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If you are looking to start a baseball collection, then you simply must have your fair share of Mickey Mantle baseball cards to get you on your way!

With a total of 18 years major-league professional career, 3 American League MVP titles, 16 All-Star games and Most World-Series home runs (18 of them, actually,) it comes as no surprise that Mickey Mantle has taken his rightful place in the National Baseball Hall of Fame, along with Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Lou Gehrig and of course Babe Ruth.

Mantle also has the honor of hitting some of the longest-flying home runs in Major League history. September 10, 1960 was the fateful day where he scored a left-handed home run that made it past the right-field roof of Tiger Stadium, and was estimated years later by to have traveled a staggering 643 feet!

While Mickey Mantle made 372 left-handed home runs compared to 164 right-handed ones, he considers himself a better hitter when he bats with his right hand. Most of the pitchers he had to handle were right-handed, and this explains his seemingly contradictory claims of being a superior right-handed batter.

You could also say that his home stadium for the Yankees favored left-handed hitters as well, due to the right-field foul poles standing at a mere 296 feet with power alleys at 344 and 407 feet. On the contrary, the left-field power alleys ranged around 402 feet to 457 feet. This discrepancy definitely made a significant difference between left and right-handed batting.

However, Mantle’s life wasn’t a straight-up rise to glory. Difficulties getting his game back almost made him drop out from the world of professional baseball altogether. As with all those who start out as rookies in baseball, he had doubts about himself whenever his hitting power would slump. After a particularly depressing stint after first joining the majors, he phoned his father and told him that he can play baseball anymore. At this, his father went straight to Mickey that day and shared one of the most memorable quotes in baseball history:

“I thought I raised a man. I see I raised a coward instead. You can come back to Oklahoma and work the mines with me.” And the rest, as they say, is history.

These words proved to be the driving force Mickey retired on March 1, 1969 and was inducted in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974. His uniform, Number 7, was retired by the Yankees, and 536 home runs meant he came up third in the all-time list of home runs.

While replica baseball cards of ‘The Mick’ can run anywhere between one dollar and fifteen dollars, genuine 1952, 1953 and 1954 vintage cards can fetch prices of up to twenty to thirty thousand dollars – if you can manage to find any still in mint condition.

Just make sure, however, that you buy your vintage cards from a reliable source. Mickey Mantle baseball cards are some of the most sought-after baseball cards in the world, which is why you have to make sure that you get your own cards from a genuine shop.