Type card player collecting ?

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Posted By: Chris Mc

If a person were to put together a type card collection of one non hall of famer(to keep it affordable),who would appear in the most prewar sets? I was thinking maybe Bob Bescher. If money were no object, which H.O.F. would appear in the most prewar sets?

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Posted By: Bobby Binder

I would take a guess that it would be Ty Cobb being in the most sets at at least 160 and sure there is more. Only because he was the best at the time and played for so long.

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Posted By: RC McKenzie

Patsy Dougherty is in a number of sets. Good player in a lot of premier sets. I started because I had an e107, but gave up. Start with a player you have a very rare card of. Regards

edit to add-- currently I'm working on Chief Meyers b/c I was fortunate to pick up a Texas Tommy type 1. he's also in Type 2 and many other sets so I have a long way to go.

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Posted By: Chad

He pops up in a lot of cool sets, both Cuban and American. He must have had a lot of great stories with all the traveling he did.

--Chad

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Posted By: Tim Newcomb

I have an alphabetical master list of all the prewar (pre-WW2) players that I own. The list has about 1940 different players on it, including minor leaguers in Obaks and so on.

Eddie Collins tops my list-- in 19 sets
18 -- Charlie Gehringer and Paul Waner
17-- Al Simmons, Arky Vaughan, Larry Doyle, Jimmie Wilson


For players who retired before 1920, it's
17 Doyle
16 Frank Chance and George Gibson.
14 Sherry Magee and Red Dooin
13 Chief Bender, Tommy Leach, Red Murray

Obviously this is not complete in any way-- I need lots of Cobbs, Ruths, Mathewsons, etc. Bur maybe kind of interesting nonetheless--

Tim