[Featured Thread] Vintage Corner: One Example of a Non-Main Stream Rookie Card- Ryne Sandberg

[birdsfan85]

Pretty much all earlier hofers have a card that came before their Topps or Bowman release just depends what you classify as a card because many are exhibits and post cards. Here is a link to a site I found a few years ago that lists first cards for each player, if you click on each player it shows a scan of each card and lists some of their other early cards.

http://www.oldcardboard.com/ref/rookies/rookieslist.asp

 

[KLARNOLD]

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?

I was thinking the same thing. Here is the other 1947 Bond Bread:

 

[mchenrycards]

This 1957 Sohio Gas Cleveland Indians rookie card of Roger Maris beat Topps by a year.

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I have been in this hobby for the better part of 40 years as a dealer, collector and store owner and I can so I have never seen this card. Very very cool!!

 

[RStadlerASU22]

I was thinking the same thing. Here is the other 1947 Bond Bread:

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Wasn't there a 13 card set in 1947 of just Jackie? Recall reading about it on PSA.

Ryan

 

[DeliciousBacon]

 

[BBCgalaxee]

1972 Puerto Rican league

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[BBCgalaxee]

1979 Sports Illustrated "faces in the crowd" Mattingly

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[r2d2]

I used to own this Rickey Henderson stamp from his 1978-79 Mexican Winter League season. I have not seen another single stamp or album in existence: