[GregMitch34]

Thanks, and there are many other areas to analyze, such as the higher percentage of mid-grade or better cards for some stars (see Lajoie and, far down the list, Jennings, for example). If collectors are mainly out to get some sort of example of each card, they can just look at total pop for guidance, but if looking for a decent or high grade it's often a different matter. There are plenty of Eddie Collins cards out there, for instance, but not so many at higher levels (and fewer than for Jennings, whose population is half of Collins'). And so on. Then there's the matter of less popular HOFers being tougher to find, such as Wheat and Carey and Huggins and Jennings and Marquard. Their prices have always been depressed but now take on new life as "scarcity" counts for more and more...