# Why can't you just print Mickey Mantle rookie cards? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 31, 2021, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-you-just-print-mickey-mantle-rookie-cards/931938 "2021-01-31T19:35:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 33
**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2021, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-you-just-print-mickey-mantle-rookie-cards/931938/33 "2021-02-02T17:15:05Z")
In a way, the baseball cards we’Re talking about here are a counter-example (though a rare one, I believe) to a point made [in a previous thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-mint-enrollment-program/928771/): That items which are specifically produced and marketed as “collectibles” are, by definition, not valuable. I wonder if some criminally minded people at the baseball card companies try to take advantage of this. I don’t think it would be beyond the powers of someone working at Topps to steal a few specimens of each card they print in a given year and stow them away, just in case they become valuable. It’s takes a long perspective, but if it brings in big money for your children it might still be an attractive scheme. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-you-just-print-mickey-mantle-rookie-cards/931938)._