A SIX-FIGURE STEAL FOR ’52 MANTLE LAMELO BALL, OHTANI CARD VALUES SOAR
Question: When is a baseball card that auctions for nearly $130,000 a bargain? Answer: When it’s a 1952 Mickey Mantle Topps card with a grade of PSA 7.
We saw just such an animal on eBay. On Aug. 22, a seller listed this holy grail of baseball cards at a starting point of $234 — with no reserve (meaning that it would be sold regardless of the price). The card’s bidding history shows that it drew exactly zero bids over the auction’s first six days.
Could a top-condition ’52 Mantle actually slip past the millions of eBay bidders? Not a chance.
On the seventh day of the auction, the first bid dropped in, and it wasn’t just a minor increase over
