Lost in the rookie card shuffle

[sportscardtheory]

What do you do with the "in-between" cards that the rookie card rules have created? What are they considered, second year or pre-rookie cards? Take for instance, the 2008 Bowman Chrome David Price auto... it's not his first year ML card (2007), but it's not a "true" rookie card according to the dumb ass rules. 2007 Evan Longorias? So they just sit there in rookie card purgatory. First year ML cards...second year ML cards...and a guy could easily have third year ML cards... rookie card. It's so f-ing AGGRAVATING and completely senseless what they have done!

 

[Huffamaniac]

I don't care what MLB or anyone else says, the first year a card is made is their rookie card.

 

[sportscardtheory]

I don't care what MLB or anyone else says, the first year a card is made is their rookie card.

Well you SHOULD care. All those second, third and then "true" rookie cards are only lowering the prices of your first year cards by flooding the market with cards that are considered by the general public to be real rookie cards. If Evan Longoria didn't have all the 2007 and then the 2008 "true" rookie cards, the 2006's could possibly be double what they are now. It's a severely flawed system, and as a collector/seller you should care.

 

[uniquebaseballcards]

Could you explain the choices better? Which shall we choose if we think RC logo cards should be RCs?

 

[ThoseBackPages]

Collectors are not concerned about dollar figures

 

[sportscardtheory]

Collectors are not concerned about dollar figures

I don't believe that for a second. There is no way anyone wouldn't care if their collection was worthless if they paid money for it.

 

[ThoseBackPages]

Collectors are not concerned about dollar figures

I don't believe that for a second. There is no way anyone wouldn't care if their collection was worthless if they paid money for it.

Then you are bound to be unhappy in this world of baseball cards.

 

[200lbhockeyplayer]

The lines have completely been blurred on "rookie" and where value is, and we have the MLB "Rookie Card" logo to thank for this.

Topps has simply learned to work around the restrictions by releasing an "insert" set into their Bowman products, and then add Donruss and their usage of "rookie" with their unlicensed products.

It's a mess, and the general public treats this in a much different fashion than our limited community here.

 

[sportscardtheory]

Collectors are not concerned about dollar figures

I don't believe that for a second. There is no way anyone wouldn't care if their collection was worthless if they paid money for it.

Then you are bound to be unhappy in this world of baseball cards.

I'm quite fine thank you. I have a stash of 2,000 Gregg Gefferies cards in my basement, do want to give me $5,000 for them? Since you don't care about a cards value and all...

 

[ThoseBackPages]

Collectors are not concerned about dollar figures

I don't believe that for a second. There is no way anyone wouldn't care if their collection was worthless if they paid money for it.

Then you are bound to be unhappy in this world of baseball cards.

I'm quite fine thank you. I have a stash of 2,000 Gregg Gefferies cards in my basement, do want to give me $5,000 for them? Since you don't care about a cards value and all...

it's Jefferies. i think this is the second time you failed to spell his name correctly in an attempt to slight me.
Anyway, i really doubt you have them and are trying to make some kind of hideous point.

 

[sportscardtheory]

it's Jefferies. i think this is the second time you failed to spell his name correctly in an attempt to slight me.
Anyway, i really doubt you have them and are trying to make some kind of hideous point.

You're catching on. My point is, you stated that people don't care about a cards value... that is false on nearly every level. Even a player collector that pays a dollar for a card has just made that's card value a dollar... I'll never agree that that person would be HAPPY selling it for fifty cents later on down the line. Unless they are going into your grave with you, you care about the value of your cards relative to what you paid.

 

[ThoseBackPages]

ok, i will admit that i for got to add the "Not all" tot he beginning of my original statement.

Not all Collectors are concerned about dollar figures.

 

[ThoseBackPages]

btw, Gregg Jefferies was not a MLB "bust"

 

[sportscardtheory]

btw, Gregg Jefferies was not a MLB "bust"

Who said he was?

 

[ThoseBackPages]

btw, Gregg Jefferies was not a MLB "bust"

Who said he was?

Many people equate the name Gregg Jefferies with "failed prospect"

 

[sportscardtheory]

btw, Gregg Jefferies was not a MLB "bust"

Who said he was?

Many people equate the name Gregg Jefferies with "failed prospect"

I know he was a good player for many years... I was only using him as an example.

 

[i43770]

Not trying to hijack your thread, but didn't really feel that this needed a new topic with this one here. On that note:

Why is it when MLB changed what a "rookie" is, people don't care and believe what they want. But when Beckett has been calling some "first year cards" XRC, people have accepted that and considered the players following year cards as rookies?

 

[sportscardtheory]

Not trying to hijack your thread, but didn't really feel that this needed a new topic with this one here. On that note:

Why is it when MLB changed what a "rookie" is, people don't care and believe what they want. But when Beckett has been calling some "first year cards" XRC, people have accepted that and considered the players following year cards as rookies?

Are there other topics like this that I missed?

 

[i43770]

Not trying to hijack your thread, but didn't really feel that this needed a new topic with this one here. On that note:

Why is it when MLB changed what a "rookie" is, people don't care and believe what they want. But when Beckett has been calling some "first year cards" XRC, people have accepted that and considered the players following year cards as rookies?

Are there other topics like this that I missed?

No, I was saying my question didn't need a new topic with yours on here.

 

[sportscardtheory]

Not trying to hijack your thread, but didn't really feel that this needed a new topic with this one here. On that note:

Why is it when MLB changed what a "rookie" is, people don't care and believe what they want. But when Beckett has been calling some "first year cards" XRC, people have accepted that and considered the players following year cards as rookies?

Are there other topics like this that I missed?

No, I was saying my question didn't need a new topic with yours on here.

Oh, I thought maybe I missed it...