This is the 2008 Topps Opening Day Baseball Series complete mint hand collated 220 card set; it was never issued in factory form.
Loaded with stars including Mickey Mantle, Alex Rodriguez, Ichiro Suzuki, Randy Johnson, David Wright, Manny Ramirez, Chipper Jones, Derek Jeter, Miguel Cabrera, Curt Schilling, Mike Piazza, Albert Pujols, Ken Griffey Jr., Greg Maddux, and more!!
There are many rookie cards with the new "Rookie Card" logo on them including J.R. Towles, Joey Votto, Daric Barton, Clay Buchholz, Luke Hochevar, Chin-Lung Hu and many more!
This is the 2007 Topps Opening Day Baseball Series complete mint hand collated 220 card set; it was never issued in factory form.
Loaded with stars including Mickey Mantle, Alex Rodriguez, Ichiro Suzuki, Randy Johnson, David Wright, Manny Ramirez, Bonds, Chipper Jones, Derek Jeter, Miguel Cabrera, Curt Schilling, Mike Piazza, Albert Pujols, Ken Griffey Jr., Greg Maddux, and more!!
There are many rookie cards with the new "Rookie Card" logo on them and one of the more unusual subsets you'll see this year, Team Mascot cards including the Phillie Phanatic.
What makes a set in fact great? Are there unquestionable things big sets own that lesser sets do not? If a enormous set is the product of prior years’ unfolding, then shouldn’t earlier years be considered bulky as well? Just what is it that pushes the herculean set to a higher plain? I’ve asked myself these questions a count of times while handwriting this countdown. And while their answers are rigid to pin down in the majority of cases (because there are very sets that rest on the feet apart from the budget), 1992 Topps is distinct: There’s more than one thing that elevates it to magnitude.
In 1991, Topps debuted gold balk stamping on some of the subset cards in the Archer set. (Topps also added a tiny gold baffle palm tree modulation of voice to a miniscule greatness of its flagship and sent them to gangs as part of their Desert Buckler distribution program.) Engaging in a footnote sympathetic of way, the gold balk itself didn’t add much to overall card devise. If anything, it was a ‘hey, gaze what we can do’ gentle of thing. That changed for 1992, which saw Topps enlarge its gold balk stamp quotient exponentially, resulting in the Topps Gold of little or no worth set parallel. Veritably, there were two parallels—Gold and Gold Winners—but nobody absolutely wanted Gold Winners: they were much easier to find than undeviating up Gold (this contrariety could very well have been the first instance of tiered desirability). And though Gold technically wasn’t the first duration Topps had done a of little or no worth set parallel (the Tiffany sets of the 1980s were Topps’ first genuine parallel sets), it was the first equidistant throughout randomly inserted in packs (Topps Tiffany cards had been to be turned to account only as complete, residence of factors-sealed sets).
In joining to the introduction of widespread gold circumvent stamping,...
Me & Mickey Mantle My Brother 1957 Cleveland vs Yankees
You Must read http://MickyMantle.2ya.com for the stolry behind this picture
The picture says it all and the story is at the link shown, Mickey Mantle and a Miracle recovery from a spinal injury
http://www.onetruemedia.com/my_shared?z=650f7316cba3f8486d5d&utm_source=otm&utm_medium=text_url for even more Vids you won't believe -- See Jesus - See my bomb shelter - my air comb at action - 360 Sunsets in a row
Mick hit some of the longest home runs ever recorded, AND THOSE STILL STAND UP AGAINST ANY HIT TODAY.
Micky Mantle Fan club ???
More pics and memories of the Mick autographed cards and photos can be found on ebay - great video of Mick In action Babe Ruth Hank...
Mickey Mantle Rookie Card News
Ask Babe: More questions for the Babe Scripps News, DC - Nov 14, 2008 Dear Babe: I have two Mickey Mantle baseball cards. One is a 1964 Topps No. 50, card graded by Beckett as a 4.5. The other card is a 1959 No. 10 Mantle card
Special to Page 2 ESPN - Nov 17, 2008 True, he was the Rookie of the Year in 2007, but how often are 24-year old second basemen with 10 career home runs considered frontrunners for MVP awards?
November 15, Farm Auction AG Week, ND - Nov 12, 2008 Kleinsasser Rookie Card, Harmon Killebrew 11x14 Autographed Picture, Roger Maris Bobble head, Roger Maris 1962 topps card, Baseball bats - Mickey Mantle
1952 Topps Baseball Website Pays Homage to Card Collecting Gem PRLog.Org (press release), Romania - Nov 15, 2008 Collectors can use their eBay ID to bid on auctions, sorted by a few categories including: rookie cards, single cards, lots, graded cards and 'raw' cards.
Rookie Card Directory
Jacksonville.com
Mickey Mantle rookie card pilfered in Orange Park sports store burglary ... including a full set of 1952 Topps cards, including the Mickey Mantle Rookie. ...
etopps - Home
... to proffer an 18-card eTopps Mantle Set featuring all of Topps Mickey Mantle inferior cards from 1952 to 1969, including his 1952 Rookie Card and the never released ...
Lot Detail - 1951 Bowman Mickey Mantle #253 PSA NM 7
... lose the remembrance of is that the "TRUE" Mantle rookie card is his 1951 Sagittary issue. ... Mickey Mantle's Archer rookie card is one of the cornerstone of card collecting, ...
In 1991, Topps debuted gold balk stamping on some of the subset cards in the Archer set. (Topps also added a tiny gold baffle palm tree modulation of voice to a miniscule greatness of its flagship and sent them to gangs as part of their Desert Buckler distribution program.) Engaging in a footnote sympathetic of way, the gold balk itself didn’t add much to overall card devise. If anything, it was a ‘hey, gaze what we can do’ gentle of thing. That changed for 1992, which saw Topps enlarge its gold balk stamp quotient exponentially, resulting in the Topps Gold of little or no worth set parallel. Veritably, there were two parallels—Gold and Gold Winners—but nobody absolutely wanted Gold Winners: they were much easier to find than undeviating up Gold (this contrariety could very well have been the first instance of tiered desirability). And though Gold technically wasn’t the first duration Topps had done a of little or no worth set parallel (the Tiffany sets of the 1980s were Topps’ first genuine parallel sets), it was the first equidistant throughout randomly inserted in packs (Topps Tiffany cards had been to be turned to account only as complete, residence of factors-sealed sets). 