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Originally Posted by Snapolit1
I think the term “rookie”’ is absurd in this context.
Hypothetically a guy performs on stage or screen for a dozen years and then ends for the first time on a card or similar item …. That ain’t a rookie anything. It’s a first something.
If Joe Biden or Willie Nelson ended up on a card this year for the first time, would someone with a straight face claim that as a “rookie” something?
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Baseball rookie cards aren't dependent on a player's rookie or debut season. It's just the first time they have a card in an MLB set. Like Jeter's 1993 RCs when he didn't debut until 1995 and his rookie season was 1996. Hamlet didn't get a card until the 1880s, almost 300 years after the play was written. But everyone knows this is his rookie card.
Everyone.
