Burn your rare cards?

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Posted By: Steve Dawson

I never believed . . . January 31 2005, 1:56 PM


that guy burned a real 1952 Topps Mantle. As I said in a column back then, it was just too coincidental that the card he was shown holding to the match was centered exactly the same as the full-size, full-color picture of the card we had recently published in the first issue of Baseball Cards Magazine.



Wow...thanks for the insight Bob. To this day, I've always thought he lit up a real one.

It's kinda funny, three of my most distinct memories involve the '52 Topps Mantle...that incident, the guys who bought/sold three '52 Topps Mantles for $3,000 each at a Philly show back then (and not too long afterward the card dropping below $1,000 each), and a dealer accidently putting a '52 Mantle in a Dominos Pizza box and tossing it in the dumpster, and when he realized what he'd done, finding it with pepperoni stains on it.


Steve