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identify7I do not see this quite so easy, Mark. Specifically, when a player's first issued card comes after his actual rookie year, then it is no longer his rookie card, imo. As has been discussed before, Musial's initial card was issued in his fifth year of major league play. This is not so good. But some other players have had their first card issued after they had been playing in the majors for more than a decade. Jim O'Rourke is one example of this - he was 35 years old when his "rookie" card was issued, and he had been playing for about 15 years. Now this is way worse than the Musial example.
I won't yet touch on the subject of "what is a card" since apparently each collector sets his own criteria.