KNTV NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt June 2, 2021 00:58:00
Old-fashioned baseball card from mickey mantle to willie mays. mike trout or mookie betts. >> those cards chronicle the history of the game and people want that piece of history. >> reporter: it is the 70th year since the topps chewing gum company in an effort to sell more gum inserted baseball cards into its packs story goes the cards at first were a dud, they were dumped in the ocean, including thousands of mickey mantle rookie card just this year, a mint topps mickey mantle card sold fo $5.2 million but it is for the memories, not the money, that topps stuck around. >> so many collectors, r...