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Baseball cards have been issued in magazines for decades. I have cards from about 50 different publications. For an oddball post today, I am featuring nine cards that were all cut from magazines.

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1986 Baseball Cards Magazine Repli-Cards #1 Don Mattingly (Baseball Cards Magazine first hit the newsstands in 1981 and was published by Krausse Publications. By 1986 they were inserting "repli-cards" into the magazine that could be cut out and collected. This Mattingly card designed after a 1951 Topps card was in a 1986 edition. These cards are not recognized by Beckett probably due to BCM being a competitor.)
1990 Sports Illustrated for Kids I #158 Ken Griffey Jr. BB (Sports Illustrated for Kids magazine is a spin off from Sports Illustrated and was first published in 1989. Each issue contains a sheet of sports cards that are perforated and cover a variety of sports. I was in my 30s when I discovered SI4K and subscribed. The magazine obviously is geared towards kids to generate interest in sports but I subscribed just for the cards. I would skim through the magazine, cut the cards out and then give the magazine to my young son.)
1991 Legends Sports Memorabilia #91 Kirby Puckett (Legends Sports magazine first arrived on the scene in 1988 and was an ultra-high quality, limited edition known for its inserts of sports cards bordered in silver or 24 kt. gold, in-depth profiles and lively features. Many issues also included postcards of athletes featuring some of the best sports artwork. These are also not recognized by Beckett.)

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1991 Topps Magazine #49 Cal Ripken (For four years from 1990 to 1993, Topps produced their own magazine, each including  four or eight cards per issue that were perforated for removal.)
1992 Cartwright's Players Choice #26 Mike Piazza (Cartwright's Journal of Baseball Collectibles debuted in 1992 and each issue contained two to four pages of cards that could be cut out. This Piazza card is a pre-rookie card that is not recognized by Beckett.)
1992 Sports Card News #36 Cool Papa Bell (Alan Kaye’s Sports Card News and Price Guides began publication in the early 1990s and included free cards designed to entice subscribers as this was the era of the promo card rage. This tobacco themed card was one of a set of Negro League stars I cut out in 1992. Yet another plethora of cards unrecognized by Beckett.)

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1993 Ballstreet News #NNO Lou Gehrig (In 1991 Ballstreet Journal published their first issue. Parodying the name of the Wallstreet Journal, Ballstreet was a price guide that included free cards. These are not recognized by Beckett either.)
2005 Entertainment Weekly #NNO David Ortiz (Working in television for 30+ years keeps me informed on the news, sports and entertainment fronts. There were several years where I subscribed to Entertainment Weekly just so I could be more "in the know" on what was happening entertainment-wise. There were a couple of issues during the time I subscribed that featured baseball cards. In 2005, one magazine featured repli-cards of some Boston Red Sox players following their historic 2004 World Championship. The only Theo Epstein card I have is one of these. This particular card is printed on regular magazine paper stock so is very thin. I cut out the cards and laminated each of them to make them more "card-like". My thought was that most people would not cut them out and save them making them much more rare.)
2006 Upper Deck Tuff Stuff #5 Derek Jeter (Tuff Stuff magazine out of Richmond, Virginia was a chief competitor to Beckett and unlike Beckett would list price guides for baseball, football, basketball, ice hockey, golf and auto racing all in one magazine. Upper Deck produced this Jeter card for Tuff Stuff which may be why Beckett actually lists it in its OPG.)