The 1952 Topps Mantle is Overpriced and Over-hyped

[GregC]

Originally Posted by steve B

You did read the title of the thread right? Speaking of Move the hell along.

Also, look up what overhyped means before sounding like a clueless fanboy. Sometimes those guys make me almost wonder if Mantle didn't save the Yankees a bundle by playing every position at once.

Reality is that it's a double print. By definition twice as common as all but the other two 52 High number double prints.

By your logic that being super popular means it's the GREATEST EVER...
McDonalds must make the best burgers, they've sold billions. so many they stopped putting number son the signs years ago.

Keyboard tough guy alert!

[JackR]

Per Leon’s mantra that every thread deserves a card…

[jingram058]

The fact is, for whatever reason(s) it took off. Right alongside the Wagner t206. Above anything Ruth, playing days or otherwise, Cobb or whoever. It just is what it is, and it ain't coming down. Come Hell or high water.

[irv]

Originally Posted by MattyC

I get a chuckle every time someone goes out of their way to try and slight the hobby's most widely desired postwar card. The acidic haters might as well rage against the rising and setting of the sun. If you don't like or revere it or the player, move the hell along and spend your time on whatever it is you like to collect. That said if Mantle triggers somebody and they get off on masochistically triggering themselves, I got a lot of Mantles for your eye sockets.

Originally Posted by MattyC

Keep on hating. The card will always be desirable. Yes, we all know it was a double print-- that doesn't seem to have affected its price, demand, or even scarcity in centered state. Clueless fanboy-- more like a fan of a great player who laughs at bitter trolls like you who have nothing better to do that hate on Mantle and one of the top cards in the hobby. Keep screaming, "Double print," and maybe one day that factor won't be utterly moot. You say Macdonalds, I'll say Mercedes. They're not uncommon on the street, but desirable.

Well said.
I've read these before and have concluded that those who don't own one, and likely never will, are the ones who are the most negatively voiced about it.

[sb1]

Don't care much about the debate, I have and have had several 52 Topps Mantle's.

I just appreciate the story quotes from hobby personas that were real players in the day, Bill, Mike and Wayne. If you did not know them, you missed a major portion of the hobby, long before it was a business. I was fortunate to know them on a first name basis, during my heyday in collecting.

[steve B]

Originally Posted by GregC

Keyboard tough guy alert!

If we meet at a show just remind me and I'll say to you in person the card is overrated. Because it is.