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Posted By: davidcycleback

The hobby doesn't considered them proofs. 'Proofs' is just a nickname. The T3 Turkey Reds aren't literally cabinet cards. And Rube Marquard wasn't a Rube. He was born and raised in the big city.

Maybe someone once marketed them as proofs and the name just stuck.

Related to Rube, I remember when an American reporter asked a Dominican Republic player to translate what fellow Dominican Bartolo Colon was saying. After listening to Colon speak for a little bit, the player told the reporter, "I can't. He's a hillbilly."