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Originally Posted by packs
Yes, because there would have been no such thing as a baseball card. That's like saying would I consider a computer from 2019 the first version of any computer ever so long as none existed before it.
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Very good then. We're in agreement. Why then should it only be in the hypothetical/counterfactual example that a card that was not nationally issued would be considered the first baseball card but not so in reality?
And to answer your questions:
"In the realm of the first card and the idea that there must be one universal definition of a card to talk about cards at all, what relationship does a CDV or a cabinet card have with the modern baseball card?"
Mainly that it meets some but not all of the criteria that make up the usual checklist for classifying something as a baseball card.
"If you consider a CDV to be a baseball card, does that make a T206 not a card?"
No.
"Does that make the modern card not a card?"
No.