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chrisoldsFiled under: BSCM, Beckett Baseball, MLB, Topps, the National | Tags: baseball cards, Brooklyn Dodgers, Jackie Robinson, Mickey Mantle, New York baseball, new york yankees, Roger Maris, Roy Campanella, the National, Topps
Topps has announced its VIP cards for this year’s National Sports Collectors Convention in Cleveland and it’s an assortment of cards using the memorable 1959 design that get the nod this year.
There will be two Mickey Mantle cards — one showing him batting righty, the other lefty — with all VIP bags receiving four cards — but only one of the Mantle cards.
The others include Roger Maris, Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella.
Robinson’s card shows him as a member of the New York Giants, a team he was traded to in December of 1956 but never played for.
Chris Olds has collected sports cards and memorabilia since 1987. Before coming to Beckett Media, he wrote about the hobby for the Orlando Sentinel on his blog, SportsStuff, and for the San Antonio Express-News and The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News. Do you have a comment, question or idea? Send e-mail to him at colds@beckett.com.
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Memory Lane Inc. will offer the first public showing of the finest known collection of Mickey Mantle baseball cards during this year’s National Sports Collectors Convention.
The California-based auction company will have the Donald E. Spence Mantle collection on display for collectors to enjoy inside the IX Center in Cleveland July 29-August 2.
The collection includes all 21 major Mantle cards in mint or gem mint condition, all of them authenticated and graded by PSA. Every card is graded 9 or 10 and several are the highest graded Mantle cards in existence.
Collectors will be able to see the cards and have their picture taken with the “Million-Dollar Mantle card” — a PSA 10-graded 1951 Bowman Mantle rookie — at booth 101.
The collection grades out at a 9.53 on a 10-point scale, making it the No. 1 “set” of Mantle cards on PSA’s Set Registry. Eleven of the cards been graded PSA 10 and the group was named to PSA’s Set Hall of Fame this year.
