What projects are you working on completing?

[jad22]

How many Hall of Fame autographs out of the 306 can somebody actually find?

[HexsHeroes]

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Just curious as to how many members are working on
building an autograph collection of ballplayers appearing in T206 set ???

[johnmh71]

Originally Posted by HexsHeroes

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Just curious as to how many members are working on
building an autograph collection of ballplayers appearing in T206 set ???

I'm not specifically building a collection of them, but I'll buy a 3x5 any chance I get. It is nice to be able to acquire someone from that era. I generally collect pre-1960.

[cjedmonton]

I am still committed to getting 100 HOF signatures on this poster, but don't want to send it out too many times, Of course, there's always the cost to consider with today's appearence fees.

http://www.freewebs.com/cjedmonton/hof.jpg

[chaddurbin]

signed topps all-rookies team is my favorite project. have over 50 now always looking for roy, all stars and hofs.

[packs]

Wow that's a neat niche to collect. Nice cards!

[bender07]

Originally Posted by cjedmonton

I am still committed to getting 100 HOF signatures on this poster, but don't want to send it out too many times, Of course, there's always the cost to consider with today's appearence fees.

http://www.freewebs.com/cjedmonton/hof.jpg

You're going to need a Tony Gwynn replacement.

[SikSyko]

I have a few I'm working on. My main one is the Perez Steele HOF post cards. I'm down to 19 but, I don't think I will be able to afford the Paige. Trying to get the 80-1 to 89-90 O-Pee-Chee, 64-5 Parkhurst (came out in 94 and down to 8) hockey, 53 Topps Archive and a few other sets autographed. Also trying to get as many hockey, baseball, football & basketball HOF autos as I can.

[cjedmonton]

Originally Posted by bender07

You're going to need a Tony Gwynn replacement.

Unfortunately true, but any HOF who was associated with MLB prior to this reunion fits the theme, including:

Bobby Cox
Doug Harvey
Joe Torre
Pat Gillick
Tom Lasorda
Tony LaRussa
Whitey Herzog


The full list of HOFers who could have signed, but didn't (died after Mar 4, 1990):

Bill Dickey
Bowie Kuhn
Cool Papa Bell
Dick Williams
Joe Sewell
Lee MacPhail
Leo Durocher
Leon Day
Richie Ashburn
Ron Santo
Tony Gwynn

[Klrdds]

The signed poster is a neat project. How long have you been working on it ?
Or did you get it partially started?
I ask only because I am curious since you have Drysdale, Mantle, Stargell etc...on it.including Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio and Campanella all long deceased.

[theshleps]

I know some of us have posted how many HOFers we have and I am up to 245 as stated earlier.
What I am more interested in is how many different HOFers people have on baseball cards. This doesn't include exhibits but BB cards including regular issues, callahans, etc
I have 204 different HOFers on cards and hopefully 2 more on the way.

[tazdmb]

Originally Posted by jad22

How many Hall of Fame autographs out of the 306 can somebody actually find?

Klrdds seems to have the highest count on the board, and I want to say he is in the 290 range which, honestly, may be higher than Cooperstown. Without spending a decent amount of time looking things up, I would say 10? additional members are in the 220-240 range. I know of some other collectors that are above 250, but they never show their face here

I would say there are 10-20? HOFer autographs that simply do not exist in the open market (Hill, Grant, Torriente) or only 1-5 examples exist and are in collections that will never become available (Joss, Thompson, Waddell). That being said, you could probably acquire over 200 of them without spending more than $500 on any one individual signature. However, once you go over a certain point, things go up exponentially.

PSA/DNA actually has a HOF Rarity index here:
http://www.psacard.com/dnasetregistr...tion.aspx?c=37

I agree with most of it, except Jesse Burkett and Barney Dreyfuss-I think they should be switched (Dreyfuss is an Extreme rarity by them and Burkett is a 9)

[jad22]

I remember a Burkett signed Albertype postcard came up for auction in 2007. Went for a large chunk of change.

[GoCubsGo32]

I collect baseball snapshot of HOF players and managers ...then I'll slowly collect Negro,Executives etc...

211 players 22 managers.

I have 81/233 that are unique in about 1.5 years of collection them. Only at 35% done!...with just players & managers, lol

I prefer them to be signed, but I'll slowly replacing them as I go along.