I got a PSA 10 on the biggest rookie card of the 1980's

Krems · June 16, 2005 8:01AM

Thats right. My grades just popped and I got a PSA 10 Ron Kittle rookie! (I think his rookie is 1984) On a side note, I was disappointed to see that my Rusty Kuntz only graded a 9...Oh well, can't win them all.

RipublicaninMass · June 16, 2005 8:52AM

Are you doing a ROY set? Or just like the name Rusty Kuntz?

pandrews · June 16, 2005 8:53AM

i'll buy the Rusty Kuntz from you..

edit - im serious, are you selling? if so how much?..

PROMETHIUS88 · June 16, 2005 8:54AM

Next thing you know you'll be reporting that you got that 82 fleer Joe Charboneau rookie PSA 10 we've all been hunting for!!
Congrats!!

NickM · June 16, 2005 8:57AM

Kittle's rookie is 1983. Charbonneau's is 1981.

Nick

PROMETHIUS88 · June 16, 2005 9:00AM

good catch on both.....i know i'm still waiting on the kittle to take off...got a bucnh of 83 fleer. Forgot the charboneau was 81 since i trade all mine for valenzuela and raines rookies!

Krems · June 16, 2005 9:59AM

Man...you ruined my day. I thought it was his rookie. Oh well, my mistake.

purelyPSA · June 16, 2005 3:33PM

Krems - Nick M is only half right. His real "rookie" is indeed his '84 card, though he was included in the '83 update sets (which isn't considered a rookie card). So you can backflip if you like.

RedHeart54 · June 17, 2005 12:50AM

Ron Kittle has been in the news of late as a matter of fact. He has written a book and one of the entries is about Barry Bonds supposedly refusing to sign a bat or something for Kittle's charity's auction because "he [didn't] sign for white people".

shagrotn77 · June 17, 2005 2:57AM

<< Krems - Nick M is only half right. His real "rookie" is indeed his '84 card, though he was included in the '83 update sets (which isn't considered a rookie card). So you can backflip if you like. >>

I think the overwhelming majority of collectors consider cards from update and traded sets to be rookie cards. There's certainly no shortage of those sets, so it can't be argued that they weren't mass distributed. The XRC designation is pretty silly IMHO.

NickM · June 17, 2005 4:27AM

Kittle was in '83 Fleer.

Nick

purelyPSA · June 17, 2005 4:56AM

Nick: I stand corrected. You are correct.

ArnyVee · June 17, 2005 8:16AM

Is it his '84 Donruss PSA 10 that you have?

Krems · June 17, 2005 8:57AM

Nope...Its a 1984 Topps Ron Kittle non-rookie, but first regular issue topps card from what it sounds like...Sounds like its time to bust some 1983 Fleer

detroitfan2 · June 17, 2005 11:25AM

Hey, let's not forget that ol' Rusty Kuntz had the game winning RBI in the clinching game (game 5) of the 1984 World Series for the Tigers. That PSA 9 should be worth a fortune.

pandrews · June 17, 2005 12:01PM

<< Hey, let's not forget that ol' Rusty Kuntz had the game winning RBI in the clinching game (game 5) of the 1984 World Series for the Tigers. That PSA 9 should be worth a fortune. >>

shhhhh! i just bought it!

Krems · June 18, 2005 2:12AM

Man...I've been had! lol

onlychild · June 18, 2005 2:08PM

Here he is with a friend :

Kevin

phreakydancin · June 20, 2005 8:53AM

Apparently when spectators heard those names they headed for the exits!

Seriously, how bad were those White Sox uniforms? Rusty looks like a late cut from the Village People tryouts!

Axtell · June 20, 2005 9:05AM

<< Krems - Nick M is only half right. His real "rookie" is indeed his '84 card, though he was included in the '83 update sets (which isn't considered a rookie card). So you can backflip if you like. >>

Who doesn't consider update sets as rookie cards?

If it's their first mass-produced card, it's their rookie card. Roger Clemens, for example, 84 fleer update is his rookie card.

julen23 · June 20, 2005 12:49PM

True Dat! The blue/white ensemble is better than 2 years later and the red/white/blue ensemble:

Julen

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Collecting:

1980 Topps: Over 4,000 cards from vending and wax boxes awaiting a giant bonfire
1969 Topps Master: # 1 1
1987 Kraft Dinners Home Plate Heroes

Tabe · June 21, 2005 9:00AM

<< 

<< Krems - Nick M is only half right. His real "rookie" is indeed his '84 card, though he was included in the '83 update sets (which isn't considered a rookie card). So you can backflip if you like. >>

Who doesn't consider update sets as rookie cards? >>

Beckett, for one or anybody whose definition of "rookie card" includes that the card must have been available in packs, not just factory sets. Beckett, for example, calls the '84 Fleer Update Roger Clemens an XRC.

Tabe

Axtell · June 21, 2005 9:54AM

<< Beckett, for one or anybody whose definition of "rookie card" includes that the card must have been available in packs, not just factory sets. Beckett, for example, calls the '84 Fleer Update Roger Clemens an XRC.

Tabe >>

But which card is most valuable?

And since when are update/traded sets that difficult to buy? It's not like they've ever been rare...even the 84 fleer update set was widely available when new.

shagrotn77 · June 21, 2005 10:26PM

The only people who don't consider traded and update set XRC's (I hate that term!) to be rookie cards are the ones who don't have them! Go buy your '85 Clemens cards...they aren't his rookie!

theplasticman · July 5, 2005 3:54AM

<< i'll buy the Rusty Kuntz from you..

edit - im serious, are you selling? if so how much?.. >>

LOL @ those lines. What a funny name. Poor kid, bet he got teased.

smallstocks · July 5, 2005 11:59PM

<< 

<< i'll buy the Rusty Kuntz from you..

edit - im serious, are you selling? if so how much?.. >>

LOL @ those lines. What a funny name. Poor kid, bet he got teased. >>

Maybe, but at least he got to play major league baseball.

Mike

Stingray · July 6, 2005 12:43AM

Ok, what do you consider to be someones rookie card? Is a 86 topps update Bonds rookie or the 87 regular topps his rookie. IMO, it would be the first card printed, traded set or packs. So I would say 86 topps. Same for other cards.

Stingray

I got a PSA 10 on the biggest rookie card of the 1980's

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