picked this one up to go with the Mantle run.

[MattyC]

A few recent Micks that I love.

First this Exhibit. What a value for an early picture of The Mick. And a great picture at that. He's got the world wide open for him in that shot.



Next is the best Mantle/Aaron I've ever had the pleasure of owning. The centering on this one is just bananas. Upgraded my 8 with this one. Wonder how many out of every hundred copies of this card is centered like this?



Won this 1966 at auction a little ways back. What blew me away was the lack of a slope to the bottom, and absence of the white print dot in the bottom red that plagues so many.



This 1962 is now one of my favorite cards, in great part because of how long it took me to find one with this combination of centering, registration, and edge wear. The white line on top can often be blurry.



Scooped up these two Mick/Berras also. Loved the focus and centering on each. Seems like this one is always blurry or OC or both.





This one had me real psyched; it beat all the 8s I'd looked at.



This Dan Dee was too good to pass up. Centered nicely and the wear somehow avoided his face.

[the 'stache]

Welcome back, Matt!

I love the Exhibit Mantle you posted. I imagine what it was like to face Mantle as a Major League pitcher. I'd have pissed down my pants leg. A.), I'd be worried Mantle was going to rip a 500 ft bomb that would assume orbit, messing up my ERA, and my team's chances to win the game, and B.) that he might send a ball screaming at my head at 140 mph.

If it had been Mantle that hit Herb Score in the face, he might have killed him.

[pokerplyr80]

Awesome Mantles as always. Good to have you back on the forum.