1953 Topps Mickey Mantle #82

I’m not sure how this card isn’t an 8 — there must be some faint, hard to see wrinkles? Just a monster card: centering, colors, surface, corners.

Crazy eye appeal for the grade! Have to mention the black speck on the top, and a bit of rough left edge.. Extraordinary, though..

Flawless centering and image! Pesky bottom left corner chipping.

Beautiful version of this card!

This one is stunning. About as good as this card gets.

Outstanding example. Just some white on the corner tip on the bottom left keeps it from a God Tier card for me.

There is no other option in my opinion. There's the white touch on the red corner and... what else to improve? If I had to pick a small handful of cards to illustrate why I created this site, this would be in that handful. The eye appeal and the opinion of the traditional third party system is completely out of harmony here.

The small stain under the team logo and bottom left corner take it out of god tier but this is a KILLER copy. I’d buy it instantly if I saw it at a show at a semi reasonable price.

Looks better than the slabbed grade. Love the image and the details and the look. Loses slightly on the borders not being as bright on others I have seen. But that is a great looker for Anyone’s collection

One touch of white on the tip of the red corner from GT, for me. This card presents like we would want an 8.5 to present. I have not the foggiest idea what happened with the TPG grade here, yet if this card is not a poster child for this website I don't know what is. The 4 is criminal compared to what the card actually looks like.