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

[brian1961]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Yeah, it was graded a 4 at a show, seems harsh to me.

Peter, is there a small crease, or a front or back crease/spider, I am not seeing? Perhaps the grade was given because of the white mark on the bat, extending to the sky.

Regardless, at that grade, the price would have been substantially lower, enabling the buyer to get much more eye appeal for much less moo-lah.

---Brian Powell

[irv]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Yeah, it was graded a 4 at a show, seems harsh to me.

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

This looks far worse to my eye.

I agree, Peter, the second card does look worse but, imo, based on what I can see of it, likely should have been graded a 3?

Edit: Meant to add, and again, just my opinion, but I do believe the Mantle's, May's, Robinson's, Ruth's, etc, get graded a little tougher than commons, or at least that is what it seems to me.