If you're assuming the 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle is the rarest of his standard Topps and Bowman cards, you're correct. It's a statistic that most collectors are familiar with. However, a comparison shows the difference in the number of graded Mantles from his first three seasons isn't quite as startling as you might think. The infographic below tallies the population … [Read more...]
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Vintage Buy of the Week: High Grade Bonanza
Before shows were prevalent. Long before eBay and Amazon and COMC and dealer websites. Before the average collector could even dream of something called the Internet…there was a small fraternity of baseball card dealers who put ads in the back of sports-related magazines, rudimentary collector publications and newspapers. An even smaller group, primarily in the nation’s … [Read more...]
Vintage Set of the Week: 1953 Bowman Color
In 1952 Bowman issued a baseball card set featuring colorful artwork of some of the game's greatest stars. It was their fifth consecutive year of production, an accomplishment no other baseball card manufacturer had been unable to achieve. Unfortunately that same year Topps released a set that was much larger than Bowman, in terms of both the actual size of the cards and the … [Read more...]
