1952 Topps Mickey Mantle #311 SGC 84 NM 7....

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The king of the post-war hobby!

1952 Topps Mickey Mantle #311 SGC 84 NM 7. Fourteen years after Mickey Cochrane was nearly killed at Yankee Stadium by a fastball to the skull, quite possibly in retribution for the home run blast in his previous at-bat that would prove to be the last base hit of his career, the son of an Oklahoma miner who was named for the superstar catcher took his first Major League steps on that same hallowed ground. Though that switch-hitting youngster would soar to an even higher level of the sport's pantheon than his namesake, Mantle's early struggles nearly rendered this 311th card of Topps' first great baseball issue nothing but a high-number "common," worth perhaps $300 in Near Mint condition.

But Mickey's father "Mutt" Mantle cured his disheartened son of the urge to quit baseball with a reminder of the hard mining life that awaited him back home in Oklahoma, fatherly wisdom that would ultimately transform the offered slab of cardboard into the most important entry in the entirety of the post-war catalog.

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