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Incredible $12.6 Million for a 1952 Mickey Mantle Baseball Card

by Fred Fuld III

Did you ever think that maybe you should put a little of your investment portfolio into sports cards?

After hearing about the latest Heritage Auctions result, you might want to consider it. However, make sure you go for the rare items.

A 1952 Mickey Mantle baseball card was hammered at an amazing $12.6 million, setting a world record.

This 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle #311 SGC Mint+ 9.5 card was described as “Finest Known Example!”.

In addition, Heritage announced that there will be a documentary made about the card called  “Four Perfect Corners” by Emmy-Award winning director Dan Klein.

Mickey Mantle:

• Second highest career OPS+ among center fielders

• Highest stolen-base percentage in history at the time of his retirement

• Lowest career rate of grounding into double plays

• Highest World Series on-base percentage and World Series slugging percentage

• .984 fielding percentage when playing center field

• Hit 536 career home runs

• Batted .300 or more ten times

• Only player in history to hit 150 home runs from both sides of the plate.

• 16th all-time in home runs per at-bats

• 17th in on-base percentage

• MVP award three times, finished second three times, and finished within nine votes of winning five times.

When investing in collectables, make sure you stick with the scarce and rare items, and the items that you are personally interested in.

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2363% Return on a Baseball Card: What an Investment!

by Fred Fuld III

If you had a baseball card and it had increased in value by 2363%, would you sell it?

Well the owner of a Honus Wagner baseball card did just that.

He paid $294,338 for it back in 2006, and recently sold it through a private sale for $7.25 million.

This works out to an average annual return of 22%.

This extremely rare slabbed Honus Wagner T-206 baseball card was authenticated by SGC.

The back of the card displays an ad for Sweet Caporal Cigarettes.

Honus Wagner Baseball Card – Credit: Wikipedia

Honus Wagner, born Johannes Peter Wagner, was an American baseball shortstop who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1897 to 1917, almost entirely for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Wagner won his eighth (and final) batting title in 1911, a National League record that remains unbroken to this day, and matched only once, in 1997, by Tony Gwynn. He also led the league in slugging six times and stolen bases five times.

Wagner was nicknamed “the Flying Dutchman” due to his superb speed and German heritage.

In 1936, the Baseball Hall of Fame inducted Wagner as one of the first five members. He received the second-highest vote total, behind Ty Cobb’s 222 and tied with Babe Ruth at 215.

Most baseball historians consider Wagner to be the greatest shortstop ever and one of the greatest players ever. Ty Cobb himself called Wagner “maybe the greatest star ever to take the diamond”.

Wagner was a non-smoker and reportedly didn’t want his card to promote cigarets, so production of the cards was stopped, with less than 60 known to exist.

If you have an interest in baseball and other sports cards, don’t forget to check out the following articles:

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MLB Star Pitcher Becomes Unlikely Source of Business, Finance & Mental Health Advice

3x World Series Champ & Wall Street Exec, Todd Stottlemyre Shares Strategies for Professional & Personal Success

The Observer: A Modern Fable on Mastering Your Thoughts & Emotions

Although Todd Stottlemyre may be best known for his successful Major League Baseball career, his accomplishments off the field are just as impressive. After leaving baseball, he pursued a career in finance building an asset management business at a high-profile Wall Street firm. He then founded a private equity fund that owns, manages, and oversees several companies.

Today, Stottlemyre is a global entrepreneur, speaker, and high-performance business coach with a highly personal, transformative story to tell through his new book, The Observer. Far from being a fiction novel, The Observer offers actionable strategies for professional and personal growth and it is also the fable of Todd Stottlemyre’s life. He rose to superstardom winning two World Series with the Toronto Blue Jays but had yet to reach his true “peak” until the journey that began afterward.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Kat has it all (money, success, recognition, influence) except the one thing she desires desperately: a fulfilled life. A business entrepreneur in the high-end sportswear industry, Kat is driven in relentless pursuit of ever-greater success. The two anchors in Kat’s frenzied life have been her father; a famous baseball pitcher turned team manager, and her son, who is following in his grandfather’s footsteps. When both anchors become unstable, Kat’s life tips dangerously out of balance. The market and her finances flip, and relationships start slipping through her fingers. Eager for solutions, she turns to find uncanny wisdom from places she never expected.

The Observer unpacks the idea of 180-degree thinking, which changes everything for Kat. Now, seemingly impossible goals now come into focus with crystal clear clarity. As Kat focuses on the right things, the impossible becomes her new reality.

-Release Date: December 29, 2020
-Publisher: Made for Success Publishing
-ISBN-10: 1641465344
-ISBN-13: 9781641465342
-Purchasing Details: The Observer is available for wherever books are sold including Amazon

WHY THIS BOOK IS WORTH READING:

This book is a must-read for entrepreneurs and business owners but also for anyone searching to find happiness and meaning in their lives. Breaking the boundaries of genre, The Observer is a motivational business blueprint and self-help book, disguised as a ‘coming of (middle) age’ novel, wrapped in a sports story, that (underneath it all) is actually a fable about pro baseball Star Todd Stottlemyre’s life.

Although it is presented as a fictional story about a 38-year-old woman and her journey to self-discovery, the book serves as a fundamental roadmap to personal and professional success. Through the story of “Kat”, Stottlemyre examines the science of success and how to use it, offering various strategies and techniques for growth. He demonstrates how lofty ambitions are achievable when you follow the sequential steps in his proven success system. The book not only gives readers motivation and encouragement, but it also provides them with a pathway for discovering their peak potential in business and in life.

In the age of COVID, political unrest, and global chaos – a time when uncertainty lurks around every corner – these timeless insights are more important today than ever before. Praised for its sharp wit, plot twists, and fast pace, this book will inevitably become a mirror to take a look inside ourselves―and find that no matter how long it takes, we all have the ability to change our trajectory.

Whether you are seeking professional growth or personal fulfillment, and looking for strategies to achieve excellence, or if you just want to curl up with a poignant novel (OR if you a sports fan itching to learn more about this MLB superstar) The Observer needs to be on your reading list!

ABOUT TODD STOTTLEMYRE:

Todd StottlemyreTodd Stottlemyre is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for 15 seasons most notably as a member of the Toronto Blue Jays with whom he won two World Series championships. He also played for the Oakland Athletics, St Louis Cardinals, Texas Rangers, and the Arizona Diamondbacks. Awarded for his outstanding integrity and dedication to community service, he received the prestigious Branch Ricky Award and the Lou Gehrig Award.

After leaving professional baseball, he pursued a career in finance building an asset management business at a high-profile Wall Street firm. He is the co-founder and owner of a private equity fund that owns, manages, and oversees a number of companies.

Today, Stottlemyre channels his passion for winning as a high-performance business coach, best-selling author, and keynote speaker. Taking all he has learned both on and off the field, he works to help people achieve unparalleled success in every dimension of their lives.

 

 

 

 

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