1989 Score Supplemental Football Forum

Why Are these marked as XRC ??? Topps Traded from the same year are marked with regular RC designation .

XRC would be incorrect on any card, it is a false acronym for a false card. If you have to report it as an innacuracy report to have it repaired. XRC is an after market term with no real value. Its simply a rookie year card that someone is trying to make money from.

Edit: Realized you asked "why" and not "what", so you can ignore my comment

If you click the "Glossary" for a set you can see any note abbreviations that have been added [1]. In this case, the description for XRC is "Extended Rookie Card".

[1] https://www.tcdb.com/GlossaryS.cfm/sid/3244/1989-Score-Supplemental

Totally agree.  Wish this database would remove any reference to "XRC".  A rookie card (RC) is a rookie card is a rookie card.  There's no such thing as an "extended" rookie card.  If any traded/update cards are actual RCs, then they should be noted as such. 

I've also noticed the term "pre-rookie card" being used more and more.  How soon before we see "PRC"?

"Pre-Rookie Card" is a more sensible term than "Extended Rookie Card". It's typically used for minor league, junior, or team sets which pre-date a player's first card in a licensed major league set.

Upper Deck would also sometimes include redemption cards for the following season's rookies in some products. So, for example, in the 2002-03 season you could pull redemption cards for 2003 draft picks such as LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, which could not be redeemed until after the 2003 draft. PRC would be a logical description for those too, since their rookie cards were part of the 2003-04 sets.

Any card of a player releaed prior to what has been designated by licensees as a Rookie Card is either a Prospect card, or minor league card. There have been too many rules put into place regarding how card companies name RCs and the like, mostly due the explosion of product. Bowman has been highlighted as a culprit due to their confusing '1st Bowman' and other stamps across the line.

Calling a card 'XRC' is like comic books releasing issue #0 years after a series began - it's all about money.

Maybe I am just not too bright but I always understood the term XRC to mean that was the players first card in that major release that was not in the regular release. For example a 1989 Topps Traded Ken Griffey Jr XRC as opposed to a 1989 Fleer Ken Griffey Jr RC because there was no Griffey in the base release from Topps in 1989 so the term never confused me. I always understood that in order to be an RC it had to be issued in a major base yearly card set that is why parallels and inserts are not considered RC's even if the are issued in the same year. But as I said maybe I am just not too bright.

Didnt Beckett mark the 1985 Mark McGwire card as an XRC? I remember all the arguments about the 1987 Topps not being his rookie back in the day.

Almost. XRC in the past was used to mark something released before thier official RC. An example can be Barry Bonds. His 86 Topps Traded is marked as an XRC, but his RCs are really in the 87 issues. Using your Griffey example, his 89 Topps Traded is actually marked as a RC.

Which leads back to the OPs point. Example, the Allen Pinkett card is listed a XRC, but he has cards issued in the regular Pro Set and Topps sets from this year. So yes, there is an inconsistency. 

jmkidd wrote:

Maybe I am just not too bright but I always understood the term XRC to mean that was the players first card in that major release that was not in the regular release. For example a 1989 Topps Traded Ken Griffey Jr XRC as opposed to a 1989 Fleer Ken Griffey Jr RC because there was no Griffey in the base release from Topps in 1989 so the term never confused me. I always understood that in order to be an RC it had to be issued in a major base yearly card set that is why parallels and inserts are not considered RC's even if the are issued in the same year. But as I said maybe I am just not too bright.

I just went and looked.  Why are all the collegiate Team USA cards marked "RC"?

https://www.tcdb.com/Notes.cfm/sid/103/1985-Topps?Note=OLY