During Mickey Mantle’s playing days, small regional businesses were free to create their own baseball cards. Bread companies, ...

After a man named John in his mid-70s in Metuchen, New Jersey, heard about the mint 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card recently selling for $2.88 million in a Heritage auction, he decided to take his first ...

What are the best Mickey Mantle cards to invest in? Beyond the 1952 Topps: Top Mickey Mantle cards to Invest In Now ...

Mickey Mantle signed more autographs than just about anyone. "The Mick" was a regular at card shows in the late '80s and early '90s. Ironically, though, he rarely signed actual baseball cards. He ...

At the recent baseball card show in the New York metro area, the dealers’ cases gleamed with big ticket beauties. One contained a 1915 Babe Ruth Sporting News rookie for sale for $90,000. Another had ...

A Mickey Mantle baseball card sold for an enormous price. Rob Gough, an entrepreneur and actor, bought the 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle for $5.2 million. The card was graded by PSA as a Mint 9 and is one ...

The “finest known” example of Mickey Mantle’s first baseball card isn’t just going to break the record for most expensive sports card, it could completely shatter it. Bidding for a 9.5-grade copy of ...

Sports cards sometimes get so famous, you know them merely by their nicknames. The Honus. The '52 Mantle. The Goudey Babe. The Luka Logoman. All those cards rank among the ultimate grails in hobby ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Most people who collect sports cards when they are kids usually end up storing them in boxes for years and years. That's where they stay until something prompts the desire to go ...

A decades-old, mint condition Mickey Mantle baseball card could break a record at auction. The collector's item from 1952 features one of baseball's most celebrated and charismatic legends, and is ...

In 1988, the baseball card was worth only $3,300. A 1952 Mickey Mantle baseball card in mint condition has sold for $2.88 million -- making it the second-highest price ever paid for a baseball card, ...