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Posted By: davidcycleback

They are matchbooks, not cards. Like Sweet Caporal pins and 1969 Topps stamps, they are collected by card collectors so are close associates to cards. Card-like would be an acceptable label ('They aren't cards, but they're like cards.')

The definition of a trading card or baseball card requires that something be a card in the physical sense (a business card is a card, a YMCA membership card is card). A pin physcally isn't card. Even if priced in the Standard Catalog, a 1969 Sports Illustrated 3x2' poster phyiscally isn't a card. And a matchbook, even if collected by sports card collectors, isn't physically a card.

Whether or not I agree with them, I know avid baseball card collectors who don't consider T3s trading cards as they feel them too large to be cards in the physical sense. They might buy and enjoy owning T3s, but don't consider them cards.