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Old 06-21-2021, 09:36 AM
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My personal rule for dealing with modern is that if the card you're on refers to you as a prospect in some way then that's not your rookie card, whether it appears in a major league set or not. You are still a minor leaguer and nobody becomes a major league rookie until they debut.

First Bowman cards are almost always part of a prospect subset. Many early 90s Topps cards referred to the players as draft picks, etc. Your true rookie card is the first card issued of you after you make your major league debut.
So 60 Topps is not Yaz' rookie, that's hard to take.
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