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Originally Posted by G1911
This is exactly what it was in sports too; a speculative hype train started by those who stood to profit if people bought in on the sales pitch,
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Eeh, maybe not so much when "rookie" cards first became a thing in sports cards. At that time, there was Topps. And that's it. There was no problem identifying Pete Rose's 1963 card as his rookie card, as there were no other cards that it could possibly be. There were no chase subsets, no parallels, nothing else to speak of. You simply identified the first card that a player appeared on, and 90%+ of the time, it was by default the rookie card.
All the hyping of one card over another came later, in the 1980s, as the number of cards proliferated.