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Set with the most HOF Rookie Cards?

RookieWaxRookieWax Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭
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Just doing some quick research of older sets I am very familiar with, I counted 5 probable HOFers in the 1991 Bowman set: Chipper, Thome, Mussina, I-Rod, Bagwell. The other set that could potentially top this is the 1999 Bowman Chrome set with Holliday, Hamilton, Soriano, Sabathia, Dunn, Crawford. Many of these guys have a ways to go though to reach potential HOF status, especially Soriano. Please chime in with any newer sets I missed (I pretty much stopped collecting newer cards after 2000, when the number of short-printed and autographed rookies boomed to ridiculous levels).

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  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,622 ✭✭✭✭
    '69 Topps basketball is the king of HOF rookies sets. For football, '84 Topps and '89 Score both have a boatload. '81 OPC is pretty big for hockey. As for baseball, '65 Topps has 4 cards (Hunter, Perez, Carlton and Morgan).
    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • justmichaeljustmichael Posts: 1,048


    << <i>'69 Topps basketball is the king of HOF rookies sets. For football, '84 Topps and '89 Score both have a boatload. '81 OPC is pretty big for hockey. As for baseball, '65 Topps has 4 cards (Hunter, Perez, Carlton and Morgan). >>


    1957 Topps has Brooks Robinson,Frank Robinson,Don Drysdale,Bill Mazeroski and Whitey Herzog.1975 Topps baseball now has 4 HOF rookies.
  • jeffcbayjeffcbay Posts: 8,950 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>'69 Topps basketball is the king of HOF rookies sets. For football, '84 Topps and '89 Score both have a boatload. '81 OPC is pretty big for hockey. As for baseball, '65 Topps has 4 cards (Hunter, Perez, Carlton and Morgan). >>


    1957 Topps has Brooks Robinson,Frank Robinson,Don Drysdale,Bill Mazeroski and Whitey Herzog.1975 Topps baseball now has 4 HOF rookies. >>



    1957 has six HOF RCs (you missed Jim Bunning)
  • Nascar360Nascar360 Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭
    How about some racing? Four of the five are in and the other will be in soon. They are all autographed!
    1998 SP Authentic Mark of a Legend

    Forgot, they are all numbered out of 220!
  • jeffcbayjeffcbay Posts: 8,950 ✭✭✭✭
    Also 1949 Bowman has six: Roberts, Campanella, Wynn, Ashburn, Snider, Lemon.
  • Nascar360Nascar360 Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭
    1988 Maxx (All rookie cards):
    Current HOF:
    RICHARD PETTY
    DARRELL WALTRIP
    BOBBY ALLISON
    CALE YARBOROUGH

    Future HOFers:
    DAVEY ALLISON
    RUSTY WALLACE
    RICHARD CHILDRESS
    MARK MARTIN
    BILL ELLIOTT
    ALAN KULWICKI
    DALE JARRETT
    TERRY LABONTE
    BENNY PARSONS
  • jradke4jradke4 Posts: 3,573 ✭✭✭


    << <i>'69 Topps basketball is the king of HOF rookies sets. For football, '84 Topps and '89 Score both have a boatload. '81 OPC is pretty big for hockey. As for baseball, '65 Topps has 4 cards (Hunter, Perez, Carlton and Morgan). >>



    really 69....at last count the 57 topps set has over 20 rookies in the HOF.
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  • eagles33eagles33 Posts: 2,684 ✭✭✭
    Gotta mention 86 fleer basketball. Jordan, malone, mullen, ewing, wilkins, barkley, hakeem, drexler, thomas ect..
    Scans of most of my Misc rookies can be found <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://forums.collectors.com/m...y&keyword1=Non%20major">here
  • al032184al032184 Posts: 1,146 ✭✭✭
    89 Donruss; Griffey, Johnson, Schilling, Sheffield, Smoltz, Biggio, Vizquel (possible)
  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,622 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>really 69....at last count the 57 topps set has over 20 rookies in the HOF. >>



