How do you tell if baseball rookie cards are rookie cards?

Answer 1

A Rookie Card is a players first year of cards, weather or not it is his rookie season. Players may have one or dozens of rookie cards, depending on how highly touted he was as a youngster and in which year his rookie card was issued. You cannot tell if you have a rookie card by any marking on the card, as some might. You would have to look up a check lists for a particular card company to see what year the first card was issued.

Answer 2

A rookie card is the players first year of cards, whether or not it is his rookie season. Players may have one or dozens of rookie cards, depending on how highly touted he was as a youngster and in which year his rookie card was issued. To find out what card is the players rookie card you might have to check a price guide. A rookie card is generally applied to a player's first appearance on a Baseball card of major card manufacturers like Donruss, Fleer Upper Deck, or Topps. Price guides like Beckett, and Tuff Stuff denoted rookie cards with either a R or RC by a player's name. Designated by the major price guides a card is considered to be a XRC if it was released in an extended or limited set outside of the regular issued set of the major company. Most often once a player was drafted and prior to a player's first major league appearance.