Mint condition 1952 Mantle card expected to pull in $3.5 million in auction

Mint condition 1952 Mantle card expected to pull in $3.5 million in auction

It seems that this is now the most valuable baseball card in existence. (Assuming it really draws that large a bid.) The famous 1909 Honus Wagner has topped out at $3.12 million.

Let me once again correct the same mistake that these articles always make. The 1952 Mantle is not his rookie card. It is his first Topps card. There is a 1951 Mantle card, and that would be his true rookie card, but it was issued by Bowman. Topps did not include The Mick in their primitive 1951 set. I can give you a lot more in the way of details. A bit more than two years ago, the 1952 Mantle card first crossed the million dollar barrier, and I wrote extensively about Mantle's early cards (1951-54).