2006 Upper Deck Baseball Forum

The following cards with "Rookie Card" logos on the front also have VARs without the logos (all confirmed between here and COMC):

24 Conor Jackson (AZ)
101 Rich Hill (CHC)
214 Luke Scott (HOU)
264 Prince Fielder (MIL)
394 Matt Cain (SF)

Before we add cards to the base checklist, does anyone recall if the different ones may have been distributed a different way? Like one was distributed in hobby packs and the other was fat packs, or something similar?

I was the one that entered these as I have both copies in hand.  I checked the back of the cards and there don't appear to be any differences that would make things more obvious, like the copyright date or anything.  This is an "issue" that appears to be unique to Series 1.  All of the Series 2 cards I have seen that are rookies have the Rookie Card logo.  The following rookie cards are from Series 1 and I can only find them missing the Rookie Card logo.  Correct versions *may* exist from these, but I cannot locate any searching comc or my own collection:

I checked my collection and none of my five have Rookie logos (only the Series 2 Jackson and Fielder have logos for me), which is why I wanted to see where the ones with logos came from.

Just saw a video of someone opening an S1/S2 combo fat pack box and he pulled a Luke Scott with the logo, so I'm wondering if Hobby didn't have the logo and Retail did?

I wish I could help with this.  I wasn't collecting at the time and I'm just now filling in holes.

2006 was the year MLB implemented the RC logo. I don't know the timing, but could it be that Topps already had cards produced before the official logo was implemented. And once the logo was implemented they altered the plates to add the logo.

That's possible. Series One also had a misnumbered card that was corrected in the Fat Packs, so maybe the change was in there. The irony is these aren't rookie years/cards for any of the five (2002 Cain/Hill, 2004 Jackson, 2005 Fielder/Scott).

As if the use of the "Rookie Card" logo wasn't already stupid and inconsistent, I know that at least Rich Hill has two '06 UD base cards (#101 and 979) that BOTH include the logo:

 

Yup, Fielder and C.Jackson were a similar situation