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Old 09-15-2023, 04:30 PM
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Default DEBATE/DISCUSSION: Baseball Card or Not? Steve Mesner's Batting Range

As the title says...is this a baseball card or not?

The following card is roughly the size of a business card on thicker glossy card stock than you would expect for a business card and pictures Steve Mesner himself. The look of this card probably dates this to the 1950's to perhaps the 1960's at the latest.

The card itself was good for a free game at his baseball batting cage or store? which was located (I believe) in San Diego, CA. (Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.)

I have had it for a while and it has always occupied a space in my collection somewhere between "baseball card" and something else... that being said I am not sure if it is just the size that makes me fee that way as it was a promotional item given out to the public with a player/former player pictured for a business. That typically is what constitutes a card.

Regardless...open to fun discussion on it. LMK what you think.
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Old 09-15-2023, 04:51 PM
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Seems as much a card as most other advertising and promotional items.

For the most part, it seems like the hobby has decided to cast a pretty wide net in terms of what counts as a card, and anything remotely close gets included. As long as it's not too gigantic, and has a player's likeness on it, we'll take it.
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Old 09-15-2023, 08:18 PM
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Since you had to turn it in to receive a prize, I would call it a coupon, not a baseball card. Baseball cards are meant to be collected, IMO.
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Old 09-15-2023, 09:27 PM
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Since you had to turn it in to receive a prize, I would call it a coupon, not a baseball card. Baseball cards are meant to be collected, IMO.
I get what you’re saying, and I really don’t disagree. But sometimes they can be combo deals as well, part coupon, part card. And sometimes it might start life as a coupon, but we start collecting them anyway. A few examples.
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Says "Card" right on the front...so therefore, it must be a "card".
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Old 09-16-2023, 09:28 AM
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Oh, if I could only go back to the 80's, when I first started doing shows and Exhibits were dirt cheap because nobody yet considered them "Baseball Cards".

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A good combination Chevy Corvette and Mays
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Says "Card" right on the front...so therefore, it must be a "card".
There you have it! 🤣

Baseball Card it is.
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Not a baseball card.
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Old 09-26-2023, 07:49 PM
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Is it really a baseball card? No, of course not. Is it as much a baseball card as a bunch of other things in our collections? Damn right. I have a Super Ball with Davey Johnson's image in it. It was catalogued in either Beckett or Lemke's. So, yeah, no reason to exclude yours.
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Um, no.


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Close enough for me.
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