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Originally Posted by discodanman45
I think I read somewhere that Topps paid each player $125 for their contract, which was higher than Bowman. Cards were $0.01 a piece. Topps would have had to produce 12,500 cards of each player to get back the contract cost. It wouldn't surprise me if the production was 10 times that or higher for well over 100,000 cards for each player.
Now how many actually survived? It wouldn't surprise me if over 50% were kept.
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ok, after doing some research, apparently people estimate there are approximately 5,000 or so 52 Mantles in existence, based on the amount of graded ones (under 2,000) and the amount of ungraded ones that people estimate are lurking around yet to be graded or discovered (mainly older people who collected them in their youth who forgot about them)
so if the 52 Mantle was double printed, it would mean that the average common 52 card maybe has around 2,500 still existing? still seems low
https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=233551
https://www.sports-king.com/mickey-m...kie-card-3407/