Know any Pre-Rookies or Oddball Rookies?

MrKnowthanx

While searching for some of my PC wants I have started coming across some "new-to-me" pre-rookies and oddball rookies that I have to own While looking for them I figured I'd throw up this new thread and try to see if any of the forum members know of any. Ill start off....

Here is the reason I started looking and one of my Must Own cards

1995 Taco johns Iowa Barnstormers Kurt Warner


Here are some others I know of:

1989 Oscar Mayer Lions Police 11 Barry Sanders


1988 Florida Gators Burger King Emmitt Smith


This I lost out on today on eBay because I forgot it was ending toady . So bummed because it looked damn cool. Not too sure of where it comes from though.

1985 NIKE MICHAEL JORDAN BLACK & BLUE XRC POSTER PROTOTYPE SAMPLE 5X7

nearmint

Here's a page of them:

Pre-rookie vintage football cards and stamps

If you count stamps, there are three more at the bottom of this article:

1969 Glendale Stamps

Beck6

1978 Ozzie Smith Family Fun Center is one of my favorites



The 1969 Tresler Comet football set also has a Sam Wyche Card that I think is his only card in an NFL uniform for all you Cincinnati Bengals fans

sportscardtheory

John Elway 1982 Oneonta Yankees TCMA #13

Warren Moon 1981 JOGO Black and White #23

Jeff Garcia 1992 San Jose State #2

Brandon Weeden 2002 Bowman Chrome Draft AU #172

Joe Theismann 1970 Toronto Argonauts Team Issue #37

Not sure if there is an '81, but I know there is a 1982 Boston College pocket schedule (card size) picturing Doug Flutie

Ironmanfan

Orioles 1982 Team Issue Postcard

ledsters

The 1973 Dean's Photo Service Dave Winfield card is a nice one...

bishop

Beck6...I really like your Smith card

LodiBrewFan

1954-56 Spic-Span Hank Aaron.

mikeschmidt

I've always been rather partial to this one:

Beck6

<< <i>Beck6...I really like your Smith card >>



Not mine anymore. I got rid of it a few weeks ago. Graded out an 8 and I really wanted a 9. On the registry the 1979 is weighted higher for some reason. Never understood that.

Foo3112

I actually have this one signed. This image was taken from Google.

Big80s

Here are two of my favorites - both foreign pre-rookies or rookies...


1968 Mira Tuttosport (Italian) - Lew Alcindor / Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (This card was mine at one time)




1985 Merchante (Spanish) - Michael Jordan (I never owned one of these that looked this good!)

DavidPuddy

78 RC Cola Iron ons.

RynoandBo

Love this one:

Aric

2007 Donruss Frito Lay Adrian Peterson

MeteoriteGuy

1984 BYU All-Time Greats #1 Steve Young

MrKnowthanx

Wow all these are great!!!!!!!!!!!! Problem is it's gonna cost me more now that there are a bunch I have to get now! Anyone know of any Gretzky Indy Racers cards that are legit?

Big80s

Great thread, by the way. I love these oddball rookies.

MrKnowthanx

Noticed this one while getting a pic for the Burger King One.

BPorter26

I'm enjoying this thread. I love the Oddball cards. Here's mine of my favorite defensive back.

1988 Giant Eagle

thenavarro

Here's one of mine. Early 1990's (I think 1992) Notre Dame Jerome Bettis (they were issued unsigned, I got it signed myself)

ledsters

"On the registry the 1979 is weighted higher for some reason. Never understood that."

The 1979 Family Fun Center Ozzie Smith card came on a perforated sheet given away at the stadium for 1 day only. It is very difficult to find. Below are some from my collection. Enjoy!

jbox

Amazing Ozzies

fkw

here is my latest under $10 eBay score.... and its signed too
(cant be many more of these out there for this 19 year old Major Leaguer and future HOFer )


1963 PC753 J.D. McCarthy Postcards Tony La Russa

MrKnowthanx

Just noticed this tonight:

BunchOBull

One of my favorites:

MrKnowthanx

So I noticed Jordan has a few cards before the 86-87 Fleer out there but not to sure on some of them. Maybe a few of the board members can help out.






These two courtesy of Big80s

Cooptown

The Burger King Canseco reminded me of this one:

mtcards

The two Jordan US Basketballs are "Broder" type cards and pretty much have no value at all

digicat

This 1983 Joe Carter card pre-dates his rookie card by a year.


A 1984 Dodgers Police Orel Hershiser (Orel's normal rookie cards are from 1985)

MrKnowthanx

<< <i>The Burger King Canseco reminded me of this one:

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Wow this is great! Where'd you pick this up? Was it part of a set sold/given out at the stadium in Alaska?

Cooptown

<< <i>

<< <i>The Burger King Canseco reminded me of this one:

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Wow this is great! Where'd you pick this up? Was it part of a set sold/given out at the stadium in Alaska? >>



I'll be honest-i have no idea. I bought it in the late 80s, and just "found" it recently. I always knew I had it, but I thought it was pretty worthless until I did an ebay search when this thread started.

AUPT

The "1982" Anchorage Glacier Pilots card of McGwire was actually issued in 1988. It was produced in an edition of 10,000 and originally sold for $6.

I believe the card was also extensively reprinted/counterfeited later, whenthe "original" was selling for as much as $250.

There was also a Casey Candaele card in this format, and the team used a similar format for team sets in 1985-87.

By the way, most of those Jordans are unauthorized collectors' issues ("broders").

MrKnowthanx

<< <i>The "1982" Anchorage Glacier Pilots card of McGwire was actually issued in 1988. It was produced in an edition of 10,000 and originally sold for $6.

I believe the card was also extensively reprinted/counterfeited later, whenthe "original" was selling for as much as $250.

There was also a Casey Candaele card in this format, and the team used a similar format for team sets in 1985-87.

By the way, most of those Jordans are unauthorized collectors' issues ("broders"). >>



Thanx. This is one of the main reasons I started this thread. I wan't to find the cool XRC/pre-rookie stuff but make sure I am not buying fake and "broader" type cards that were printed after the fact.