Earliest Collectibles of Baseball Hall of Famers

[Matt]

This oversized PC with an early image of Ross Youngs is contemporary with the Baseball Magazine Premium on your list (it is a bit more "card"-esque).

[ksfarmboy]

Phil, there is an earlier image of Beckley on this Lincoln cabinet. Not sure which one he is off hand but if I find the catalog this came out of I'll post it.

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by ksfarmboy

Phil, there is an earlier image of Beckley on this Lincoln cabinet. Not sure which one he is off hand but if I find the catalog this came out of I'll post it.

Beckley is on the far right in the middle row.

[Butch7999]

Fantastic research, Phil. Kudos on the Herculean effort.
Question: almost every item seems to be a card, postcard, or photo, although you describe the list as including "collectibles" -- do games count? Red Barber's Big League Baseball Game dates to 1950...

[bcbgcbrcb]

Thank you very much for the latest updates, guys. I will update my master list at the beginning of this thread accordingly. Any more suggestions are always welcomed.

[novakjr]

I notice that this list seems to include the Frick award winners...Why not add the Spink winners as well?

[bcbgcbrcb]

David:

Good observation. Where I have found collectibles for them, the Spink Award winners have already been included, ie- Tim Murnane, etc. They tend to be much tougher to locate than the Broadcasters.

[novakjr]

Originally Posted by bcbgcbrcb

David:

Good observation. Where I have found collectibles for them, the Spink Award winners have already been included, ie- Tim Murnane, etc. They tend to be much tougher to locate than the Broadcasters.

Cool, I didn't notice Murnane. With the Spink winners, do you think a book written by them would be applicable? I've got a signed first edition of "Don't knock the Rock" by Gordon Cobbledick from 1966. He died in 1969. He also played football for Case Institute of Technology(now Case Western Reserve) and graduated in 1910, so I imagine he's probably in a team photo somewhere(although I can't confirm one exists). I also imagine alot of the writers and/or broadcasters played some sort of college sports somewhere and would be in old team photo's/yearbooks.

Anyways, there's a few copies of the book on Amazon right now, but I haven't seen another signed copy on the net.
http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Knock-Roc...4763036&sr=8-1

[oldjudge]

Duffy-1887 Lowell BBC Cabinet (see page 213 of Old Judge book)

Phil--You need to update Beckley per the prior post on the Western League cabinet

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by Matt

This oversized PC with an early image of Ross Youngs is contemporary with the Baseball Magazine Premium on your list (it is a bit more "card"-esque).

I have seen snapshot photographs of Ross Youngs from his minor league days. They were on ebay years ago..I bid, but did not win them. Perhaps Rhys Y won them?