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Candace Parker
2008 · Rittenhouse WNBA Rookies · #R1
Parker’s Rittenhouse WNBA Rookies issue is cataloged with the lettered number R1.
- Sport
- Basketball
- Year / season
- 2008
- Set
- Rittenhouse WNBA Rookies
- Number
- #R1
- Format
- Card
- Issue status
- Rookie card
About this card
Candace Parker’s 2008 Rittenhouse WNBA Rookies card is number R1 in that release. Rittenhouse Archives held the WNBA card license for several seasons, so its sets are a main source of WNBA cards from the 2000s and 2010s.
The catalog labels this a rookie card, based on the source cited below.
How to identify it
Record the brand, year and number together: the same player often has several similar cards from one season, and the number alone can point to the wrong one.
In Candace Parker’s run
Candace Parker has 2 entries in this catalog, from 2008 to 2019, and this is the earliest of them. Nearby entries are listed below, so you can compare the releases that sit around this one.
In the 2008 checklist
This is the only entry from the 2008 Rittenhouse WNBA Rookies release in the catalog so far. The full release has more cards; this page covers the one cataloged here.
What to know about this issue
- PSA’s Hall of Fame rookie checklist identifies Parker at R1.
- Keep Rookies in the set name and the R prefix in the card number.
Inspect the source
Source reviewed 2026-10-07. The source describes this issue; it does not verify any item offered by a third party.
No assigned grade, market value or verified offer is supplied by this reference entry.
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The issue stays 2008 · Rittenhouse WNBA Rookies. These are research checks, not a condition assessment of a specimen.
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