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[Featured Thread] Vintage Corner: One Example of a Non-Main Stream Rookie Card- Ryne Sandberg
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gracecollector
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Don Zimmer's first card was in a Cuban set, 1952 Victoria, pre-dating his Topps rookie card by 3 years.
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Everyone knows about Canseco's 1986 Donruss rated rookie, and because of his popularity from the 80's and 90's, many know about his pre-rookie releases as well, but I'm sure many have forgotten. (Not my pics)
Did you know he had a 1985 Burger King card?
Or a 1984 Chong's Card (From Sequoia Supermarket ... "Biggest little supermarket in town"
Or even a 1983 Fritsch Card (East town mall ... "More of everything you want".
Did you know he had a 1985 Burger King card?
Or a 1984 Chong's Card (From Sequoia Supermarket ... "Biggest little supermarket in town"
Or even a 1983 Fritsch Card (East town mall ... "More of everything you want".
caster513
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Kenny Lofton played basketball for the Arizona Wildcats and was in the team sets from 85-89. Here is a card from the 88 set, the year they went to the final four. The cards were sponsored by the Tucson police department.
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JoshHamilton
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The 1983 Thorn Apple Valley set also features Joe Carter, which predates his rookie card by a year.
Speaking of Cubs, the 1989 Donruss Baseball's Best set features Sammy Sosa one year prior to his "official" RC cards
KLARNOLD
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1990 Coca Cola White Sox Team set features rookies of Frank Thomas and Sammy Sosa
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1990-Coca-C...744989?hash=item58c9fa485d:g:CwAAAOSwDNdVuOcs
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1990-Coca-C...744989?hash=item58c9fa485d:g:CwAAAOSwDNdVuOcs
George_Calfas
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1947 Stan Musial Bond Bread is another pre-rookie issue with tough corners.
gamecockfanatic
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my personal favorites are actually in a different sport (basketball) and feature a pair of my south carolina game****s standouts...
brian winters was first featured in the 1974-75 lakers datsun set a year before he made his official rookie-card appearance in the 1975-76 topps set.....
winters then appeared on four cards in the 1976-77 milwaukee bucks playing card set which featured an even more prominent pre-rookie....alex english , the top scorer in the nba in the 80's , saw his first four cardboard appearances in this set long before his official rookie card came along in the 1979-80 topps set...fwiw , alex also appeared in another regional set (1977-78 milwaukee bucks action photos) two years before his first mainstream issue.....
brian winters was first featured in the 1974-75 lakers datsun set a year before he made his official rookie-card appearance in the 1975-76 topps set.....
winters then appeared on four cards in the 1976-77 milwaukee bucks playing card set which featured an even more prominent pre-rookie....alex english , the top scorer in the nba in the 80's , saw his first four cardboard appearances in this set long before his official rookie card came along in the 1979-80 topps set...fwiw , alex also appeared in another regional set (1977-78 milwaukee bucks action photos) two years before his first mainstream issue.....
Heh heh, I actually have the Ryne Sandberg Red Lobster card that would probably grade a PSA 8. There's also a team photo card with Sandberg from the same set; I think I have one listed on COMC. Some other oddball rookies I own include the 1986 Mothers Cookies Jose Canseco & Will Clark and the 1989 Ken Griffey Jr. Also the beautiful 1990 White Sox Coke RCs of Frank Thomas & Sammy Sosa. And last but not least is a nice 1985 7-11 card of Kirby Puckett. There's a couple of Greg Maddux oddball RCs from 1987 that I'm sort of interested in, namely the David Berg hot dogs and the extremely tough Canon. Too bad they appear to be oversized cards.
Those two Madduxs are oversized. I have the Dawsons from those sets.
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I can't find the product but isn't there a Reggie card from '68?
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DaClyde
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Much like Ozzie Smith, Dave Winfield also had a team issued "card" from the year before his mainstream rookie. Before Family Fun Centers started sponsoring the team issue cards in 1977, Dean's Photo Service had been doing it for several years, resulting in this oversize 1973 issue:
DeliciousBacon
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Dave Concepcion has a card in the 1967 Topps Venezuelan set 4 years before his 1971 Topps RC. Not to give Topps credit, as I doubt they had any idea the star he would become, but it's a smart choice to put him in there. Bobby Cox has a card in the same set, if I'm not mistaken.
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mchenrycards
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Great card of a pre-rookie rookie. I think it took so long to issue a card of Stand The Man because there just was not much in the way of card issues when Musial made his debut in 1941. The war effort did not allow for much in the way of paper products to be made at that time. Today it would be unheard of to have a player of Musial's caliber not have a mainstream rookie until after six years of his debut.
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mchenrycards
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Much like Ozzie Smith, Dave Winfield also had a team issued "card" from the year before his mainstream rookie. Before Family Fun Centers started sponsoring the team issue cards in 1977, Dean's Photo Service had been doing it for several years, resulting in this oversize 1973 issue:
This and the Ozzie card are exact examples of the type of pre-rookie cards I am speaking of. These cards feature the player in their MLB uniform and are issued by MLB approved outlets.
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mchenrycards
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I really like posts like this. That Smith card is sharp.
It's a lot more famous than the 82 Red Lobster, but Bond Bread beat Bowman and Leaf by a year or more.
I am drawing a mind blank here but are there not two versions of this card? Is there a rounded corner and square corners version. Do you have any information on this?
cbrandtw
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This 1957 Sohio Gas Cleveland Indians rookie card of Roger Maris beat Topps by a year.
cbrandtw
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Here's an example of a Kahn's Weiners rookie card that someone referred to earlier. 1956 Kahn's Frank Robinson rookie beat his 1957 Topps "rookie" by a year.
