Saw some listings for a 1967 Mickey Mantle baseball card that I have.
$201 for good condition, $1145 for near mint and $16,500 for mint.
If card grading is anywhere near vinyl record grading, then mine has to be somewhere between very good and near mint.
Maybe I should check out all my original Mantles, Mays, Gibsons, and other assorted 1960's and 70's superstars?
Don't know if I could ever give them up but could I possibly be sitting on a pile of cash?
I was dumb enough at one point in my 20's or early 30's, to trade two or three Pete Rose rookie cards for some assorted Yankees.
At the time, I actually thought I was getting the better end of that ill-considered deal.
I mean, I was getting two or three dozen Yankees after all!!
To me, even an obscure, fringe Yankee prospect that never panned out was more valuable than a rookie Pete Rose.
And to think ..... my brother named his first-born son after that guy that fleeced me.
I started spending my nickels and dimes back then on card packs with the 1964 season.
Yes, young freaks, we used to get packs of five (or ten?) for a nickel ..... and with a stick of bubble gum included.
And I still remember the penny or two more expensive packs purchased on family vacation stops in Montana, (along the South Dakota trail) ..... My rude awakening to sales tax.
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