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Originally Posted by Buythatcard
Since we are on the subject of Rookie cards. Has anyone ever noticed that Beckett.com has all the 33 Goudeys designated as Rookie Cards.
What's up with that?
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In 2006, Beckett published "The Ultimate Rookie Card Encyclopedia", with some pretty silly criteria for what counts as a "rookie card" for pre-WWII players. Among other things, this led them to designate the 1933 Goudey Babe Ruths as his "rookie" cards, and I believe the same was true of the other players in 1933 Goudey. It looks like they must still be using those criteria on Beckett.com, even though nobody takes that seriously any more. Here is a thread about that book from three years ago, including a mea culpa post from Rich Klein, who worked on the book when he was at Beckett. I'm not sure if Rich has anything more to say about it now.
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=181414