DEBATE/DISCUSSION: Baseball Card or Not? Steve Mesner's Batting Range

[raulus]

Seems as much a card as most other advertising and promotional items.

For the most part, it seems like the hobby has decided to cast a pretty wide net in terms of what counts as a card, and anything remotely close gets included. As long as it's not too gigantic, and has a player's likeness on it, we'll take it.

[swarmee]

Since you had to turn it in to receive a prize, I would call it a coupon, not a baseball card. Baseball cards are meant to be collected, IMO.

[raulus]

Originally Posted by swarmee

Since you had to turn it in to receive a prize, I would call it a coupon, not a baseball card. Baseball cards are meant to be collected, IMO.

I get what you’re saying, and I really don’t disagree. But sometimes they can be combo deals as well, part coupon, part card. And sometimes it might start life as a coupon, but we start collecting them anyway. A few examples.

[D. Bergin]

Says "Card" right on the front...so therefore, it must be a "card".

[D. Bergin]

Oh, if I could only go back to the 80's, when I first started doing shows and Exhibits were dirt cheap because nobody yet considered them "Baseball Cards".

A good combination Chevy Corvette and Mays

[rhettyeakley]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Says "Card" right on the front...so therefore, it must be a "card".

There you have it! 🤣

Baseball Card it is.

[BearBailey]

Not a baseball card.

[Section103]

Is it really a baseball card? No, of course not. Is it as much a baseball card as a bunch of other things in our collections? Damn right. I have a Super Ball with Davey Johnson's image in it. It was catalogued in either Beckett or Lemke's. So, yeah, no reason to exclude yours.