Card Identification Forum

I believe this set (1988 Hattiesburg American Southern Miss Golden Eagles) qualifies to be listed, but I have not noticed another set like it (i.e. cut from a newspaper), so just looking for opinions, and if "no", why not.  I don't see anything that disqualifies it in the FAQ's for the site (but could have missed something).  And there are certainly more questionable sets on the site (ones cut from milk cartons that just have a player's sketch with only a drawing of the player-not an actual picture, ones cut from magazines with no names or data just a picture (not inserts), etc.).

The set was issued over the course of a couple of weeks prior to the 1988 college football season.  The newspaper advertised them (i.e "Collect them all").  They were randlonly spread throughout the newpaper and had to be cut out of the paper.  Fronts of cards as noted in the picture shows the player photo along with some demographic data and stats if they had played the previous season.  The backs were meaningless as they just had whatever happened to be on the other side of the newspaper page.  I beleive there were 70 cards in the set.  The cards are on "newspaper stock" paper, so thin but not really much thinner than other sets on the site like Jay's Publishing baseball card photos.

Open to thoughts inclusion.  I'll add a checklist unless someone can point me to a reason as to why not.  Thanks for the help.

Note: I made one edit to my original post - its from 1988, not 1989.

My opinion is yes, they belong.  That's bad news for you.  Nobody ever agrees with my opinion!!

Ha!!  Thanks!

Leaning no (not made by a card company, not sold by retailers, not graded by PSA), but I'd like to hear from others

1960 Baltimore News-Post Baltimore Orioles Scrapbook Cards

1960 Baltimore News-Post Baltimore Orioles Scrapbook Cards these were printed in the newspaper and were to be cut out and they're listed. Not sure if it is the same thing though.

Thanks for all the feedback. 

It does indeed look like the 1960 Baltimore News-Post set is the same/similar.  So thanks for identifying that one.

On the other concerns noted above, while I understand those concerns.  Not sure I would agree with the "not sold by retailer" concern.  Technically they were sold by retailers as you could buy the paper at the local convenience store through the cashier no different than buying a carton of milk with a football player's picture on it. Obviously a lot of people got them home delivered or through a newspaper vending machine but personally, I bought my newspaper at the local convenience store next to my college dorm.  Plus every SGA set ever is not sold by retailers, except on the secondary market, including ones that were made by local printers, not card companies.

Also, the not made by a card company concern, there are literally hundreds of sets not made by "card companies" listed on the site (virtually every food issue before 1992; plenty of minor league and college sets are made by local printers like this one made by the local newspaper; heck there are even matchbook covers on the site; and of course milk caps and coke caps).

Not PSA graded.  Did not know that was a requirement to be listed, and not sure how one would know if PSA would grade them or not as PSA probably does not even know the set exists yet (its from a Mississippi city of about 40,000 in 1988).  I am sure if enough people sent them in, PSA would not turn down the cash.  And if they don't grade them, I still don't know that it should matter as I would not think their business model covers everything on this site (i.e. coke caps on this site, PSA does not grade them).

So the stats are from his senior year which would be 1983. Did the set include players through 1988 or 1989?

I am truly torn on this "set". The first thing I notice about it is that is obviously was cut from a newspaper.  The back of the "card"  is a list of graduating seniors.  Is there even a way to compile a checklist for this "set"?  I doubt PSA would grade the cards, but to my way of thinking that doesn't disqualify it from being listed.  I guess if there are examples of other things similar to it listed, then by all means throw it on the site and let admin decide to keep it.

The site is for trading cards. Trading cards made by anyone are included.

When an item is not a trading card, that's when we look to see if it was made by a card company. Your "examples" of non-card company items re not valid for this argument. They are cards, so of course they are included.

These do not look to meet the criteria of being included here. Ed has laid out the reasons why already.