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08-29-2024, 11:56 AM
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I agree with others that the 206 Wagner is most important. Everyone knew of it(regardless if we could ever afford it) even non Collectors and every time is sold/up for auction we always followed it to see what it sold for and generated interested to many in cards and the history of older players and their records.
The Mantle is Iconic potentially more so than the Wagner but the Wagner was known for decades as the Holy Grail
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08-29-2024, 12:10 PM
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I love my T cards, but would have to say the 1952 Mantle!
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09-01-2024, 08:06 AM
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T206 Cobb
I'd vote for the T206 Cobb. Cobb was super popular and the 2 portraits were overprinted, and people hung onto those cards as you can see from pop reports on PSA/SGC (especially the red portrait). Back in 1910, kids started collecting on a more widespread basis. The success of T206 as a form of advertising led to the growth of collecting baseball cards as a hobby. The Ty Cobb cards were revered, and findable, since there were so few Wagners to find. Here's a green Cobb from my collection:
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11-10-2024, 04:54 PM
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I also agree with the 1952 Topps Mantle - First Topps card which led to the explosion of the card market over the next 50 years. However, now that Topps is no longer owned by Topps, I wonder if Fanatics might come up with something entirely new.
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11-10-2024, 07:52 PM
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The first baseball card isn't much important, as by 1869 the CDV era was in full swing and cards were very popular on both sides of the Atlantic. The focus of cards was just not on sports yet and it wasn't significant in its time.
The T206 Wagner was significant decades after its issue, but not much at the time. It didn't drive the T card explosion at all. The 1952 Topps Mantle is the most important single card in a significant set, but its really Bowman that launched and pioneered the post-war card boom and while 1952 Topps values today might be a bit lower today if it did not exist, it didn't really have an impact on Topps winning the war and becoming the sole mainstream maker for decades. Most of the big moments of card production history aren't because of a single card, and were often launched by non-baseball cards. Cards as cigarette inserts begin with non-sports, the picture card hobby begins with non-sport cards and explodes in popularity with non-sports. The post-war gum card popularity isn't the result of any particular card. Boring, but I cannot think of any baseball card that if it did not ever get made would have significantly changed card history. Hard to assign one as "most important". I'd vote Wagner for most iconic, Mantle #2.
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