Man finds FIVE 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle baseball cards in his basement! (Attic Find Friday) 

Would you go public with your million-dollar find?

Stories like this are what got my father into collecting and hitting yard sales, which was unfortunately in the early 90s and he never was able to hit that gold mine of 50s cards. We went thru all his cards a few weeks back and while he def did get some solid cards, he's overloaded with junk wax Era stuff. It was still fun going thru them tho, but man we tried so hard finding those vintage cards. Still was a great experience collecting with him.

(Goes downstairs, checks basement). A box of 1990 Donruss, and a few beanie babies. Maybe I need to wait a few more years lol.

All I can say is wow, what a collection! None of my family members collections survived or they didn’t collect!

Crazy to think if they found these 2-3 years later you could easily triple what they sold for

I was collecting back in the 1980 . And you could get a 52 mantle for like $1500 back then.

Love these stories. Thank you for sharing.

There are plenty of both cards and autographs that are in old time collections that haven't seen the light of day in forever. Only when the collector passes on will we start seeing them hit the market again. Fun story.

This was awesome my friend

Ahhh my aunt who hated her brother. My dad on purpose through out a shoe box of all 1940-60s all Yankees my dads team.. he said he remembered having at least 10 of mickeys rookie cards in his bike spokes to make it sound like a motorcycle .. and he kept them wrapped too.. think of a 1952 topps pack..

One of my favorite stories. I’ll tell you what 80,000. Is not out of reach for that Mantle ☺️

Holy crap !

Think if they waited just a year and a half later, their sales probably would've doubled! A PSA 6 Jackie Robinson sold last night on PWCC for 30k..

Just helped clean out my aunts house with my cousin. Found a near mint Dr J rookie card along with a Wilt Chamberlain and Lew Alcindor (not rookie cards though). Also found a bunch of 1960 cards that included Mays, Aaron, etc. We were pretty excited to see them after being the attic for 50 years. How they stayed in near mint condition was interesting as they were in a plastic box within a cardboard box. The carboard box along with all the other paper/cardboard in that box was chewed away by mice. So glad the good cards were in that plastic box.

Why would the 9 sell for millions and the 7 sell for 200k.? Blatantly zero sense in the market all a scam

I HAVE A TOPPS 52 MICKEY MANTLE CARD IN GOOD CONDITION

8.5 for 800k ++++. Psa 8 for 80k. Something isn’t right

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Great psa 8 for 80 k ??? Not 2.88

My brother found a mantle and was stolen from him

They could have and should have got a few million for those.

No one in their right mind would ever want their names (even their 1st names) printed, or posted for public viewing. We all desire our privacy, especially in this day and age of identity theft, as well as home invasions.

Ed is now missing........

I hate these stories 🙆‍♂️

I’d never go public if I had a million dollar find. That $80k psa 8 Mantle was a steal. Crazy how much less it sold for than that 8.5.

ALWAYS be private when it comes to money matters.....otherwise money-grubbers like my cousin WILL come find you. I'm NOT kidding.....she WILL.

I wouldn't want people knowing what I had. They would go to a safety deposit box at the bank with a hefty insurance policy.

I have a 1951 bowman mint autographed

I'd stay private,but personally I think they could've gotten more $$$😮

So an 8.5 went for $800K and an 8.0 went for $80K. Something ain't right.

