Rookie Card Overload

What Player has the most official Rookie Cards?
Why it's Jose Ariel Contreras, who had 56 cards during 2003. 

• Contreras, Jose Ariel (56)


• Ishii, Kazuhisa (51)


• Matsui, Hideki (50)


• Taguchi, So (48)


• Suzuki, Ichiro (46)


• Webb, Brandon (44)


• Bonderman, Jeremy (43)


• Matsui, Kaz (42)


• Valdez, Merkin (42)


• Longoria, Evan (42)


• Matsuzaka, Daisuke (41)


• Verlander, Justin (40)


• Fukudome, Kosuke (40)


• Pujols, Albert (39)


• Shinjo, Tsuyoshi (39)


• Redman, Prentice (39)


• Hammock, Robby (38)


• Padilla, Jorge (37)


• Haren, Dan (37)


• Brazell, Craig (36)


• Barmes, Clint (36)


• Hochevar, Luke (36)


• Kata, Matt (35)


• Weeks, Rickie (35)


• Howard, Ben (34)


• Wang, Chien-Ming (34)


• Towles, J.R. (34)


• Betemit, Wilson (33)


• Reyes, Rene (33)


• Logan, Nook (32)


• Miller, Andrew (31)


• Igawa, Kei (31)


• Hernandez, Adrian (30)


• Calloway, Ron (30)


• Young, Delmon (30)


• Ordonez, Magglio (29)


• Uribe, Juan C. (29)


• Machado, Anderson (29)


• Baker, Chris (29)


• Izquierdo, Hansel (29)


• Wagner, Ryan (29)


• Guzman, Elpidio (28)


• Ennis, John (28)


• German, Franklyn (28)


• Rosario, Rodrigo (28)


• DeVore, Doug (28)


• Bechler, Steve (28)


• Villarreal, Oscar (28)


• Ford, Lew (28)


• Niemann, Jeff (28)


• Gordon, Alex J. (28)


• Frederick, Kevin (27)


• Johnson, Reed (27)


• Wellemeyer, Todd (27)


• Iwamura, Akinori (27)


• Kennedy, Ian (27)


• Kershaw, Clayton (27)


• Wilson, Jack Eugene (26)


• Backe, Brandon (26)


• Komiyama, Satoru (26)


• LaForest, Pete (26)


• Price, David (26)


• Burrell, Pat (25)


• Almonte, Erick (25)


• Gibbons, Jay (25)


• Escalona, Felix (25)


• Willingham, Josh (25)


• Balentien, Wladimir (25)


• Ramirez, Alexei (25)


• Hafner, Travis (24)


• Snead, Esix (24)


• Smith, Bud (24)


• Estrada, Johnny (24)


• Beltran, Francis (24)


• Almonte, Edwin (24)


• Griffiths, Jeremy (24)


• Gosling, Mike (24)


• Lincecum, Tim (24)


• Melian, Jackson (23)


• Ensberg, Morgan (23)


• Ruan, Wilkin (23)


• Kane, Kyle (23)


• Snyder, Earl (23)


• Puffer, Brandon (23)


• Cueto, Johnny (23)


• Diaz, Juan (22)


• Simontacchi, Jason (22)


• Thornton, Matt J. (22)


• Duncan, Jeff Matthew (22)


• Hansen, Craig (22)


• Devine, Joey (22)


• Johjima, Kenji (22)


• Snider, Travis (22)


• Darvish, Yu (22)


• Duckworth, Brandon (21)


• White, Matt Edward (21)


• Cook, Aaron (21)


• Cerda, Jaime (21)


• Castro, Nelson Daniel (21)


• Rabelo, Mike (21)

Delmon Young and Troy Tulowitzki both have the highest, non-Beckett-recognized RC cards with 40. Delmon has 30 RC recognized by Beckett and Tulo only has 4. 

• Young, Delmon (40)


• Tulowitzki, Troy (40)


• Votto, Joey (38)


• Bruce, Jay (38)


• Kouzmanoff, Kevin (34)


• Ramirez, Hanley (31)


• Liriano, Francisco (31)


• Perkins, Glen (31)


• Montero, Miguel (30)


• Lind, Adam (30)


• Gonzalez, Carlos E. OF (30)


• Verlander, Justin (29)


• Baker, Jeff (29)


• Hermida, Jeremy (28)


• Hughes, Phil (28)


• Buchholz, Clay (28)


• Papelbon, Jonathan (27)


• Bourn, Michael (27)


• Sweeney, Ryan (27)


• Hamilton, Josh (26)


• Hu, Chin-Lung (26)


• Willingham, Josh (25)


• Zimmerman, Ryan W. (25)


• Pence, Hunter (25)


• Jackson, Conor (24)


• Johnson, Josh Michael (24)


• Arias, Joaquin (24)


• Barton, Daric (24)


• Hernandez, Anderson (23)


• Fowler, Dexter (23)


• Kinsler, Ian (22)


• Cain, Matt (22)


• Hamels, Cole (22)


• Lewis, Fred (22)


• Fields, Josh (22)


• Humber, Philip (22)


• Henn, Sean (22)


• Balentien, Wladimir (22)


• Uggla, Dan (21)


• Weaver, Jered (21)


• Chico, Matt (21)


• LaRoche, Andy (21)


• Rasmus, Colby (21)


• Kuo, Hong-Chih (20)


• Denorfia, Chris (20)


• Fielder, Prince (20)


• Anderson, Brian N. (20)


• Ethier, Andre (20)


• Butler, Billy (20)


• Pie, Felix (20)


• Clement, Jeff (20)
  
  
  
  
  The most combined Rookie cards go to Delmon Young:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Delmon Young	70
  Justin Verlander	69
  Wladimer Balentien	57
  Jose Ariel Contreras	56
  Kazuhisa Ishii	51

  
  Info from Beckett.com
  
  

MLB Team History Date Chart

Here's a nifty graph of each team's name and location history.
Make's for a good visual illustration of what you see on baseball-reference.com or baseball-almanac.com.

Just click the image: