2021 Topps Mickey Mantle Collection
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 except the two checklists 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.