    The OP asked about "newer" sets, so I disregarded any anything pre-1960.
    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • bigreddogbigreddog Posts: 1,156
    1972 TOPPS FOOTBALL RULES!! Staubach, Riggins, Larry Little, Ted Hendricks, Charlie Joiner, Emmitt Thomas, Gene Upshaw, Ron Yary, Rayfield Wright


    LC Greenwood should in the HOF. Rounding the set out with 10 HOF rookies. Jim Plunkett ? possible #11
  • bobbyw8469bobbyw8469 Posts: 7,145 ✭✭✭
    Like someone else said, I would think the 1986 Fleer B-Ball set would be up there.....
  • kingnascarkingnascar Posts: 636 ✭✭✭


    << <i>1988 Maxx (All rookie cards):
    Current HOF:
    RICHARD PETTY
    DARRELL WALTRIP
    BOBBY ALLISON
    CALE YARBOROUGH

    Future HOFers:
    DAVEY ALLISON
    RUSTY WALLACE
    RICHARD CHILDRESS
    MARK MARTIN
    BILL ELLIOTT
    ALAN KULWICKI
    DALE JARRETT
    TERRY LABONTE
    BENNY PARSONS >>



    This is a great set for rookies and HoFers.
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  • otwcardsotwcards Posts: 5,291 ✭✭✭
    Shouldn't we dismiss sets that have a "catch up" aspect to them. '86 Fleer has "extra" RC's because there weren't any basketball cards produced after 1981 (similarly '57 Topps and '69 Topps Basketball)... Some of the other sets mentioned are the same or are initial releases that catch up on "rookies" that aren't really rookies.

    Using that criteria, I'm pretty sure that the 1972 Topps Football is the winner.
  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,622 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Shouldn't we dismiss sets that have a "catch up" aspect to them. ' >>



    Who let you in here? image
    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • EchoCanyonEchoCanyon Posts: 2,298 ✭✭✭


    << <i>89 Donruss; Griffey, Johnson, Schilling, Sheffield, Smoltz, Biggio, Vizquel (possible) >>



    IMHO. Schilling is NOT making the HOF
  • scmavlscmavl Posts: 1,409 ✭✭✭
    Not exactly "newer", but '51 Bowman has some serious star power. Not the most but definitely some of the best.

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    2.5 is pretty much my speed.
  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,622 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>IMHO. Schilling is NOT making the HOF >>



    Bet you 5 PSA 10 Schilling rookies that he will! He may not be first ballot, but definitely within 5 years of the time he's eligible.
    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • fkwfkw Posts: 1,766 ✭✭
    13 HOF Rookies in one set.........

    1887 N172 Old Judge Cigarettes

    Cap Anson
    Jake Beckley
    John Clarkson
    Chas Comiskey
    Ed Delahanty
    Hugh Duffy
    Pud Galvin
    Sliding Billy Hamilton
    Cornelius McGillicuddy (C.Mack)
    Tommy McCarthy
    Bid McPhee
    Kid Nichols
    Amos Rusie
  • cardsnbeadscardsnbeads Posts: 870
    The 1955 Topps All American Set is Loaded with Hall of Famers Rookies with Rookies there is 8 or 9 Pro Football Hall of Famers and 2 Guys that are Basketball Hall of Famers Hanson and Stagg that is their Rookie. Most the Players are College Football Hall of Famers and probably 60 Rookies of College Football Hall of Famers. The 1952 Bowman Football and 1948 Bowman and Leaf Football are also great sets for rookies. How about the T-206 with Wagner and practically every ballplayers' rookie is in this set of 523 cards. Nothing comes close to the T-206 in terms rookies.
  • cardsnbeadscardsnbeads Posts: 870
    Nothing beats the T-206. Wagner, Cobb, Plank, Tinker, Chance, Chesboro, Walsh, Young, Mathewson,Lajoie,Wheat, Waddell, Speaker, Willis, McGraw, McGinnity, Joss, Johnson,Jennings,Huggins,Griffith,JimmyCollins,Eddie Collins,Evers,Brown,Clarke,Bender,Baker,Flick,Breshnahan,Wallace.
  • CollectorAtWorkCollectorAtWork Posts: 859 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Nothing beats the T-206. Wagner, Cobb, Plank, Tinker, Chance, Chesboro, Walsh, Young, Mathewson,Lajoie,Wheat, Waddell, Speaker, Willis, McGraw, McGinnity, Joss, Johnson,Jennings,Huggins,Griffith,JimmyCollins,Eddie Collins,Evers,Brown,Clarke,Bender,Baker,Flick,Breshnahan,Wallace. >>



