Series #2 Card set for players Post 1930...who makes the 54 player cut?

[Golfcollector]

To recap, I have had a few polls and discussions over the past week or so as to designing a set of cards to feature players. Now comes the last thing to decide....

What players to put into the set.

The votes for the last poll of how to break down the players featured in the NET 54 Card set was almost a dead split tie….so to create even better and fun discussion (and since this was my idea….) The Net 54 Set will be comprised of 2 Series!

The 1st series will be for players that made an their first appearance in 1929 or earlier.

2nd series will be for players that made their first appearance in 1930 or later.

I have listed the checklist on the first post of this thread which I will update periodically when it seems like there is a strong consensus for inclusion.

Let the discussion begin!

Limiting this to 54 players should create a lot of good conversation. I am sure there will be disagreements. Try to keep it all respectful.





Card # Player
1 Jackie Robinson
2 Ted Williams
3 Mickey Mantle
4 Hank Aaron
5 Willie Mays
6 Warren Spahn
7 Stan Musial
8 Cool Papa Bell
9 Hank Greenberg
10 Ernie Banks
11 Bob Feller
12 Monte Irvin
13 Frank Robinson
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[Golfcollector]

off to a good start

[Peter_Spaeth]

Cabrera. Trout. Kershaw. Scherzer. Verlander. Jeter. Rivera. Ford. Robin Roberts. Koufax. Drysdale. Eddie Mathews.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Brett Schmidt Carew Reggie Bench Rose Yaz Winfield Molitor Brooks Robinson Stargell

[Peter_Spaeth]

Morgan Murray Bonds Clemens Ryan Randy Johnson Maddux Glavine

[nat]

As with my suggestion on the other thread, I'm going to suggest interesting but not necessarily great players. Of course Mickey Mantle was awesome, he doesn't need to be celebrated in another card set for anyone to get that. But we can highlight interesting and/or underappreciated players.


How about:

Isao Harimoto - Japan's all-time hits leaders (and atom bomb survivor)
The Alou Brothers (they can share a card)
A card about players who actually saw combat in WWII (Spahn, etc.)
Mark Fidrych (he can be pictured talking to a baseball)

[BearBailey]

Pete Rose, Brooks Robinson, Steve Carlton, Greg Maddux, Barry Bonds, ivan Rodriguez, Cal Ripken.

[frankbmd]

Hodges, Snider, Reese, Erskine, Newcombe, Doby. Kuenn, Kaline, Whitaker, Trammell, Stargell, Brett, Sandberg, Canseco, Strawberry, Carlton, Boog Powell, Brooks Robinson, Jim Palmer, McNally, Seaver, Killebrew, Oliva, Podres, Minoso, Fox, Rivera, Kaat, Blyleven, Templeton, Ozzie Smith, Winfield, Friend, Konstanty, Stanky, Branca, Lockman, Rhodes, Avila, Garcia, Lemon, Wynn, Rosen, Hegan, Sievers, Pesky, Parnell, Yaz&#$=+-ski, Gibson, Hershiser, Garvey, Cey, Reggie Smith, Reggie Allen, Dawson, Covington, Crandall, Kluszewski, Banks, Dean Chance, Roseboro, Marichal, McCovey, Cepeda, Grissom, Gene Stephens, Colavito, Vince Coleman, Wills, Bill Russell, Willie Davis, Perranoski, Bando, Tenace, Callison, Lopata, Ashburn, Parker, Mazeroski, Billy Martin, Skowron, Elston Howard, Maris, Boudreau, Campanella, Gilliam, Furillo, Schoendienst, McCarver, Brock, Matt Williams and Mario Mendoza.