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Baseball Rookie Cards US Caramel vs Goudey

Looking for an opinion on what brand is consider a rookie card; 1932 US Caramel (issued in 1933) or 1933 Goudey. Ex Jimmie Foxx, Rogers Hornsby, etc.
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  • scotgrebscotgreb Posts: 808 ✭✭✭
    edited September 30, 2020 10:53AM

    Mike,

    The "what constitutes a rookie card" issue will be debated forever.

    Following is a link to a great discussion on Net54 that includes an exceptional list of the rookie cards of hall of famers.

    https://net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=141603

    Enjoy!

    Scott

  • JoeBanzaiJoeBanzai Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Yankees78 said:
    Looking for an opinion on what brand is consider a rookie card; 1932 US Caramel (issued in 1933) or 1933 Goudey. Ex Jimmie Foxx, Rogers Hornsby, etc.
    mike

    I would consider neither Foxx's rookie card.

    I am not an expert on cards from this era, but 1932 would be the earlier card even if not issued until 1933.

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  • blurryfaceblurryface Posts: 5,136 ✭✭✭✭✭

    whichever one has the rc shield logo on it. oh wait..

  • graygatorgraygator Posts: 447 ✭✭✭✭

    I like the Old Cardboard list for pre-war cards because it generally lists the first five. It’s nice to have options since there are lots of debates about what is a “card” and what is a “rookie” in the pre-war space, and many of the early cards are very rare or very expensive or both.

    https://oldcardboard.com/ref/rookies/RookiesList.asp

  • AANVAANV Posts: 326 ✭✭✭

    I think that being a multi-sport set as well as having limited distribution would be two factors against any card being a true rookie card in the US Caramel set.

  • DBesse27DBesse27 Posts: 3,016 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @AANV said:
    I think that being a multi-sport set as well as having limited distribution would be two factors against any card being a true rookie card in the US Caramel set.

    IMO, limited distribution should have nothing to do with it.

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  • Foxx's RC is the Exhibit PC back, the W560 or the R315.

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  • AANVAANV Posts: 326 ✭✭✭

    @dustinspeaks said:
    Why would being part of a multi sport set disqualify a card from being a rookie card? There are a ton of great athletes who have rookie cards in multi sport sets.

    Which baseball players have their true rookie card recognized as part of a multi-sport set?

  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭✭

    @AANV said:

    @dustinspeaks said:
    Why would being part of a multi sport set disqualify a card from being a rookie card? There are a ton of great athletes who have rookie cards in multi sport sets.

    Which baseball players have their true rookie card recognized as part of a multi-sport set?

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