    Actually, that's not correct. Amazingly, T206 only contains one true rookie card for a HOFer, Zach Wheat. Here is the link the true rookie card for every HOF baseball player: HOF Rookie Card List
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  • ToroToro Posts: 1,515
    Football has some nice modern sets.

    1984 Topps (10 with potential)
    John Elway
    Dan Marino
    Eric Dickerson
    Dwight Stephenson
    Howie Long
    Andre Tippet
    Darrell Green
    Rickey Jackson
    Jackie Slater
    Russ Grimm
    -Morten Anderson (likely)
    -Roger Craig (maybe)

    1989 Score (8 with potential)
    Barry Sanders
    Troy Aikman
    Derrick Thomas
    Deion Sanders
    Rod Woodson
    Michael Irvin
    Thurman Thomas
    Bruce Matthews
    Tim Brown
    Cris Carter

    2004 SP Authentic (Potential or HAD potential)(By no means do I believe anyone in this group is a lock for the HOF,just potential)
    Ben Roethlisberger
    Philip Rivers
    Steven Jackson
    Eli Manning
    Larry Fitzgerald
    Wes Welker
    Matt Schaub
    Jared Allen (ehhh)
    Bob Sanders (injuries cost him)
    Michael Turner (injuries cost him)

    2007 (High Potential) (Comprised of players who have put up consistently great numbers since 2007)
    Adrian Peterson
    Patrick Willis
    Darrelle Revis
    Joe Thomas
    Lamarr Woodley
    LaRon Landry (had a breakout 2010 but injuries shortened his season)
    Calvin Johnson (potential)
    Jamarcus Russell image



  • jradke4jradke4 Posts: 3,573 ✭✭✭
    98 SP Authenic Football

    Peyton Manning
    Fred Taylor
    Randy Moss
    Charles Woodson
    then...
    Ahman Green
    Stephen Alexander
    Keith Brooking
    Takeo Spikes
    Greg Ellis
    Vonnie Holliday

    overall not a bad group for only a 126 card set. SP sure picked some good rookies to highlight (we will forgive them the Leaf and Griese cards).
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  • jamesryanbelljamesryanbell Posts: 1,108 ✭✭✭
    Wonder what TOPPS BASEBALL set has the most current HOF rookies in it?
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  • DavemriDavemri Posts: 2,011 ✭✭✭
    57 Topps has the most of all baseball with 5.

    FINISHED 12/8/2008!!!
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  • verb1verb1 Posts: 102
    Honorable mention to 1996 Topps Chrome:

    Iverson
    Kobe
    Nash
    Ray Allen
  • fkwfkw Posts: 1,766 ✭✭


    << <i>Nothing beats the T-206. Wagner, Cobb, Plank, Tinker, Chance, Chesboro, Walsh, Young, Mathewson,Lajoie,Wheat, Waddell, Speaker, Willis, McGraw, McGinnity, Joss, Johnson,Jennings,Huggins,Griffith,JimmyCollins,Eddie Collins,Evers,Brown,Clarke,Bender,Baker,Flick,Breshnahan,Wallace. >>



    Not even close.... Wheat and Speaker only! Many of the players you listed were playing in the 19th Century... T206 came out in 1909.
  • TabeTabe Posts: 6,201 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Shouldn't we dismiss sets that have a "catch up" aspect to them. '86 Fleer has "extra" RC's because there weren't any basketball cards produced after 1981 (similarly '57 Topps and '69 Topps Basketball)... Some of the other sets mentioned are the same or are initial releases that catch up on "rookies" that aren't really rookies. >>


    I'm with you. I know they're "rookies" but I just don't consider the rookies from the '86 Fleer basketball set to be of the same "type" as rookies like a '75 Brett.

    Tabe
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