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Originally Posted by oldjudge
The rookie card is the rookie card. Completing the set should not enter into the criteria.
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So true yet so painful...
Gene Tunney has a 1922 Exhibit.
Benny Leonard has a 1921 Exhibit.
I don't have a record of a Sharkey earlier than 1928.
United Tobacco is a 1941 or 1942 issue; the album for the set has a write up that describes Louis as having defended the title 19 times.
Sugar Ray Robinson is in a prewar Exhibit issue
Joe Louis is in a 1935 Brown & Bigelow issue:
Also a 1935 Detroit Free Press issue:
Homicide Hank Armstrong is in a 1930s Exhibit issue that probably predates the Cartledge issue
John Henry Lewis is in that issue too.
This is Cassius Clay's 1st American card, early 1960s Exhibit:
Ingo Johanssen is in the 1958 Heinerle issue from Germany