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Originally Posted by darwinbulldog
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.
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I don't know how else to explain this to you. I interpreted the question as being "what was the first iteration of the modern baseball card" and that to me means distribution. You don't have to buy Topps at one bakery in Buffalo, just like you didn't have to buy your OJ cigarettes at one store in any one city. If the word national bothers you, then look beyond the semantics of the word and see the words widely distributed.