AthletesDirect Offers Legendary Mickey Mantle Baseball Cards on eBay; AthletesDirect Set to Auction a Piece of Baseball History With Limited-Edition Mantle Baseball Cards.Sports Editors & Collectibles Writers LOS ANGELES--(BW SportsWire)--March 15, 2000 AthletesDirect, a division of Broadband Sports Inc., today announced that it will offer 175 Mickey Mantle Noun 1. Mickey Mantle - United States baseball player (1931-1997) Mickey Charles Mantle, Mantle baseball trading cards on eBay(R) (Nasdaq:EBAY) (www.ebay.com), the world's leading person-to-person online trading community An online trading community exists to provide its members with a structured method for trading, bartering, or selling goods or services. These communities often have forums and chatrooms designed to facilitate communication between the members. . The 10-day auction will begin on Tuesday, March 14, and continue until Friday, March 24, and can be accessed at http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/athletedirect. Together, the trading cards are valued at more than $150,000. Ranging from 1951 to 1969, all of the Mickey Mantle cards have been graded by Professional Sports The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. Authenticators (PSA (Professional Services Automation) An information system designed to organize, track and manage all opportunities, work, resources, costs, revenues and invoices to improve the productivity and efficiency of the workforce. ) and have grades ranging from PSA-1 to PSA-8. The lot is highlighted by a PSA-7 card of Mantle's 1952 Topps Rookie Card Rookie Card is a relatively subjective term generally referring to an athlete's first appearance on a trading card made for collectible or informational purposes. Collectors value more greatly these first appearances which generally hold more value than later, subsequent card No. 311. "AthletesDirect offers hard-core sports fans access to some of the richest and most unique sports memorabilia available on eBay," said Ross Schaufelberger, senior vice president of business development. "We are excited to bring our fans classic cards from one of baseball's greatest legends." About AthletesDirect AthletesDirect is part of Broadband Sports, a leading Internet provider of original content and commerce for hundreds of individual sports communities. AthletesDirect is a leading developer, publisher and aggregator of high-quality, official online sites for athletes. AthletesDirect has more than 260 athlete partners, who include some of the world's most prominent athletes across 10 sports, including football, baseball, basketball, auto racing and tennis. AthletesDirect's athlete sites are accessible through the company's Web site at www.AthletesDirect.com, Yahoo! Sports at http://sports.yahoo.com/allstars and America Online (AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. ) at keyword: "AD." |
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