Comments on: Mickey Mantle Baseball Cards: Complete Visual Guide to the Mick’s Best https://staging.waxpackgods.com/mickey-mantle-baseball-cards/ Mom didn't throw out your memories. Sat, 29 Oct 2022 01:45:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: 1983 Topps Baseball Cards - The Ultimate Guide - Wax Pack Gods https://staging.waxpackgods.com/mickey-mantle-baseball-cards/#comment-8072932 Sun, 06 Sep 2020 02:25:34 +0000 http://staging.waxpackgods.com/?p=5838#comment-8072932 […] loved the 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card, even though we were later forced to admit that it wasn’t really a rookie […]

]]> By: Adam Hughes https://staging.waxpackgods.com/mickey-mantle-baseball-cards/#comment-22805 Sun, 03 Feb 2019 23:38:13 +0000 http://staging.waxpackgods.com/?p=5838#comment-22805 In reply to lee.

Great story … thanks for sharing those memories of your grandfather and the connection you forged to Mantle through him. And, yes, that ’51 Bowman is incredible.

]]> By: lee https://staging.waxpackgods.com/mickey-mantle-baseball-cards/#comment-22756 Sat, 02 Feb 2019 07:07:06 +0000 http://staging.waxpackgods.com/?p=5838#comment-22756 When I was a kid, my Grandpa bought me my first pack of baseball cards in 1986. He was never into cards at all. He wasn’t even that much into baseball. But he knew who Mickey Mantle was. As I got into collecting baseball cards, from time-to-time over the next few years, he’d ask me if I had any Mickey Mantles YET. He’d regale about how owning a Mantle would be just like the kids who pulled a Golden Ticket from a Willy Wonka chocolate bar. He died in the early 1990s. As a point of connection with my Grandpa after he passed away, I began studying Mickey Mantle’s life, reading up on whatever I could find. In college writing classes during 1994-95, I often wrote about and presented to my class different aspects of Mantle especially his personal life including the mistakes he made and the challenges he now faced as far as his health and trying to right wrongs. Mantle was far more profound in how he lived out his life in that final year or two than he had been when he was a “baseball hero” to millions. He openly admitted his mistakes, his shortcomings and the hurt and pain he caused to so many who were close to him especially his family and former teammates. Near the end of Mantle’s life, the one former teammate who became like a brother was Bobby Richardson. As Mantle’s health deteriorated to the point death was certain, Richardson was a spiritual lifeline for a broken Mantle. Richardson, through his love and kindness, helped Mantle find eternal purpose in spite of the mess he had made. The complete Mantle story cannot be told without what Bobby Richardson meant to him personally in 1994-95. That said, I am grateful that Mantle had an opportunity to get life right before it was too late. Sorry Grandpa, I still have never owned an original Mantle. If I did, I would want to have a 1951 Bowman. It is my all-time favorite card in any sport. To me, this card symbolizes the American Dream as told through the great sport of baseball.

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