Players with no official Rookie Cards

[JoshHamilton]

How does everyone stand on UD Team USA cards?

RC or not?

I still don't understand how anyone could ever honestly see a USA card, a minor league card or an unlicensed card as a true RC. RCs have always been a ML licensed card at the very LEAST.

"Be careful with 'always'," says a certain 1985 Mark McGwire card.

McGwire was in a base Topps set. The UD USA cards are not

 

[sportscardtheory]

How does everyone stand on UD Team USA cards?

RC or not?

I still don't understand how anyone could ever honestly see a USA card, a minor league card or an unlicensed card as a true RC. RCs have always been a ML licensed card at the very LEAST.

"Be careful with 'always'," says a certain 1985 Mark McGwire card.

McGwire was in a base Topps set. The UD USA cards are not

Plus it was in a ML licensed base set.

 

[uniquebaseballcards]

How does everyone stand on UD Team USA cards?

RC or not? Smoak had one in 2007.

I still don't understand how anyone could ever honestly see a USA card, a minor league card or an unlicensed card as a true RC. RCs have always been a ML licensed card at the very LEAST. I mean, is a 2006 Just Minors Jesus Montero a "true" RC when his first ML card is 2008 and his first RC card will be 2011 or 2012? I don't see the majority of collectors thinking that. It's certainly his earliest appearance on a card and is an awesome collectible, but a TRUE RC it is not.

There's no such thing as "TRUE RC", the word 'true' only reinforces the notion that the hobby can't agree on the definition of a RC.

Licensing doesn't have anything to do with when a player becomes a rookie, or when a player's first card is issued, licensing only says the manufacturer paid a licensing body a fee. So what? Although some may not like unlicensed cards, it doesn't mean unlicensed cards - - or perhaps even more importantly cards missing certain licenses and possessing others (like Bowman...) - - aren't worth collecting. Licensing bodies and Beckett may tell you otherwise, but who cares?

An unlicensed rookie card is just that - an 'unlicensed rookie card'. A "licensed MLB RC" to me possesses BOTH an MLB *and* MLBPA* license, a "licensed MiLB RC" possesses a MiLB license. A card showing a MiLBer that has no license is an "unlicensed MiLB card". A card that shows a MiLBer but has a MLB license is a mess that can be anything people want it to be :?