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Posted By: Hal Lewis

Zach:

As is mentioned in this thread several times...

a player can have MORE THAN ONE rookie card.

In modern days, players have a "traded" set rookie and a "normal" rookie in the following year's set.

Some people count BOTH as rookie cards... but some people only count one... and some only count the other.

That's one example.

Another example is with "Exhibit" cards and "Postcards"...

where some people consider them to be real rookie cards and other people do not.

A third example is with "pre-rookie" cards... where some people are free to consider them rookie cards while others do not.

That having been said...

there are some people who will NOT consider the Alleghany cards to be rookie cards because only one set was supposedly ever found.

Fine. They can think whatever they want. Free country.

I, on the other hand, choose to count them.

This "helps" my collection with Bresnahan and Brown... but it "hurts" my collection with Tinker and Evers since I can't find them.

If I were truly interested in "slanting" the facts in my favor, I would just NOT count the Alleghany cards as real... because THEN I would be able to get the Tinker and Evers rookie cards as well.



As for the "Just So" Cy Young card, OF COURSE it is his rookie card.

But that doesn't mean that there cannot be another rookie card for the same player that meets different criteria.

"First Card from a Nationally Distributed Set"