Rookie Cards! Enough said. As each new season rolls
around Cowboy fans and collectors anticipate a new crop of Dallas
Cowboy players to root for. The card
companies take the top
prospects for each team and start producing cards. The
first
lot of these cards are known as 'ROOKIES'. For card collectors
it does not get
any better than Rookies! True Rookies. Sometimes the term Rookie is over or misused. By definition,
a Rookie is the
1st card produced for a player per brand. Each
card company or card brand will
have their own rookie cards
for each player. Today a player can have upwards
of 100 Rookie
cards! But that was not always the case.
In the pre-card craze era (before 1989), you only needed to
collect one card
per player to have all of your favorite players
rookie cards. In fact, you only
needed to worry about 1, maybe
2, cards of your favorite player per year!
Today things have
snowballed so much that most collectors have not chance
in getting
all of their favorite players rookie cards, no chance! Our Favorite
players of the past, Bob Lilly, Roger Staubach, Tony Dorsett,
Randy White,
each had only 1 Rookie card, getting one of each
is simple, no longer cheap
but simple to find! When Troy Aikman
and Emmitt Smith came along things
started to change, Troy Aikman
has 3 different Rookie cards and Emmitt
Smith has 5. Still fairly
simple, but today's rookies of Terence Newman or Roy Williams
will have upwards of 100
different Rookie cards produced. Good
luck getting them all!
