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Old 03-29-2013, 10:25 PM
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Originally Posted by paul View Post
I can't name any off-hand, but I would think quite a few players made their way onto a Topps multi-player rookie card without ever appearing in a major league game. Also, in the early 90s, all the card companies started coming out with cards of "players" who had just finished high school and were sent to play Single A ball. It was part of the rush by the card companies to have the earliest pre-rookie card of promising young players. I'm sure that many of these guys never made it to the majors, but haven't done the research to identify any of them.
I don't follow 1990s cards, but I think Michael Jordan appeared on a baseball card, and he never got higher than Double A.
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