Feller rookie?

[Baseball Rarities]

Derek - that is an awesome list. I only follow a few players and issues that your webpage covers, but your information really accurate in those instances. The work that you and Phil Garry have done with these "first collectible" and "rookie" lists is really appreciated.

I would suggest that you create a new thread where people could comment and add to it.

[Exhibitman]

Do non-USA cards belong on a rookie card list for MLB players? I totally get the issue with NL players who, but how is a card not issued in the USA the RC of an MLB player when he has USA issued cards, e.g., Al Lopez's 1930 Baguer instead of his 1927 die-cut or 1951 Bowman? If a foreign issue counts, why not count team issues that were at least issued somewhere in the USA? And if one PC counts, don't all PCs count?



this cut from the back of a box is a card?



But these cuts from a newspaper are not (1949 Philadelphia Bulletin cards)?



They were intended to be cut out and saved as baseball cards.

I don't mean to be nit-picky, but it just seems that drawing the line based on materials or size alone is arbitrary.