I wouldn't even give my real first name

When I was collecting cards still back in the late 80s and early 90s a guy I worked with saw my Becket guide and mentioned he had his childhood cards in a shoebox under his bed (not the attic or basement) no mantle cards but they were all 1960s cards , the last year was 1967

Just shows that many vintage cards in high grade are the real deal. Unfortunately Evan Mathis is a known serial card trimmer who should be shunned

I had over 3000 baseball cards growing up in the 60s. The only rookie card of a future hall of famer I remember was of Tom Seaver. Had about six of that 1968 card. Nolan Ryan another. Can't remember more. But I'm sure there could have been. Mickey Mantle though was my #1 guy. Had all of Mickey from 1961-1968 and 1956. Nothing more than that. Willie Mays, Warren Spahn, Sandy Koufax etc. etc. etc. I had at least one of many major superstars of baseball. It was a fun hobby until it got boring when I matured (after acquiring 3000 bordom tends to take over). I gave them all away to a neighbor's kid so he might enjoy something in which to devote some wholesome time to. At the time card collecting, including Beatle cards, was no big deal like stamps or coins were and so was never regarded as great in value. To this day I've no regrets letting go of my collection. It meant more to somebody else at the time than it would have for me later. Much later. Like twenty years later. That's when those cards started to mean something financially. And I wasn't about to hang on to 3000 near worthless cards in 1973. They were just pictures of men I once looked up to as a kid. When I became a man myself I simply wanted to stop starring at and adoring pictures of other men. No regrets at all. Oh, I was able to retire at 50 so things worked out financially very well indeed. And I didn't need any help from a Mickey Mantle card to achieve that.

Don’t believe it

Ya know, I'm not a selfish guy, I'd be satisfied to find just one :)

I dug out my face ball cards from when I was younger about a year ago after hearing about the insane value of some of these cards. They have not seen the light of days for over 30 years. I have 3 shoe boxes full of 1980 Topps and another box of 1950s and early 60s cards that I won in a football game bet. I want that box somewhere around 1984 or 1985. I about passed out as I was going through these cards due to what I found. LOL! ------- 22 - 1980 Topps Ricky Henderson in nearly perfect condition. Of course, 1980 Nolan Ryan, Brett, Rose, etc... ** 1954, 55, (4)56, 57, 58 Topps Mickey Mantle 1953 Topps Willie Mays (it looked like someone crumpled it up in their hand and flattened it back out. 1953, 55 Jackie Robinson 1954, 56 Ted Williams 2 - 1960 Carl Yastrzemski And much more

I would definitely not want my last name revealed. I'm not on social media either. I want privacy.

My dad who is 82 told me as a kid that he would go to the store buy a pack of baseball cards and throw the cards in the trash on the way out the door while chewing the gum.

I would love to find something like that in my attic!! Cool story...and no, I would not go public with it.

I always put Jody Reed's cards in my bike spokes, and if he wasn't available - Oil Can Boyd! Anyway, this is interesting because a lot of high-end collectors don't want anyone to know that they have cards because of theft. I cant say I blame them. I bought a collection of 1950 Bowman Baseball cards autographed in 1950 and 1951 from a lawyer who was taking care of an estate of an elderly woman whose husband had the 1950 Bowman set autographed that year. Apparently, he kept all the correspondence and envelopes along with the autographed cards in a box up in the attic for 66 years until his passing. I was fortunate enough to get some very rare, autographed cards of Dizzy Trout, Mickey Harris, Bill Swift, Vern Stephens and George Sternweiss - and a great story! This one has been great. We're the same age Mike, but I find as I get older, I tend to look back on my childhood and try to get a little bit of that back through video games, 1980's movies and sports cards. I find this is universal with all sports card collectors whether it be Jefferson Burdick's generation, Lionel Carter's Greatest Generation, the Baby Boomers or Gen X. And I'll probably be playing video games and blasting Van Halen when I'm an old guy. I've found that the 1952 Topps Jackie Robinson is a much more difficult card than the Mantle in that set. Same with the Hoyt Wilhelm and Pee Wee Reese and Roy Campanella. And people wont like this, but I think the 1952 Topps set is overrated.

Dude will be FOREVER financially set 💰💰💰

Some people are sooo fricken lucky.

Wow thats a great story. The cards look beautiful and colorful you figured they would of got a lot more money at auction for them. I would do the same just first name. Just imagine the feeling you would have if you found them or owned them that would be awesome.

