2021 Topps Mickey Mantle Collection

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Description

The 2021 Topps Mickey Mantle Collection is a 52-card set released exclusively to topps.com on October 20th. The set consists of reprints of all 38 of Mantle's Topps and Bowman cards issued from 1951-1969 (many of which were previously reprinted in 1996 and 1997 Topps), three "cards that never were" from the time Mantle was exclusive to Bowman (a concept Topps already did ten years earlier), and nine cards done in the style of the Topps flagship set from 2013 to the present. (From 2007 to 2012, Mantle was included as card #7 in that year's Topps base set. After 2012, Topps lost Mantle's image rights, which they regained in 2021.) The last two cards are checklists, and are short-printed.

Every fifth pack will yield a parallel serial-numbered to 199 copies or fewer. Autographs of past Yankee greats and Mickey Mantle cut autographs (all limited to seven copies, each) are randomly inserted.

We estimate that 156,500 packs were produced.

Distribution

Five cards per pack (MSRP $9.99)

Reviews

Insertion Ratios

Cards Total Cards Numbered To Odds
Base 50 - 4.8:1
Checklists 2 - ?
Gimmicks 4 - ?
Yankee Blue 50 199 PAR
Orange 50 150 PAR
Green 50 99 PAR
Yellow 50 75 PAR
Gold 50 50 PAR
Light Blue 50 25 PAR
Autograph 50 15 PAR
Seven 50 7 PAR
Red 50 5 PAR
Platinum 50 one-of-one PAR
Monumental Autographs 12 7 1:1864*
Mickey Mantle Cut Signatures 1 7 1:22,358*

PAR: Odds of finding a serial-numbered parallel: 1:5/packs. * Calculated production figures.

Checklist

Base Set

    Gimmicks

      Parallels

      All 50 base cards are available in the following parallels.

      • Yankee Blue (serial-numbered to 199 copies)
      • Orange (serial-numbered to 150 copies)
      • Green (serial-numbered to 99 copies)
      • Yellow (serial-numbered to 75 copies)
      • Gold (serial-numbered to 50 copies)
      • Light Blue (serial-numbered to 25 copies)
      • Autograph (serial-numbered to fifteen)
      • Seven (serial-numbered to seven)
      • Red (serial-numbered to five)
      • Platinum (one-of-one)

      Autographs

      Monumental Autographs

      Each Monumental Autograph is serial-numbered to seven.

      NOTE: While all these signers played for the Yankees, none actually played with Mantle.

        Mickey Mantle Cut Signatures

        A total of seven Mantle Cut Signatures were inserted into packs.