Are Mantle cards given higher grades?

[Huysmans]

To answer the OP's question.... Yes!
You just stumbled upon one of the greatest conspiracies!

Captured by enemy spacecraft with his death faked, Elvis was taken and brainwashed by hostile, card-collecting aliens who schemed to install him at PSA as a grader, to have every single card of JUST Mickey Mantle - their favourite player - given higher, undeserving grades to drive up the market!!

These are the same aliens who are responsible for the Hindenburg disaster, Jack the Ripper, the JFK assassination and Taylor Swift.

.... If you look closely, you can see Jimmy Hoffa waving from the window of their spaceship.

[Republicaninmass]

Lol

If anything I've seen stars get LOWER grades.


However for every conspiracy, there is an example otherwise.

[bbcard1]

I suspect if you knew who the submitter was, the answer would slap you right in the face.

[2dueces]

Here’s a perfect example of buy the card and not the holder