what is the difference between and XRC and RC???

[gioperation]

what is the difference between and XRC and RC???
and is there difference in pricing?

any help for me on this?

[pwaldo]

Originally posted by gioperation
what is the difference between and XRC and RC???
and is there difference in pricing?

any help for me on this?

I think XRC means a card like 1985 Topps McGwire.

Its one that was made before his other cards were produced by other companies.

His 87 cards are still considered RC but only his 85 is XRC.

[BGray]

XRC means extended rookie card.

So it is part of a series that is not part of the regular set.

BGray

[gioperation]

so which one is more valuable if it is???

which one came first the chicken or the egg??

or the xrc or the rc and what constitutes and auctual rookie, I am starting to hate baseball rookie, hell they have rookies come out 5 years before they reach the big leagues. I miss the days when you didn't get a card until after you played a year in the big leagues...It is so confusing.

[pwaldo]

Originally posted by BGray
XRC means extended rookie card.

So it is part of a series that is not part of the regular set.

BGray

Is that like a Topps Traded?

[podstock]

re: XRC vs RC

Back in the good ol' days of the 1980s, when you just basically had Fleer Topps Donruss (and Sportflics), you had companies releasing one set for the upcoming year.

For example, each card company would have their 2003 sets out for folks to collect.

Then, the baseball season would begin, rookies would play who weren't expected to be playing; minor leaguers would get called up and make big contributions.

So, what the card companies would do is release an extended set for that year, for instance, the Topps 2003 Extended set. Normally, there's about 132 cards --- usually of rookies, and players traded during that season.

So, you could have a rookie who didn't have a card made of him during the regular 2003 set; but then the rookie started making big contributions, and the card companies decided to make the rookie a baseball card of him, and place it in the Extended set.

That is how you have 1986 Barry Bonds Topps XRC, and a 1986 Donruss Rookies, and the like.

Normally, the XRC is worth much more than the RC, since XRC is really the player's rookie card

Look at the prices for 1986 Topps Traded Barry Bonds XRC and then look at the Barry Bonds RC 1987 Topps.

Nowadays, the mass production of so many different cards by so many different companies pretty much creates massive confusion.

[gioperation]

wow, that was the info I was looking for so I have a couple of factory sets of like 2000 fleer tradition updates and a couple of 2000 topps traded and rookies, now would that mean I have XRC in these sets