How do rookie cards for Baseball work?

[cjb]

When you buy a box of upper deck series 1/2/ext hockey you get 6 Young Guns/Rookie cards per box.

How does this work for Topps baseball series 1/2/update? Are their rookie card short printed too?

[30ranfordfan]

May want to check with someone in the baseball forum for firmer info..... but my understanding:


The whole concept of "True Rookie Card" carrying some kind of premium (i.e. the big name base YGs typically sell for more than their Canvas variations) is something that you only see in hockey. for those Topps rookies in baseball, variations (rarer the better) are always more popular than the base version.

Adding to that, I don't believe the base versions of a rookie card are inserted in any different ratio than regular base cards.


Someone please comment if I'm wrong :)

[pwaldo]

How does this work for Topps baseball series 1/2/update? Are their rookie card short printed too?

Nope they are in the same quantity as everything else. You can even buy a complete set of series 1 and series 2 at Wal Mart every year for like 50 bucks. There is really nothing special about any one card versus the other in the basic Topps set.

[bakemeister52]

So true @pwaldo! I think that why Hockey Young Guns/Rookies is why love Hockey collecting so much over the Topps Baseball product!

Bake