Originally Posted by JollyElm (Post 2444100)

People have really scraped the bottom of the barrel of possible things to complain about when they get triggered over the use of 'rookie card' with regards to non-sports personalities, and h2oya311 put it perfectly when he said (paraphrase alert) it was just a general way to say 'first' card.

Frank, if you send me a pic, I will gladly plug you in to a 1972 Topps 'In Action' card that you can then call your rookie (meaning FIRST) card. The only proviso is you actually have to be doing something active in the photograph (any activity under the sun counts)...which seems to be getting tougher for many of us these days. :D

Originally Posted by Snapolit1 (Post 2443899)

I think the term “rookie”’ is absurd in this context.

Hypothetically a guy performs on stage or screen for a dozen years and then ends for the first time on a card or similar item …. That ain’t a rookie anything. It’s a first something.

If Joe Biden or Willie Nelson ended up on a card this year for the first time, would someone with a straight face claim that as a “rookie” something?

Originally Posted by JollyElm (Post 2446744)

Here ya go, 'Ole Pink Shoes'...


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Originally Posted by Bill77 (Post 2447551)

Here is an interesting one that I just found. I would have thought that Scott Bakula would have had an earlier card such as maybe a set based on Quantum Leap, but apparently, they never made a Quantum Leap set. His first card is from the 1993 version of Face to Face.

Originally Posted by Cozumeleno (Post 2447640)

I have a couple of these board games, one sealed. There are a ton of rookies in them from what I've been able to research. And they're a Canadian issue that wasn't heavily produced that I have seen. You can find singles on eBay but complete games/sets are somewhat hard to find.

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth (Post 2446150)

Originally Posted by Arazi4442 (Post 2447654)

I know PSA isn’t always completely accurate but they have this one listed from 1930. Earliest one I know of.

Originally Posted by boneheadandrube (Post 2447559)

How About a Ferdinand Porsche Rookie? :)

Originally Posted by Mark17 (Post 2452060)

Was Prince Heinrich's last name really Fahrt?

Originally Posted by BillyCoxDodgers3B (Post 2454310)

If none have been produced, somebody has to create one for George Carlin and Mitch Hedberg. Both at the top of the comedy food chain for me.

Originally Posted by BillyCoxDodgers3B (Post 2454337)

Glad to know he has a card. Man, that set design leaves a lot to be desired, though! Wow. On the positive side, they wouldn't have been bad for autograph purposes, with a spot to sign underneath the mugshots!

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth (Post 2454399)

They were issued in Canada as part of some sort of board game, so emphasis was not on the design. The set is a gold mine for non-sports first cards.

Originally Posted by BillyCoxDodgers3B (Post 2454412)

I'm in Canada. What was the game called? I'll be sure to scour every thrift store I'm in.

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth (Post 2455688)

1930s Brazilian issue of Ray Bolger that I think may be his first card. Despite the Wizard of Oz, there are very few contemporaneous cards of Bolger, and almost none of Jack Haley or Bert Lahr, for some reason.

Originally Posted by BillyCoxDodgers3B (Post 2455703)

Is it perhaps due to Bolger being the most well known of the trio at the time? I feel like, many years later, Bolger would be the one that most people could name above the others. Bolger and Margaret Hamilton have to be the best known besides Garland.

I'll always remember Clara Blandick because of the rarity of her autograph.

Originally Posted by h2oya311 (Post 2456912)

That Alfred E Newman is fantastic!!

Originally Posted by frankbmd (Post 2446640)

Frank "still waiting for my rookie card" Burkett


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Originally Posted by Yoda (Post 2457010)

Peter, your collection of non-sports cards is terrific. I particularly like the young Churchill, which proves he had hair at one time in his youth. Is it rare?

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth (Post 2444027)

Basketball too given the huge gaps in production prior to 1969. 1948, 1957, 1961 so lots of "RCs" of players 5, 6 years into their careers.

Originally Posted by KJA (Post 2457078)

And then the gap in production in the 80's so 1986 Fleer set had quite a few RC's of players who weren't really rookies like Jordan. Unless you count the STAR releases.