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Posted By: Chad

The oldest card is the rookie card regardless of league or distribution or rarity. Of course, the next question is what's a card? Are exhibits and cabinets cards? If so, or if not, that changes a lot of rookie designations. Really, we will never ever never have agreement on either of these questions. We'd have to be rounded up and zapped with a mind control probe to get any kind of consensus. It would be just as fun to try to determine the best card of every HOFer and just as futile. (Just a thought, but maybe once a week we could have a thread on a HOFer just to get an idea of which card is sort of maybe considered the most desirable by a small plurality of vintage collectors. It'd be fun to watch the Mathewson and Cobb threads at the very least.)

--Chad