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Originally Posted by MVSNYC
People get too hung up on whether or not this card is his rookie card or not. Fact is the 51 Bowman is his true rookie card, and the 52 Topps is his first Topps card...all that aside, the 51 Bowman cannot touch the importance, popularity and level of icon status, that the 52 Topps embodies. Whether it's called a rookie or a cookie...people know what they're buying.
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Houston, we have a problem. This discussion just got complicated. If we call a 52 Mantle a cookie, what do we call this?....
Cookie.jpg
or for that matter this?....
Cookie too.jpg
But that's not all, how about....
Mookie.jpg
and
Mookie 2.jpg
If Wilson is the A Mookie, would Betts be the B Mookie?
Chronologically, in the Cookie case, Lavagetto would be the A Cookie, but now you want to call Mantle the B Cookie instead of Rojas who is a true Cookie. Oy vey. Calling Mantle a C Cookie seems demeaning and I'm not buying it.
And that's just the beginning,
Where does this guy fit in
Pookie.jpg
or this this one
Nookie.jpg
If Mickey is a Cookie, what do you call a Nookie?
but i digress
The 51 Mantle is the Rookie
The 52 Mantle should not the Cookie (A, B or C)
Maybe we should just call the 52 Mantle a Wookie Card.
Wookie.jpg
Nope, that won't work either.
