[ripkenfan72]

I consider them to be true rc's also, only because they are a base card in a base set, even though they are inserted into packs of a different set's cards.

You have to have the same amount of refractors to make a complete set, that you have to have to make a complete set of the regular chrome, that makes refractors a stand alone set in my opinion.

But Beckett only recognizes them as inserts.

I think I am with many members on here and consider a player's rookie year card a RC. I'm not much on politics and assigning titles. I love to collect and it is cool to have any 1st year card of a player.