80k for the Mantle 8 is a steal!

Curse my inferior basement

When I was growing up one of the first stories I had ever heard about Babe Ruth as a player playing baseball was a neighbor of mine had told me while he was a young kid in the 1920's he had a relative that was big on trying to find the 1914 Babe Ruth Rookie card. So when they found his collection of Babe Ruth cards after he passed on they said they found 4 cards from 1914 in his poesession and had a expert come out and take control of the cards and said it was such a high dollar amount that information wasn't told on all the cards they found bc of their value and worth. Soo I can imagine that each card he had of Babe Ruth was probably in prestine and in great condition.

I’ve been saying for a long time. Many more than these are around. The pops will continue to go up. A lot of us old dudes with tons of cards stocked away.

Kinda silly cuz if I won the lottery and bought a $0.50 card for 25 million it would become the new hottest card

I really don't understand why parents, especially mothers, are so selfish that they'd throw their kids property away like it's nothing

Omg that Sad Sam Jones card at the top in perfect shape is a high number rookie in perfect condition. That card sells for 500ish WITH CORNERS MISSING and creases. (Its probably worth a few thousand.....pennies compared to the Jackie's and Mantle's but I WOULD LOVE that Jones. Im 3 cards shy of a 1952 Indians team sets and all 3 are high numbers.

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I wonder what's common/ nearly worthless today that would bring big money in 60 years?

Fun story, there are a lot of great collections out there that don't make it into the social or news media.

Keep those coming. Love to see beautiful vintage cards still out there changing people's lives.

Those prices they sold for are just slaps in the face ... Smh PSA grades low just to keep rare cards rare. It's all bs, just like the Art world

At the time the Mathis card was graded PSA didnt do half grades. If graded now that card might not have gotten a 9

He found or his daddy misplaced … too many people claiming collectors with hand me down collections

I’d sell most……but I’d keep a couple of the big ones for my family when I’m gone

My dads first cousin who is gone now but he had a bunch of cards from the late 40s thru the early 70s. I remember dad saying he had a bunch of Jackie Robinsons and Mickey mantles. Said he had multiple of the mantle rookies both topps and bowman. Said he had multiple of every mantle up to his last year and had all the star players and multiple of each. Said that’s all he spent his money on was cards. Said he would open them and set them in something to protect them. Idk what he used dad said but said he never played with em threw them around nothing said he literally treasured them and always handled them with care. Always said these cards are gonna be worth money some day. Well fast forward to years later before he got cancer and died guess they were cleaning his house out to move or whatever and his sister threw all the cards away. Said they ain’t worth nothing. And I found this out pry around 15-20 years ago and I was talking to my dad a few years ago and was showing him the different cards and said he had all those and showed them what they were selling for in various grades and my dad couldn’t believe it. To think he had 3 kids that coulda got those cards and done something with them. EVERYTIME I think of it I get sick to my stomach. I’ve even talked to his kids a few times about it and they literally tell me not to talk about it cause they too get sick. Not saying his cards would be high grades but dad said the way he treated his cards was like gold. Just had to share that.

Incredible discovery! Thanks for another fantastic video!

To answer your question I'd keep my name private to protect my family and house. A security deposit box at a bank would be another good option to protect the asset.

My grandmother threw away my uncle's baseball cards and comic books. All from the 40's and 50's.

I would have snatched that PSA 8 up for 80K in a second!

Hi Mike, great story. I enjoyed it. Those are some awesome cards. I would have hand delivered those cards to PSA. Keep these stories coming please and thank you.

Also no thanks on the auct6, I'd sell them myself,fools go to a auction.

So in 2018 a trimmed card was sold for almost 3 million?

Urban Legend I heard sme story but was 6 Babe Ruth found

Love the video and story!

They say what you don't want the devil to know... Don't say out loud...

Known as the guy who sold 5 priceless psa 8 cards

So curious how the sale prices would’ve differed, post-pandemic.

Yeah, my grandmother threw away my dads cards when he went into the Army in 1953. My father did manage to hide some of his cards from 1948-53 but no Mantles were in that box. I sent some into PSA and most of the grades were PSA 6 to PSA 8. My father was the only child so they were in excellent condition.

My uncle collected a lot in the 50s and since my grandparents owned a deli they came across a lot of cards. Until my grandma gave them away in the 70s.

I wouldn't really care if my name was made public, I don't really do much social media and I would actually enjoy telling people that I barely know or people that I don't know that I will not give them money.

I would let my name be out there, why not 🤷🏻‍♂️

Man: Where should we say they came from? Bootlegger: I dont know. Well say you found them in your basement

Absolutely love hearing these stories. Thank you. 👍

Junk how much is an Ozzie smith card worth

My dad passed away last june and he had a massive collection of vintage,he was really good friends with a guy called Mr Mint AL Rosen... I'm a huge collector and after my dad passed a few months later I started looking through his collection and I was just blown away...I remember Mr Rosen wanting a lot of cards and memorabilia from my dad and the 1 thing that I still have is the original Babe Ruth picture the famous picture of him with him holding the bat on his shoulder it's black and white...The Hall Of Fame reached out to my dad a few times asking if he wanted to donate it to the HOF,but my dad rejected the request.. My Dad did shows with AL and the 1st show I went to was at MSG and they had guys like Mantle and Strawberry signing autographs..I haven't really even got into my dad's cards I just went through some and my 1st cards I came across were some 61 Maris cards,Koufax, Bobby Orr rookies...When I have more time I will get into his really nice stuff and I know for a fact my dad has some great cards. Crazy thing about your video is my name is Eddie and my brother is John! I enjoy your videos I just created my own channel for cards and I enjoy doing maildays and opening boxes.. Have a great day...

How does the Mantle 8 only sell for 80,000? When the 8.5 goes to 800K?

cards, man made out of paper 😂😂😂😂

Would an auction house charge you a flat rate to authenticate your baseball cards, or would they do the same outrageous thing that PSA, SGC, and others do and charge you more to grade a card that's worth a lot? (In this case, over $13K per card!) Just curious.

Love these attic finds

Evan Mathis’ Mantle lol,altered

You are mistaken sir, FYI no 52 Topps Mantle PSA 8’s sold for 80k in 2018, the card was sold for 420k as per the Heritage website states (the PSA website made an error & it is incorrect on that card). I follow the market closely since 2015 & distinctively remember the sales back in 2018 & it definitely sold for 420k. You have to go way back to 2012 to see any PSA 8s sales in the 80k range.

Awesome find, those cards are worth more now. Thanks again for another great video

Great video! Oh the dreaded cards in the trash. I have a worse story for you. My Dad had moved out of his parents house in the late 60’s and his Mother gave all of his cards to some friend of the family’s 6 year old who was visiting. If that wasn’t bad enough, the cards were almost complete sets of Topps from 1952-1960! All of the future hall of famers. Mantle cards. You name the player and they were in this collection. He didn’t find out about this until months later and by then it was too late to get them all back. He has a hard time talking about today. I can’t imagine how that could have put my current card business in the forefront of todays hobby.

Who's mickey mantle?

What time zone are going live at 11. What an incredible story. Keep them coming Mike.

Absolutely amazing.

What a great story imagine what the price increase if they held onto it for a couple more years

Cool find mantle ,that bird on the rack is nice as well wanna trade it?

Mike, I have no words!

That is unbelievable. And, yes, I bought the cards and not for the gum. I disliked the gum

I feel like there's someome with a printing press,to many of these kind of cards are just popping up all the sudden.

Baloney

Love stories like these thank you for the research 👍🏻

ANONYMOUS!!!!

There are only two baseball Icons Ruth & Mantle there is nobody else close-every story about these two are Baseball,,