Man looking through old collection discovers Mickey Mantle baseball card worth $1 million

A 1952 Mickey Mantle Topps baseball card.
(Image credit: AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

When he saw an advertisement for a 1952 Mickey Mantle baseball card being sold at auction with an estimated value of $3.5 million, he was sure this was a typo.

The man, who asked to be identified only by his first name, John, told The Associated Press that he used to collect baseball cards while growing up in Connecticut, and after seeing the ad, he was inspired to look at his own collection. His mother combined his collection with his older brother Ed's baseball cards, and stored them in a box in her attic. After she died in 2006, the box left her attic and went to John's home in New Jersey.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.