What is Feller's True American Rookie?

[bcbgcbrcb]

So again, we are back to....the only 3 items mentioned in this thread that are "cards" and qualify for rookie card status are the Goudey Wide Pen, OPC and 4-on-1 Exhibit. If we take it a step further, only considering American "cards", we are down to 2, Goudey Wide Pen and Exhibit. Both are essentially the size of a standard postcard. Before debating whether a postcard should be considered a "card", remember the exorbitant prices being paid these days for the 1925 Exhibits Lou Gehrig. Do you think this would be happening if the hobby did not consider that card to be Gehrig's rookie card?

[JLange]

I was really hoping the 1936 Boston American Sport Stamp of Bob Feller would surface on this thread. I have not seen one before.

Here's a larger pic of the 1937 Cleveland Press Indians Album Bob Feller cutout - maybe its not in the running for Feller's US rookie card, but still one heck of a collectible.

[The Nasty Nati]

Originally Posted by bcbgcbrcb

So again, we are back to....the only 3 items mentioned in this thread that are "cards" and qualify for rookie card status are the Goudey Wide Pen, OPC and 4-on-1 Exhibit. If we take it a step further, only considering American "cards", we are down to 2, Goudey Wide Pen and Exhibit. Both are essentially the size of a standard postcard. Before debating whether a postcard should be considered a "card", remember the exorbitant prices being paid these days for the 1925 Exhibits Lou Gehrig. Do you think this would be happening if the hobby did not consider that card to be Gehrig's rookie card?

Yeah, I guess the conclusion is the American rookie is the Goudey Wide Pen and 4-on-1 Exhibit.

[MikeGarcia]

Originally Posted by The Nasty Nati

Yeah, I guess the conclusion is the American rookie is the Goudey Wide Pen and 4-on-1 Exhibit.

..Stretching the definition of "card" , there's this 1937 Dixie Ice Cream Premium ; this is a pre-production printers' proof /office copy which was preserved by a family in New Jersey many years ago ; note that there are no punched holes in the left border ; there are salesmens' samples that show up once in a while but they are from a spiral-binder and have about twenty-five small perforations on the extreme left edge. The first small Feller Dixie lids were I believe 1938.....I guess we could say this is his rookie premium ?? I love this hobby.....

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[seattlerainiers]

Hope I'm not derailing the thread too much from the original topic, but here are a few more of the Sports Stamps from West Coast papers, including DiMaggio, Jessie Owens from 1936, and a some PCL player and manager examples.

[Exhibitman]

Didn’t know the west coast examiner papers did the stamp cards too. Now I gotta chase some new Joe Louis types!

Can anyone show the Canadian and American creamy type Greenberg cards side by side? I am wondering which I have.

As for Feller rookies, I’d vote for the 1936 newspaper cards. I’ve always thought of them as cards. I have the Exhibit so I am voting against my financial interests. Though I am definitely targeting the wheaties next. Love that series.