From Tom Seaver’s toothpick to Mickey Mantle’s boyhood home, this 1996 article explores sports memorabilia’s stranger side.
Posts tagged as “Mickey Mantle”
Marty Appel’s 1998 argument that Mickey Mantle ignited the baseball card hobby not once, but three different times.
A scarce Mickey Mantle paper proof shows what his 1965 Old London coin looked like before it became a snack-food insert.
A look at how scarcity, history, and collector demand shape the market for Mickey Mantle's 1958 and 1959 Topps All-Star cards.
A 1991 look inside Perez-Steele Galleries, Dick Perez’s artwork, and the Hall of Fame postcard sets that captivated collectors.
A look at the vintage checklists on my collecting bucket list, from 1956 Topps baseball to 1986 Fleer basketball.
A fascinating 1992 look at second-year cards, rookie card pricing, and which future Hall of Famers collectors were targeting three decades ago.