HOF RC Boxing List - WTB and looking for suggestions

[boxingcarddigest]

Fitzsimmons has a pre-Mayo rookie card-an Old Judge. It is a rare card but it predates the Mayo

I've been looking for that card for years - one day I will find it

[miklia]

wow, looking at old threads it appears that the N174 is next to impossible. Do you guys think it's too tough for a simple RC list like this?

[boxingcarddigest]

wow, looking at old threads it appears that the N174 is next to impossible. Do you guys think it's too tough for a simple RC list like this?

Well considering only about 2 have ever been seen, then I would think so

[oldjudge]

The rookie card is the rookie card. Completing the set should not enter into the criteria.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by oldjudge

The rookie card is the rookie card. Completing the set should not enter into the criteria.

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

[miklia]

wow, thanks for all of the great tips (and pics)! A couple of followup questions then:

1) Do you guys consider the Exhibits 'cards'? Or for that matter, things like the Rekord cut-outs? I've heard others often say (on other boards) that 'photos' or 'paper' shouldn't be included..

2) There are several players who have multiple RCs for a given year. With an eye on subbing to the PSA/SGC registry, should they all be included, or only the 'best'?

[miklia]

That Ray Robinson Exhibit is outstanding, btw.