Baseball HOF Complete Set
NickM
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Currently, the set is only supposed to include cards from the player's career. However, the set makes exceptions on Babe Ruth and Honus Wagner, both of whose 1948-49 Leaf cards are eligible.
Should these exceptions be permitted?
Are there other exceptions that should be permitted?
Possible examples:
1951 Connie Mack All-Stars (Mack is eligible, no one else in the set is, and the cards are certainly comparable in value to many playing-days cards of most of these players)
1940 Play Ball retired HOFers featured on cards - Mathewson, Johnson, Speaker, etc., with people as newly retired as Frankie Frisch (retired 1937) included.
1933 Goudey Eddie Collins (retired 1930)
Here are a few more difficult to justify examples that some might want included:
1950 R423 (mix of retired and current players on strip cards)
1959 Topps Roy Campanella Symbol of Courage card (retired after 1957 season).
I'm sure there are plenty more examples of recently retired players being included in pre-war sets, but I can't think of any at the moment.
Nick
Should these exceptions be permitted?
Are there other exceptions that should be permitted?
Possible examples:
1951 Connie Mack All-Stars (Mack is eligible, no one else in the set is, and the cards are certainly comparable in value to many playing-days cards of most of these players)
1940 Play Ball retired HOFers featured on cards - Mathewson, Johnson, Speaker, etc., with people as newly retired as Frankie Frisch (retired 1937) included.
1933 Goudey Eddie Collins (retired 1930)
Here are a few more difficult to justify examples that some might want included:
1950 R423 (mix of retired and current players on strip cards)
1959 Topps Roy Campanella Symbol of Courage card (retired after 1957 season).
I'm sure there are plenty more examples of recently retired players being included in pre-war sets, but I can't think of any at the moment.
Nick
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Hall of Famers from all 4 sports
I realized that 1967 Topps Venezuelan retirados would be another possible exception.
Personally, I would do entirely without exceptions, as I think about it.
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<< <i>If you allow for, say, a 1940 Play Ball Mathewson card instead of a T- or E- card, why not a 2004 card? That won't make it easier to complete but this sort of set should be hard. >>
I agree! I could complete this set in a month with cards that aren't ten years old. I like the challenge of finding cards during their playing days. Is it tough? Is it more expensive? Do Isettle for lesser grades?Yes to all of the above. But that's the fun!
Players like Cool Papa Bell, or owners that had no cards made in their era should be the only exceptions. This way the set could actually be completed.
My two cents,
Jim
Edited because I'm a lousy typist...