
This card was part of a 2008 team set put out by the Newark Bears, who Rickey played for during parts of the 2003 and 2004 seasons. At the end of the set were a couple of black & white cards that featured famous Newark Bears alumni. I'm not sure how it managed to allude me for the past two years, but I had never even seen one until someone offered to sell me the card in an e-mail about a month or so ago.

The Newark Bears have been on pretty shaky financial grounds the past few years, and were bought out of bankruptcy by new management in 2009. I don't know the print run on the 2008 sets, but I don't believe many of them were produced, and have heard that any remaining sets might have been destroyed when the new management took over.
Here's a list of all of Rickey's other Minor League cards (at least, until another one pops up that I didn't know about):
1977 Modesto A's
1979 Ogden A's
1989 Modesto A's
2003 Atlantic League All-Stars
2003 Newark Bears
2004 Newark Bears
2008 Newark Bears
3 comments:
Check with Dave Weber over at minorleaguesingles.com and ask him for a list of Rickey Henderson minor league cards (Dave keeps a big database if all minor league issues he can uncover). If any more exist, Dave would know about them, he's been a big help with my Meulens, Howitt and Rhodes collections.
Thanks for the suggestion Jason, believe it or not, I actually got this card from Dave! He did send me a list of the minor league Rickey's (this is the only one that was a surprise to me), and he was the only one willing to split up the sets and sell them as singles. Definitely a great resource!
Is there a card for his time in the Puerto Rican Profesional Baseball League?
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