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

[jchcollins]

eBay mailday today on this card that I’ve wanted for quite some time. Very cool to finally have it in-hand. If this thing isn’t dead nuts centered, it’s damn close. Always thought this concept for AS cards was neat, the bursting out of the headlines - and think on the whole this is an underrated Mantle card.




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[stlcardsfan]

Great card John. Looks under graded. I agree it is an underrated Mick card. Tough for us set builders as a high # '61.

[sflayank]

1 of only 3 known in this color found in a large group of rare colors

[AustinMike]

Originally Posted by sflayank

1 of only 3 known in this color found in a large group of rare colors

Congrats on the rare color. There are sooooo many different color schemes for the Armour coins that I have avoided going after them. I have at least one example of each and multiples of a couple of them, but I think trying to get each color variation is a daunting task. Congrats on this one and on every one that you have.

[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by stlcardsfan

Great card John. Looks under graded. I agree it is an underrated Mick card. Tough for us set builders as a high # '61.

This is just a detail, but another thing I love about this card is it list him as "CF" instead of just an oufielder. Only the AS cards did that because they were by position for each league.

[Bagwell-1994]

I'm a new collector, really just started this past summer, but here are my 3 mantles so far. I hope to build a nice set of all of his vintage cards some day.

[MattyC]

Originally Posted by Bagwell-1994

I'm a new collector, really just started this past summer, but here are my 3 mantles so far. I hope to build a nice set of all of his vintage cards some day.

Phenomenal example of the 52T right there; huge eye appeal for the technical grade. Congrats.

[pawpawdiv9]

Originally Posted by MattyC

Phenomenal example of the 52T right there; huge eye appeal for the technical grade. Congrats.

^^Totally agree. Nice card. I think i'll spend some time alone this weekend with my Micks. Been contemplating on adding a few more.
What ya think? A 53 or 56. Have a hard time with the 56 tho, if the white back matters more than the grey back.

[AustinMike]

Originally Posted by pawpawdiv9

Have a hard time with the 56 tho, if the white back matters more than the grey back.

Don't worry about it and just get both.

[Fuddjcal]

Originally Posted by Bagwell-1994

I'm a new collector, really just started this past summer, but here are my 3 mantles so far. I hope to build a nice set of all of his vintage cards some day.

That is a nice start. The 52 and 53 would complete my run nicely.

[MattyC]

Originally Posted by jchcollins

eBay mailday today on this card that I’ve wanted for quite some time. Very cool to finally have it in-hand. If this thing isn’t dead nuts centered, it’s damn close. Always thought this concept for AS cards was neat, the bursting out of the headlines - and think on the whole this is an underrated Mantle card.




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Great looking example of that card. Agree very underrated and hard to find centered like that. The design really stands out; when my son was old enough to start checking out cards that was his favorite Mantle along with 55B, because of the creative designs.

[Fuddjcal]

Originally Posted by jchcollins

eBay mailday today on this card that I’ve wanted for quite some time. Very cool to finally have it in-hand. If this thing isn’t dead nuts centered, it’s damn close. Always thought this concept for AS cards was neat, the bursting out of the headlines - and think on the whole this is an underrated Mantle card.




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for once, I agree with your assessment on "centering"

[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by Fuddjcal

for once, I agree with your assessment on "centering"

Ha! & thank you!