[jefferyepayne]

Originally Posted by DezHood

I would agree with David. When I was a kid, if "rookie" card was documented someplace, I certainly didn't know about it. We had Fleer, Topps, and Donruss so the way I thought about it was looking at the first card in each and if there were ties i.e. 2 companies issued an 81 card and the 3rd not until 82, I considered both 81s rookies.

The only relevance I see to what someone says is a rookie is the Set Registry - something like HOF rookie set - someone made that call, but you can obviously choose not to collect the set if you disagree with the designations. The one caveat is - and I have no idea if the data bears this out - but logically if more people are collecting the 33 Grange because they are going along with the crowd, demand is higher, so the price might actually be more than one of the earlier cards.

Finally, if you throw the word rookie out the window, it would be interesting if someone could say which Grange card was first - I didn't even know those 1926 cards existed, so it isn't me.

As far as I know, no one is sure which card in 1926 was produced first. There isn't a lot of good information about some of these sets and when they were produced.

jeff