5 Mickey Mantle cards found in Attic

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My father respects my trading card hobby and has become familiar with the PSA grades. He mentioned this article to me and I thought I’d share. I am not baseball card collector, but through Smpratte’s YT channel have become familiar with some of the baseball stuff.

Its very fun to see the card market in the future and wonder what our collections will be worth. How many of our collections will end up in attics someday?

www.reviewjournal.com/sports/51sbaseball/forgotten-in-attic-for-decades-5-rare-mickey-mantle-cards-found/

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Love this. Hope our collections hit the mark someday!

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Nice share Zu…

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Thanks for that. Great read.

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Thanks for sharing. Imagine that, being in your mid 70’s and seeing a magazine ad. Next thing you know you’re a millionaire. Time to retire in style.

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A PSA 8.5 is $1,150,000. Gary’s entire charizard listing is the same value as this card, and the Mantle is neither a 9 or 10 grade… This card really puts into perspective how young Pokemon is in age, grade and value.

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Glad you guys enjoyed it.

So long as Nintendo continues to treat Pokémon with respect, recognizing both long term and goals and short term goals, the sky is the limit. IMO could be no better owner of the IP.

I don’t know if Pokémon will be like 52’ Topps, but honestly if they’re half as valuable as those Baseball cards, I’ll be thrilled.

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Nintendo make a lot of silly decisions but Pokemon is a pretty well run IP for the most part.

We have Pokemon Lets Go on the horizon and the more casual fans are loving it; not to say the hardcore fans aren’t and I’m sure there is going to be a metric ton of Go players jumping on board, and of course the more hard-core fans of the main games are getting their Gen 8 soon enough too.

Plus the anime has been totally reinvigorated with fluid animation and a huge emphasis on being funny/less serious.

The TCG is being printed to death as well, so many promotions, events, lets just hope they’ll do more to cater to the collectors in the hobby, as you said long term goals really matter and ensuring the big collectors remain invested in buying the product will be important to it being sustained.

I’m optimistic and looking to the future hopefully, here’s hoping it goes from strength to strength!